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2:00 AM ET, July 4, 2008

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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
What comes next in this series?  13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28...  Late one night in the summer of 2000, I found myself answering user support emails in response to two new features we had just released, Advanced Search and Preferences (at the time catchily called “Language, Display, and Filtering Options” :)).
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime  —  Google has just released a lengthy blog post to announce that it has finally put its privacy policy on its homepage.  The search giant has been repeatedly questioned over the last few months over its lack of a readily available privacy policy …
Discussion: WinBeta
Karion / RADAR:
GAWKER CUTS STAFF PAY RATE FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE QUARTER  —  Who ever said the future of media was going to feel great?  With the current traffic success of Gawker—70+ posts a day, amazing SEO results, and relentlessly hammered-home top stories to maximize numbers—comes a downside.
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The (evil?) genius of Nick Denton  —  Interesting post on RADAR online about Nick Denton cutting pay rates for Gawker Media bloggers.  I posted a comment which I'll share below.  —  Hey Choire,  —  Some notes on your story from one of Nick's top three Frienemies.
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom its records of which users watched which videos on YouTube, the Web's largest video site by far.  —  The order raised concerns among YouTube users and privacy advocates …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Department of Civil Disobedience: Google Should Deliver Its YouTube …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Judge Protects YouTube's Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple lops $500 off the price of SSD-based MacBook Air  —  With the price of NAND flash memory continuing its steady sequential decline, Apple Inc. this month cut the price of its Solid State Drive (SSD)-equipped MacBook Air by half a grand, AppleInsider has discovered.
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
MacBook Air SSD purchase price drops by $500
Discussion: MacUser and jkOnTheRun
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Closing Dallas, Denver Office  —  Google is closing its office in Denver and Dallas, as someone at Friendfeed posted today.  “Employees have to choose relocation or severance,” a former Google employee (according to her blog's about page) wrote, adding that the reason was consolidation; “Someone decided the ROI wasn't there.”
Brendon Chase / CNET News.com:
Stolen: Google employees' personal data  —  Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary.  —  Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company Google and other companies use to handle human resources functions …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Did the “Enron of Norway” Pull a Fast One On Microsoft?  More Details About the Mess at Fast Search & Transfer  —  Even back in January when Microsoft agreed to pay $1.2 billion for enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer, it was mired in an accounting scandal and trading in its stock had been suspended.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Motorola Napolean Q9: Verizon's World Phone  —  Man, Motorola just can't keep a lid on anything anymore can they?  We've got a hold of a phone codenamed the “Napolean” and it's a CDMA EV-DO Rev. A Q9 with full GSM world roaming capabilities.  This even includes the U.S. 850MHz/1900MHz bands!
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
BoingBoing: It's our blog, and our rules  —  It's an old-media adage that if you can find three things that are similar, you have a trend on your hands, and can therefore write a big feature on the rise of the “hand-washing” trend or the “shoe-tying” trend.  Well, after the Loren-Israel grudge match …
Discussion: Valleywag, Adrants and PSFK
Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
Linspire Chairman Frustrated By Futility Of Desktop Linux, Rebuts Carmony  —  Michael Robertson says Microsoft's imposing lead in the desktop market means Linux should look to next-gen devices for growth.  —  Michael Robertson, chairman of Linspire, said the assets of his company were sold to Xandros after …
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Jobs 2.0  —  Pity whoever has to follow Steve Jobs at Apple.  —  Not every great company stumbles into oblivion after the departure of a visionary founder.  The problem: Jobs has left once before, and until he came back, it looked like Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) would be one of those companies.
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry KickStart to sell on T-Mobile for $49.99?!  —  You may want to take this news with a grain of salt.  I know the first time I heard this information I was skeptical.  Then I heard it again, and again and again.  And now that I've heard the same bit of news from multiple sources …
 
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Dan Nystedt / IDG News Service:
Asustek to Offer Eee PC With Built-in 3G Wireless
Discussion: Engadget
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
I Can Has Cheezburger CEO allergic to cats
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Can A Company Ban Retailers From Selling Its Products On eBay?
Discussion: Times of London
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Meraki brings free WiFi to 100,000 San Franciscans
Yahoo! News:
Firefox Browser Share Tops 19 Percent as Record Set
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and NEWSFACTOR
Peter / The Local Onliner:
Gannett Buying ShopLocal Outright
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mobilesyrup.com:
Bell & Telus launching the Samsung Instinct!
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Swurl brings all of your social networking activity together
 Earlier Items: 
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Should people in glass Facebook offices throw stones?
Christopher Spera / Gear Diary:
AT&T/iPhone US 3G Coverage
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2008
TechCrunch:
How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt)
bijan sabet:
iPhone 2.0 OS rocks!
Levi Beckerson / DailyTech:
Scientists Getting Closer to Cloaking Technologies
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Yahoo! Property Breakdown and Sum of the Parts