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5:15 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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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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Arn / MacRumors:
1.8GHz SSD MacBook Air Drops $500
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.
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.”
Yahoo! News:
Firefox Browser Share Tops 19 Percent as Record Set  —  The Mozilla Foundation has set a world record and achieved new heights in its battle for browser market share.  According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 Web browser set a record for the most downloads in a day.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and NEWSFACTOR
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, PSFK and Web Scout
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 …
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 …
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
I Can Has Cheezburger CEO allergic to cats  —  Consider this: Ben Huh runs a site that takes submissions of stupid cat pictures with pidgin English captions written across them.  That site, I Can Has Cheezburger, pulls about 2.2 million pageviews a day.  Like the HotOrNot guys …
 
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Zhanyong Wan / Google Testing Blog:
Announcing: New Google C++ Testing Framework
Discussion: Download Squad
Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
It Only Looks Like an iPhone
Dan Nystedt / IDG News Service:
Asustek to Offer Eee PC With Built-in 3G Wireless
Discussion: Engadget
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
Jack Davis / Docu-Drama:
Bidzos is back as VeriSign chief, at least for now
Discussion: paidContent.org
Peter / The Local Onliner:
Gannett Buying ShopLocal Outright
Discussion: paidContent.org
mobilesyrup.com:
Bell & Telus launching the Samsung Instinct!
 Earlier Items: 
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Swurl brings all of your social networking activity together
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry KickStart to sell on T-Mobile for $49.99?!
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Should people in glass Facebook offices throw stones?
Discussion: Startup Meme
Christopher Spera / Gear Diary:
AT&T/iPhone US 3G Coverage
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2008
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Jobs 2.0  —  Pity whoever has to follow Steve Jobs at Apple.
TechCrunch:
How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt)
bijan sabet:
iPhone 2.0 OS rocks!
 

 
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Jack Forrest / CNN:
President-elect Donald Trump announces he has chosen Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as his secretary of defense

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney board members are exploring fresh candidates in their search for a successor to Bob Iger, including EA CEO Andrew Wilson

David Satin / The Streamable:
EchoStar reports a Q3 net loss of $142M on revenue of $3.89B, with Sling TV adding 145K customers but satellite service Dish losing 188K; SATS falls 12.9%

 
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