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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GrandCentral Offline: If You Wanna Be A Phone Company, You Can't Go Dead — GrandCentral, Google's $50 million phone company, has been down all morning (see overview of service here). And that means every single user who has started using their GrandCentral phone number isn't able to receive any calls.
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CenterNetworks, STARTUP CHATTER, The Boy Genius Report, O'Reilly Radar, Mashable! and Googlified
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Rocketboom Founder Puts His Twitter Account On Sale — How much is a Twitter account with nearly 1,500 followers worth? Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron wants to find out, and launches a publicity stunt that will spark a debate about trust and privacy: He's selling his Twitter account, including the followers.
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Dave Stanley / Shyftr Blog:
RSS Feeds, Community, Publishers, and Revisions — Over the past few days, much discussion has occurred regarding the nature of Shyftr and its service. — Shyftr is a social RSS reader. Like other RSS readers, Shyftr provides tools for people to aggregate, organize, read, and share RSS feeds they are subscibed to.
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Internet Cases, Deep Jive Interests, PR 2.0, A Feed Is Born, Mashable! and mathewingram.com/work
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link By Link: He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work) — It's not easy to write a book. First you have to pick a title. And then there is the table of contents. If you want the book to be categorized, either by a bookseller or a library, it has to be assigned …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files — An interesting side-effect of YouTube's recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser's cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos.
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Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
YouTorrent Goes Legal, and Up For Sale — In just a matter of weeks since its launch, YouTorrent has become one of the most popular BitTorrent meta-search engines. This weekend, however, it revealed a shift in strategy and it now only indexes sites that host torrent files linking to “licensed” content.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Virgin Media CEO Says Net Neutrality is “A Load of Bollocks” — The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality “a load of bollocks” and claiming he's already doing deals to deliver some people's content faster than others.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AlertThingy, The FriendFeed Desktop Application, Launches — AlertThingy, the Adobe AIR desktop application for FriendFeed that we previewed last month, has just launched. It is one of the first applications built on the new FriendFeed API. — The application allows users to see the data stream …
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Mibbit: IRC so easy, your mom could use it — Back before the days of Meebo Rooms and really great, full featured desktop IM applications there was IRC. Its group chat channels provided a place of entertainment, tech support, and one of the original vehicles for P2P file sharing.
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Mashable!
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Beaming Online Services Toward Blacks — CHEAP computers and Internet connections have helped people get online in greater numbers in recent years. Now Barry Diller's IAC/InteractiveCorp wants to make money by helping minority groups connect more easily to specific sites.
Multichannel News:
Google TV Ads: Buy The People, For The People — Internet Giant Preps Public Debut of Auctions For Dish Network's Local Avails — Soon, anyone with an Internet connection will be able to buy a TV spot — on any one of 94 networks, including A&E Network, Bravo, CNBC, CNN, Discovery, ESPN …
Maths / Music 2.0:
EMI Closing Asian Offices - Major Labels' Global Foibles Exposed — With Guy Hands ringing in the changes at the helm of EMI and as a follow-up to the announced huge layoffs - reported to number as many as 2,000 - some of it will manifest itself with the closure of a significant number …
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GigaOM
