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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Social Network Exhaustion (or Facebook Bankruptcy Redux) — Today I'm waking up with the Smashing Pumpkins ringing in my ears and my ego search ringing off the hook. My throat and head are about 60-70% healed and looking back on my last couple of posts about turning off comments and declaring Facebook bankruptcy and asking:
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Fred / A VC:
Declaring Bankruptcy — I've done that a few times on this blog, both times related to email overload. It's a dangerous thing to do. Bankruptcy is a loaded work, particularly coming from someone who's in the money business. The media loves to run a headline with the word bankruptcy in it.
Rex Hammock / rexblog.com:
Jason decides Facebook is not the golden fleece — Jason Calacanis is fed up with Facebook. (I'll skip the part where I observe admiringly that Jason, who is Twittering more and blogging less this summer, knows that writing a Saturday-morning Dvorak troll post will tweak Facebook cultists into lighting-up his in-coming linkometer.)
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Calacanis asks deep questions about social networks — So Jason "no comments" Calacanis answers me, and others, back about his increasing dislike of Facebook and other social networks. — First of all, for the record, Jason is right. Facebook sucks. Twitter sucks. Pownce sucks. Jaiku sucks.
Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check:
Sanity check: How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software — Who remembers Red Flag Linux? Born during the dot-com boom and officially financed and adopted by the Chinese government, Red Flag Linux was supposed to be China's answer …
Associated Press:
For YouTube, a System to Halt Copyright-Infringing Videos — Google hopes technology will be in place in September to stop the posting of copyright-infringing videos on its YouTube site, a company lawyer told a judge presiding over copyright lawsuits yesterday.
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
PhotoBlog: Silicon Valley elite swarms to the Techcrunch 9 Party — Planet Earth > United States > San Francisco Bay Area > Menlo Park > Sand Hill Road > August Capital > Nucleus of Tech Industry — Many of the tech elite swarmed at this social and product demo in the epicenter of Silicon Valley.
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Jason Pontin / New York Times:
A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope — JUST now, the hottest startup in Silicon Valley — minutely examined by bloggers, panted after by investors — is Pownce, but only a chosen few can try out its Web site. — Kevin Rose, the co-founder and chief architect of Digg …
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
D.C.'s P2P Summer Spectacle — You know it's summer when everyone in Washington is suddenly talking about P2P. College students who otherwise might protest bad legislation are busy getting stoned in Europe. High temperatures drive lobbyists into pit bull-like attack mode.
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Steve Sloan …
iPhone Alley:
iFuntastic 2.0 released with added features — bitSplit, the man that brought you iFuntastic, has released version 2.0, which improves functionality and adds some new features. If you've been living under a rock lately, the iPhone Dev Wiki hackers have been hard at work on all sorts of nifty hacks for the iPhone.
Brian White / Engadget Mobile:
Telstra iPhone SIM hack video — Although the voiceover on this YouTube video was almost too soothing to listen to, the demo being explained definitely got our excitable attention. We're not sure about this hack's details, but the user demonstrating his iPhone's non-AT&T outgoing call usage here gets two thumbs up from us.
G. Pascal Zachary / New York Times:
In a Highly Complex World, Innovation From the Top Down — USER-GENERATED content — from Wikipedia to YouTube to open-source software — is generating waves of excitement. But the opening of innovation to wider numbers of people obscures another trend: many of the most popular new products …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Facial Recognition Comes to Live Search — From the blog post on the [Windows] Live Search team's blog entitled Three new features in Live Search Images we learn … The feature works pretty well as long as you enclose the name of the person in quotes and use the image search tab.
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Michael Shorrock / PlayStation.Blog:
New Rockstar Games Franchise Exclusive to the PS3 — This is Michael Shorrock. I'm the Director of 3rd Party Relations at SCEA. As you may have seen this morning/last night on GameHead with Geoff Keighley, we are announcing that a new franchise from Rockstar Games will be exclusive to PS3.
