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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Startups: your web site sucks — I visited each website from the list of Demo finalists. — Boy, do they suck. Really, really suck. — Does no one understand how to market themselves? — It's amazing to me that not a single Demo website has learned from the lessons of Gary Vaynerchuk's Winelibrary.tv.
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Chrisshipley / The Guidewire:
Shoddy Reporting, Invective, and Arrogance. Yeah, I Want Some of That — One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. — As I was growing up, my mother instructed me that, when I got angry or frustrated, to count to ten before saying anything.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
At the TechCrunch50, an unfair advantage? — It stands to reason that TechCrunch the blog will have an unfair advantage in covering the TechCrunch50 event. The same team produces both products, and the company has put a gag order on companies accepted to present on stage.
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Launch — VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CA — A Delta 2 rocket carrying a GeoEye satellite lifted off at 11:50 a.m. PDT today. The imaging satellite will provide mapping exclusively to Google.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Google Says: We'll Get Own Own Data, Thanks — Not content to lease data from others who have satellites, Google today launched its own satellite into space. Via BeetTv, thanks Andy. — Talk about web meets world....this is yet another indicator of the integration of virtual and physical.
Associated Press:
High-resolution satellite launched in California — VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast. — A Delta 2 rocket carrying the GeoEye-1 satellite lifted off at 11:50 a.m. Saturday.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
On iTunes 8 and hunches; also iPhone 2.1 for Tuesday — On Friday, we posted a short roundup of what's expected in iTunes 8 thanks to the rumortastic stylings of Kevin Rose. The Pandora-like Genius feature, Genius Sidebar, Grid view, and more are all said to be included.
Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
NBC Dumps Silverlight for NFL Streaming? Hardly — Today, Valleywag tried to string two separate events and some made-up facts together to spin the yarn that NBC was not happy with the performance of Silverlight on NBCOlympics.com, and dumped the technology for Flash for their new NFL streaming site.
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Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Google Planning Offshore Data Barges — In a startling new take on data center engineering, Google has filed a patent for a “water-based data center” that uses the ocean to provide power and cooling. The patent also confirms Google's development of a container-based data center, describing …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Vimeo Launches Vimeo Toys - Interactive Video Discovery — NY-based video hosting service Vimeo has announced the launch of “Vimeo Toys”. Vimeo Toys are discovery applications to check out the latest videos and activity on the Vimeo service. — Vimeo Toys is launching with two apps: Vimeo Land and Pulse.
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John Cox / PC World:
Wi-Fi Nets Come to Vehicles — You could think of this as the Tarzan protocol for Wi-Fi. The goal is to improve interactive Wi-Fi connections dramatically for moving vehicles. — Dubbed “Vi-Fi,” the protocol lets Wi-Fi clients keep in touch with several access points at once.
MacNN:
iPod nano 4G photo, details [new orig photo] — MacNN can confirm the existence of the fourth-generation iPod nano and has obtained a verified authentic photo of the Apple music player. The device exactly matches claims by Digg founder Kevin Rose of a tall, tapered design and is enclosed …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:iPod nano 4G leaked in actual, factual, really-real spy photo
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KathrynV / DSLreports:
T-Mobile's First HSDPA Handset Goes Live - As carrier continues to expand its 3G network — When it was announced that the Google Android platform would launch with the HTC Dream on T-Mobile s network, many eyebrows were raised at the choice to go with a carrier that has such a small 3G footprint.
