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Business Week:
Valley Boys — Digg.com's Kevin Rose leads a new brat pack of young entrepreneurs — It was June 26, 4:45 a.m., and Digg founder Kevin Rose was slugging back tea and trying to keep his eyes open as he drove his Volkswagen Golf to Digg's headquarters above the grungy offices of the SF Bay Guardian in Potrero Hill.
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Joe / Techdirt:
Forget Paper Millionaire, Digg Founder's A Vapormillionaire — from the bet-this-story-won't-get-dugg dept — We've become very accustomed to stories about how this or that startup could be worth $x billion, though they typically offer little justification for that price tag.
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Tech Beat
Om Malik / GigaOM:
SkyRider, A New P2P Start Up Emerges — Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking is once again catching the imagination of the venture capital community in Silicon Valley. RedSwoosh, BitTorrent, Pando, and dozens of others have come out with different twists on the core concept of peer-to-peer networking, and have raised millions.
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Tony Mobily / Free Software Magazine:
Why Red Hat will go bust because of Ubuntu — I don't like writing controversial editorials. Controversy is an effective means to get a lot of accesses: most people seem to enjoy reading controversial articles, maybe because they like torturing themselves. (And yes, I used to read a lot of Maureen O'Gara's articles myself!).
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Introducing the CrunchBoard Job Site — A good percentage of emails coming to me every day are from people asking me which companies are hiring, or from companies asking me if I know someone who would be a good fit for a job. — I keep a separate email folder with these emails and introduce people as often as possible.
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PostBubble, MobileCrunch, Nik Cubrilovic, Somewhat Frank, Like It Matters and Laughing Squid
Russ Walker / Security Fix:
Follow-up to the Macbook Post — I'd like to respond to the people who commented on yesterday's post about the video's depiction of the use of a third-party wireless card on the Macbook. I spent more than an hour with Dave Maynor watching this exploit in action and peppering him with questions about it.
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Chris Gilmer / Download Squad:
AOL to provide 5GB of online storage for free — AOL (this blog's parent company) announced today that starting next month it will offer 5GB of free online storage for all web users. The free online storage will start in September, and will be powered by Xdrive, a service acquired by AOL late last year.
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paidContent.org, TechEffect, SurfBits, The Jason Calacanis Weblog, the j. botter weblog and digg
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Assaf / Supr.c.ilio.us:
What the Web 2.0 means — To everyday American, the Web 2.0 is just a normal part of life, like SUVs and apple pie. It makes you happy, gets you laid and pays the bill. So no wonder, we rarely stop our busy daily routine to ask ourselves: what does it all mean?
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Signal vs. Noise
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Erik Sass / MediaPost Publications:
Market for Online Video To Increase 10-fold By 2010 — THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR ONLINE video content will expand tenfold by 2010, topping 130 million households, according to a new report titled "Online Content Aggregators—AOL, Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Apple—Slowly Defining the Future of Television …
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The Pomo Blog
Ted's Take:
the New AOL — AOL made a lot of news yesterday, and the media gobbled it up. There has been lots of speculation about our new strategy, our business model, our product plans, and the risks of such a dramatic pivot. As someone who has been at AOL through most of its incarnations …
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
'Cider' makes Windows games run on Intel Macs — Coming soon: Windows games that will run on Intel Macs thanks to TransGaming's new Cider software. There's no rebooting involved and no separate Windows partition to be installed. It all happens transparently.
Michele Gershberg / Reuters:
Apple in deals to connect iPod in new car models — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) on Thursday said it has teamed up with three major automakers to link its popular iPod music player with car stereos, laying down a new challenge to a fragmented radio industry.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
WordCamp kickoff party at Taylor's Refresher tomorrow — WordCamp is this Saturday, bringing together bloggers and developers using the open-source PHP blogging product for a day of discussion and learning. We're kicking things off on Friday night with dinner along San Francisco's waterfront for anyone who is in town.
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Was It Done With a Lens, or a Brush? — Like many amateur photographers, Joe Dejesus posts his photos online and compares them to the work of others on the photo-sharing site Flickr. At some point last year, a number of landscape photos caught his eye with their vibrant tones and colors.
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …
Mihai Parparita / Official Google Reader Blog:
Namespaced Extensions in Feeds — Feeds can be used for more than just text; they can embed pictures, podcasts and video. There are even more esoteric bits of data that can be attached to feeds, like the geographic location that a post is about, the number of comments it has received and that …
pcpro.co.uk:
ASA rules against Dell TV campaign — The Advertising Standards Authority has criticised Dell for a recent TV ad which quoted a price not available by default online. However, the ruling cleared the practice of including upgraded components in the online spec that have been selected by default (for example, extended service support).
