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12:15 AM ET, July 30, 2008

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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
SoCal earthquake a powerful reminder of Twitter's potential  —  This morning a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California near Los Angeles.  Well before the information was anywhere on the major news outlets, tweets (Twitter messages) were flowing in at a rapid clip.
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BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Twitter As News-wire  —  Twitter is increasingly being described as a personal news-wire—shared world events like this morning's earthquake near Los Angeles support the definition.  This chart illustrates the beginning of this morning's earthquake followed seconds later by the first Twitter update from Los Angeles.
Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
Stop Trusting the Internet!
David Worthington / SD Times On The Web:
Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed  —  Microsoft is incubating a componentized non-Windows operating system known as Midori, which is being architected from the ground up to tackle challenges that Redmond has determined cannot be met by simply evolving its existing technology.
Vindu Goel / Bits:
Game Over: Scrabulous Shut Down on Facebook  —  Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook.  —  Scrabulous has been shut down on Facebook.  —  If you try to pull up the popular Scrabble-like game …
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
‘Scrabble’ app on Facebook crashes in wake of ‘Scrabulous’ takedown
Discussion: ReveNews
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Malicious attack takes down Scrabble on Facebook
Discussion: Computerworld Blogs
CNN:
Sprint Loses Early Termination Fee Case, May Pay $73 Million  —  NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) was dealt a major blow in its early-termination-fee case when a California judge ruled it would have to pay $ 73 million.  —  The decision could bode poorly for the various trials …
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Paul Elias / Associated Press:
Judge ruling on Sprint fees is blow to industry
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and mocoNews.net
Neal Kanodia / Google LatLong:
New, blue, and better than ever  —  Less is more.  —  Before  —  After  —  With the new look for Google Maps, you can do all of the same things, but without the extra clutter.  Find businesses (creamery near palo alto), addresses (6605 Delmar Blvd, St Louis, MO), and more (root beer in sf) from one search box.
Juan Carlos Perez / IDG News Service:
Amazon Payment Services Debut  —  Amazon on Tuesday launched hosted e-commerce payment services for merchants who want to outsource all or some of their online transaction processing tasks.  —  The two new offerings, called Checkout By Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay, are the latest services …
Discussion: New York Times and CNET News.com
Business Wire:
HP, Intel and Yahoo! Create Global Cloud Computing Research Test Bed  —  Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Lead the Way as Global Centers of Excellence  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. & SANTA CLARA …
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BBC:
HP, Intel, Yahoo in cloud tie-up
Discussion: TechCrunch and Engadget
Chris / LiveSide:
Live Mesh Mac client now available for download - officially this time!  —  No announcement yet but Microsoft has now made the Live Mesh client for Mac available for download from mesh.com.  Check it out at at the  —  Mac download page and see for yourself.
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and ReadWriteWeb
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How To Lose Your Cuil 20 Seconds After Launch  —  The hype cycle now lasts less than a day.  Take yesterday's over-hyped launch of stealth search startup Cuil, which was quickly followed by a backlash when everyone realized that it was selling a bill of goods.  This was entirely the company's own fault.
Discussion: SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog and Bits
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Viral Vista: The ‘Mojave Experiment’  —  If the competition were Apple, which surged to 8.5 percent U.S. PC market share in the second quarter, the answer would be yes.  But Microsoft faces its toughest competitor ever: Itself.  —  I spent some time this morning reviewing the candid …
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Chris Flores / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows ‘Mojave’ Video Posts
Dell:
Look Beyond the Rack for Style this Fall - Dell's New Studio and Inspiron Systems Redefine PC Design  — Puts the PC back on the desktop, or the countertop, or the bookshelf, or the entertainment center  —  Dell's smallest, most personalized and most environmentally responsible consumer PC, the Studio Hybrid, launches today.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The passionates vs. the non passionates  —  Every morning now I start out by reading FriendFeed.  This morning there was a post by Steve Spalding called “the Web's dirty little secret” which is about how small the audiences are here in the tech blogging world.
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
Apple in a bind over its DNS patch?  —  Three weeks after the disclosure of a serious flaw within the Domain Name System (DNS), Apple has yet to patch its MAC OS X operating system, but the company may be able to look to a third party in defense.  —  In a posting to an Internet newsgroup on Monday …
Verne Kopytoff / San Francisco Chronicle:
Pickens rips Yahoo management, says he dumped shares at a loss  —  Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens excoriated Yahoo's management for failing to reach an agreement to sell all or part of the Web portal to Microsoft Corp.  —  Pickens, who bought 10 million Yahoo shares in May in hopes …
Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
EA's ‘Spore’ a week from being finished … After more than three years of anticipation, Spore is almost finished.  —  Electronic Arts' evolution game, from legendary designer Will Wright's Maxis studio, is about a week from going “gold,” I was told Tuesday by Thomas Vu, a producer on the game who gave me a demo Tuesday morning.
Discussion: TechSpot
John P. Falcone / Crave: The gadget blog:
Pandora goes free (and ad-supported) on Logitech Squeezebox—with other devices likely to follow  —  Pandora's streaming music service is now free—albeit with ads—on the Logitech Squeezebox family of devices  —  Add Pandora to the list of free online music services you can access through the Logitech Squeezebox.
Discussion: VentureBeat
Tim Peek / MediaShift:
Penguin Story Goes from Web to ‘Nightly News’  —  Starting this week, MediaShift will be running reports from “embeds” at various media outlets and educational institutions.  The first report comes from Tim Peek, executive producer for new media at NBC's Peacock Productions.
Cory Doctorow / Guardian:
Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry  —  The deal between record companies and ISPs will drive music-swapping underground and erode their profits still further  —  This month's announcement of a back-room deal between ISPs (internet service providers) …
Discussion: The Open Road
 
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Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal:
Thx for the IView!  —  I Wud ♥ to Work 4 U!!
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Face Swapper Privacy
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Starting the campaign for The TechHub
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Microsoft:
New Alliances Continue Momentum for Windows Live OneCare
Discussion: LiveSide and One Microsoft Way
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
NYC to bypass muni Wi-Fi
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
As Juniper CEO, Kevin Johnson to get $5 million signing bonus
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Fred / A VC:
Peer Producing A Web 2.0 Keynote
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Online Viewing Leads 20 Percent To Skip Primetime Shows On TV: Report
Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch:
Google's Sergey Brin on Local Mobile Search
Discussion: AndroidGuys
InfoWorld:
Microsoft shows off datacenter monitoring system
Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
Cooler than Cuil, True Knowledge takes a sniper's approach to search
Discussion: TechCrunch UK
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone apps: 1,001 and counting