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  <title>Why is #moonfruit trending on Twitter? It&apos;s the rebirth of a startup (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch Europe)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090704/p5#a090704p5</link>
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<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090704/p5#a090704p5" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Mike Butcher / <A HREF="http://uk.techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch Europe</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/07/04/why-is-moonfruit-trending-on-twitter-its-the-rebirth-of-a-startup/">Why is #moonfruit trending on Twitter?&nbsp; It's the rebirth of a startup</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; It's not often that Internet companies last 10 years, but Moonfruit in the UK has proved pretty resilient.&nbsp; It survived the dotcom boom the first time round, launching with VC-backing, growing to 65 staff and cutting &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:45:03 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography (Dave Rosenberg/Software, Interrupted)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090704/p4#a090704p4</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090704/p4#a090704p4" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Dave Rosenberg / <A HREF="http://news.cnet.com/negative-approach/">Software, Interrupted</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10278864-62.html">Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; In addition to new features such as support for HTML 5, geo-location, and a noticeably faster engine, Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes Web typography much more attractive.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; @font-face is a CSS rule that allows Web designers &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:25:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>PC Invader Costs Ky. County $415,000 (Brian Krebs/Security Fix)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090704/p3#a090704p3</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/07/an_odyssey_of_fraud_part_ii.html"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/090704/i3.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090704/p3#a090704p3" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Brian Krebs / <A HREF="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/">Security Fix</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/07/an_odyssey_of_fraud_part_ii.html">PC Invader Costs Ky. County $415,000</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Cyber criminals based in Ukraine stole $415,000 from the coffers of Bullitt County, Kentucky this week.&nbsp; The crooks were aided by more than two dozen co-conspirators in the United States, as well as assistance from a family of malicious software capable &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:05:07 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>You&apos;ve Got Blackmail: The AOL Account That Wouldn&apos;t Die (The Wallet)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090704/p2#a090704p2</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet/2009/07/02/youve-got-blackmail-the-aol-account-that-wouldnt-die/"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/090704/i2.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090704/p2#a090704p2" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet">The Wallet</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet/2009/07/02/youve-got-blackmail-the-aol-account-that-wouldnt-die/">You've Got Blackmail: The AOL Account That Wouldn't Die</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Jason Zweig writes the Intelligent Investor column that runs in Saturday's Journal.&nbsp; Today, he takes on customer service.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Back in 2000, I worked at a magazine published by Time Inc., a division of Time Warner.</P>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:55:05 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Open Source and the Cloud: Where&apos;s the LAMP? (Sogrady/tecosystems)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090704/p1#a090704p1</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/07/02/lamp-of-the-clouds/"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/090704/i1.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090704/p1#a090704p1" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Sogrady / <A HREF="http://redmonk.com/sogrady">tecosystems</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/07/02/lamp-of-the-clouds/">Open Source and the Cloud: Where's the LAMP?</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; &ldquo;My challenge to everyone competing with Amazon, Google and Microsoft is to remember that you're competing with Amazon, Google and Microsoft.&nbsp; These are strong technology companies, and if you're going to compete with them, open source is the only way to do that.</P>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:30:04 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Apple, Acer and...Arrington? (Claire Cain Miller/Bits)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p52#a090703p52</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p52#a090703p52" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Claire Cain Miller / <A HREF="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/">Bits</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/apple-acer-arrington/">Apple, Acer and...Arrington?</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Michael Arrington, founder of the influential tech blog TechCrunch, has been talking for a year about building a touch-screen tablet for Web surfing.&nbsp; Now, it appears that the CrunchPad is about to become a reality.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The San Francisco Business Times reported Friday &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:15:04 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>EyeWonder malware incident affects popular web sites (Dancho Danchev/Zero Day)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p51#a090703p51</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3694"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/i51.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p51#a090703p51" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Dancho Danchev / <A HREF="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security">Zero Day</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3694">EyeWonder malware incident affects popular web sites</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; During the last couple of hours, visitors of popular and high trafficked web sites such as CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Gamespot, WorldOfWarcraft, Mashable, Chow.com, ITpro.co.uk, AndroidCommunity; Engadget and Chip.de &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Firefox 3.5 patch coming soon as Mozilla cranks up downloads (Kelly Fiveash/The Register)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p50#a090703p50</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p50#a090703p50" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Kelly Fiveash / <A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/">The Register</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/03/mozilla_firefox_3_5_1/">Firefox 3.5 patch coming soon as Mozilla cranks up downloads</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Pesky monkey still creating (some) havoc&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Join our expert panel in discussing application security&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Mozilla Foundation notched up five million downloads in the first 24 hours after it released Firefox 3.5 earlier this week.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:55:07 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Ads Spotted on Twitter.com - Did You Notice? (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p49#a090703p49</link>
