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| Dalton Caldwell: |
Announcing an audacious proposal — The overwhelmingly positive response to my blogpost, What Twitter could have been has been inspiring. The post has generated 80K pageviews thus far. Without really meaning to, I touched a nerve. The responses to my post largely fell into two camps.
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GigaOM. Tweets: @semil, @hunterwalk, @gruber, @jason, @davewiner, @daltonc, @carnage4life and @mathewi
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Dalton Caldwell's ‘Alternative to Advertising Hell’: Making People Actually Pay For A Web Service — Dalton Caldwell is a very smart guy who has been a prominent entrepreneur and programmer on the Silicon Valley scene for a while now, so any time he announces a new project you can pretty much tell it is going to be newsworthy.| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
| Kevin Rose / Google+: |
If you haven't heard the news, I'm thrilled to announce that Digg is now in the hands of Betaworks — (makers of bitly, chartbeat, news.me, and other great products). I've been a big fan of John Borthwick ( http://foundation.kr/11/ ) for awhile now and I'm excited to see where his team takes the product!
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Pulse2 Technology …, The TechBlock and VentureBeat
Tweets: @scottbeale, @drewcurtis and @rossneumann
| Spencer E. Ante / Digits: |
Kevin Rose: Digg Failed Because ‘Social Media Grew Up’ — In his first interview since the remains of fallen social media Digg star were sold to Betaworks, Digg's founder Kevin Rose said he sold some company shares during the its venture-capital financing rounds but “did not make a lot of money.”| Aubrey Sabala / TechCrunch: |
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Internet Evolution and Tech Cocktail
| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
| Reuters: |
Google's Nexus tablet selling fast across retail chains — (Reuters) - Google Inc's “Nexus 7” tablet is off to an encouraging start, with major retailers running out of the gadgets as the Internet company's first entry in an increasingly crowded market showed up in U.S. stores on Friday.
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Android News, Rumours …, Pocketnow, Droid Life, BGR and Computerworld
| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
| The Next Web: |
How a flaw in Apple's in-app purchase process enabled more than 30,000 illegal virtual transactions — Earlier today a method came to light that allows Apple device users to ‘purchase’ any kind of in-app content for free. The content can be obtained without “hacking” the device and cannot …
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Macworld, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, CNET, Gotta Be Mobile and MacRumors. Thanks:@m4tt
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple contacted U.S. carriers and retailers to demand removal of banned Samsung products — During the last 24 hours there have been various filings with the Federal Circuit in the cases relating to Apple's preliminary injunctions against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone.
| Chance Miller / BriefMobile: |
Samsung Launches Its First Retail Store in North America, Looks a Lot Like an Apple Store — Apple often accuses Samsung of copying its devices, but Samsung has just taken it a step farther. The company has just opened its first North American retail store in Burnaby's Metropolis at Metrotown …
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PadGadget, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR and Android Phone Fans
| Horace Dediu / asymco: |
How many Lumia phones were sold in the US? — Nielsen and comScore survey US consumers through different methodologies, however they both try to paint a picture of the smartphone patterns of ownership and consumption. — I regularly report on comScore's data as it's published on a monthly basis.| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
RIM hit with $147.2 million verdict in wireless patent lawsuit — (Reuters) - A northern California jury directed Research in Motion Ltd to pay $147.2 million in patent litigation over a remote management system for wireless devices, according to an attorney for the plaintiff, Mformation Technologies Inc.
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digitaltrends.com, Engadget and Bloomberg
| Kyle McDonald / Wired: |
When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide: ‘People Staring at Computers’ — Steve Jobs, staring at the first version of Photo Booth. All watercolors courtesy of David Pierce. — I really wasn't expecting the Secret Service. — Maybe an email, or a phone call from Apple.
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ANIMAL, PetaPixel, Gawker, The Verge and ifoAppleStore
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Amazing Alex Shoots to No. 1 on First Day — Rovio doesn't need birds to fly it to the top of the app charts. Its new non-Angry Birds game, Amazing Alex, is already No. 1 in many regions, just a day after it was released, with particular strength on iOS. — The iPhone version of Amazing Alex …
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VentureBeat, SlashGear, Inside Mobile Apps, BGR and VatorNews
| Ben Kuchera / Penny Arcade Report: |
Ads up, games down: The ugly, profitable details about Xbox Live advertising — Xbox Live is the online platform for the Xbox 360 that allows people to play against each other online, chat across games, and manage their friend list. Xbox Live is also a for-pay service …
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The Next Web, Kotaku and Slashdot
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
mPowa Replaces Hand Photo Allegedly Swiped From Square With Photo Of A Totally Different Hand — It looks like a titanic legal struggle has been avoided. Mobile payments startup mPowa has responded to a cease-and-desist letter from Square by taking down a photo on its home page that Square said was swiped from its site.
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SlashGear, Market Wire and ReadWriteWeb
| Cotton Delo / AdAge: |
Facebook Starts Automating Home-Page Ad Buying — Premium Ads Now Available Through Third-Party Sellers — Two months after announcing it would automate the buying of premium ads that appear on user home pages and in their news feeds, Facebook has opened the floodgates.
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Channel 9:
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Unison's blog:
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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