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2:50 PM ET, July 15, 2007

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David / BarCamp:
iPhoneDevCampApps  —  david changed iPhoneDevCampApps  —  AddFone.com - This is the first search engine for iPhone related applications.  AddFone has the largest database of iphone applications around (almost 250 on july 11) - twice as large as the second largest list around - and is growing very fast.
Duncan / duncanriley.com:
Wall Street Journal Tries to Re-Write Blogging History  —  Tunku Varadarajan at The Wall Street Journal wishes blogging a happy 10th birthday; one problem, blogging is not 10 years old, it's actually older.  —  According to my history of blogging (still No. 3 on Google BTW …
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Tunku Varadarajan / Wall Street Journal:
Happy Blogiversary  —  It's been 10 years since the blog was born.  Love them or hate them, they've roiled presidential campaigns and given everyman a global soapbox.  Twelve commentators — including Tom Wolfe, Newt Gingrich, the SEC's Christopher Cox and actress-turned-blogger Mia Farrow — on what blogs mean to them.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Will The Last Corporation Leaving Second Life Please Turn Off The Light  —  The LA Times has an interesting article up on the failure of real life businesses in Second Life.  —  The crux of the piece is that despite the hype, real life businesses are closing down their Second Life outposts due to little to no interest in them.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Reader + Facebook Application = Digg killer?  —  Mario Romero has built something very interesting that's getting more interesting all the time.  —  If I weren't on Facebook and didn't have his Google Reader application plugged into Facebook I would totally have missed it.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The "secret" video lives of Facebookers
Discussion: The Praized Blog and HipMojo.com
ITWire:
Firefox now a serious threat to IE in Europe: report  —  Mozilla's Firefox (FF) web browser has made dramatic gains on Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) throughout Europe in the past year with a marked upturn in FF use compared to IE over the past four months, according to French web monitoring service XiTiMonitor.
Discussion: HipMojo.com and Slashdot
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
4 Years Ago Today - Netscape Corporation Killed, Mozilla Foundation Born  —  4 years ago today, 15 July 2003, AOL Time Warner disbanded Netscape Communications Corporation - the company that sparked the Dot Com Internet boom in the mid-90's, with its 1995 IPO.
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
Brown Zune finds meaning in Hide-a-Pod  —  Bill was a hired infomercial actor pretending to be on the brink.  He used to lose at least half a dozen iPods to relentless and cunning thieves, continually able to outsmart him and relieve him of his portable music boxes.
Discussion: UNEASYsilence and The Raw Feed
Times of India:
Microsoft to set up university in city  —  12 Jul 2007, 0453 hrs IST , Mini Joseph Tejaswi , TNN  —  BANGALORE: Microsoft Corporation has chosen Bangalore for its first-ever exclusive and independent educational venture in the world.  The company will set up a university in the city to impart high-end computer education.
Discussion: Digital Inspiration
James Quintana Pearce / mocoNews.net:
Round-Up: Mobile Threat; MTS Mobile Music; Swiss Music Subscription Service; Icstis  —Cellfish has launched another mobile brand... Mobile Threat.  The channel is aimed at fans of metal, hardcore, indie and punk music, and will offer mobile content based on that as well as community participation features …
Discussion: ringtonia.com and MobileCrunch
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Vista drivers  —  I'm trying to keep track of download locations for Vista-compatible drivers for common hardware types in a single location.  To that end, I've set up the Vista Master Driver List page.  The rules are as follows:  —  1. Only primary download locations (official sites run by hardware maker) are allowed.
Discussion: Windows Connected
Michael / DVD Dossier Blog:
Is Toshiba Giving Away The Razor To Get You To Buy The Blades?  —  If you're thinking of buying an HD DVD player, you might want to wait a week or so.  —  I just received an e-mail tonight from the folks at the EMA (Electronic Merchant's Association), who are responsible for a big industry event next week, the Home Media Expo.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
The Boat Is About to Rock (Again) in Internet Video  —  DMITRY SHAPIRO brings an unlikely gadget into meetings these days: a TV remote control.  —  As chief executive of Veoh Networks, an Internet video company based in San Diego, Mr. Shapiro uses the remote to navigate the company's new software program, VeohTV, on his laptop.
Discussion: A VC and rexduffdixon.com
Ben Quinn / Telegraph:
Mobile phones 'dumbing down brain power'  —  An over reliance on technology is leading to a dumbing down of the nation's brain power, according a study published today.  —  In a society flooded with mobile phones, Blackberry devices and computers of various shapes and sizes …
Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
On the trail of Fake Steve Jobs  —  Everybody's favorite anonymous Mac commentator might be a little closer to becoming not-so-anonymous.  If you checked out Fake Steve Jobs's site yesterday, you might have seen a short post about a marginally funny iPhone Haiku site.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Fake Steve Jobs Unmasked?
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Meg Marco / Consumerist:
The Case Of The Disappearing Laptop: Hey Geek Squad, I Haven't Seen …
Discussion: digg
Beth / Beth's Blog:
Viva the Time on Site, The Page View is Dead!
Discussion: CostPerNews and Chris Pirillo
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The SunRocket Is Down For The Count  —  The Sun Rocket it seems, has hit the deck.
Colin Smillie / Inside Facebook:
Vacationing in Facebook - Travel Maps and Many New Apps
Discussion: Web Strategy
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Matt / Photo Matt:
On PHP  —  PHP.net has announced that they will stop development …
Discussion: Chuqui 3.0.1 Beta and PHP
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Microsoft files patent for possible taskbar replacement
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Brief: Microsoft forgets Mac users on Patch Tuesday
Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
Shortsighted Greed