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Brad Stone / New York Times:
'Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean — For the last 14 months, high-tech insiders have been eating up the work of an anonymous blogger who assumed the persona of Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive and one of the world's most famous businessmen. — The mysterious writer has used his blog …
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Forbes:
Fake Steve Jobs Comes To Forbes.com — "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," a satirical blog about Apple's iconic chief executive and purporting to be penned by him, will be published in association with Forbes.com starting Aug. 6. — "From Jonathan Swift to Jon Stewart …
David Krug / Telegraphik:
Bloggers Pushing For A Labor Union — Agh, I hate to be quoting Fox News but it's one of the few places that seems to be talking about this issue. Bloggers are fed up with payrates, we want insurance, and we want to be able to set standards on how this industry — online publishing is run.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Is Blogging Ready For a Unionized Workforce? — According to the Wall Street Journal, a coalition of left-wing bloggers is trying to form a labor union that they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining and set professional standards.
Microsoft:
Groundbreaking Digital Experience for Endeavour Shuttle Launch — Microsoft's Photosynth 3-D imagery gives people around the world unprecedented views of the shuttle vehicle and its launchpad. — For the first time, people around the world can view 3-D images of the space shuttle Endeavour …
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Elizabeth Montalbano / PC World:Microsoft, NASA Team on Shuttle Photos
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Scott Gilbertson / Wired News:
Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up — Damn the Facebooks and the MySpaces. The last time we checked, there was this thing called the internet that had 6 billion users. It's time to take our personal data out of Mr. McGregor's little gardens and put it back where it belongs …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Plaxo launches new social network, Pulse—and it's a lot like Pownce — As expected, address and calendar organizer Plaxo unveiled on Monday its new Pulse social networking site. Rumors about Plaxo expanding into social networking had been floating about recently; the company confirmed …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
It's an Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad World — It is only a matter of time until nearly all advertisements around the world are digital. — Or so says David W. Kenny, the chairman and chief executive of Digitas, the advertising agency in Boston that was acquired by the Publicis Groupe for $1.3 billion six months ago.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Wibrain's B1 UMPC: hideous, yet strangely appealing — Ok, it's ugly as sin (and pretty thick, to boot), but we have to give props to Wibrain's new B1 UMPC. Besides coming equipped with a Via C7m CPU up to 1.6GHz, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.1, a VGA camera, HSDPA, and a full QWERTY keyboard and trackpad …
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Shuttleworth: Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community — Microsoft has succeeded in fracturing the Linux and open-source community with the patent indemnity agreements it has entered into with several prominent vendors, Ubuntu leader and Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth told eWEEK.
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
SoundExchange Entrenches Position as IREA Faces Music — A federal bill that would reset music royalties at a more affordable rate for thousands of internet radio stations is losing steam in the House of Representatives, raising new fears for the future of webcasting.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
ICQ Founders Start KnockaTV — We just heard about a new Israeli video/TV startup called KnockaTV, which has the tagline "The People Have Taken Over." — KnockaTV is self described as: … They are also looking for original content producers to submit content to the service.
Moon Ihlwan / Business Week:
South Koreans Want Their M-TV! — Mobile TV programming on cell phones and other digital devices is hot in South Korea, though turning the mania into profits is devilishly tough — While Europe and the U.S. are trying to sort out technology standards and spectrum availability for mobile TV …
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Lyndon Stambler / New York Times:
The Highs and the Lows of Rankings on Amazon — It may seem obsessive, but every day — sometimes hourly — Aaron Shepard checks the Amazon.com sales rankings for his 12 self-published books. He even created a Web site, www.salesrankexpress.com, that lets authors check their Amazon rankings instantly.
Jeff Pulver / Business Week:
Confessions of a LinkedIn Dropout — Blogger Jeff Pulver quit the professional network in favor of Facebook and urged his friends to do the same. Here's why he's not looking back — Are you on Facebook yet? Maybe you should be. — I made this pronouncement on my blog recently …
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