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Violet Blue / Pulp Tech Blog:
Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers — A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names - alienating and frightening the people it aims to serve.
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adafruit industries blog, @bloatedlesbian, @xenijardin, Violet Blue, @adafruit and @avflox, Thanks:violetblue
Andy Ihnatko / Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste …:
Making Desktop Webapps in Lion — “By the sainted mustache of Charles Foster Kane! Is it ever hot out there! I should write an app that keeps my city's Current Weather data from Weather Underground within easy view at all times!” — “Holy rosemary vinaigrette! Today promises to be a huge day of news for Apple!
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Lifehacker
Jacqueline Wong / Reuters:
China inspects electronics stores after fake Apple shops report — Chinese industrial and commercial authorities in Kunming have started to inspect all of the southwestern city's electronics shops after an American blogger wrote about fake Apple stores, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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Examiner, Neowin.net, AppleInsider and Electronista
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Hulu, Billed as Tomorrow's TV, Looks Boxed In Today — PICTURE this: TV anyway, anywhere. — Every sitcom. Every drama, documentary, reality show. — All of it — everything — Right Here Now. — This is the radical potential of the Internet. And this is the implicit promise of Hulu …
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I, Cringely and Daily Patricia, more at Mediagazer »
Mike Flacy / Digital Trends:
Firefox and Chrome tools block Murdoch-owned websites — Hacking attacks aren't the only headaches for the digital side of Rupert Murdoch's empire. New Firefox and Chrome additions allow people to avoid Murdoch properties on the Web. — It's safe to say Rupert Murdoch is having a bad month.
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ArabCrunch, Gawker, Boing Boing, The Next Web, thinq_ and Tools
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / The Business Insider:
Facebook Investor Roger McNamee Explains Why Social Is Over — Elevation Partners and Facebook investor Roger McNamee, who is also a rock musician, gave an amazing talk recently where he goes over some of the biggest trends affecting the technology industry. — The talk was spotted by our friend Dan Frommer at SplatF.
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Beyond Search
Bob Warfield / SmoothSpan Blog:
NoSQL is a Premature Optimization — There's been a lot of back and forth lately from the NoSQL crowd around Michael Stonebreaker's contention that reliance on relational technology and MySQL has trapped Facebook in a ‘fate worse than death.’ This was reported in a GigaOm post by Derrick Harris.
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Jeremy Zawodny's blog
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iOS 5′s Siri-like system navigation is called ‘Assistant’, uses device-info to handle actions — Apple's purchase of Siri in early 2010 and their partnership with Nuance in 2011 has many hoping that Apple has something like speech-to-text or voice-navigation up its sleeve for iOS 5.
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TUAW, iDownloadBlog, MacGazette.net, I4U News, App Advice, VentureBeat, TiPb, MacRumors, Electronista and iClarified
Guardian:
Hugo Chávez uses Twitter to run Venezuela from hospital bed — Venezuelan president is using Twitter as a tool to govern remotely while he undergoes cancer treatment in Cuba — The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, is using Twitter as a tool to govern remotely while he undergoes cancer treatment in Cuba.
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Tecca, The Next Web and Gawker
Electronista:
Apple lands 10-year Grand Central Terminal store deal — Apple has already reached a deal for its Grand Central Terminal store. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority confirmed to the NY Post that Apple will have the location for 10 years and is refurbishing the space.
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Engadget, New York Post, Techie Buzz, MacStories, AppleInsider, Examiner, iGadgetsReport, iClarified, MacDailyNews, Sky News Australia, 9to5Mac and Gizmodo
Alex Hudson / BBC:
Podcasts: Who still listens to them? — Click's LJ Rich asks whether podcasting has become too corporate — Since becoming a buzzword more than five years ago, the term “podcasting” has largely disappeared from view as attention has increasingly turned to social media.
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@asymco
Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:
Did Apple eject Google Books from the App Store for violating terms? — For reasons yet undefined, Google Books has been removed from the iTunes App Store. We noticed the App was gone earlier this week but thought it might have been just a blip. Now it has been awhile.
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GottaBeMobile and App Advice
