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September 10, 2012, 4:40 AM

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Paul Graham:
Black Swan Farming  —  I've done several types of work over the years but I don't know another as counterintuitive as startup investing.  —  The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners …
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Yes, Spotify Is Headed to the Web.  No, Spotify Isn't Cutting Its Prices.  —  Waiting to use Spotify on the Web?  Hang on a few weeks.  —  Waiting to pay $8 a month for Spotify's premium service?  Don't hold your breath.  —  Yes, as TechCrunch reported yesterday, the streaming music company …
Alexandra Chang / Wired:
How Katy Perry Inspired LinkedIn's Global Redesign  —  LinkedIn has Katy Perry on its mind.  But not in the usual I-have-that-Firework-song-stuck-in-my- head way.  The pop singer is the namesake, and underlying inspiration, for the company's largest product design undertaking since its launch in 2003.
Thanks:@nateog
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Teaching the F.A.A. That Dogs Don't Buckle Up  —  If you've ever flown Virgin America, you will have seen the cartoonlike safety video that plays before the flight takes off.  —  In one scene, about a minute into the video, a man is shown sitting next to a large bull as he fumbles with his seat belt.
Tweets: @digiphile
Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:
Alibaba's New Goal: Taking On Android  —  HANGZHOU, China—While the technology industry is closely watching Apple Inc.'s patent war against rivals using Google Inc.'s Android mobile operating system, China already has homegrown software that is trying to take on Android in the country's fast-growing smartphone market.
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Warby Parker raises $37 million  —  Eyeglass maker can now see its future a bit clearer.  —  FORTUNE — Trendy eyeglass maker Warby Parker has raised $36.8 million in new venture capital funding, according to a regulatory filing that indicates the total round could top out at $40 million.
More: The Next Web and TechCrunchTweets: @danprimack
Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:
Meet The Disrupt SF 2012 Hackathon Winners: Livebolt Takes Grand Prize, Auctopus And HeatData Are Runners Up  —  The night has been a long one for our intrepid crew of hackers, and all their arduous, caffeine-fueled work has led to this moment.  A stunning 147 teams have taken the stage …
More: TechCrunch
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft gives Yahoo name top billing in Microsoft Advertising rebrand  —  Summary: It looks like Microsoft is rebranding Microsoft Advertising as the “Yahoo Bing Network” and its own online ads as “Bing Ads.”  —  As reported on September 9 on SearchEngineLand.com, Microsoft seems …
Klint Finley / Wired:
As Heroku Boss Flees to Olive Farm, Where's the Platform Cloud Going?  —  Sometimes, people call it “platform-as-a-service.”  But more often than not, they just point to Heroku, the San Francisco company that pioneered this oh-so-hard-to-explain technology.
More: GigaOM

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Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup - FormVerse  —  If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email.  If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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 …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls  —  For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Mobile Telco Dials In and Harnesses Big Data with Hadoop  —  Smartphones have transformed our daily lives.  A key indicator of this trend is our increased spend on data plans versus voice.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
 

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