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Rocky Agrawal / reDesign:
Sam Altman will clean your house for $5 — That's right, the CEO of Loopt will personally clean your house for $5. But only if 1,000 people sign up. Only, I haven't told him about the deal yet. He may not agree, but I'm using his name anyway. Hell, he doesn't know I've put this offer out there.
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@rakeshlobster
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Professional Video Editors Weigh In on Final Cut Pro X — In 10 years of writing Times columns, I've never encountered anything quite like this. — In Thursday's paper, I reviewed Apple's Final Cut Pro X, a professional video-editing program. It's not an update of the existing Final Cut …
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Engadget, Jeffery Harrell, Richard Harrington Blog, Observatory, Computerworld, TUAW, Digital Trends, MacNN, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, GigaOM and AppleInsider
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Conan's Editors Absolutely Love Apple's New Final Cut Pro X — Apple recently released their new editing software Final Cut Pro X and our editors absolutely love it!
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Fortune, CNN, Engadget, RazorianFly, TUAW, The Wire, The Next Web and TechCrunch
Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
GOOGLE OFFERS REVEALED: Here Are The Secret Details About Google's Groupon-Killer — Google launched its Groupon-killer, “Offers,” in Portland, Oregon, about a month ago. — And now it's gearing up to launch in San Francisco and New York. — Could Offers become a massive new revenue stream for Google …
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Gizmodo and The Business Insider
Dion Almaer / techno.blog:
An Epic conversation between Steve Jobs and developers from WWDC 97 — It is always fantastic to get a blast from the past, and DHH linked to a conversation between Steve Jobs' and developers from WWDC in 1997. — I find it fascinating. Steve was back as an advisor, but not in as CEO yet …
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Skype: See no vesting, hear no vesting — Last week, Skype took heat for firing three executives just weeks before the company's $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft (MSFT) is expected to close. That was bad, albeit more optical than unethical. What we learned today, however, might have crossed that line.
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J.B. / Fusible.com:
Will Zynga give The Sims on Facebook a run for its money with Familyville? — Electronic Arts is making some big waves in the social gaming world this week amid rumors the company is buying PopCap Games a direct competitor of Zynga. But that's not the only news regarding EA and social gaming.
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The Business Insider and Kotaku
Zach Epstein / BGR:
HP to launch 7-inch tablet in August according to report — Hewlett-Packard will follow up its TouchPad launch next month with the release of an unannounced 7-inch tablet in August, Taiwan Economic News reported on Friday. Citing information from an Inventec Corp. subcontractor …
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CENS.com, CrunchGear, Computerworld, TechSpot, Liliputing, SlashGear and webOSroundup
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Inspired By Wikipedia, Quora Aims For Relevancy With Topic Groups And Reorganized Topic Pages — Quora has just announced a redesign of its Topic Pages and the introduction of Topic Groups, aiming to make information discovery and navigation on the site a little bit easier.
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Mashable! and Quora, Thanks:pragmatic_rebel
Dan Gillmor / Guardian:
Can Icann really be necessary? — It's a question worth asking as the body that oversees internet domain names will now permit any suffix you want - at a price — Are you ready for .xxx, .coke and .insertyournamehere? You'd better get ready, because an organisation with significant authority and scant accountability says you must.
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@timoreilly
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Health: Why It's Ending & What It Means — Google's quest to organize the world's information will no longer include one of society's most important and sensitive sources of data: our health records. The company announced this afternoon that Google Health will be closed forever …
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ITProPortal, L.A. Times Tech Blog, eWeek, The Official Google Blog and SiliconFilter
This Is Fake DIY:
Turntable.fm Blocks Non-US Users, States Licensing Constraints — If you've been hawking round the right circles on the internet over the past week, you can't help but have come across turntable.fm. If you're not from the US though, you're out of luck. — A website that allows members …
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The Next Web, GigaOM, @turntablefm, @tomhillenbrand and The Next Web
