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Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Early adopters vs the Mainstream: Google Insights points out websites only used by Silicon Valley nerds — Intro to Google Insights — I have recently been playing around with the insanely useful Google Insights for Search product. You should definitely try it out if you haven't.
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Royal Pingdom:
Social network popularity around the world — With the help of Google data, we have looked at 12 of the top social networks to answer a simple, but highly interesting question: — Where are they the most popular? — The social networks we included in this survey were MySpace, Facebook …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
ComScore: Social networks, especially Facebook, still getting big around the world — Nothing surprising here, folks. Social networks are getting more popular on every continent in the world, except for North America, where they were already popular, a new comScore survey shows.
Jon Fortt / Big Tech:
Dell's comeback machine — I'm at Dell's design headquarters near Round Rock, Texas, getting a first glimpse of the company's colorful new line of business laptops that go on sale Tuesday, and I mention that the pink looks a lot better in person than online. A Dell executive is quick to tell me why.
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VMware Communities:
BIG bug in ESX 3.5 Update 2 - If you're using 3.5u2 read this now! - A general system error occurred: Internal Error — Starting this morning, we could not power on nor VMotion any of our Virtual Machines. The VI Client threw the error “A general system error occurred: Internal Error”.
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virtualization.info, CIO.com, Computerworld, BrianMadden.com and SANS Internet Storm Center …
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Matthew Marlowe / Matthew Marlowe's Blog:
All your VM's belong to us — As of tomorrow morning, VM's running on all hosts with ESX 3.5U2 in enterprise configurations will not power on. — Boom. — Apparently, there is some bug in the vmware license management code. VMware is scrambling to figure out what happened and put out a patch.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
3G iPhone Connection Problems Chip-Related? — Om has complained about his frustration with the 3G iPhone, which has poor reception and forces him to spend more time on the 2.5G EDGE network than he thought, but the issue may be with Infineon's 3G chip, according to Richard Windsor, an analyst with Nomura Securities.
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MacRumors iPhone Blog, MarketWatch, Tech Trader Daily, O'Grady's PowerPage, Gizmodo, jkOnTheRun, CrunchGear and MacDailyNews
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Gmail Blog:
We feel your pain, and we're sorry — Many of you had trouble accessing Gmail for a couple of hours this afternoon, and we're really sorry. The issue was caused by a temporary outage in our contacts system that was preventing Gmail from loading properly. Everything should be back to normal by the time you read this.
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Shawn / TmoNews:
Android may be here sooner then we think — We're hearing rumor after rumor that Android has been delayed, and pushed back to 2009. Well TmoNews is jumping into the pool or rumors, calling BS on those other rumors, and putting in our vote of confidence on a presale of the Android phone on September 16th, 2008.
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
UI Guru Jakob Nielsen's Site Is Unreadable — Ok, this is only half a dig. Jakob is one of the most respected writers and thinkers about user interface on the web. He is clearly bright, and he writes intelligent and useful things. In fact I quote Jakob and reference his work all of the time.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter's 2000-Follow Limit Raises A Ruckus. But How Many People Can You Seriously Watch Anyway? — Twitter is starting to limit how many other Twitterers any one person can follow. While the number varies based on different factors, for most people (other than Robert Scoble) the ceiling seems to be 2,000.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Some Web Firms Say They Track Behavior Without Explicit Consent — Several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers, according to letters released yesterday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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paidContent.org, GigaOM, DSLreports, Slashdot, Blogspotting, MediaFile, MarketingVOX and John Battelle's Searchblog
Brad Stone / Bits:
Shutterfly Finally Gives Photos Wings — Shutterfly, one of the first photo sharing sites on the Internet, has survived the dot-com bust and competition from the likes of Kodak and Hewlett-Packard. — But the recent wave of popular Web 2.0 photo sites like Flickr, Slide, Photobucket and RockYou …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Disqus 2.0: New Plugin, New Interface, And Local Comment Backup — Disqus, the enhanced blog commenting system, has launched a 2.0 version of its software that includes a host of new features, including a new plugin for WordPress, an improved developer API, and an overhauled UI for its main site.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Kwiry puts Netflix, Amazon in your pocket — This morning, SMS reminder service Kwiry is adding a new tool to its repertoire called shortcuts. It goes beyond the original implementation of adding keywords and photos to look up later, and turns it into a tool that links up with various Web services you might be using.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, CenterNetworks, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Mashable! and The Inquisitr
Stephanie Condon / The Iconoclast:
States may tax iTunes, other digital downloads — If you enjoy buying music from iTunes, movies from Amazon.com's Unbox, or computer software from anywhere, be warned: the halcyon days of tax-free digital purchases may be over. — With retail e-commerce sales now estimated to exceed $130 billion a year …
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9 to 5 Mac, DailyTech, Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo, The Technology Liberation …, CrunchGear and Boing Boing Gadgets
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Lenovo intros the monstrous ThinkPad W700, and we get our hands all over it (updated with Wacom video demo) — Like your laptops to be over-achievers? Like, the really annoyingly stacked variety of over-achiever? Enter Lenovo's newest outrage — the ThinkPad W700.
Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Shadow side of iPhone 3G's blockbuster success — (08-11) 19:33 PDT — Stephen Yarbrough has a love-hate relationship with his new Apple iPhone 3G: He calls it the best gadget he's ever had but also the worst mobile phone. — “I was driving down Folsom Street in San Francisco and I got a dropped call 10 times.
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