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Rocky Agrawal / reDesign:
Sam Altman will clean your house for $5 — That's right, the CEO of Loopt will personally clean your house for $5. But only if 1,000 people sign up. Only, I haven't told him about the deal yet. He may not agree, but I'm using his name anyway. Hell, he doesn't know I've put this offer out there.
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@rakeshlobster
Dion Almaer / techno.blog:
An Epic conversation between Steve Jobs and developers from WWDC 97 — It is always fantastic to get a blast from the past, and DHH linked to a conversation between Steve Jobs' and developers from WWDC in 1997. — I find it fascinating. Steve was back as an advisor, but not in as CEO yet …
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PBT Consulting
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Professional Video Editors Weigh In on Final Cut Pro X — In 10 years of writing Times columns, I've never encountered anything quite like this. — In Thursday's paper, I reviewed Apple's Final Cut Pro X, a professional video-editing program. It's not an update of the existing Final Cut …
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Engadget, Jeffery Harrell, Richard Harrington Blog, Observatory, Computerworld, TUAW, MacNN, Digital Trends, Daring Fireball, MacRumors and GigaOM
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Shuts Down A Large Number Of Applications — Over the past couple days Facebook has been shutting down a large number applications due to changes to the automated platform monitoring system. — This morning many developers took to the Facebook dev forums to complain about the issue.
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TechCrunch and MediaNama
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Andrew Colley / TheAustralian:
Hackers put Telstra in filter bind — THE voluntary internet filter for child abuse is facing a major setback, with Telstra wavering on the commitment it made to the scheme last July. — At the time Telstra public policy director David Quilty said Telstra was happy to implement the filter …
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Slashdot, Digital Trends, @davewiner, Delimiter, ZeroPaid.com and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
GOOGLE OFFERS REVEALED: Here Are The Secret Details About Google's Groupon-Killer — Google launched its Groupon-killer, “Offers,” in Portland, Oregon, about a month ago. — And now it's gearing up to launch in San Francisco and New York. — Could Offers become a massive new revenue stream for Google …
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The Business Insider, Gizmodo and Gannett Blog
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Skype: See no vesting, hear no vesting — Last week, Skype took heat for firing three executives just weeks before the company's $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft (MSFT) is expected to close. That was bad, albeit more optical than unethical. What we learned today, however, might have crossed that line.
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GigaOM
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
HP to launch 7-inch tablet in August according to report — Hewlett-Packard will follow up its TouchPad launch next month with the release of an unannounced 7-inch tablet in August, Taiwan Economic News reported on Friday. Citing information from an Inventec Corp. subcontractor …
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Gizmodo, CENS.com, CrunchGear, Computerworld, TechSpot, Liliputing, SlashGear and webOSroundup
Dan Gillmor / Guardian:
Can Icann really be necessary? — It's a question worth asking as the body that oversees internet domain names will now permit any suffix you want - at a price — Are you ready for .xxx, .coke and .insertyournamehere? You'd better get ready, because an organisation with significant authority and scant accountability says you must.
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@timoreilly
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
iOS 5 supports over-the-air software updates via 3G networks — In early May, we reported that Apple is bringing a long-awaited over-the-air iOS software update feature to iOS 5. Sure enough, Apple announced the feature as a part of their iOS devices become PC-free initiative …
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Redmond Pie, GrindGadget, Electronista, RazorianFly and iPodNN, Thanks:markgurman
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Inspired By Wikipedia, Quora Aims For Relevancy With Topic Groups And Reorganized Topic Pages — Quora has just announced a redesign of its Topic Pages and the introduction of Topic Groups, aiming to make information discovery and navigation on the site a little bit easier.
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Mashable! and Quora, Thanks:pragmatic_rebel
