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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook Username Landrush to Start June 13 at Midnight  —  The Facebook vanity URL landrush is on.  Starting this Saturday morning, June 13, at 12:01am EDT, Facebook users will be asked to choose a username for their Facebook profile that will replace the current numeric URLs for profile pages.
Google Enterprise Blog:
Use Microsoft Outlook with Google Apps for email, contacts, and calendar  —  Over the last year, we've had a razor sharp focus on making it as easy as possible for businesses to deploy Google Apps.  In the last few months you've seen some of the results, from offline Gmail to user directory synchronization …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Apps Press Event: The Riveting Real Time Notes (Use Google Apps …
BBC:
Twitter hype punctured by study  —  Micro-blogging service Twitter remains the preserve of a few, despite the hype surrounding it, according to research.  —  Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found.
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Wseltzer / Wendy's Blog:
Don't believe the anti-hype: Twitter succeeds by leaving room for failure
Discussion: CNET News and Slate
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Sorry, iPhone 3G Owners, I'm Not Sympathetic  —  If you ask Apple or AT&T how much the iPhone 3G S costs, they'll emphasize two prices: $199 for the 16GB version and $299 for the 32GB one, as Apple does here.  It's only in the fine print and disclaimers that they'll explain that only new customers …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Why The iPhone 3G S May Be A Sucker's Bet Right Now
Tim Ferriss / The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss:
Exclusive First Look: SU.PR - Stumble Upon's New Traffic Builder  —  I'm so excited about SU.PR, it's hard to contain.  —  For the last few weeks, the brilliant team at StumbleUpon and I have collaborated on the creation of a new product designed to do one thing: get you more traffic in less time.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
StumbleUpon Launches Su.pr URL Shortener, But Is It Good for the Magic?
Discussion: CNET News and Security Fix
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Asustek Vows to Out-Apple Apple  —  Two years ago, Asustek wowed the world with the hottest selling computing product to arrive in recent memory: the Eee PC netbook.  But even that blockbuster device has failed to do much to boost the company's brand in the United States, a situation the Taiwanese computer maker intends to correct.
comScore, Inc.:
Bing Off to a Good Start in First Week of Search Activity, According to comScore  —  Microsoft Posts Gains in U.S. Searcher Penetration and Share of Search Results Pages After Introduction of New Search Engine  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple backtracks on Safari 4.0 tabs on top, ZFS  —  Amid all of the new features highlighted Monday in Snow Leopard, iPhone 3.0 and Safari 4.0 were a few unpublicized retractions: Safari 4.0 has lost its “tabs on top” and returned to the old conventional tabs of the previous 3.0 version …
John Leyden / The Register:
LxLabs boss found hanged after vuln wipes websites  —  Shocking development in VAserv megahack affair  —  Free whitepaper - Calculating total power requirements for data centers  —  The boss of Indian software firm LxLabs was found dead in a suspected suicide on Monday.
Google Open Source Blog:
Introducing Android Scripting Environment  —  The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device.  These scripts have access to many of the APIs available …
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
Why Apple wins. every. time.  —  Today there was no reality distortion field.  Just a reality field.  You want video.  Here it is.  You want devs to have video.  Here it is.  You want to edit video in place without loading Quicktime Pro or even knowing what it is.  Here it is.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Why YouTube Will Sink or Swim With Obama Girl  —  ‘Midtail’ Content Safer for Advertisers Than User-Generated Fare  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Forget Hollywood.  YouTube's future lies less in “Desperate Housewives” and more in low-budget fare from producers such as Next New Networks, Machinima, Howcast and MondoMedia.
Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Green Dam filtering software scorned by many Chinese  —  Some Chinese geeks have been playing with the new government-mandated Green Dam censorship software over the past couple days.  People are reporting their findings on Twitter and on blogs.  Eisen blog posted the screenshot above …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple's Cool Matrix-Style App Wall  —  Today at Apple's WWDC event in San Francisco, Apple had a bunch of Cinema Display monitors mounted together on a wall showing what looked to be some sort of pulsating canvas.  But a closer look revealed that it was actually a huge collection of icons …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Cc:Betty Raises $1.5 Million For Email Organization Assistant  —  Cc:Betty, a free service that helps organize group email threads, today has secured $1.5 million in seed led by Venrock with investors Seraph Group and Hillsven participating.  The company was incubated in Venrock's offices and officially launched at DEMO in March.
Associated Press:
Could Twittering about your vacation put your home at risk?  —  Like a lot of people who use social media, Israel Hyman and his wife Noell went on Twitter to share real-time details of a recent trip.  Their posts said they were “preparing to head out of town,” that they had …
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Comcast Brings 50Mbps To DC - And drops price of bundled 50Mbps to $99.95  —  Comcast this morning issued a statement saying they've launched faster DOCSIS 3.0 speeds in the Washington DC market.  Upgraded DOCSIS 3.0 Comcast markets see the company's $42.95 “Performance” tier doubled to 12Mbps/2Mbps …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Apple security is ‘struggling,’ researcher says  —  Laments lack of ‘formal security program’  —  Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial  —  A well-known security consultant says Apple is struggling to effectively protect its users against malware and other online threats …
Discussion: Computerworld Blogs and CrunchGear
Jordan Golson / GigaOM:
T-Mobile Confirms Breach, Says No Risk to Customers  —  T-Mobile confirmed today that its network was indeed hacked, but said it doesn't believes any of its customer data is at risk and the penetration is not nearly as deep as the purported hackers alleged.  The anonymous group claimed …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Compete: Facebook.com US Reach Grew by 8% in May; Twitter Growth Flattens  —  May stats are out from Compete, and the web analytics company says US traffic to Facebook's main consumer website increased by 8% during the month to 82.9 million uniques.  For those keeping track at home …
Amol Sharma / Digits:
Palm Pre on Verizon in January  —  Sprint better market the heck out of the Palm Pre over the next seven months.  That's because rival Verizon Wireless will be carrying the touch-screen device in its stores in January, according to a person familiar with the situation.  —  Associated Press
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Firefox 3.5 beta 99 is out  —  Mozilla has just pushed out a new version of Firefox 3.5 beta, which it's dubbing beta 99.  Now, the last public beta was Firefox 3.5 beta 4, so either Mozilla went through 94 builds that they didn't feel like telling you about, or this is pretty close to the final product.
Tech-On! : tech news:
[SID] Samsung Prototypes Video-enabled E-paper Display  —  The LCD Business Unit of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of Korea exhibited a 10.2-inch panel at SID Display Week 2009.  —  The panel combines electronic paper and video display technologies and allows users to switch between both modes.
Matt Asay / CNET News:
Red Hat's Fedora 11: So easy you'll forget it's Linux  —  Red Hat has taken heat over the past few years for allegedly neglecting the personal computer in favor of more profitable enterprise servers.  It's a fair critique: Red Hat is an enterprise software company, a decision it made years ago, and to good effect.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
IBM launches social network for partners  —  IBM is becoming a lot more social.  The company launched a social network for its software developers in April.  And today it's launching a social network for its various partners to help bring technology to market faster and close sales more efficiently.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Between the Lines
 
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Mac Chrome Lead Rationalizes Early Release, Needs Your Help
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Meebo toolbar gets new sharing features
Discussion: Mashable!, TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb
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Battle for Data Domain Getting Hostile, Nasty
Discussion: eWeek and Storage Soup
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Nokia N97 hits Flagship stores today for $699.99
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Novell ponders “open-source apps store”
Discussion: CNET News
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Qik Now Comes Standard on Nokia Phones
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