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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Three Internet Careers That Soon Won't Exist — Earlier this year the New York Times detailed how careers in medicine and law - formerly bankable lifetime gigs - have lost their luster. College grads instead are pouring their resources into trying to create (or join) the next Facebook or MySpace.
Billy Bragg / New York Times:
The Royalty Scam — LAST week at South by Southwest, the rock music conference held every year in Austin, Tex., the talk in hotel lobbies, coffeeshops and the convention center was dominated by one issue: how do musicians make a living in the age of the Internet?
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Evidence mounting: Windows 7 going modular, subscription — When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most “modular” yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS offering …
David Sarno / Los Angeles Times:
Reporting live from a cellphone near you ... Jason Calacanis uses a Nokia cellphone to stream live. He reports regularly. — The startup allows video from cellphones to be streamed live on the Web. In the future, will any bad behavior may go unnoticed? — GET ready for your close-up.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Even at Megastores, Hagglers Find No Price Is Set in Stone — SAN FRANCISCO — Shoppers are discovering an upside to the down economy. They are getting price breaks by reviving an age-old retail strategy: haggling. — A bargaining culture once confined largely to car showrooms …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Rick Rolled to child porn = you're a pedophile, says FBI — Everyone has had it happen to them: a “friend” sends you a link in IM or over IRC that purports to be something like a cat in an awkward position with a hilarious caption. Soon, however, you discover that the link wasn't to a lolcat at all …
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
New Google Mobile feature lets you search without typing — Google added a new entry into their robots.txt file — one way you can keep tabs on what Google doesn't want to see. The new entry that forbids crawlers from seeing http://www.google.com/m/lcb made me naturally curious.
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Startup camp for entrepreneurs — Perhaps my favorite thing to do outside of building companies is help other folks build companies. I was a major outsider in this business and had to fight my way inside over a decade. It sucked at times, but it's paid off.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
2,433 Unread Emails Is An Opportunity For An Entrepreneur — Consider this response that I just received (identifying information removed) from a venture capitalist I emailed to discuss a new investment: … I remember the days before email. For those of you who don't …
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Jens Alfke / Thought Palace:
The iPhone Has Blinders On — I bow to my esteemed colleague Craig Hockenberry's greater experience in iPhone development; but I must disagree with his take on the infeasibility of background applications. He gives two reasons why networked apps shouldn't run in the background — one technical and one user-interface.
Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Are these the first screenshots of the iPhone AppStore? — One of our readers sent us in some screenshots of his iPhone showing what appears to be the anticipated iTunes AppStore. Could these pictures be the AppStore, or could it be some type of hack? It definitely looks legit to us!
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking — Left, I.B.M. employees with a z10 mainframe, part of the latest generation of the computers and designed for new tasks. Right, an older iteration of the mainframe, I.B.M.'s System/360. In the 1960s, it introduced technology still in use today.
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