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9:20 AM ET, June 30, 2007

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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
It lives up to every bit of hype  —  Amazing device.  Amazing line.  Steve Jobs showed up, unfortunately that was after we had left the store but we saw him arrive and walk into the store (he walked to the store from his home).  —  Also joining us in line was Andy Hertzfeld in addition to Bill Atkinson, who I talked about earlier.
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David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone First Impressions  —  It was difficult, but I finally tore myself away from playing with my 8GB iPhone to put together a First Impressions post.  I tried touching on a few things that we might not have discussed before, or at least things that I particularly appreciate that might …
CNET News.com:
iPhone supply lives to sell another day  —  Long lines for Apple's iPhone moved quickly Friday evening on both coasts, as the general public finally got its hands on what is perhaps the most hyped gadget in tech history.  —  In both New York and San Francisco, lines that had stretched …
Discussion: Crave and Lost Remote
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Long-Awaited iPhone Goes on Sale  —  Apple wanted a spectacle when the iPhone went on sale this evening, and it got just that.  —  Customers eager to be among the first to buy the long-awaited cellphone waited in long lines in front of Apple stores in New York and other cities.
Discussion: MY iTablet
Nik Cubrilovic / New Web Order:   Liveblogging iPhone Launch
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Will the iPhone violate GPL 3?  —  You have to feel a little sorry for the Free Software Foundation, which launched the first overhaul of its General Public License (GPL) in 16 years on the same day that Apple's iPhone launch hogged the spotlight.  —  But the foundation, like everybody and his brother …
Discussion: Ars Technica and eWEEK.com
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Joshua Gay / FSF:
iPhone restricts users, GPLv3 frees them  —  On Friday, June 29, not everyone in the continental U.S. will be waiting in line to purchase a $500 iPhone.  In fact, hundreds of thousands of digital aficionados around the globe won't be standing in line at all, for June 29 marks the release …
Discussion: Inquirer
Josh / FSF:
FSF releases the GNU General Public License, version 3
Discussion: TechnoLlama, Compiler and Wired News
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Free Software Foundation releases GPL 3
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
iPhone teardown reveals better-than-iPod construction (photos)  —  A disassembly of the iPhone immediately after its public launch has revealed small, but useful, information about the Apple handset's assembly.  —  Technicians at iFixit have dissected the device from front to back …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone first hands-on and unboxing  —  Say hello to iPhone.  —  (Don't go far, we're uploading more pictures every minute.)
Discussion: Cult of Mac and digg
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple posts iPhone user manual
Discussion: MacRumors and Mobility Site
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget Mobile:   3G iPhone for Europe to be announced Monday?
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:   Rumors spreading of European iPhone news for Monday
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Eventstreaming: The Seed Of A Revolution  —  An interesting thing happened during yesterdays iPhone launch and it wasn't just observing Robert Scoble's mastery of self promotion (in a good way of course).  Thousands of people* who were not lining up for an iPhone, be that because they simply …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
CNN.com To Launch Web 2.0 Re-design This Weekend  —  Over the past year or so we've seen many mainstream publications 'web 2.0-ize' their web presence.  BBC has been a leading force, while in March USA Today announced a re-design.  Also we covered the Martha Stewart re-design in April.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
iPhone activations hosed until morning?  —  We've been hearing scattered reports some that newly-christened iPhone owners are having a heck of a time finalizing the activation process in iTunes.  That sucks for a couple reasons: first, these puppies are darned near useless without being activated …
TED / uncov:
Kevin Rose: YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG  —  There's no way I could sleep tonight without ripping the s**t out of Pownce.  The only thing that really irritates me about Pownce is that it has to exist on the same internet that I use.  —  Pownce is a web service that lets you "share stuff with your friends".
Discussion: Glass House and digg
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Rise of the Rose Bashers?  —  A curious thing has happened with Kevin Rose's new startup Pownce: the Digg users really hate it.  For a service whose success will rely on the founder's credentials and referring traffic over from the popular news site, that's a little worrying.
Associated Press:
AT&T Is Buying Oklahoma-Based Carrier  —  AT&T, the wireless carrier, agreed on Friday to acquire the rural wireless provider Dobson Communications Corporation for $2.8 billion in cash.  —  The offer of $13 a share adds about 1.7 million customers to AT&T's nearly 62 million …
 
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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Management books  —  I'm reading two very good management books right now.
Maki / Dosh Dosh:
15 Feedburner Feedflares You Can Easily Use to Promote Your Content and Website
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 iPhone applications
Discussion: Quick Online Tips and digg
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
My chat with SharedBook execs
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Brian Retkin Speaks On Google Suit
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Powerset: Is There More Than Buzzwords And Patent Threats?
CNET News.com:
AT&T: 2.5G upgrades won't make iPhone Web surfing faster
Discussion: Macsimum News and The Next Net
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Behind the iPhone Frenzy
Discussion: robhyndman.com
 Earlier Items: 
Raghav 'Rags' Gupta / GigaOM:
Why iPhone will change the mobile music business
Discussion: Macworld and MacUser
Ray Rivera / New York Times:
City May Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds of Public Photography
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sunset at Sunrocket? Layoffs rumored
Tom / Project Red Stripe:
And the idea is...  After four and a half months of sweat …
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Verizon COO: 'iWhatever'
David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:
MonkCast #7: GPLv3 Day is here, Web APIs (good for business?)
Katie Allen / Guardian:
Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD
AMD:
AMD to Ship Industry's First Native x86 Quad-Core Processors In August