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<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p49#a090703p49" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Marshall Kirkpatrick / <A HREF="http://www.readwriteweb.com/">ReadWriteWeb</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ads_spotted_on_twittercom_-_did_you_notice.php">Ads Spotted on Twitter.com - Did You Notice?</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Three months ago we reported that Ads Had Come to Twitter and it was a pretty big deal - until Twitter promptly said the word &ldquo;sponsored&rdquo; was only appearing on the site in error.&nbsp; Now the &ldquo;sponsored definitions&rdquo; of certain Twitter &ldquo;concepts&rdquo; &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:10:05 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Are &quot;deleted&quot; photos really gone from Facebook? Not always (Jacqui Cheng/Ars Technica)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p48#a090703p48</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/07/are-those-photos-really-deleted-from-facebook-think-twice.ars"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/i48.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p48#a090703p48" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Jacqui Cheng / <A HREF="http://arstechnica.com/">Ars Technica</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/07/are-those-photos-really-deleted-from-facebook-think-twice.ars">Are &ldquo;deleted&rdquo; photos really gone from Facebook?&nbsp; Not always</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; In an age where your boss, coworkers, parents, and even (*gasp*) grandparents are finally joining social networks, we are all more aware than ever that we had better keep things relatively clean.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:35:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>The Pros and Cons of Password Masking (Schneier on Security)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p47#a090703p47</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p47#a090703p47" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://www.schneier.com/blog/">Schneier on Security</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/the_pros_and_co.html">The Pros and Cons of Password Masking</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Usability guru Jakob Nielsen opened up a can of worms when he made the case for unmasking passwords in his blog.&nbsp; I chimed in that I agreed.&nbsp; Almost 165 comments on my blog (and several articles, essays, and many other blog posts) later, the consensus is that we were wrong.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Video Companies Raised $64M in Q2 &apos;09, Notching Another Stellar Quarter (Will Richmond/VideoNuze.com)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p46#a090703p46</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p46#a090703p46" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Will Richmond / <A HREF="http://www.videonuze.com/">VideoNuze.com</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.videonuze.com/blogs/?2009-07-0109:10:17/Video-Companies-Raised-64M-in-Q2-09-Notching-Another-Stellar-Quarter/&id=2228">Video Companies Raised $64M in Q2 '09, Notching Another Stellar Quarter</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; In Q2 '09, 9 broadband and mobile video-oriented companies raised at least $64M, notching another stellar quarter.&nbsp; Here's what I tracked for the quarter (if I missed anything, please drop me a note).</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:10:04 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>TechCrunch50: You Want Advertising? We&apos;ll Give You Advertising (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p45#a090703p45</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/03/techcrunch50-you-want-advertising-well-give-you-advertising/"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/i45.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p45#a090703p45" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Michael Arrington / <A HREF="http://www.techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/03/techcrunch50-you-want-advertising-well-give-you-advertising/">TechCrunch50: You Want Advertising?&nbsp; We'll Give You Advertising</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Despite our best intentions, it looks like the DEMO v. TechCrunch50 war will continue, even with DEMO under new management.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; In 2007 we launched the first TechCrunch50 event - a place where companies can launch to rabid fans and tech press.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:35:04 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Woman Shot in Apple Store at Clarendon&apos;s Market Common (Derek Kravitz/Washington Post)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p44#a090703p44</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/03/AR2009070301277.html"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/i44.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p44#a090703p44" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Derek Kravitz / <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/">Washington Post</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/03/AR2009070301277.html">Woman Shot in Apple Store at Clarendon's Market Common</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; An employee of an Apple store in Arlington was shot and wounded this morning during an attempted armed robbery in a back storeroom as more than three-dozen shoppers and other employees milled about the showroom.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:15:03 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Firefox, IE.  Tech journalists are a disgrace (Andrew Thomas/TG Daily)</title>
  <link>http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p43#a090703p43</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.techmeme.com/090703/p43#a090703p43" TITLE="Techmeme permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Andrew Thomas / <A HREF="http://www.tgdaily.com/">TG Daily</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43102/141/">Firefox, IE.&nbsp; Tech journalists are a disgrace</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Opinion: Let's imagine for a moment that we're in a strange parallel universe.&nbsp; Many things appear the same, but there are subtle differences.&nbsp; Today, for example, Microsoft launched the new version of its web browser, Internet Explorer 8...</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:50:06 -0400</pubDate>
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