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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Did Tumblr Just Reverse Take Down 4Chan? — Today was supposed to be the day that 4Chan took down Tumblr. Instead, it looks like 4Chan itself is down. Could Tumblr be behind it? — As you can see, 4Chan is down for everyone, not just me. And it has been that way for at least the past 15 minutes.
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
4chan vs. Tumblr: Whoever Wins, We All Lose
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Just Announced Updates To AOL Mail — AOL just put out a press release announcing updates to AOL Mail. — Weird timing, since it's 12 pm eastern on a Sunday, which is not exactly the prime time for news. — Maybe it is just trying to get the jump on Facebook which is expected to announce its email product on Monday.
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Business Wire, Bits, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Examiner and Skype Journal
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JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
‘Project Phoenix’: Aol tries to raise email from ashes — Having lost the email crown long ago to Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo, Aol wants to jump back into the fray with ‘Project Phoenix,’ a web-based client built from scratch. — Since Google (GOOG) first introduced Gmail back in 2004 …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Pulse, Popular App, Moves to Attract More Users — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Publishers' offices at print newspapers and magazines are tension-filled places these days, as executives watch readers and advertisers flock to the Web and cellphone screens. — Contrast that to the atmosphere …
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
HP Slate 500 sees ‘extraordinary demand,’ experiences six-week shipping delay (update) — Yes, the HP Slate 500 is officially backordered, less than a month after its enterprising debut, and Hewlett-Packard claims it's because of “extraordinary demand,” a phrase that's presently not quantifiable.
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AppleInsider, GottaBeMobile, SAI, displayblog, Examiner and Electronista
Chris Matyszczyk / CNET News:
Google engineer: Raise leaker exposed us to mugging — There are some things about which Google doesn't comment. However, it is entirely true that many Google employees are human beings with feelings, sometimes even strong ones. — So, though the company itself refused to go into detail …
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Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
The iPadification of OS X - Part II — Two weeks ago, I argued that iOS will evolve into the operating system for future incarnations of iMacs and MacBooks. The comments on the article provided abundant food for thought, so much so that I decided to argue the opposite point of view: Yes …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
The Phone Call Is Dead — more info (via: Wylio) In the tech industry saying that something is dead actually means “It's on the decline.” And yes, the phone call is on an inexorable decline. — My original title for this post was “The Phone Call Will Be Dead In __ Years” …
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Examiner, TeleRead and Life On the Wicked Stage
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Should You Be Snuggling With Your Cellphone? — WARNING: Holding a cellphone against your ear may be hazardous to your health. So may stuffing it in a pocket against your body. — I'm paraphrasing here. But the legal departments of cellphone manufacturers slip a warning about holding …
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Examiner, Gizmodo Australia, SAI and Gizmodo
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
GoDaddy was just testing .co default, switches back to .com — The world's largest domain registration service, GoDaddy caused a bit of a stir yesterday when it began offering .co domains instead of .com as its default option. Well, it turns out that the move was just an experiment.
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DomainIncite.com, Domain Name Wire, .CO Domain Registration, Elliot's Blog, The Atlantic Online, SEO and Tech Daily, Mashable! and Techie Buzz, Thanks:ahmedomarz
Nick Bilton / Bits:
One on One: Tim Wu, Author of ‘The Master Switch’ — Tim Wu, the Columbia law professor who came up with the term “net neutrality” in a research paper, has just written a new book, “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires,” published by Knopf.
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Krishna Sankar / My missives:
Google - A Study In Scalability And A Little Systems Horse Sense — Google's Jeff Dean did an excellent talk at Stanford as part of EE380 - it is worth one's time to listen. Very informative, instructive and innovative. As I listened, I jotted a few quick notes.
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar — The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here's how it works: — Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network. In other words, a WiFi network that doesn't require a password before you can connect to it.
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Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone:
Firesheep, enterprise software and other broken models
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