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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
What is Facebook worth? — There's been a debate raging on Techmeme, the website that turns the tech blogosphere into a mail list, about the value of Facebook. — I have two answers to the question: 1. A lot. 2. Or very little. Depending on what they do.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Fortune iMeme: VCs Talk About The New Tech Economy; Facebook '07 Rev To Top $100 Million — It's a bright shiny morning in San Francisco, where I'm back for the Fortune iMeme conference at the Ritz-Carlton. I'm here listening to a panel of venture capitalists talking about the outlook for technology investing.
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VC Ratings, All Facebook, paidContent.org, The Sam Whitmore Sampler, The Browser, PaulStamatiou.com, BoomTown and Media Biz
LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:
LinkedIn Traffic Up 323% in Past Year, Users More Likely to be on Gmail — Have you been getting a flurry in LinkedIn invitations in the past few months? I have been receiving a few requests a week, so I wasn't surprised to find that the market share of US visits to LinkedIn was up 323% in the past year …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Traffic Up, But Is It Enough? — The latest figures released by Hitwise indicate that traffic to LinkedIn is up 323% in the last year and 17% in the last week alone. It's a healthy rise, and something LinkedIn should be pleased with, however the real question becomes …
BBC:
Intel and $100 laptop join forces — Chip-maker Intel has joined forces with the makers of the $100 laptop project. — The agreement marks a huge turnaround for both the not-for profit One laptop per Child (OLPC) foundation and Intel. — In May this year, Nicholas Negroponte …
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Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:Intel Joins One Laptop per Child
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Jessica Mintz / MSNBC:
Six months on, Vista users still griping — Some working around flaws or sticking with Windows XP — Chris Pirillo posted a 52-minute video rant on YouTube in March, complaining about Windows Vista. He runs a network of blogs about technology called Lockergnome, and was one of several …
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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
Windows Vista: Six Months In, Your Mileage May Vary — This may be news to Jessica Mintz of the Associated Press, but not every Vista user has been griping. While it's easy to look to Chris Pirillo's 52-minute rant on Vista, people forget that Chris has made his professional career out of griping about Windows.
Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
Sony: Enough 60GBs for "several months" in U.S. [Update 4] — Dave Karraker of Sony Computer Entertainment of America has contacted Joystiq to give us clarification on the story that would have made us believe Sony had truly lost its mind once and for all. The fun never ends, does it?
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Salon: Machinist, PlayStation.Blog, Tech Blot, Ars Technica, Engadget, Forever Geek, The Tech Report, Kotaku, DailyTech, GamesIndustry.biz and digg
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NTT DoCoMo:
NTT DoCoMo Begins Super 3G Experiment — NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that this month it began testing an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications. With this experiment, DoCoMo will seek to achieve a downlink transmission rate of 300Mbps over a high-speed wireless network.
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Stace / Unwired View:NTT DOCOMO TESTS SUPER 3G SYSTEM WITH UP TO 300MBPS DATA TRANSFER RATES
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
About 25 percent of iPhone buyers are 'switchers' to AT&T - firm — About one quarter of consumers adopting Apple's heavily-hyped iPhone handset are 'switchers' to AT&T from other carriers, financial firm American Technology Research reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
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PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor:
PHP 4 end of life announcement — Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.
Scott / Self Made Minds:
AdSense for mobile launches in Beta — Just a quick update rather than a post, a feature high up on the request list for some has now come to fruition. I received an email tonight to say that I was invited to test out Adsense for Mobile. — What is Adsense for mobile?
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Online Community ChessPark Completes $1 Million Angel Round — Online chess community ChessPark.com has completed a total of $1 million in angel funding. Jon Callaghan of True Ventures, Burnt Norton and Eaglebrook School participated in the round. ChessPark, based in West Palm Beach …
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:
Robot Replay: Watch your users via Ajax — Robot Replay is a Rails application written by Nitobi that allows you to record how your users use your site, and play it back later. — You include a piece of JavaScript on your site, and then user events are chunked, and sent up to RobotReplay every now and then.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Why Congress Needs a Version Control System — I've been thinking lately just how much software developers take the existence of version control for granted, and how, with the notable exception of wikipedia, web 2.0 applications don't offer much in the way of version control functionality.
