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10:55 PM ET, March 15, 2009

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Alex Brooks / World of Apple:
Kevin Rose Weighs in on iPhone OS 3.0 [Update: Added Video]  —  Ahead of Apple's preview of iPhone OS 3.0 Kevin Rose has revealed some details that he believes will be present in the major iPhone software upgrade.  —  During the live Diggnation at SXSW in Austin, Texas last Rose gave details …
Peggy Orenstein / New York Times:
Growing Up on Facebook  —  Someone I haven't seen in decades just posted a snapshot of me on Facebook: there I am at 16, dressed in an unfortunate cowl-neck sweater, my hair cut to resemble a Semitic cotton ball.  William Faulkner, I suspect, would love it — Facebook, after all, is the best evidence yet of the undead past.
Darren Waters / BBC:
Social networks ‘are new e-mail’  —  Status updates on sites such as Facebook, Yammer, Twitter and Friendfeed are a new form of communication, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard.  —  “We are all in the process of creating e-mail 2.0,” David Sacks, founder of business social network Yammer said.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T Adding Capacity At SXSW To Deal With iPhone Crush  —  AT&T (T) tells us it's adding wireless capacity in downtown Austin to deal with “unprecedented” demand (that's resulted in service that's flaky at best).  This, of course, a result of thousands (tens of thousands?) …
Darren Waters / BBC:
Second generation Surface coming  —  A second generation of Microsoft's Surface computing device is two to three years away, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard.  —  Developer Joe Olsen, whose company Phenomblue writes applications for the Surface, said he had been told the device was still in the development stage.
Discussion: Ars Technica and Incremental Blogger, Thanks:atul
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
At SXSW, attendees confront Twitter saturation  —  AUSTIN, Texas—By now, the story of how Twitter exploded onto the scene at the 2007 South by Southwest festival is legend in technology circles.  —  But here at SXSW 2009, the notion of the perfect match among community, service, and event seems flipped on its head.
The Break it Down Blog:
Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming Performance for PC-Viewers … I noticed about 3 weeks ago my streaming video performance from Netflix has become unbearably slow.  I'm on a 7 mbps Qwest DSL line in Tucson, AZ and my previous experience with Netflix “Watch Instantly” …
Joe Weisenthal / Clusterstock:
Why Tech Stocks Won't Lead The Next Bull Market  —  Eventually there will be another bull market, and it's always a good mental exercise to play the “what will lead the next bull market when it comes” game.  Right now it's particularly tough, since everything in the economy seems so miserable.
Discussion: Nyquist Capital
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Samsung: Solid state will match hard-drive price  —  Samsung expects solid-state drives to reach price parity with hard-disk drives within the next few years amid steep annual price declines in flash memory chips.  —  Solid-state drives, which use flash memory chips as the storage medium …
Discussion: Imaging Insider
Jack Wallen / TechRepublic Blogs:
Red Hat Offensive Patent Strategy  —  Recently Red Hat has decided to go on the offensive with their patent strategy.  With this patent Red Hat is attempting to patent “Method and apparatus to deliver messages between applications”.  —  To me this smacks of the way Microsoft deals with patents.
Discussion: Slashdot
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Yahoo Reverses Its Web Strategy with Web Videos  —  For Yahoo's original video strategy, this will be Take Two.  —  On Monday, the Web portal will announce the latest in a series of niche Web shows.  The short segments about celebrity mothers, titled “Spotlight to Nightlight,” …
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Aleks Krotoski / Guardian:
How to be a successful iPhone game developer: Enigmo creator speaks
Tracey Tyler / Toronto Star:
Facebook user poked - by the courts
Mark Guim / The Nokia Blog:
Nokia 5800 NAM Back on Shelves at Nokia US Flagship Stores - Preorders in 1-2 Weeks
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Video: Apple Nehalem-based Mac Pro unboxing and hands-on
Richard Gray / Telegraph:
World Wide Web creator Sir Tim BernersLee fell victim to online fraud
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Deaths of gamers leave their online lives in limbo
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Content Companies Demand Subsidies From ISPs... While ISPs Demand …
Louis Gray:
Nobody Can Hear You Scream If Your RSS Feed Is Dead
Discussion: Newsome.Org, Thanks:atul
Agence France Presse:
Second Life finding new life
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
New York Times Mulls Online Subscription Fee
Discussion: Bloomberg and MediaMemo, Thanks:atul