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Corvida / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Filtering is the Next Step for Social Media — If there's one thing to be learned from social media tools, it's that these services were not made to interact with one another. Complaints are rolling in and heated discussions are taking place about the noise levels within social media platforms.
Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times:
Stolen Laptop Helps Turn Tables on Suspects — WHITE PLAINS — The thieves were voracious, filching flat-screen televisions and computer games, purloining iPods and DVDs, even making off with a box of liquor and a set of car rims in a burglary two weeks ago at an apartment three young people shared here.
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Mac Rumors / MacRumors iPhone Blog:
3G iPhone Preference Found in Beta 5 Firmware? — While we haven't been able to independently verify this ourselves, one blog post claims the latest Beta 5 iPhone Network.plist file contains 3G preferences, and that somehow can be activated. The claim reads:
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Online Apple Stores run dry of iPhones — Often seen as the last reliable sources for iPhones, Apple's online stores in the US and UK have stopped taking orders for any model of the device. — Visitors to the phone's section at either regional store are greeted with brief notices …
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Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
iPhone “currently unavailable” at Apple Store — Following reported shortages of iPhones by UK reseller O2 earlier this week, both the Apple Store in the US and UK “appear” to have run out of iPhones. It is probably best to say the outage is parenthetical at this time, because both the French and German stores still have stock.
IDG News Service:
Microsoft to Limit Capabilities of Cheap Laptops — Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs, one effect of which will be to limit the hardware capabilities of this type of device, IDG News Service has learned.
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TeleRead, Guardian Unlimited, TechSpot, Linux News from Linux Loop, TECH.BLORGE.com, Gizmodo, Engadget, GottaBeMobile, Slashdot and Digg
Fred / A VC:
Three Reasons To Use Disqus — First, I'd like to be perfectly clear that our firm, Union Square Ventures, is an investor in Disqus. So I am clearly biased about what I am about to say. Second, I'd like to point out that the reason we made the investment is largely based on my experience …
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Jesse Robbins / O'Reilly Radar:
Structure and Velocity — Several people have asked me about the differences between Om Malik's Structure conference and our Velocity Web Performance & Operations conference. Velocity is on June 23 & 24th at the SFO Mariott, and Structure follows on June 25th in San Francisco.
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Security flaw turns Gmail into open-relay server — A recently-discovered flaw in Gmail is capable of turning Google's e-mail service into a highly effective spam machine. According to the Information Security Research Team (INSERT), Gmail is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The iFund Has Competition: $150 Million Blackberry Fund To Be Announced Soon — The platform wars are going mobile. Whether it's the iPhone, Blackberry,Android or Windows Mobile, the mobile platform that will win in the end will be the one with the best and broadest collection of applications.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Powerset's Dilemma: Go For It, Or Sell — San Francisco based search startup Powerset will be launching shortly. For now, Powerset will query only Wikipedia and Freebase. But as I said when the product was demo'd to me a few weeks ago, it is compelling nonetheless: “When I tested the service …
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Cyndy Aleo-Carreira / Profy.Com:
Viewzi May Finally Have Won Me Over to Visual Search — Apparently, Viewzi had its private beta launch when I was in San Francisco for Web 2.0 Expo, because how I missed it, I have no idea. I've never been a big fan of visual search, but I'm always willing to give it a try …
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Stowe Boyd / /Message:
The Growing Backlash Against PR Spam, And The Rationale For MicroPR — Gina Trapani, of Lifehacker, has created a prspammers wiki where she and others can publicly out PR firms that are spamming bloggers at their personal email addresses, or using other unsavory spammish practices.
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Brian Solis / PR 2.0:Making Mistakes and Amends in Blogger and Media Relations
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