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Halvar Flake / ADD / XOR / ROL:
I've been denied entry to the US essentially for carrying my trainings material. Wow. — It appears I can't attend Blackhat this year. I was denied entry to the US for carrying trainings materials for the Blackhat trainings, and intending to hold these trainings as a private citizen instead of as a company.
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Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
German hacker denied entry into U.S. for Black Hat training — Thomas Dullien, a prominent security researcher who has been a fixture at the annual Black Hat security conference, has been denied entry into the U.S. to attend and conduct training at this year's confab.
Bonnie Malkin / Telegraph:
Facebook banned by City firms — Networking website Facebook is supposed to improve your social life. But it emerged that "Facebooking" can also seriously damage your career. — More than two thirds of employers are banning or restricting the use of Facebook and similar sites over fears …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why do we have Facebook Fatigue? — Facebook, one has to admit is a great time sink. Given how much you have to do to just manage your Facebook life, it is hardly a surprise; some organizations are taking a draconian approach to them. Jason Calacanis has declared Facebook bankruptcy.
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:
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Calacanis asks deep questions about social networks — So Jason "no comments" Calacanis answers me, and others, back about his increasing dislike of Facebook and other social networks. — First of all, for the record, Jason is right. Facebook sucks. Twitter sucks. Pownce sucks. Jaiku sucks.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch 9 At August Capital: Thank You for Coming — Well, it's over. TechCrunch 9 At August Capital last night was a blast, with 900 or so people demo'ing products, drinking wine and, if the video above is any indication, looking for the man of their dreams.
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Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
The TechCrunch MeetUp party: Tonight we're going to party like it's 1999 — Saturday, July 28th, 2007 at 12:37 am in General, tech culture. — The Prince song "1999″ kept playing in my head the whole time I was at the TechCrunch MeetUp party at August Capital in Menlo Park.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Google YouTube copyright infringement filtering system - How will it work? — Google / YouTube was in federal district court in New York on Friday defending a lawsuit brought by Viacom and several other media companies. The New York Times story says "Google hopes technology will be in place …
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Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone "Hello World" binary released — The busy beavers of the #iphone IRC channel, whose collective efforts have built the first unauthorized iPhone GUI application (it displays "Hello World" and does nothing else), have released the source for the demo app, buildable with the community-built toolchain and UIKit.
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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 …
Sean Cooper / Engadget Mobile:
AT&T Treo 750 gets Windows Mobile 6 treatment on the sly — Finally the Treo 750 gets its moment in the unofficial spotlight, viva la Windows Mobile 6 updates! Though, AT&T hasn't released it officially — like the 8525 and the BlackJack — if you like living life on the edge …
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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 …
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Luck / Apple TV Hacks:
USB patch released. HALLELUJAH! — After numerous delays, we present you the USB patch that you guys have been waiting for. You can find the link to the patch at the bottom of this blog entry. — Just a recap for those who are not familiar with this.
