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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Friendfeed v. Twitter: Half The Followers In Five Months — Twitter is still far larger than its much younger competitor Friendfeed in aggregate terms. But an interesting trend is developing - many longtime Twitter users are noticing that the number of followers they have on Friendfeed is growing far more rapidly than on Twitter.
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CenterNetworks, The Jason Calacanis Weblog, The Viral Garden, Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts, Dembot and Lockergnome
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Think Before You Voicemail — Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they'll stop using it. — When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various enterprise voicemail systems …
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TechBlog, DygiScape, ben barren, Sadagopan's weblog …, howardowens.com, VoIP Watch, HighTouch, Web Worker Daily, Texas Startup Blog, IntoMobile and Digg
Lou Dolinar / LinuxInsider:
What's Holding OpenOffice Back? — Why doesn't free trump expensive? Every Microsoft product has a free, open source counterpart created by dedicated programmers who loathe everything the company stands for. The free stuff is darn good. Yet companies and individuals continue to buy billions of dollars worth of Microsoft products.
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Novelties: Electronic Papyrus: The Digital Book, Unfurled — New technologies are developing that make displays flexible, foldable or even as rollable as papyrus, so that large screens can be unfurled from small containers.
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TeleRead
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Yahoo Circus Pulls Into Sun Valley Next Week — Starting Tuesday this week, all the major players in the Yahoo-Microsoft-Everyone-And-Their- Mother circus will line their private jets up in Sun Valley for the high-powered 26th annual Allen & Co. confab of tech and media moguls.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll — SAN FRANCISCO — Alex Payne, a 24-year-old Internet engineer here, has devised a way to answer a commonly asked question of the digital age: Is my favorite Web site working today? — In March, Mr. Payne created downforeveryoneorjustme.com, as in, “Down for everyone, or just me?”
Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
The disruptive potential of GPS on the iPhone 3G — A recent survey showed nearly half of respondents rated GPS as a deciding factor in favoring an iPhone 3G, which should be good news for makers of GPS software and services. Or not. Forbes has an interesting article that suggests …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Adobe Goes After FreshAIRApps For “AIR” Usage — Adobe AIR is a platform that can be utilized to create rich desktop applications. Twhirl and AlertThingy are two recent examples of applications built on AIR. — freshAIRApps is a community resource that offers a directory of AIR applications …
Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Two Regressive Search Engine Advertising Rulings—Standard Process v. Total Health and Finance Express v. Nowcom — It's not uncommon for courts to make judgments based on outdated understandings of precedent and technology, especially when dealing with dynamically evolving areas like Internet trademark law.
Ben / microBlog:
Thank you, Adobe Reader 9! — Recently I wrote a blog entry about bloated software, and how much better Foxit PDF reader was than Adobe Reader. But I was using Adobe Reader 8. Little did I know how much superior version 9 would be. — For starters, version 8 was a 22 MB download.
Anastasia Ustinova / San Francisco Chronicle:
Big-name brands booking ads on Facebook — (07-04) 18:37 PDT — Throw a stapler at a Facebook friend, courtesy of Microsoft Office. Become a fan of Victoria's Secret Pink to discuss favorite bra colors. Show off your love for Slim Jim snacks with a virtual poke.
Jan Libbenga / The Register:
Europe drafts law to disconnect suspected filesharers — France has suggested an amendment to the pan-European Telecoms Package, which would bar broadband access to anyone who persists in illegally downloading music or films. — Last month, the government of Nicolas Sarkozy insisted on a similar …
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
Google, the press, and tearing down your heroes — The press seems to have a pattern reporting on successful technology companies. First, these companies can do no wrong, the heroes of our time, bringing us clever new ways of doing things that promise to dramatically change our lives.
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