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Max Kalehoff / Online Spin:
Deconstructing Facebook — Have you noticed a massive surge on Facebook lately, since it opened itself up to everyone outside of .edu? I have — and I bet that other social networks are now scrambling to respond, especially in light of Facebook's opening of its API.
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Insider Chatter, VC Ratings, Paul Kedrosky's …, Visible Path, AttentionMax, Preoccupations and Portfolio.com
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Safari for Windows... but WHY? — Steve Jobs & Company must have known that releasing a Safari browser for the Windows platform was going to result in some serious blowback: vulnerabilities, outrage and of course, the mocking. And as expected, the digerati responded with scorn and outrage.
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Poll: 9 percent of cell phone users want iPhone — Nearly 1 in 10 cell phone users in the U.S. has "a strong interest" in buying an Apple iPhone, according to a study released Friday by M:Metrics. — Poll results show about 9 percent of the 11,064 mobile phone users surveyed were inclined …
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Wall Street Journal:
Is iPhone AT&T's Magic Bullet? — Companies Featured in This Article: AT&T , Apple, Sprint Nextel, Deutsche Telekom, Verizon Communications, Vodafone Group, Telefon AB LM Ericsson, Sony — AT&T Inc. stands a good chance of stealing customers away from other wireless operators …
Claude Brodesser-Akner / AdAge:
Michael Moore's 'Sicko' Leaked Onto Web — Every Movie Marketer's Worst Nightmare Becomes Grim Reality for Weinstein Company — LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — Michael Moore's new documentary "Sicko" has been pirated and is now widely available for download on peer-to-peer content sites like www.thepiratebay.org.
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Avvo Blog:
Defending Avvo's Right to Provide Information and Guidance to Consumers — I would like to respond to the class action lawsuit filed against Avvo today. — Avvo.com is designed to give consumers information and guidance to choose the right attorney. There is very little guidance available …
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CNET News.com, Law Blog, VC Ratings, John Cook's Venture Blog, Consumerist, robhyndman.com and 901am
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Chris Remo / shacknews.com:
Valve Confirms Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 Launch Date — Last night, Valve representatives confirmed to Shacknews that the studio's upcoming trio of Source-powered games will ship for all announced platforms on October 9, 2007. The suite, sold at retail and through Valve's Steam download service …
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Ars Technica, The Tech Report, Joystiq, Kotaku, Xbox 360 Fanboy, DigitalBattle and Forever Geek
Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Sony chief ponders cut for PS3 price — Sir Howard Stringer, the chairman and chief executive of Sony Corp, said the electronics and entertainment company was trying to "refine" how much it could afford to cut the price of PlayStation 3 gaming consoles, saying there was "no question" consumers wanted the price to be lower.
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DailyTech, Digital Trends, Neowin.net, GamePro.com, Gadget Lab, Game | Life, DigitalBattle, TechSpot, Joystiq, Kotaku and GamesIndustry.biz
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Henry Gottlieb / LAW.com:
MySpace, Facebook Privacy Limits Tested in Emotional Distress Suit — The operators of MySpace and Facebook social networking sites assure their millions of subscribers that only designated "friends" can read registrants' private postings. — But do the postings stay private …
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Techdirt, WebProNews, Mashable!, Insider Chatter, IP Democracy, David Dalka, The Social Web, GigaLaw.com Daily News and Listics
The Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone launch deets — Have you been sitting at home alone, trying to figure out what the heck is going to happen June 29th? Should you camp out in the store and then hijack the FedEx delivery guy? Probably not. But we do have some exciting bits of information surrounding the day the iPhone will be released.
Market Wire:
SOURCE: StudioNow — StudioNow, the innovative online video editing company (www.StudioNow.com), announced that it has raised $1.5M in funding. Led by Claritas Capital, the investment also comprised of several successful technology entrepreneurs including Fred Goad and Jim Kever, original founders of Envoy, a precursor to WebMD.
Raoul / Inner Bits:
PS3 Controller with Rumble in Development — We've written extensively of the court case between Sony and Immersion and its potential impact on the peripherals business for the PS3. While we've been featured on Immersion's own press site, we assure our readers that we have no affiliation or vested interests in the company.
N'Gai Croal / Level Up:
On A Roll, Or, How Microsoft Secured Yet Another Exclusive—Beautiful Katamari—From Namco Bandai — In hindsight, we should have seen it coming. First, Namco Bandai announced that Ridge Racer 6 as an Xbox 360-exclusive launch title for 2005. We didn't think too much of it …
Business 2.0:
Who matters now? — Business 2.0 Magazine invites you to vote for the businesspeople who inspire, inform and infuriate you, from CEOs to entrepreneurs to media stars. … SPECIAL OFFER: — • Home • Portfolio • Calculators • Contact us • Newsletters • Podcasts
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Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Web angel investor on the lookout for another big winner — Stefan Glaenzer is looking for his third hit, although the German angel investor, now based in London, cannot complain so far. He made several million selling his share in Ricardo, the internet auctioneer, to QXL in the first dot-com boom …
New Music Strategies:
An IFPI & BPI Board Member Writes... In the context of a blog about the online music world, I thought you might be interested in an email exchange I've had this evening with a board member of both the IFPI and the BPI. — I've had an email conversation with Paul Birch of Revolver Records this evening.
The Boy Genius Report:
Sidekick RAZR, and Sidekick Slide surface — Yeah, we know it's madness out there right now with information floating up more ways than a spilled oil tanker, but wouldn't you rather hear everything, than hear nothing? We hope so, because one of our main guys has delivered a Sidekick knock out punch, so to speak!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Kyte's Plans Come Together: Deals with EMI & Nokia Announced, New Facebook Application — Kyte.tv, which is at its core a media player for personal expression, lets users send a stream of personal information to their friends: drag photos, video and text into the channels and interact with people viewing your content.
