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1:40 AM ET, August 27, 2008

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Aza Raskin / Mozilla Labs:
Introducing Ubiquity  —  An experiment into connecting the Web with language.  —  It Doesn't Have to be This Way  —  You're writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to.  You'd like to include a map.
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Aza Raskin / Aza's Thoughts:   Ubiquity In Depth  —  An experiment into connecting the Web with language.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. …
Discussion: eWeek
Erica Ogg / CNET News - Apple:
Psystar responds to Apple suit, will countersue  —  PALO ALTO, Calif.—Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday as well as a countersuit of its own, alleging that Apple engages in anticompetitive business practices.
Alexkoc / Windows Genuine Advantage:
Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Professional  —  Starting this week, we will begin deployment of the latest version of WGA Notifications for Windows XP.  In addition to the usual updates to validation that improve WGA's ability to detect the latest stolen or fake product keys …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Google is neither buying nor running many online display ads …
Discussion: CNET News.com
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Now Searching For Synonyms  —  Blink, and you might have missed it.  Google's now doing synonym searching.  It's something they quietly noted in a past Google blog post and one that comes up again today in a post that covers how Google uses experiments to improve the search interface.
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Ben Gomes / The Official Google Blog:
Search experiments, large and small
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
DMCA takedown notice forces Twitter to blacklist Mad Men characters  —  The micro-messaging service Twitter tonight suspended the accounts of users don_draper and peggyolson.  If those names sound familiar, you're probably a fan of the hit AMC show Mad Men.
TweakGuides.com:
Vista Annoyances Resolved  —  Author: Koroush Ghazi  —  Introduction  —  “Oh lord, not another Vista article!”  Like me, I'm sure many of you might be thinking something along those lines whenever you see an article with the word ‘Vista’ in the title these days.
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
atomicwang.org:
Dear My Team  —  When I spoke to each of you about Tapulous, whether I recruited you, or inherited you from GoGoApps, I spoke of an engineering paradise where smart people would come together to ship beautiful applications, to lead a computing revolution, and to become a real force for world change.
Discussion: TechCrunch and Infinite Loop
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole  —  Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.
Discussion: Slashdot
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA wins P2P case after defendant reformats hard drive  —  One of the most closely-watched copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the RIAA appears to have come to a screeching halt, much to the music industry's delight.  A judge ruled Monday that a defendant had willfully …
Discussion: CNET News.com
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
At Disney, Blu-ray Sales Team Is a Cast of Characters  —  LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company is dispatching Pinocchio, Snow White and a team of other characters in its effort to accelerate consumer adoption of next-generation DVD technology.  —  Disney, like other media companies …
Discussion: paidContent.org and MarketingShift
Infuriouscomics:
Murderdrome - KILLER APP  —  By now, you might have heard that Murderdrome has been banned by Apple.  This is due to the part of the sdk that suggests content must NOT offend anyone in 'apple's reasonable' opinion.  Here at infurious, we would love to work with Apple to ensure a content rating system …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Movie Labels To Launch New “Open Market” Play Anywhere Scheme As Last Ditch Effort To Save DRM  —  Most of the big movie studios and many online movie retailers are preparing to to launch a new initiative tentatively called Open Market, first proposed last year by Sony Pictures, we've learned.
Discussion: CNET News.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iPhone 3Gs Now Outnumber First Generation iPhones  —  Despite a weak battery and questions about how fast it connects to 3G networks, some time in the next week more than 6 million iPhone 3Gs will be in people's hands around the world.  What that means is that the second generation device …
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Linux under attack: Compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit  —  The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls “active attacks” against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys.  —  The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys …
 
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Todd Haselton / LAPTOP Magazine:
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
No Joke: The Onion Launches CitySearch Competitor
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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Sneak Peek: The WB Launches Tomorrow
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Chris / LiveSide - News blog:
Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3: What's New
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David Dahlquist / MacUser:
Forrester report sees enterprise Mac adoption quadruple
Chris Kanaracus / LinuxWorld.com:
Database vendors add Google's MapReduce
Discussion: eWeek
Jan Norman / Boston Herald:
Zune player forum makes teen a fortune
Discussion: paidContent.org and Pulse 2.0
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Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again)
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Road to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 64-Bits
Discussion: Digg
Ryan Kim / The Technology Chronicles:
Nvidia's Huang ushers in era of visual computing
Edmund Lee / Wired News:
Amazon Relies on Customers to Pimp the Kindle
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Ethan Bronner / New York Times:
Israel to Display the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Visual Voicemail Inventor Strikes Again, Sues Google, Verizon, Others
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