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Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:
Backfence: Lessons Learned — There has been a lot of speculation about what went wrong at Backfence. To date, the company's investors and I have tried to stay out of the second-guessing in the blogosphere and the trade press, largely because there are private business matters involved that we've chosen not to discuss.
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Jeff Howe / Wired News:
Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons Learned — "What is it exactly that we're doing here?" — Assignment Zero contributor Robert King — Ambitions ran high when Wired joined forces in January with new media incubator NewAssignment.net to try a novel experiment in pro-am journalism.
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Crowdsourcing
The Jeff Pulver Blog:
Goodbye LinkedIn. Hello Facebook. — This morning I made the decision to focus all of my professional business social networking contacts to be on Facebook. That means that I am no longer going to accept new LinkedIn requests. After spending the past few months using Facebook, I no longer see the value of LinkedIn.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
The Facebook lawsuit that hasn't gone away — Before he launched Facebook at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg worked for two brothers on a project called HarvardConnect.com that also wanted to connect students and alumni. — Zuckerberg later left that project, and showed up with Facebook.
Qblogger / Windows Home Server Blog:
Ship it! — Woo-hoo! We did it. Today we are announcing that Windows Home Server has been released to manufacturing (RTM). We have finalized the software and now handing it off to our OEM partners. The evaluation version (with 120 day evaluation period) and the system builder version …
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Rich Brown / CNET News.com:
Windows Home Server off to production, gets new partners — Right on schedule, Microsoft announced that its Windows Home Server software is off to the presses. This clears the way for HP, Gateway, LaCie, Medion, and now Iomega and Fujitsu Siemens, (both also announced today …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
A Sony Web Site to Offer Videos by Aspiring Filmmakers — Sony is trying to edge into Internet videos with a Web site to be introduced today called Crackle that will feature short segments by aspiring filmmakers, many of whom Sony paid for their productions.
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Katie Fehrenbacher / Earth2Tech:
Hello from Earth2Tech — So we're all aware that green-focused web sites are getting about as trendy as celebutante DUIs. There's been more than enough great new reads launched in the last few months, most of them focused on helping consumers live more ecofriendly lives - something we could all do a little better.
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Michelle Thatcher / CNET News.com:
Intel announces Extreme mobile CPU — Mobile gaming just got sweeter: Today Intel announced the Core 2 Extreme X7800, its first laptop CPU under the Extreme Edition brand. The 2.6GHz dual-core processor features 4MB of L2 cache and an 800MHz front-side bus, making it the highest-end chip in Intel's mobile lineup.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Intel's 2.6GHz X7800 gaming laptop CPU already overclocked to 3GHz
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TG Daily
FT Alphaville:
Vodafone's extraordinary $160bn Verizon plan — Mobile phone group Vodafone has been considering a $160bn takeover bid for its American peer and partner, Verizon Communications — a deal that, if consummated, would rival AOL's takeover of Time Warner and Vodafone's earlier acquisition …
Louise Story / New York Times:
The Washington Post to Trade in Hyperlocal News on the Web — The Washington Post, well known for its detailed coverage of the White House and global affairs, will introduce a Web site today with news and other information for a rarefied group: people who live in Loudoun County, Va., population 272,000.
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:In Push for Local Readers, Post Unleashes LoudounExtra.com
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MiniMediaGuy
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Inside Facebook, NFO (News Feed Optimization) is the new SEO — Everybody with a website knows that Google owns two of their most important marketing channels: organic search (SEO) and paid search (SEM). In fact, entire cottage industries have developed around them:
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WebProNews
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Dell says sorry for charging for free software — Usillybuntu — BOX SHIFTER, Dell has admitted overcharging punters for installing Ubuntu on their machines. — Linux fans were incandescent with rage when they noticed that Dell was charging users $250 more than similar PCs equipped with Windows.
New York Times:
The Hand That Controls the Sock Puppet Could Get Slapped — On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog — or the chief executive of a Fortune 500 company. — Or so thought John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods Market, who used a fictional identity on the Yahoo message boards …
Age of Conversation:
Age of Conversation Launches — Sydney, Australia; Des Moines, Iowa, USA, July 16, 2007 — In what may be a first-of-its-kind collaboration via the internet, more than 100 marketing professionals have joined together online to write The Age of Conversation, a book that will be published July 16.
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Logic+Emotion, Moda di Magno Blog …, Annansi Chronicles, Flooring The Consumer, ChaosScenario, Talent imitates …, Jim Kukral, Servant of Chaos, Marketing Hipster, Bringing Brands to Life!, The Happy Burro, Transmission Content …, The Marketing Minute, everydotconnects.com, Strategic Design, Advercation = Advertising …, Influx Insights Weblog, ModernMagellans, my 2 cents, Uwe's blog, gumpdesign.blogspot.com and brand dna
Robert / AppleHound:
iPhone v1.0 Bugs — We have spent more than 40 hours tapping around the iPhone screens in an effort to find issues with the applications. This was not an easy task. The OS X graphical interface and applications are extremely solid! — The bugs range from minor display issues to application crashes.
