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In Memoriam: Even in losing, how Digg won — The Digg Townhall meeting broadcast live from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. 2008. Photo courtesy of Eric Magnuson, via Flickr — Having spent a major part of the week sitting on a beach, practically disconnected … | Aubrey Sabala / TechCrunch: |
Thumbs Up: Digg Wasn't A Failure, It Was A Beginning — “Don't let him climb a wall. We haven't finalized his life insurance plan.” — That was one of the first directions I was given at Digg when I started in early 2008. “Him” was Kevin Rose, the founder of the widely popular social news site, and I was on my third day.| Paul Tassi / Forbes: |
| Christopher S. Stewart / Wall Street Journal: |
In Age of Twitter, NBC Rewrites Olympic Playbook — In NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters, workers were hustling Friday to transform the “Saturday Night Live” sound stage into a command center for coverage of the 2012 Olympics Games. — Much of this is familiar territory for America's No. 3 network.
Tweets: @antderosa
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Vast Effort by F.D.A. Spied on E-Mails of Its Own Scientists — WASHINGTON — A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists utilized an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-mails that the disgruntled … | Brenden Mulligan / TechCrunch: |
Path's Consistency Of Tone — Editor's Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur and product designer who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. — Admittedly, I have a negative bias towards overhyped startups.
Tweets: @chchien and @joshelman
| Damaster / LiveSide.net: |
Exclusive: A first look at the “Agave” apps for Office 2013 — Back in March this year, we reported that Microsoft was readying a Office web extensions platform called “Agaves”, which allows developers will be able to create an area within Office applications that lets webpages interact … | Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily: |
Don't Root for Aereo, the World's Most Ridiculous Start-up — Aereo, the controversial television streaming company backed by Barry Diller, may be the stupidest high-profile tech start-up ever launched. — In my years of covering the tech business, I certainly can't remember coming across … | Ryan Holmes / Fortune: |
The Facebook tweak that killed a billion-dollar industry — Facebook is known for operating in a perpetual beta state, making major changes not infrequently. Problem is, that can stifle a quickly growing niche. — FORTUNE — Mark Zuckerberg is famous for keeping Facebook (FB) in a state of permanent beta.
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
A Show-and-Tell With Google's Hardware — Meet Eric Schmidt, Google's traveling salesman. — Mr. Schmidt, the executive chairman of the search giant, began a fireside chat with the media on Thursday at the Allen & Company conference with a brief show-and-tell.
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| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Innovative bookmarking service Spool is shutting down. Team joins Facebook — Spool today confirms its innovative bookmarking service is shutting down. — In an email, the Spool team says: … Spool was kind enough to attach all a user's bookmarks to the email and provided a handy link …
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Spool, CNET, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, The Next Web and VentureBeat
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
How did the new MacBook Pros get Gold-level green ratings? — They may not stick. A recycling coalition says the notebooks flunk two key tests — FORTUNE — Apple (AAPL) may have thought it put the EPEAT kerfuffle behind it with the release of Bob Mansfield's mea culpa letter Friday.
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Examiner, MacRumors, Electronista, The Loop, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web and Neowin. Thanks:@philiped
| Torie Bosch / Slate: |
How Kate Middleton's Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia's Woman Problem — According to Wikipedia's 2011 Editor Survey, just 9 percent of Wiki editors are women. While the gender gap is better than it was—in the early '00s, it was more like 3 percent—and the proportion of new editors …
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Location and Mapping for Windows Phone 8 — In this week's Inside Windows Phone we talk about Location and Mapping in Windows Phone 8.
Location and Mapping for Windows Phone 8 — In this week's Inside Windows Phone we talk about Location and Mapping in Windows Phone 8.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Big data analytics have gained in popularity over the last few years, yet many operations continue to struggle with their implementation.
Circumventing big data hurdles with Apache Hadoop and Hortonworks — Big data analytics have gained in popularity over the last few years, yet many operations continue to struggle with their implementation.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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