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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple runs short of iPhones — The iPhone availability widget is back — new and improved — and it's showing spot shortages of selected iPhones at Apple (AAPL) stores across the United States. — The availability tool, which appears on Apple's website in times of scarcity …
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google mocks Bing and the stuff behind it — You call this a cloud? — Structure 09 Google has openly ridiculed Microsoft's entire approach to online infrastructure, while taking some wonderfully sly shots at the company's new [decision engine] search engine.
Mark Rutherford / CNET News:
Reading machine to snoop on Web — What if the wisdom of Web could be yours, without having to read through it one page at a time? That's what the military wants. — DARPA has hired a company to develop a reading machine to reduce the gap between the ever increasing mountain of digitized text …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking — Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping. He suggests that linking to copyrighted material should be outlawed.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Username Registration for Facebook Pages With Under 1,000 Fans Opens Tonight — Two weeks ago, Facebook opened up username registration to all users, but only those Pages with over 1,000 fans before May 31. Tonight, the second wave of vanity URLs are being released to any Page with over 100 fans at 11:59pm ET (8:59pm PT).
Aaron Wall / SEO Book.com:
How to Make Easy Money on Google — Want To Make a Living on Google Money? — AdAge has a good post about how Google's promotion of fraudulent advertising is undermining their brand... Google's 5-Step Easy Money Process — Find a high paying affiliate program which sells a product about how easy it is to make money on Google.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FriendFeed, Syphilis And The Perfection Of Online Mobs — People have always been inclined to join mobs - most people have at least one story to tell about a time that they got swept up in or had to face a crowd demanding justice for one thing or another (both of my experiences were in college).
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Acer's Everywhere. How Did That Happen? — ABOUT three months ago, Gianfranco Lanci flew into San Francisco International Airport, got off the plane and made his way to the passport control stations. As he pulled out his documents, the passport agent immediately recognized him as the chief executive of Acer.
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Google Tries Hand At Targeting Consumers With Good Credit — Google has been testing the ability to lay consumer FICO scores on top of its Google Content Network to identify people with good credit. The strategy will enable the search engine to help advertisers target a specific type …
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Financial Times:
Microsoft puts Razorfish up for sale — By Tim Bradshaw in Cannes and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Microsoft has appointed Morgan Stanley to find a potential buyer for Razorfish, its digital agency — Publicis Groupe, the French marketing company that says it is planning …
Robert L. Mitchell / Computerworld:
Domain-name wars: Rise of the cybersquatters — Trademark owners say cybersquatting on the Web has gone too far — and they're pushing back. — Computerworld - When the Web site FreeLegoPorn.com began publishing pornographic images created with Lego toys, trademark owner Lego Juris AS …
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Timothy / Slashdot:
The Video Bay, Now In Beta — poundhard writes “Some two years ago, it was mentioned on TorrentFreak and Slashdot that The Pirate Bay team were working on a YouTube competitor. At the oral proceedings of the Spectrial, I believe it was Peter Sunde, aka Brokep, who said to the prosecutor …
