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June 30, 2014, 4:40 AM

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Kashmir Hill / Forbes:

Facebook Doesn't Understand The Fuss About Its Emotion Manipulation Study — * Updated with an additional statement from Adam Kramer, the Facebook data scientist who conducted the study. — This weekend, the Internet discovered a study published earlier this month in an academic journal …

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Sebastian Deterding / Tumbling Conduct:

Frame Clashes, or: Why the Facebook Emotion Experiment Stirs Such Emotion

More: Forbes, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, I4U News, The Laboratorium, VentureBeat, Neowin, Tech Times, NEWS.com.au and New Scientist

Tweets: @joshconstine and @naturenews

Carlos Bueno / Quartz:

How insular Silicon Valley companies exclude good job candidates by enforcing a “culture fit” — The next thing Silicon Valley needs to disrupt big time: its own culture — There's a problem with Silicon Valley and the subcultures that imitate it.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @jpstacey, @martinvars, @jtozz, @nealunger, @ireneau, @mims and @noahpinion. Thanks:@themadhacker

Tim Rogers / D Magazine:

Woot founder Matt Rutledge is self-funding a new company called A Mediocre Corporation to conduct e-commerce experiments — This Internet Millionaire Has a New Deal For You — The breakfast with Jeff Bezos started awkwardly and ended with an indignity that Matt Rutledge didn't even catch at first.

More: Gawker, Business Insider and TechCrunch

Dan Frommer / Quartz:

Android Wear lacks mass market appeal given current software, hardware, design, and ecosystem — These are not the wearables we've been waiting for — Google presented its vision for smartwatches—one of the first waves of wearable computers—this week at its I/O conference in San Francisco.

More: AppleInsider, Quartz, Subtraction.com and Daring Fireball. Tweets: @fromedome

Bill Wasik / Wired:

Inside Highway1, PCH's incubator to help hardware startups prototype and manufacture products — The Man Making Silicon Valley Go Crazy for Hardware — Liam Casey, the founder and CEO of PCH, which is trying to create a platform to take hardware startups from “zero to Apple.” Ian Allen

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

Akamai: Global average web speed up 24% annually to 3.9 Mbps, 20% of connections now above 10 Mbps — 1.2K — The global average internet speed is continuing its steady increase, growing 1.8 percent quarter-over-quarter and 24 percent year-on-year to reach 3.9 Mbps, according to Akamai …

More: Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, darkREADING and ZDNet. Tweets: @joshm

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

Marc Andreessen on how regulation and short-selling are killing the IPO — The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why. — Twenty years ago, a 22-year-old Marc Andreessen co-founded Netscape, the company behind the first commercially successful web browser.

More: Feld Thoughts. Tweets: @rmantri, @monkbent, @semil, @al3x and @christinelu

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Fly is a simple video-editing app that lets you shoot from four iPhones at once — There are simple video-editing apps, and then there's Fly, a new iPhone app that lets you edit a short movie inside literally one screen. Fly works by importing four of your videos into the app's editor …

More: AppleInsider, SlashGear, TUAW and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @starfire2258

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:

Quickoffice apps to be discontinued following integration into Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides — QuickOffice Will Be Discontinued — 2 years ago, Google bought Quickoffice, one of the best mobile apps for editing Office files. At that time, Google explained that “Quickoffice …

More: Google Apps update alerts, Engadget, I4U News, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, 9to5Google, App Advice, iMore and xda-developers

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Riley v. California ruling suggests the Supreme Court is rethinking its stance on privacy of digital data — Why the Supreme Court May Finally Protect Your Privacy in the Cloud — When the Supreme Court ruled yesterday in the case of Riley v. California, it definitively told the government …

More: SCOTUSblog, The Daily Beast, Just Security, CNBC, ACLU and Vox

Tweets: @gsterling, @digiphile and @a_greenberg

Seth Rosenblatt / CNET:

Google delays multi-language support in Google Now — Web giant pulls back on an announced update to Google Now that would've allowed multilingual people to switch at will between languages. — A new feature to let multilingual Google Now users switch between languages on the go has been delayed.

More: CNET, Android Central, Business Insider, 9to5Google, BGR, Android Central, PhoneArena and Android Authority

Sean Buckley / Engadget:

Second Life's second act will be a social network for virtual reality — Eight years ago, I was slouching through my college's required mass-media course and silently groaning while my professor excitedly mapped out the promises of Second Life. That online virtual world, where players create items …

More: Gamasutra, Guardian and Re/code

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