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Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can't handle the truth — I'd probably feel slightly smug, if I didn't feel so sick. — Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decency …
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ParisLemon, Strange Attractor, Podcasting News, Open (minds, finds …, Life On the Wicked Stage and Geek News Central, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Citizen journalism: I'll take it, flaws and all — Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I'm glad Mike Arrington hired him.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Verizon takes another swing at AT&T, puts iPhone on the Island of Misfit Toys — AT&T might be suing Verizon for misrepresenting its network in ads, but that doesn't seem to have dissuaded Big Red from using that same map image in this new spot, which casts the iPhone away to the Island of Misfit Toys.
Mark Pincus Blog:
Ensuring zynga's user experience - removing all cpa offers — michael arrington posted yesterday on mobile offerings still being shown in our new game fishville. I want to explain why this occurred and how we are taking more aggressive steps to ensure this never happens again.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Zynga's FishVille Sleeps With The Fishes For Ad Violations
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Shooting at Bubbles
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Cisco Software Takes On Microsoft, IBM — The networking giant announces new collaboration tools for IM, e-mail, social networking and more. — If Cisco wasn't making enough enemies with its string of bold acquisitions and a brazen push into the server market last spring …
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher — Image based on Kevin Van Aelst's original. — Since it's apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I'd build on my success with the hashtag and crank out a few more.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Droid fails AS A PRODUCT when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone — So, the hype got to me. Yesterday I headed to Verizon and bought a Motorola Droid, which runs Google's Android operating system. — Last night my friend Luke Kilpatrick came over and we compared the Droid to the Palm Pre and iPhone.
Mahmoud Al-Qudsi / The NeoSmart Files:
Watch YouTube Videos Without Flash in HTML5 — Running on Mac or Linux and tired of Adobe Flash eating up all your CPU cycles while you're watching YouTube? Buggy plugins that crash your browser and freeze your PC? Proprietary formats that get in the way? Want to embrace HTML5 and the future?
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Apple Still Not Allowing VoIP Calls Over 3G — Earlier today in response to my post about Nimbuzz, a good pal emailed to find out why the service didn't work over the iPhone's 3G connection. After all, a few weeks ago AT&T announced support for VoIP over 3G with much fanfare …
Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Why the mainstream media is dying — Every once in a while you get to see a mainstream outlet cover a story right alongside a blog, so you can put them up against each other and see why one was so much better than the other. This week TechCrunch and the New York Times (photo) provided just such a lesson.
Discussion:
Glass House, Kindle Review, Howard Lindzon, thenewpowergirls.wordpress.com, broadstuff, madisonian.net and New York Times, Thanks:atul
internetnews.com:
Firefox Tops Vulnerability List — New study places Firefox at the top of vulnerability list for for the first half of 2009. — Application security vendor Cenzic today released its security trends report for the first half of 2009 application. In it, Cenzic claims that the Mozilla's Firefox browser led …
Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
GM, Kellogg, Nestle Beat to the Tweet as Squatters Take Over Twitter Names — Marketers That Have Not Registered Handles Fear Brand Reputation at Risk — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — On Twitter's @Hyundai page, there is a collection of 140-character blasts in English and Korean about oysters, cellphones and the Yankees.
Thanks:atul
