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Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
the trials and tribulations of innovation — we just found out that Hulu blocked the boxee browser from accessing the Hulu site. this is a disappointing development since their RSS feeds are publicly available, and our browser, while optimized for a great 10 ft video experience …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu Brushes Off Boxee, And Boxee Comes Back For More — Just in case anyone was wondering: Hulu, the Web video service that lets you watch Fox and NBC shows on your computer, really doesn't want you to plug that computer into your TV. — And Boxee, a startup that makes it easy for you to plug …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month — The mass media may be enamored of the rags-to-riches stories of developers on Apple's App Store, but it isn't the only game in town for indie developers to strike it rich. We've gotten word from SocialMedia …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission — In an apparent privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services, we're hearing that Google has sent a notice to a number of users of its Document and Spreadsheets products stating …
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BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Safekeeping Twitter Accounts — Today we discovered about 750 Twitter accounts were broken into and had a link to a webcam site posted on the accounts. It appears other sites and services have been affected by a similar attack. We reset the passwords of the compromised accounts and removed the spammy updates.
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Rik Ferguson / Countermeasures:Chatwebcamfree Porn Hijacks Twitter Accounts
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Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon Wireless HTC Touch Diamond gets pictured — We got our hands on some pictures of a test model of the Verizon Wireless Touch Diamond rocking its sleek, black and shiny casing. Unlike Verizon's Touch Pro, the Diamond has retained the characteristic faceted back.
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Don Reisinger / Webware.com:
Kindle is not the best iPhone e-reader — By now, you know you don't need a Kindle 2 to read books electronically. You can use the new Kindle for iPhone app. — But Kindle's not the only way to read books on a iPhone or iPod Touch. There are two other readers well worth checking out:
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Try before you buy? Zuckerberg has a public Twitter account? — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been using the microblogging service he's been trying to buy - Twitter — since last May. But he's kept his account on the site (@zuck) private and basically unused.
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Fred / A VC:
Hacking Education (continued) — Last fall I wrote a post on this blog titled Hacking Education. In it, I outlined my thoughts on why the education system (broadly speaking) is failing our society and why hacking it seems like both an important and profitable endeavor.
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Economist:
Model behaviour — Software: Simulating the behaviour of crowds of people, or swarms of animals, has both frivolous and important uses — An army of orcs from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy — THE warmongering orcs depicted in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy are evil …
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Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why New H-1B Restrictions Will LOWER (Some) American Tech Wages — New restrictions going into place on the H-1B immigrant worker program have been so extreme some right-groups in India are threatening to boycott of US goods, and American commentators are crying protectionism.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pure Digital (Flip Video) In Acquisition Discussions; Cisco May Be Buying (Updated) — San Francisco based Pure Digital Technologies, the seven year old company behind the Flip Video line of video cameras, is considering a sale of the company, multiple sources have confirmed.
Alana Semuels / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Atiz turns books digital without help from Google — An Atiz book-scanning device. Credit: Atiz. — Digitizing books is all the rage these days, with the Kindle 2 being pimped on the “Daily Show,” Amazon allowing its e-books to be read on the iPhone and Barnes & Noble getting deeper into the digital book market.
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