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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
TorrentSpy ordered to start tracking visitors — A court decision reached last month but under seal until Friday could force Web sites to track visitors if the sites become defendants in a lawsuit. — TorrentSpy, a popular BitTorrent search engine, was ordered on May 29 by a federal judge …
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
TorrentSpy Ordered By Federal Judge to Become MPAA Spy — On May 29, TorrentSpy - one of the web's most famous .torrent dump sites was told by federal judge Jacqueline Chooljian in the Central District of California that despite the site's privacy policy which states they will never monitor …
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Timothy B. Lee / New York Times:
A Patent Lie — WHAT a difference 16 years makes. Last month, the technology world was abuzz over an interview in Fortune magazine in which Bradford Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, accused users and developers of various free software products of patent infringement and demanded royalties.
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IP Democracy
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone Details from AT&T's Sales Training Workbook — We've gotten copies of the full iPhone Training manual provided to AT&T employees that gives us a few more details about Apple's iPhone. Thanks to cindynjgirl79 for providing the scans. … The training manual is broken down into features …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Flickr not even flickering in China — Internet photo site says service is being blocked and hopes it's only temporary — The popular Internet photo site Flickr said that its service is being blocked in China, although the Yahoo subsidiary did not directly blame the Beijing government …
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The truth about venture capitalists, Part 1 — A lot of people have opinions about venture capital — the pros and cons of VC, whether or not to take VC, which venture capitalists to take money from, how to get VCs to invest in your company, whether VCs are seasoned risk-taking professional investors …
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Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Beware of fake Microsoft security alerts — San Francisco (IDGNS) - With Microsoft's monthly patch release expected on Tuesday, scammers are sending out fake security bulletins that attempt to install malicious software on victim's computers. — The e-mail messages claim to describe a …
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Lenny Zeltser / SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON:Fake Microsoft Security Bulletin -> Malicious Browser Add-On
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Joost v. Babelgum — Babelgum has pushed itself public yesterday. On the surface it looks very similar to its more famous competitor, Joost. Both are P2P IPTV applications that let you flip through channels and shows streamed to your computer. Both are backed by deep pockets and big names.
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Memex 1.1
violet blue:
flickr considered harmful — I started using the photo sharing service Flickr last November as the request of my sweetheart; I started really maximizing my use of the site as I enjoyed its social networking features, and at the urging of my host Laughing Squid to integrate my photoblogging and regular blogging.
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Stowe Boyd / /Message:
Linda Stone on Continuous Partial Attention: The War On Flow — Linda Stone has an odd way of responding to the comments I made recently about Continuous Partial Attention in my Reboot talk, Flow: A New Consciousness For A Web Of Flow. I guess she must have a google search bot running …
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Are You Paying Attention?
MediaShift:
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION Online Map Craze Helps People Visualize Data — BY JENNIFER WOODARD MADERAZO, 4:11PM — It's not often that you find an Internet trend based on something ancient. But that's what's happening with maps. Google Maps has gone from innovative to indispensable …
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The Technology Liberation …
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Owen Thomas / Business 2.0 Beta:
Behold the Hand of Fake Steve Jobs! — Okay. I admit it. I, too, am obsessed with the question of who's pretending to be the CEO of Apple (AAPL) on the brilliantly written spoof blog The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. — How powerful is Fake Steve Jobs?
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
SALESFORCE.COM: CHOCOLATE ON DEMAND — It's a well-known fact among those of us in the tech industry that Salesforce loves to package free chocolate—and sometimes other swag along with its press kits. It's kind of notorious. So when I saw today that Salesforce sent me a package …
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Announcing some changes at the top — It's with great happiness that I'm able to announce the promotion of Ryan Block to editor-in-chief of Engadget, and my transition to editorial director of the site. It's a move which is long overdue and one which reflects Ryan's enormous contribution …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
"For sale by owner" web sites can generate higher prices than Realtors — Three economists decided to investigate whether using a for sale by owner (FSBO) web site could actually make homeowners more money compared to selling a house with a traditional real estate agent.
