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2:20 PM ET, February 15, 2009

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John Markoff / New York Times:
Do We Need a New Internet?  —  Two decades ago a 23-year-old Cornell University graduate student brought the Internet to its knees with a simple software program that skipped from computer to computer at blinding speed, thoroughly clogging the then-tiny network in the space of a few hours.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Tracking the iPhone's bubble of hype  —  Think of the jagged light blue line in the fever chart at right as the bubble of hype that keeps Apple's (AAPL) iPhone floating above of its competitors.  —  What you're looking at is a snapshot of a Google Trends chart comparing the number of times the word …
Rob Walker / New York Times:
A Successful Failure  —  FAIL WHALE  —  Yiying Lu, an artist and a designer in Sydney, Australia, has made a number of appealing illustrations, many featuring animals.  But one image in her portfolio is far more likely to be familiar to at least some of you than any of the others …
Discussion: TechNation Australia, Thanks:atul
Vindu Goel / New York Times:
How Google Decides to Pull the Plug  —  GOOGLE recently set the blogosphere abuzz by announcing that it was pulling the plug on several products.  —  The victims included Lively, a virtual world that was Google's answer to Second Life; Dodgeball, a cellphone service aimed at young bar-hoppers …
Michell / Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog:
‘Idou’ is Sony Ericsson's upcoming 12.1-megapixel phone  —  Along with the launching of Entertainment Unlimited, Sony Ericsson showcased an upcoming mobile phone by the concept ‘Idou’, which is going to give us a glimpse of what lies ahead for us, and what Sony Ericsson is currently working on.
Discussion: Unwired View and Mobilewhack.com
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
MTV Pulls The Plug On Embeddable Videos  —  When NBC Universal and News Corporation-backed Hulu launched in Fall 2007, it was a signal that old television media might actually grasp the distributive power of the internet.  Not only were great programs made available for free as streaming videos …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and MTVN Content API
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
The Definitive Primer to the Pirate Bay Trial  —  The trial against the Pirate Bay will start in Sweden on Monday, and file sharers and P2P journalists alike can hardly contain themselves.  The Times of London has dubbed it the “Internet piracy trial of the decade,” and the Pirate Bay's staff …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mining The Thought Stream  —  What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter?  And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually …
Thanks:kevendones
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
A brief history of chip fibs, flops: Intel, IBM, AMD  —  Even the biggest chip companies churn out their share of flops.  But the hype that surrounds these chips is more fascinating than the failures.  —  It's been almost a year since I posted A brief history of chip hype—and flops (part 1).
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
uTorrent Adds Google Powered Torrent Search  —  Many visitors to the uTorrent website are relatively new to BitTorrent, and a proportion of these are clueless as to where they should start looking for .torrent files.  For this group the new torrent search box on the uTorrent homepage might come in handy.
Discussion: Beyond Search and digg.com
Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Stimulus package to expand Net's reach  —  In Annapolis, a town of 700 in northern Sonoma County, Doug Simmonds has been on the cutting edge of Internet service - as much as he can be for the isolated community 2 1/2 hours north of San Francisco.  —  He paid a premium for an ISDN line …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
As The Economy Sours, LinkedIn's Popularity Grows  —  As layoffs continued to pound the economy in January, one beneficiary was job networking site LinkedIn.  According to the latest January data from comScore, the LinkedIn's U.S. unique visitors shot up 22 percent to 7.7 million, up from 6.3 million in December.
Discussion: CNET News
 
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Thom Holwerda / OSNews:
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Discussion: digg.com, Thanks:amanfirdaus
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Surpasses 175 Million Users, Continuing to Grow by 600k Users/Day
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
ComScore To Report Google Maps Now Number 1
Discussion: Screenwerk
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Ed Scannell / InformationWeek:
Google Android Phones To Be Remotely Rescued
John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
How To: Tether the iPhone or G1 To Your Laptop For Free 3G Broadband
Discussion: Android Authority
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
MySpace Quietly Launches Site-Wide Image Search