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Steve Jobs on WWDC Announcements: 'You Won't Be Disappointed' — After the big news from Google last week, MacRumors reader Bryan Webster emailed Steve Jobs: “I hope you have some good WWDC announcements to blow [Google] out of the water”. — To this, Steve Jobs reportedly replied “You won't be disappointed”.

Discussion: Edible Apple, Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, EverythingiCafe, Electronista, infoSync World, iPhone Savior and MacStories

Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:

Steve Jobs Email: “Not A Chance” Google Is Leapfrogging Us (AAPL, GOOG) — Steve Jobs is firing off one-line emails this weekend addressing Google's big announcements from this week. — One email to Steve asked him what he thought of Gizmodo saying Google had leapfrogged Apple with the release of the new Android operating system.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Thanks:bobcaswell

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

When do you throw a CEO's privacy under the bus? — It's interesting that lots of people who really don't like Facebook's privacy don't get mad when journalists and bloggers put into public view Steve Jobs' emails to them. — Today I got an email from Mark Zuckerberg, CEO/founder of Facebook.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Silicon Alley Insider, Chester Wisniewski's Blog, broadstuff, TNW Social Media, SmoothSpan Blog and Icodom, Thanks:sameerpatel

Todd Bishop / TechFlash:

Ballmer on Facebook privacy: Zuckerberg one of ‘good guys’ — Google and Facebook are the ones grappling with high-profile security and privacy problems these days, but Microsoft has been there before, many times, and the issues were clearly on Steve Ballmer's mind during a talk this past week on the company's Redmond campus.

Discussion: Scobleizer, Thanks:atul

Jason C. / Zappos.com:

6pm.com Pricing Mistake — Hey everyone - As many of you may know (and I'm sure a lot of you do not), 6pm.com is our sister site. 6pm.com is where brandaholics go for their guilt free daily fix of the brands they crave. Every day, the site highlights discounts on products ranging up to 70% off.

Discussion: Silicon Valley Watcher, BuzzMachine and AppScout

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

Internet Store Accidentally Prices Everything $49.99, Loses $1.6 million (Updated) — 6pm.com says it erroneously capped the price of everything in their store at $49.99 on Friday and lost $1.6 million in a matter of hours. And someone got a $1,400 GPS system cheap. (Or this is all viral marketing.)

Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:

Leaked White iPhone HD Hits The Web? — There you go again, the rumor of a white iPhone HD started last week by some leaked spare parts is about to get much more momentum. Indeed, the same source has now published some shots of what it claims to be the actual device.

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, I4U News, ithinkdifferent, EverythingiCafe, Appletell, Pocket-lint and Electronista

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Google TV: everything you ever wanted to know — Google made some waves yesterday when it announced the new Google TV platform, backed by major players like Sony, Logitech, Intel, Dish Network, and Best Buy. Built on Android and featuring the Chrome browser with a full version of Flash Player 10.1 …

Discussion: eWeek and Memex 1.1

Richard Lawler / Engadget HD:
Google TV: Who is the competition and what are they saying about it?

Discussion: Normalkid:Arnold Kim, Search Engine Land, Engadget and Daily Patricia

Jan Ozer / StreamingMedia.com:

First Look: H.264 and VP8 Compared — VP8 is now free, but if the quality is substandard, who cares? Well, it turns out that the quality isn't substandard, so that's not an issue, but neither is it twice the quality of H.264 at half the bandwidth. See for yourself.

Discussion: PC Magazine, Thanks:rawmeet

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Are these cloud-based social-feed enterprise disrupters boxing in Microsoft Sharepoint? — SocialWok is doing some interesting stuff with the Google ecosystem. I met up with them in the hallway at Google IO and I came away from the meeting wondering if they will stay an independent company for very long.

Thanks:scobleizer

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

With AdMob Out of the Way, Is Google Set to Buy Invite Media? — Now that Google has wrapped up its AdMob deal, what's next on its shopping list? One good bet: ad tech startup Invite Media. — Industry sources believe Google (GOOG) is close to a deal for Invite, a three-year-old …

Discussion: AdExchanger.com

Paul / Music Machinery:

The Swinger — One of my favorite hacks at last weekend's Music Hack Day is Tristan's Swinger. The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Google, Apple, Jacob, And The Man In Black — ABC's popular television show Lost comes to an end this weekend. This season has been largely about the backstory for why things are the way they are on the island. It's a minor spoiler to say it, but I'm going to anyway — basically …

Discussion: Sharing the truth …, Thanks:bobcaswell

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Post-I/O Thoughts — Post-Google I/O, there's not much room left …

Discussion: bijan sabet, Regular Geek, Otaku, Cedric's weblog, thylmann.net, OurielOhayon and blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Thanks:atul

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