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In Memoriam: Even in losing, how Digg won — The Digg Townhall meeting broadcast live from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. 2008. Photo courtesy of Eric Magnuson, via Flickr — Having spent a major part of the week sitting on a beach, practically disconnected … | Aubrey Sabala / TechCrunch: |
Thumbs Up: Digg Wasn't A Failure, It Was A Beginning — “Don't let him climb a wall. We haven't finalized his life insurance plan.” — That was one of the first directions I was given at Digg when I started in early 2008. “Him” was Kevin Rose, the founder of the widely popular social news site, and I was on my third day.| Paul Tassi / Forbes: |
| New York Times: |
Vast Effort by F.D.A. Spied on E-Mails of Its Own Scientists — WASHINGTON — A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists utilized an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-mails that the disgruntled … | Brenden Mulligan / TechCrunch: |
Path's Consistency Of Tone — Editor's Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur and product designer who created Onesheet, Webbygram, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan. — Admittedly, I have a negative bias towards overhyped startups.
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| Damaster / LiveSide.net: |
Exclusive: A first look at the “Agave” apps for Office 2013 — Back in March this year, we reported that Microsoft was readying a Office web extensions platform called “Agaves”, which allows developers will be able to create an area within Office applications that lets webpages interact … | Ryan Holmes / Fortune: |
The Facebook tweak that killed a billion-dollar industry — Facebook is known for operating in a perpetual beta state, making major changes not infrequently. Problem is, that can stifle a quickly growing niche. — FORTUNE — Mark Zuckerberg is famous for keeping Facebook (FB) in a state of permanent beta.
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook: |
A Show-and-Tell With Google's Hardware — Meet Eric Schmidt, Google's traveling salesman. — Mr. Schmidt, the executive chairman of the search giant, began a fireside chat with the media on Thursday at the Allen & Company conference with a brief show-and-tell.
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The Verge and iDownloadBlog.com
| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
Innovative bookmarking service Spool is shutting down. Team joins Facebook — Spool today confirms its innovative bookmarking service is shutting down. — In an email, the Spool team says: … Spool was kind enough to attach all a user's bookmarks to the email and provided a handy link …
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The Next Web, CNET, Spool, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
How did the new MacBook Pros get Gold-level green ratings? — They may not stick. A recycling coalition says the notebooks flunk two key tests — FORTUNE — Apple (AAPL) may have thought it put the EPEAT kerfuffle behind it with the release of Bob Mansfield's mea culpa letter Friday.
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Electronista, MacRumors, Examiner, The Loop, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web and Neowin. Thanks:@philiped
| Ari Levy / Bloomberg: |
MobiTV Pulls $75 Million IPO, Citing ‘Unfavorable’ Conditions — MobiTV Inc. (MBTV) (MBTV), the maker of software that lets smartphone users watch live television, withdrew its plans for an initial public offering, citing “unfavorable market conditions.” — The Emeryville, California-based company …
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, Multichannel News and Wall Street Journal
| Martyn Williams / PC World: |
Japan's FujiFilm Sues Motorola Over Phone Patents — Japan's FujiFilm is suing Google's Motorola Mobility subsidiary over four patents associated with digital camera and photo technology in cellphones. — The lawsuit has its roots in April 2011, when FujiFilm says it first notified Motorola …
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| Christopher S. Stewart / Wall Street Journal: |
In Age of Twitter, NBC Rewrites Olympic Playbook — In NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters, workers were hustling Friday to transform the “Saturday Night Live” sound stage into a command center for coverage of the 2012 Olympics Games. — Much of this is familiar territory for America's No. 3 network.Sponsor Posts
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