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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
SoCal earthquake a powerful reminder of Twitter's potential — This morning a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California near Los Angeles. Well before the information was anywhere on the major news outlets, tweets (Twitter messages) were flowing in at a rapid clip.
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BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Twitter As News-wire — Twitter is increasingly being described as a personal news-wire—shared world events like this morning's earthquake near Los Angeles support the definition. This chart illustrates the beginning of this morning's earthquake followed seconds later by the first Twitter update from Los Angeles.
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Vindu Goel / Bits:
Game Over: Scrabulous Shut Down on Facebook — Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook. — Scrabulous has been shut down on Facebook. — If you try to pull up the popular Scrabble-like game …
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
‘Scrabble’ app on Facebook crashes in wake of ‘Scrabulous’ takedown — When Scrabulous, a popular game on Facebook's developer platform, was shut down earlier on Tuesday because of copyright infringement issues with the manufacturer of the Scrabble board game, word game fans weren't totally left in the dark.
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:Malicious attack takes down Scrabble on Facebook
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David Worthington / SD Times On The Web:
Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed — Microsoft is incubating a componentized non-Windows operating system known as Midori, which is being architected from the ground up to tackle challenges that Redmond has determined cannot be met by simply evolving its existing technology.
Neal Kanodia / Google LatLong:
New, blue, and better than ever — Less is more. — Before — After — With the new look for Google Maps, you can do all of the same things, but without the extra clutter. Find businesses (creamery near palo alto), addresses (6605 Delmar Blvd, St Louis, MO), and more (root beer in sf) from one search box.
CNN:
Sprint Loses Early Termination Fee Case, May Pay $73 Million — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) was dealt a major blow in its early-termination-fee case when a California judge ruled it would have to pay $ 73 million. — The decision could bode poorly for the various trials …
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Paul Elias / Associated Press:
Judge ruling on Sprint fees is blow to industry — SAN FRANCISCO - The fees that cell phone carriers charge customers who break service contracts took a big hit in a California courtroom when a judge said such charges by Sprint Nextel Corp. likely violate state law.
Business Wire:
HP, Intel and Yahoo! Create Global Cloud Computing Research Test Bed — Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Lead the Way as Global Centers of Excellence — PALO ALTO, Calif. & SANTA CLARA …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:HP, Yahoo and Intel Create Compute Cloud
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Chris / LiveSide:
Live Mesh Mac client now available for download - officially this time! — No announcement yet but Microsoft has now made the Live Mesh client for Mac available for download from mesh.com. Check it out at at the — Mac download page and see for yourself.
Dell:
Look Beyond the Rack for Style this Fall - Dell's New Studio and Inspiron Systems Redefine PC Design — Puts the PC back on the desktop, or the countertop, or the bookshelf, or the entertainment center — Dell's smallest, most personalized and most environmentally responsible consumer PC, the Studio Hybrid, launches today.
Chris Flores / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows ‘Mojave’ Video Posts — Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus. Today we are excited to share the results with the public. — For those new to the Mojave Experiment, it's a focus group effort we initiated a few weeks ago.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How To Lose Your Cuil 20 Seconds After Launch — The hype cycle now lasts less than a day. Take yesterday's over-hyped launch of stealth search startup Cuil, which was quickly followed by a backlash when everyone realized that it was selling a bill of goods. This was entirely the company's own fault.
Tom Hogarty / Lightroom Journal:
Lightroom 2 Now Available — Lightroom 2 is now available on Adobe.com. We've been very pleased with all of the feedback during the public beta and we're happy to provide the finished version. — http://www.adobe.com/products/ photoshoplightroom/ — Price: Lightroom 2 is $299 …
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John P. Falcone / Crave: The gadget blog:
Pandora goes free (and ad-supported) on Logitech Squeezebox—with other devices likely to follow — Pandora's streaming music service is now free—albeit with ads—on the Logitech Squeezebox family of devices — Add Pandora to the list of free online music services you can access through the Logitech Squeezebox.
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Verne Kopytoff / San Francisco Chronicle:
Pickens rips Yahoo management, says he dumped shares at a loss — Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens excoriated Yahoo's management for failing to reach an agreement to sell all or part of the Web portal to Microsoft Corp. — Pickens, who bought 10 million Yahoo shares in May in hopes …
Microsoft:
New Alliances Continue Momentum for Windows Live OneCare — Manufacturers choose Microsoft's all-in-one security suite to help protect and maintain their customers' PCs. — The name of the West Coast Labs certification received by Windows Live OneCare was updated to correct an error at time of publication.
Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
EA's ‘Spore’ a week from being finished … After more than three years of anticipation, Spore is almost finished. — Electronic Arts' evolution game, from legendary designer Will Wright's Maxis studio, is about a week from going “gold,” I was told Tuesday by Thomas Vu, a producer on the game who gave me a demo Tuesday morning.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
BT Buys Ribbit for $105 Million — Will BT Make Ribbit Work? — Yes. Better To Look For Help Outside — Not a chance, $105 million wasted — BT, Ribbit... what? who? — BT (British Telecom) has acquired Silicon Valley-based Ribbit for roughly $105 million, according to various news outlets.
Fred / A VC:
Peer Producing A Web 2.0 Keynote — The Web 2.0 conference juggernaut is coming to NYC this fall. On September 16-19 there will be a Web 2.0 Expo at the Javits Center. — The conference organizers have asked me to give a keynote at 3pm on Wednesday, September 17th.
