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4:15 AM ET, July 29, 2007

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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Social Network Exhaustion (or Facebook Bankruptcy Redux)  —  Today I'm waking up with the Smashing Pumpkins ringing in my ears and my ego search ringing off the hook.  My throat and head are about 60-70% healed and looking back on my last couple of posts about turning off comments and declaring Facebook bankruptcy and asking:
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Fred / A VC:
Declaring Bankruptcy  —  I've done that a few times on this blog, both times related to email overload.  It's a dangerous thing to do.  Bankruptcy is a loaded work, particularly coming from someone who's in the money business.  The media loves to run a headline with the word bankruptcy in it.
Rex Hammock / rexblog.com:
Jason decides Facebook is not the golden fleece  —  Jason Calacanis is fed up with Facebook.  (I'll skip the part where I observe admiringly that Jason, who is Twittering more and blogging less this summer, knows that writing a Saturday-morning Dvorak troll post will tweak Facebook cultists into lighting-up his in-coming linkometer.)
Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check:
Sanity check: How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software  —  Who remembers Red Flag Linux?  Born during the dot-com boom and officially financed and adopted by the Chinese government, Red Flag Linux was supposed to be China's answer …
Discussion: Techdirt and Slashdot
Jason Pontin / New York Times:
A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope  —  JUST now, the hottest startup in Silicon Valley — minutely examined by bloggers, panted after by investors — is Pownce, but only a chosen few can try out its Web site.  —  Kevin Rose, the co-founder and chief architect of Digg …
Discussion: Social Media
Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
Nice VS 2008 Code Editing Improvements  —  I've blogged in the past about some of the text editor improvements in VS 2008 that have been made for JavaScript intellisense and CSS style intellisense.  —  Recently I was looking over the shoulder of someone writing some code …
Discussion: OakLeaf Systems
Associated Press:
For YouTube, a System to Halt Copyright-Infringing Videos  —  Google hopes technology will be in place in September to stop the posting of copyright-infringing videos on its YouTube site, a company lawyer told a judge presiding over copyright lawsuits yesterday.
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Peterb / DefectiveByDesign.org:
BBC Corrupted  —  Tuesday, August 14, protest the Corruption of the BBC - sign up NOW!  —  Today the BBC made it official — they have been corrupted by Microsoft.  With today's launch of the iPlayer, the BBC Trust has failed in its most basic of duties and handed over to Microsoft sole control …
Sean P. Aune / Mashable!:
ONLINE STORAGE: 80+ File Hosting and Sharing Sites  —  From sending one document to backing up an entire business, data storage is the key to everything nowadays.  Due to popular demand, we've put together a list of more than 80 of the leading file hosting services, many of which are completely free.
Discussion: digg
G. Pascal Zachary / New York Times:
In a Highly Complex World, Innovation From the Top Down  —  USER-GENERATED content — from Wikipedia to YouTube to open-source software — is generating waves of excitement.  But the opening of innovation to wider numbers of people obscures another trend: many of the most popular new products …
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
D.C.'s P2P Summer Spectacle  —  You know it's summer when everyone in Washington is suddenly talking about P2P.  College students who otherwise might protest bad legislation are busy getting stoned in Europe.  High temperatures drive lobbyists into pit bull-like attack mode.
Discussion: Steve Sloan …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Facial Recognition Comes to Live Search  —  From the blog post on the [Windows] Live Search team's blog entitled Three new features in Live Search Images we learn … The feature works pretty well as long as you enclose the name of the person in quotes and use the image search tab.
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
PhotoBlog: Silicon Valley elite swarms to the Techcrunch 9 Party  —  Planet Earth > United States > San Francisco Bay Area > Menlo Park > Sand Hill Road > August Capital > Nucleus of Tech Industry  —  Many of the tech elite swarmed at this social and product demo in the epicenter of Silicon Valley.
Discussion: Epicenter and CenterNetworks
Brian White / Engadget Mobile:
Telstra iPhone SIM hack video  —  Although the voiceover on this YouTube video was almost too soothing to listen to, the demo being explained definitely got our excitable attention.  We're not sure about this hack's details, but the user demonstrating his iPhone's non-AT&T outgoing call usage here gets two thumbs up from us.
Discussion: Rev2.org and Mobility Site
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
What If Joost Were a Web App?  —  An independent developer has built a Flash version of Joost that runs in any browser.  Sure, he doesn't have access to any of the Joost content, but what he's built is basically a proof-of-concept using Joost graphics and improving on the UI …
Discussion: Download Squad and digg
 
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
iPhone Class Action Lawsuit
Mister Wong-Blog:
A Message from the Founder  —  As CEO and founder of Mister Wong …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
CA Releases Results of Red-Team Investigation of Voting Machines …
Discussion: Slashdot
Peter White / Download Squad:
Big names backing internet video company
Discussion: Reuters
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Shorrock / PlayStation.Blog:
New Rockstar Games Franchise Exclusive to the PS3
Discussion: Joystiq, Kotaku and digg
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Video Game Matches to Be Televised on CBS
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Geek To Live: Manage your life via SMS
Discussion: digg
Tims / Tim Sneath:
SILVERLIGHT 1.0 RC1 IS HERE!  —  As indicated in a previous post …
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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