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8:25 PM ET, August 26, 2007

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Fred / A VC:
The Internet Is As Dead And Boring As You Want It To Be  —  I have friends who loved music in high school and college, would spend hours going through the bins at the record store, and would hang out all night playing music and talking about music.  And some of these friends barely listen to music anymore.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Is The Internet Dead And Boring?  —  Mark Cuban wrote Friday that he believes the internet to be "dead and boring."  —  Cuban argues that: … He goes on to state that "The days of the Internet creating explosively exciting ideas are dead.  They are dead until bandwidth throughput …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Mark Cuban says "The Internet is dead and boring" What he really meant was...
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Caroline McCarthy / ZDNet:
'Second Life': The promise and paradox  —  CHICAGO—In Second Life, avatars can fly with the push of a button.  Maybe that's why it seems like the virtual world's enthusiasts sometimes have trouble staying grounded.  —  At this weekend's Second Life Community Convention, Philip Rosedale …
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Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
A First-Hand Look at a Chinese Second Life, HiPiHi  —  Zhong Guan Village, Beijing - Last year, a mysterious YouTube video purported to demo a Chinese Second Life called HiPiHi (pronounced "high-pee-high") stormed the virtual world blogosphere.  But with little English language commentary to go on …
Discussion: The Raw Feed and Raph's Website
Dean Hachamovitch / New York Times:
Minding the Meeting, or Your Computer?  —  BACK in 1994, when portable PCs started their descent from 15-pound luggables to today's 5-pound laptops, I started taking mine to meetings at Microsoft, and so did my colleagues.  So novel.  So useful.  —  We could type notes.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Windows Genuine Advantage suffers worldwide outage, problems galore (updated)  —  Late last night we started receiving reports from readers experiencing problems with Windows Genuine Advantage authentication.  Users of both Windows XP and Windows Vista were writing to say that they could not validate …
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Alexkoc / Windows Genuine Advantage:
Validation Issue Fix  —  We've been receiving reports on our forum and through customer service starting last night that Windows Vista validations have been failing on genuine systems.  It looks now as though the issue has been resolved and validations are being processed successfully.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:   Massive Microsoft WGA meltdown fingers legit Vista and XP owners as pirates
Roi Carthy / TechCrunch:
Dapper to Launch Instant Facebook AppMaker  —  This Tuesday, Israel-based Dapper will launch the private beta of Facebook AppMaker, a new tool that the company claims will provide people with a dead simple way to create new Facebook applications.  —  At its core, Dapper allows users to create API's called …
Fred / A VC:
Twitter's Big Week  —  In addition to hosting the first board meeting since we invested, Twitter did two really big things this past week that I think are going to make the service a lot more useful to me (and hopefully you).  —  They are both in the area of finding other people you know on Twitter.
Discussion: rexblog.com
Sean P. Aune / Mashable!:
Twitter Adds GMail Contacts Import  —  Twitter has finally added the feature they've needed from day one: the ability to import your contacts from another service.  For now it is limited to just Gmail, which should apply to a large proportion of the service's early adopter user base.
Discussion: CostPerNews
BBC:
Teenage hacker unlocks the iPhone  —  A New Jersey teenager has unlocked the iPhone, opening the way to Apple's iconic mobile telephone being used by non-US networks.  —  The Associated Press news agency confirmed George Hotz, 17, had unlocked the iPhone and used it on T-Mobile, a rival to its sole US operator, AT&T.
Discussion: Zohar Efroni's blog
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
With Software and Soldering, a Non-AT&T iPhone
Discussion: CCUCEO and deal architect
Aaron Rutkoff / Wall Street Journal:
With 'LOLcats' Internet Fad, Anyone Can Get In on the Joke  —  Eric Nakagawa was between jobs last January when he came across a funny picture while surfing the Web: a high-strung cat with an open maw making a garbled request for a cheeseburger.  —  Mr. Nakagawa couldn't really say why he found the picture so funny.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
See All Sex Offenders In Your Neighborhood  —  Vision 20/20 offers a free web based mashup of sex offender data and Windows Live Maps.  —  Users simply add their address, city and/ or zip code to the Vision 20/20 site, and then the locations of sex offenders in the immediate vicinity are displayed over a map.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
UniquePhones's iPhone unlock release 'slowed' by AT&T lawyers  —  Hope you weren't waiting in tense anticipation to get your hands on UniquePhones's iPhone unlock software, because things certainly aren't going as planned.  Reportedly, the gurus behind the software unlock were contacted by …
 
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