Eli Manning connected with Mario Manningham for the big game's biggest play, but did tech advertisers manage to connect with consumers? CNET's writers take a look at this and other Super Bowl issues.

What better way to recover from the halftime show? More ads that continued to offer little in the way of originality of either strategy or execution. On the other hand, we had Clint Eastwood advertising Chrysler and Detroit.

Originally posted at Technically Incorrect

Samsung's Super Bowl ad--for the Galaxy Note--claims that this is the product that can finally stop Apple fanboys from having to stand in line, waiting for Apple's latest.

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Which tech company had the best first half ad in the Super Bowl? Here's a detailed analysis, written as it happened.

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In an attempt to suggest that Chevy Volt's technology is more sophisticated than anything in the galaxy, Chevy's Super Bowl ad features aliens who don't just admire the Volt's advanced design.

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Women around the world, fed up with Facebook's policy of not allowing breast-feeding pictures, are staging protests at Facebook offices and using Facebook to coordinate those efforts.

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How many people will prefer watching 5 hours of model Adriana Lima on YouTube moving very, very slowly to the New York Giants defense moving very, very quickly? Or might people do both?

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No, they won't, like Tom Brady, be viewing an illegal streaming site. Instead, Coke is using social media and the Web in order to have its polar bears react to the game as it's in progress.

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In its Super Bowl spot, Doritos introduces Suzie, a cell phone personal helper with something of a temper.

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In an interestingly confident mix-up, the New York Giants' Web site not only announces that the team has already won, but offers winners' memorabilia for sale.

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As the Giants battle the Patriots on Sunday, viewers have dozens of ways to keep up with the game--by live streaming, watching on cell phones, or subscribing to apps and social-media feeds.

Tweeting harder to resist than sex, coffee, and alcohol, say researchers from the University of Chicago. Now, let's just see you try to resist tweeting this story.

Originally posted at Crave

The Facebook chief may be on the hook for $2 billion in taxes with his company going public. But he's not necessarily all that upset about it, because Facebook in turn gets a tax deduction.

Facebook filed to go public this week and the entire tech world turned its attention to the filing document, the S-1. It revealed some impressive numbers: 845 million monthly users on Facebook, about half of them on mobile devices.

It also showed that Zynga accounted for 12 percent of Facebook's revenue.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a letter embedded in the S-1, also took pains to tell potential investors that Facebook would try to maintain its "hacker culture," as well as its focus on connecting people to each other, as opposed to connecting shareholders just to revenue.

There's a lot to unpack in the Facebook filing, and we have two great guests to help us walk through it:

• Josh Constine, a writer at TechCrunch and fomerly the lead writer of Inside Facebook, and...
• Shervin Pishevar, a venture capitalist in Menlo Ventures and an entrepreneur

Bonus: Shervin was an early investor in Klout, so I asked him some questions on that product, after the main show. The video is embedded at the end of this post.

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Despite request, Google tells concerned European Union advisers that it will stick to its March 1 date for privacy policy modifications.

Originally posted at Privacy Inc.

A whopping 70 percent of Facebook users surveyed by SodaHead voted thumbs down on the social network's now mandatory Timeline feature.

At a hearing in the House over the search giant's new privacy policy, subcommittee Chairwoman Mary Bono Mack expresses frustration over what she sees as Google's lack of clarity in answering questions.

Originally posted at News - Politics and Law

With a belief that consumers will continue to flock to its premium and more capable devices, Apple is unlikely to downscale its smartphones, says Morgan Stanley.

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Tehran is reportedly rather upset about a commercial in which a Mossad agent's Samsung tablet is instrumental in accidentally blowing up an Iranian uranium enrichment plant.

Originally posted at Technically Incorrect

Marketing agency Razorfish reportedly let it slip that it has been working on a pilot program with Facebook to deliver ads to mobile users. But both companies say it ain't so.