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John / John's Blog:
Apple Software Update — What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong. It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that's bad — not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web.
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MacUser, MacDailyNews, Chris Pirillo, TechWeb, ReadWriteWeb, Macworld, Asa Dotzler and The Apple Core
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Think before you install — Look, people, it's 2008: You're responsible for what you install on your PC. — The outrage is spewing forth over Apple's move to include Safari 3.1 as part of its Software Update program. The new twist is that Windows users who never had installed Safari …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Mozilla CEO says Apple's Safari auto-update ‘wrong’ — A lot of people appear to be bent out of shape about Apple using its auto-update service to distribute the Safari Web browser on Windows. The CEO of Mozilla, which makes the rival Firefox browser, calls it bad business.
louisgray.com:
LinkedIn Company Detail Shows Silicon Valley Carousel — How Select Tech Titans Stack Up (Click for larger image) — Last night, LinkedIn rolled out a major upgrade to the professionally-oriented social network and career/recruiting database, adding new company profiles …
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Eating our words: Apple's Mac mini to rock on — Apple Inc.'s Mac mini, a tiny desktop system previously pegged for extinction, won't fade into the distance after all, at least not yet. — Last Memorial Day, AppleInsider cited sources in reporting that it appeared to be the end of the line …
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Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
Breaking: Sony Won't Charge $50 To Remove Bloatware — Responding to a tidal wave of outrage, Sony has reversed a plan to charge $50 to remove all the pre-installed applications — often derided as “bloatware” or “craplets” — from its high-end TZ-series notebooks.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:Sony is giving “Fresh Start” a fresh start, losing the $50 fee
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Ryan Block, Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog, Guardian Unlimited, Gizmodo, Michael Gartenberg and 9 to 5 Mac
Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Bloggers, Legit News Photos For Free — PicApp, a San Francisco-based company is offering copyright news and stock photos from large photo banks like Getty Images and Corbis for free. The company is likely to announce availability of its public beta service later today.
Paul Graham:
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss — A few days ago I was sitting in a cafe in Palo Alto and a group of programmers came in on some kind of scavenger hunt. It was obviously one of those corporate “team-building” exercises. — They looked familiar. I spend nearly all my time working …
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Coding Horror
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google's Design Guidelines — Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer for Google Apps, outlined some of the most important principles for designing interfaces at Google. In his presentation at the WritersUA conference, Jon listed the following guidelines: — 1. Useful: focus on people - their lives, their work, their dreams.
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Did We Just Witness a Twitter Marriage Proposal? — Forget statistics and pageviews; marriage proposals, folks, are what really cements a web service as a part of our everyday life. Now, we've seen Twitter on CSI, but I don't remember seeing anyone propose to someone over it. — Until now, that is.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Verizon Licks its Cheap Megahertz Pops — Here's the telecom geek quiz of the day: What's a megahertz pop? … Yes, in fact, the answer is C. Megahertz pop is the name of a telecommunications industry measurement. It refers to one megahertz of bandwidth passing one person in the coverage area in a spectrum license.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
At Launch, Mytopia Shows Social Networks How To Play Nicely Together — There is a new casual gaming network in town that's got some serious cross-platform chops. Don't be fooled by the cutesy graphics. Today, Mytopia is simultaneously launching across Facebook, Bebo, MySpace …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Toast? Hot Today, Dead Tomorrow—Like AOL? — For now, Facebook continues to take over the world. Its global traffic is about to blow past MySpace's, its image (and Mark Zuckerberg's) has recovered from the Beacon fiasco, and it has raised a big enough cash pile that it should be able to power through any downturn.
Fred / A VC:
Ten Things I'd Like FriendFeed To Do — 1) I want to reply to a comment, like I can in disqus, and not have to use an @ sign — 2) if the post is an mp3, put a play button like the yahoo or delicious player does — 3) if the post a photo, put a thumbnail of the photo right in the feed.
Dan Mitchell / New York Times:
The Thin Skin of Apple Fans — IN his new book, “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society,” Farhad Manjoo, a writer for Salon, argues that “new communications technologies are loosening the culture's grip on what people once called ‘objective reality.’ ”
Allan Leinwand / GigaOM:
Coming Soon: The Cisco Blade Server? — The movement toward blade servers in the enterprise data center has been growing steadily for some time, backed by manufacturers like IBM and HP. But expect to soon see networking giant Cisco Systems enter this market as well, setting themselves …
