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11:30 PM ET, July 31, 2008

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Stephen Hood / delicious blog:
Oh happy day — the new Delicious is here  —  Over the past few days we've been transitioning Delicious over to our new platform, quietly starting with RSS feeds and APIs.  Today we're taking the final step and flipping the switch on the new web site: delicious.com.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Delicious 2.0 Launches.  Really.  It Totally Launched.  —  YAY!  The long awaited, much promised, never delivered Delicious 2.0 will launch in the next few minutes, just like they promised again last week.  —  The new Delicious is just like the old Delicious, except for the way it looks.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Delicious 2.0: Who bookmarks any more?  —  When I saw the news about the launch of Delicious 2.0, I can't say I felt a huge wave of joy, despite the fact that I am what most people would probably consider a hard-core Delicious user, with about 10,000 webpages saved since I started using it.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:   Delicious Finally Launches Version 2.0: Easier, Prettier, Faster
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Yahoo gives Delicious more speed, fewer punctuation marks
Discussion: eWeek
Apple:
About Security Update 2008-005  —  This document describes Security Update 2008-005, which can be downloaded and installed via Software Update preferences, or from Apple Downloads.  —  For the protection of our customers, Apple does not disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until …
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple drops first build of Mac OS X 10.5.5 with warning  —  As expected, Apple on Thursday afternoon provided its vast developer community with the first pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.5.5, but warned developers not to use this initial version of the software with Macs that contain integrated graphics chips.
Discussion: TUAW
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple set to drop Mac OS X 10.5.5 Update on developers
Discussion: MacRumors and Insanely Great Mac
Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
Malwebolence  —  One afternoon in the spring of 2006, for reasons unknown to those who knew him, Mitchell Henderson, a seventh grader from Rochester, Minn., took a .22-caliber rifle down from a shelf in his parents' bedroom closet and shot himself in the head.
Arn / MacRumors:
Nullriver Introduces 3G/EDGE Tethering App for iPhone [Updatedx2]  —  Nullriver, Inc. has released NetShare onto the iTunes App Store this evening (via iPhone Alley).  The $9.99 application promises to allow you to share your iPhone's network connection with your computer.
Carl Icahn / The Icahn Report:
Concerning the Annual Yahoo! Meeting  —  I will not be attending.  The proxy fight is over and it will not do shareholders or Yahoo! any good to have the annual meeting turn into a media event for no purpose.  Last week, I realized it was impossible to gain enough support from the large institutions …
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Open Source and Cloud Computing  —  I've been worried for some years that the open source movement might fall prey to the problem that Kim Stanley Robinson so incisively captured in Green Mars: “History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.”
Discussion: Mike Cane 2008 and Epeus' epigone
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
YouTube Has Speech-to-Text Functionality.....and it Works  —  YouTube has introduced rich metadata into select videos, which will significantly impact how online video is discovered and consumed.  —  Announced in June, we have found the technology is very useful.
Brian Solis / TechCrunch:
SEC To Recognize Corporate Blogs as Public Disclosure.  Can We Now Kill the Press Release?  —  For several years, Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz has lobbied the SEC to allow disclosure of financial information through corporate blogs.  In a landmark announcement, it seems that Mr. Schwartz …
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Microsoft discloses Google, Apple threat, plus Danger sale price  —  The language in Microsoft's new annual report filed today shows just how concerned the company is about the threat from Google and Apple.  —  Their different business models - ad-supported online software as a service …
Discussion: Beyond Binary
Christopher Null:
California judge rules early cell phone termination fees illegal  —  In one of the most significant legal rulings in the tech industry this year, a Superior Court judge in California has ruled that the practice of charging consumers a fee for ending their cell phone contract early is illegal and violates state law.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
AOL Tells Angry Blogger Staff: Everything is Fantastic  —  AOL Senior VP of Programming Marty Moe held a conference call for all the bloggers in the Weblogs Inc. network this afternoon, a week after cutbacks and work slowdowns across the network put staff into a panic and shed a negative light on the business of blogging in general.
Discussion: The Inquisitr
CircleID:
U.S. Intends to Remain in Full Control of Internet Root Zone, Says Letter from NTIA  —  In a letter sent by bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to ICANN, the department has made it clear that despite recent discussions in Paris meetings …
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Provides iPhone Developers with Daily Download Stats  —  Apple is now offering registered iPhone developers with daily download statistics on how well their applications are doing in the App Store.  —  Before today, most developers had been left in the dark about their applications performance …
Discussion: Infinite Loop and iLounge
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Philip Rosedale Doesn't See Browser-Based Virtual Worlds As A Threat to Second Life.  Is He In Denial?  —  Recently, there's been a growing wave of startups and products appearing that are bringing 3-D virtual worlds to the browser.  These include Vivaty, Google's Lively project, and the Electric Sheep Co.'s WebFlock.
 
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Simona Covel / Independent Street:
Yale Fights to Keep Student Start-Ups From Defecting to Silicon Valley
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
10-K Watch: Microsoft Again Warns Of The Apple Threat; 21 Acquisitions In Past Year
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Apple's Unforgivable DNS Delay
Giles Turnbull / TUAW:
The wrong kind of 1%  —  MobileMe account holders trying …
Discussion: MacUser
Chris Flores / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista 64-bit Today
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
RealNetworks Earnings Call: Glaser: Most Turbulent Environment Since …
Discussion: Between the Lines
Leslie Katz / Crave: The gadget blog:
DataCase turns iPhone into wireless storage device
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Windows XP SP3 finally arrives on Automatic Updates
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Twitter tells me NASA has found water on Mars!
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Sun girds its grid for cloud business spin out
Discussion: Negative Approach
Portfolio:
Christie Hefner Blogs: Will Newspapers Learn? Or Die?
Discussion: paidContent.org and Valleywag
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
NewTeeVee Startup Watch: Onecast, Zadby, Anvato, GoAnimate
Wade / Voltage Blog:
I'll Give You $50 for a Worse Brand Name Than Knol
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Furthers Attack on FriendFeed, Adds Comments to News Feed
Adam C. Engst / TidBITS:
Five iTunes 7.7.1 Bug Fixes Detailed
Discussion: PC World, Gadget Lab and MacUser
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Band Leaks Track to BitTorrent, Blames Pirates
Discussion: Techdirt and p2pnet
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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