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Google Shared Stuff — Google's social side is more visible every day. A new service called "Shared Stuff" lets you share interesting links with your friends and the entire world. You need to drag a bookmarklet to your browser's link bar or to click on the "Share" button from a web page …
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Google Shared Stuff — Google has just quietly launched a new social link sharing service called Google Shared Stuff. — According to this help file, you can add links to your "shared stuff page" by adding a bookmarklet to your web browser's "Links" or "Bookmarks" bar or by clicking this button …


Google Wants You To Share Stuff — Google has entered the social bookmarking market with a new product called Shared Stuff. — Shared Stuff is simple enough; users drag a "email/ share" button into their browser, and click it when they want to add pages to their Shared Stuff profile.


Apple's Jobs Subpoenaed for Deposition, People Say — Sept. 20 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs was subpoenaed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to give a deposition in a backdating lawsuit against the company's former general counsel, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Steve Jobs subpoenaed over stock option backdating — It's not easy being Steve Jobs. When you're not jet-setting around the world, introducing your disappointing EDGE-only iPhone to the European market, you're getting subpoenaed by US securities regulators over a lawsuit concerning stock option backdating.

Is That a Nancy Heinen Windsock Twisting Over Apple HQ?
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Americans giving up friends, sex for Web life — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in three giving up friends and sex for the Web.
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ABC's AOL Pact Marks Web's Growing TV Allure — Walt Disney Co.'s ABC became the latest major network to strike a deal with AOL allowing its full-length prime-time shows to be available free on the Time Warner Inc.-owned portal. — ABC shows will be available on AOL starting today …
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We're thrilled about this NBC download service — If you haven't heard about it, see here. NBC is going to launch its own download service where you can get NBC shows. This is their new initiative in the wake of severing their relationship with us. Why are we psyched?

iPhone & iPod: contain or disengage? — Back when we had commies to worry about, someone came up with the concept of "engage and contain": eg, rather than avoid them as we'd been doing, we should trade and talk and travel there, and by doing so be able to contain their evil.


New York's subway stations to be wired for cellphones — After holding out for years, MTA has finally caved to the public's demand for cellphones in New York subways. New York City Transit has announced a deal with Transit Wireless, who's forking out $46.8 million over 10 years for the privilege …
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M.T.A. Makes Deal for Cellphones in Stations
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dslreports.com, Silicon Alley Insider, PSFK, IntoMobile, Smart Mobs, textually.org and dailywireless.org

Zillow Gets Mo Money — Earlier this week we were joking about Fundinistas or companies that the ones who raise venture capital relentlessly. One of them happened to be Zillow, which had raised $57 million. Well, today they called to let us know that they had raised another $30 million, bringing the total to $87 million.
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Zillow Gains VC and Google SEO Goodness
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Apple's iPod Touch Is a Beauty of a Player Short on Battery Life — In the hyper-competitive world of consumer electronics, it's highly unusual for one branded product to dominate its market for years on end. Yet, that's what Apple's iPod media player, now approaching its sixth anniversary, has managed to do.
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Engadget, iLounge, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, CrunchGear, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Gadgetell and WinBeta


NBC U: Just Because We Acknowledge the Viewer Wants Control, Doesn't Mean We're Going to Give Them Any — Boy, NBC Universal really has those broadcast TV blinders bolted on tight, doesn't it? Just weeks after yanking its programs from Apple's iTunes store, the company announced plans …
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Cities turning off plans for Wi-Fi — CHICAGO — Plans to blanket cities across the nation with low-cost or free wireless Internet access are being delayed or abandoned because they are proving to be too costly and complicated. — Houston, San Francisco, Chicago and other cities are putting proposed Wi-Fi networks on hold.


Hitwise: August 2007 Search Share Favors Google, Yahoo - Microsoft Drops — Yes, it's that time of the month again — search popularity stats time. Several ratings services are out with figures for August 2007, and I'm starting off with a look at those from Hitwise.

21st-century pack mule: MIT's 'exoskeleton' lightens the load — Researchers in the MIT Media Lab's Biomechatronics Group have created a device to lighten the burden for soldiers and others who carry heavy packs and equipment. — Their invention, known as an exoskeleton …

U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read — International travelers concerned about being labeled a terrorist or drug runner by secret Homeland Security algorithms may want to be careful what books they read on the plane. Newly revealed records show the government is storing such information for years.
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