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1:45 AM ET, October 31, 2011

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Mona Simpson / New York Times:
A Sister's Eulogy for Steve Jobs  —  I grew up as an only child, with a single mother.  Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.  I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us.
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Walter Isaacson / New York Times:
The Genius of Jobs  —  ONE of the questions I wrestled with when writing about Steve Jobs was how smart he was.  On the surface, this should not have been much of an issue.  You'd assume the obvious answer was: he was really, really smart.  Maybe even worth three or four reallys.
Discussion: CNET News and Om.Is.Me
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Steve's Bio: A Personal Perspective  —  Let me jump to the conclusion: This is an extraordinary book on many levels: informative, entertaining often, insightful, sympathetic but not indulgent; it rises to its unusual subject and manages to render its complexity in a straightforward manner that attests to the biographer's talent.
Discussion: The Next Web
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston  —  Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator's Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Open Source Blog:
Ubuntu Linux heads to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs.  —  Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical & Ubuntu  —  Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, will announce at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL, that they will be taking Ubuntu Linux to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs.
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
ATTENTION APPLE FANS: Samsung Blowing Past Apple To Become The Biggest Smartphone Vendor Is Not Good News  —  For the past couple of years, Apple fans have responded to the Android threat with an evolving series of arguments about why Android isn't a threat:
Discussion: parislemon
Jack Neff / AdAge:
Why More of Your Facebook Fans are Seeing Fewer of Your Messages  —  Changes Announced at F8 are Impacting How Brand Posts get Distributed and Who Sees Them  —  Five weeks after Facebook revamped what users see when they visit the site, the verdict is in on the implications for brands and their messages …
New York Times:
Luck Is Just the Spark for Business Giants  —  BETTER to be lucky than good, the adage goes.  —  And maybe that's true — if you just want to be merely good, not much better than average.  But what if you want to build or do something great?  And what if you want to do so in today's unstable and unpredictable world?
Discussion: GeekWire
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Analysis: Shakeout expected among online advertising companies  —  (Reuters) - The crowded advertising technology sector may be about to shake out some losers.  —  With north of 150 companies — according to consultant and investment banker Luma Partners — in the relatively new online advertising industry …
Fred / A VC:
Protecting The Safe Harbors Of The DMCA And Protecting Jobs  —  My partner Brad and I spent Thursday in DC along with a bunch of entrepreneurs and VCs.  We talked to dozens of our elected officials about an issue that is very concerning to us, protecting the safe harbors of the DMCA.
Discussion: FM Blog, Feld Thoughts and rc3.org
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Rep. Blackburn, Co-Sponsor Of E-PARASITE, Explains Why Regulating The Internet Is Terrible
Tomio Geron / Social Markets:
Why Zynga's Mark Pincus Tried To Buy CNet [Startup School]  —  Zynga's Mark Pincus.  Photo Credit: Robert Scoble  —  Founding Zynga was a second option for Mark Pincus while he was trying to do something else entirely: acquire the technology website CNet.com.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
It's Time For Google To Let Google Voice Live Up To Its Promise  —  Last week TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington wrote a post highlighting the fact that iPhone users can get a surprisingly good experience using Google Voice if they're willing to switch to Sprint.
 
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Ben Zimmer / New York Times:
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Cable Is Holding Web TV at Bay, Earnings Show
Discussion: @brianstelter
Guardian:
Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones
Discussion: Boing Boing
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
More than just sexy phones: how Nokia will help sell Windows Phone 7
Discussion: The Next Web
Michael Larabel / Phoronix:
Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering
Discussion: Boing Boing
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Adds Subscribe Button to Comments Box Plugin to Increase Civility, Subscribers
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Siri Hacked to Run on an iPod Touch and iPhone 4
Glyn Moody / ComputerworldUK:
Mozilla's Brendan Eich on JavaScript - and Microsoft Buying Netscape
Discussion: Neowin.net
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
iPhone 4S battery life problems: bug in location services suspected
Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
The World Is Surprisingly Angry About the End of Google Reader
Discussion: TechCrunch