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Steve Blank:
New Rules for the New Internet Bubble — We're now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble.
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A VC, p2pnet and The Huffington Post
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Paul Kedrosky / Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Top Ten Signs the Valley is on Tilt Again — It's apparently that time again — the Valley has gone on tilt. Consider the following top ten signs: — 10. Conferences are selling out — 9. Venture capitalists are launching blogs — 8. Everyone you know has a startup
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@owenthomas
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
25 Things I Hate About Google, Revisited 5 Years Later — Five years ago, I wrote a story called “25 Things I Hate About Google.” It went viral, to my surprise. I thought it was worth revisiting that story on its five year anniversary, to see how many of those “hates” have been fixed.
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@mattcutts and @dannysullivan
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
RIP Digg. — Startups in Silicon Valley are like old generals. They don't die anymore, buoyed on life-rafts of lingering venture capital and modest revenues. They just fade away, eventually purchased for assets that are a shadow of their former promise. It's pretty clear that Digg is on that path.
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@marshallk, @kevinrose, @jason, @rafat, Computerworld and The Huffington Post
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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Sprint's CTIA announcements: HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO View 4G, Motorola XOOM, much more — We have just been informed of most of Sprint's planned announcements at CTIA this year. There have been mumblings surrounding the two headline devices, but we finally have the information to share with you.
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IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Techie Buzz, Phones Review, Electronista, Engadget and Android and Me
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
What the RSA breach means for you (FAQ) — RSA warned its customers yesterday that its network had been breached and data had been stolen that could affect customers using its popular SecurID token authentication technology. Although details are scarce, here's what we know so far. — What happened?
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RSA, Insight, Gadgetwise, InformationWeek, Securosis Highlights, msnbc.com, New York Times and eWeek
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Evolution of SXSW Interactive — Andy Budd, on last week's SXSW Interactive: … I had a great time, once again, but only in the sense that Austin is a fine city and you can't help but have fun hanging out with good friends from across the country (and globe) whom you see in person only rarely.
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Andy Budd::Blogography, TechCrunch, @gaberivera and HorsePigCow:
Bloomberg:
Bloomberg Game Changers: Marc Andreessen — “Bloomberg Game Changers” profiles Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and co-founder of Internet pioneer Netscape Communications Corp. This program features interviews with Netscape co-founder Jim Clark; Jim Barksdale …
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SAI
Joab Jackson / PC World:
Sun.com Name Could Fetch Oracle $1 Million — Last year, when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, it got a wealth of customers, technologies and personnel for its US$7.4 billion. It also obtained one of the choicest domain names on the Internet, Sun.com. — Now that Oracle …
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Techie Buzz, The Domains and Slashdot
Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
Security hole spotted in Tumblr — This morning on Hacker News, members spotted a gaping security hole in Tumblr, which exposed more than 748 lines of sensitive configuration information out into the open. Members pointed to possible errors at the core of the PHP scripting language that might make the data dump inevitable.
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Tumblr, PC Magazine and Neowin.net
eMarketer:
Days of Double-Digit Growth in Social Network Users Are Over — Social networking now reaches most internet users in the US and has become an integral part of their lives. Thanks to the rapid growth of Facebook, updating status, posting comments and sharing links with friends have become routine activities for millions of people.
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VatorNews and WebProNews
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Reddit, Social News Frontrunner, Is Down To One Developer — Two out of the three remaining Reddit programmers quietly left the social news community last week, Mike Schiraldi going to Google and David King going to Hipmunk where he joins Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
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SAI, Softpedia News, Soshable, VentureBeat and reddit
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Wow, Google Has Ported My Ten Thousand Button Nightmare To The iPhone! — Back in October of last year, I got my first glance at the Sony Google TV remote. I immediately broke out into a cold sweat and hives. I mean, just look at the thing. Our collective living rooms are already …
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App Advice
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Ambarish Kenghe / The Official Google TV Blog:
Google TV Remote for iPhone
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ReelSEO Online Video …, eWeek, Electronista, Ubergizmo, CrunchGear, eHomeUpgrade, SlashGear, TUAW, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Next Web, MacStories, GeekSugar, WebProNews and iClarified
