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Fred Wilson / A VC:

AngelList Syndicates will compete with other lead investors for deals, and many will fail — Leading vs Following — Hunter Walk has a good post up on the coming competition among angels with syndicates to get into deals. Hunter observes: … What Hunter is getting at is the difference between leading and following.

More: ZDNet, Hunter Walk, Silicon Valley Watcher, Chris Dixon, VentureBeat and Feld Thoughts

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Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

AngelList Syndicates can help traditional VCs, not just entrepreneurs and angels — Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal? — If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.”

Tweets: @startupljackson, @davidlee and @besvinick

Jason Calacanis / LinkedIn Today:

Jason Calacanis touts power of AngelList Syndicates, boasts that his own now exceeds $300k

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

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Jacob Kleinman / TechnoBuffalo:

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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage — Lodsys became one of the most-scorned patent holders in 2011, by making seemingly small cash demands (just 0.575 percent of your revenue, please!) against small app makers, who it said were infringing its patents that cover in-app purchasing and upgrades.

More: MacRumors, Guardian, AppleInsider and The Verge

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Ryan Taljonick / GamesRadar:

PC gaming's future is no longer tied to Microsoft — First there was SteamOS, a Linux-based operating system whose open design aims to spur innovation. Then there were Steam Machines, a range of Valve-branded systems with SteamOS pre-installed that will provide a legitimate non-Windows alternative for PC gamers come 2014.

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Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Steam Controller in use: game developers sound off on the beta version's highs and lows, how it feels

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Ryan Sarver:

Twitter's former Platform Director Ryan Sarver posts first of 10 essays on lessons learned — Things I Learned Working on the Twitter Platform — I was lucky enough to spend the last four years of my life working with an incredible team of people on the Twitter Platform.

Tweets: @davewiner, @mbaratz, @stevecheney, @jw and @chirag_mehta

Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:

Facebook Woos TV Networks With More Data — Facebook is laying down a new gauntlet in its battle with Twitter to dominate online conversation around television: more data for broadcasters. — This week, Facebook says it will begin sending weekly reports to America's four largest television networks …

More: VatorNews and The Next Web. Tweets: @drew, @isaach, @mathewi and @bryfitz

Richard Lai / Engadget:

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