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12:15 PM ET, July 24, 2011

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Violet Blue / Pulp Tech Blog:
Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers  —  A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names - alienating and frightening the people it aims to serve.
Killian Fox / Guardian:
Africa's mobile economic revolution  —  Half of Africa's one billion population has a mobile phone - and not just for talking.  The power of telephony is forging a new enterprise culture, from banking to agriculture to healthcare  —  Earlier this month, on a short bus ride through the centre of Kampala …
Discussion: textually.org
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
NoSQL is What?  —  I found myself reading NoSQL is a Premature Optimization a few minutes ago and threw up in my mouth a little.  That article is so far off base that I'm not even sure where to start, so I guess I'll go in order. … Uhm... WHAT?!  —  I've spent more than a few years using MySQL …
Discussion: SmoothSpan Blog
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Bob Warfield / SmoothSpan Blog:
NoSQL is a Premature Optimization  —  There's been a lot of back and forth lately from the NoSQL crowd around Michael Stonebreaker's contention that reliance on relational technology and MySQL has trapped Facebook in a ‘fate worse than death.’ This was reported in a GigaOm post by Derrick Harris.
Andy Ihnatko / Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste …:
Making Desktop Webapps in Lion  —  “By the sainted mustache of Charles Foster Kane!  Is it ever hot out there!  I should write an app that keeps my city's Current Weather data from Weather Underground within easy view at all times!”  —  “Holy rosemary vinaigrette!  Today promises to be a huge day of news for Apple!
Discussion: MacGazette.net and Lifehacker
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
The Winklevosses Vs. Silicon Valley  —  The Winklevoss twins had their original case against Facebook dismissed yesterday, causing tech media to write another slew of “The Winklevosses' Case Against Facebook Is Over But Wait Actually It Isn't” headlines.  The seven-year battle is indeed not over …
Discussion: @winklevoss, Quora, Digits and paidContent
Alex Hudson / BBC:
Podcasts: Who still listens to them?  —  Click's LJ Rich asks whether podcasting has become too corporate  —  Since becoming a buzzword more than five years ago, the term “podcasting” has largely disappeared from view as attention has increasingly turned to social media.
Discussion: @asymco
Jacqueline Wong / Reuters:
China inspects electronics stores after fake Apple shops report  —  Chinese industrial and commercial authorities in Kunming have started to inspect all of the southwestern city's electronics shops after an American blogger wrote about fake Apple stores, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / The Business Insider:
Facebook Investor Roger McNamee Explains Why Social Is Over  —  Elevation Partners and Facebook investor Roger McNamee, who is also a rock musician, gave an amazing talk recently where he goes over some of the biggest trends affecting the technology industry.  —  The talk was spotted by our friend Dan Frommer at SplatF.
Discussion: Beyond Search
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Hulu, Billed as Tomorrow's TV, Looks Boxed In Today  —  PICTURE this: TV anyway, anywhere.  —  Every sitcom.  Every drama, documentary, reality show.  —  All of it — everything — Right Here Now.  —  This is the radical potential of the Internet.  And this is the implicit promise of Hulu …
Discussion: I, Cringely and Daily Patricia
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iOS 5′s Siri-like system navigation is called ‘Assistant’, uses device-info to handle actions  —  Apple's purchase of Siri in early 2010 and their partnership with Nuance in 2011 has many hoping that Apple has something like speech-to-text or voice-navigation up its sleeve for iOS 5.
Electronista:
Apple lands 10-year Grand Central Terminal store deal  —  Apple has already reached a deal for its Grand Central Terminal store.  The Metropolitan Transportation Authority confirmed to the NY Post that Apple will have the location for 10 years and is refurbishing the space.
 
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Cinthia Murphy / Hot Topics:
Global X Drafts Social Media ETF
Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:
Did Apple eject Google Books from the App Store for violating terms?
Discussion: GottaBeMobile and App Advice
Guardian:
Hugo Chávez uses Twitter to run Venezuela from hospital bed
Discussion: Tecca and The Next Web
NPR:
Intellectual Ventures And The War Over Software Patents
Discussion: GeekWire
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
How MySpace Tom May Have Inadvertently Triggered The Google/Facebook War
Discussion: TechCrunch and Quora
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
VideoInbox, Another Google/Slide Production, Brings Viral Videos To Your Inbox
Discussion: Softpedia News
Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Google+ business profiles to include analytics & more
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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