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Aza Raskin / Mozilla Labs:
Introducing Ubiquity — An experiment into connecting the Web with language. — It Doesn't Have to be This Way — You're writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You'd like to include a map.
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Aza Raskin / Aza's Thoughts: Ubiquity In Depth — An experiment into connecting the Web with language.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. …
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Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
New Nikon is first SLR to shoot video — Video clips on point-and-shoot digital cameras are great: Why not use them on cool digital SLRs as well? — Nikon hopes to hammer that point with the release of its latest digital single-lens reflex camera, the D90, expected in stores next month for $1,299 with a lens.
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Chase Jarvis Blog:
Chase Jarvis RAW: Advance Testing the Nikon D90 — Woot! Today I get to be among the very first to share with you the planet's newest camera: the much-anticipated Nikon D90. You may have been attuned to all the recent leaks, buzz and rumors of a new Nikon camera coming soon, but I can assure you, this here ain't no rumor.
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole — Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency.
Erica Ogg / CNET News - Apple:
Psystar responds to Apple suit, will countersue — PALO ALTO, Calif.—Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple's copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday as well as a countersuit of its own, alleging that Apple engages in anticompetitive business practices.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
lonelygirl15's Second Incarnation: The Resistance — There may never be another lonelygirl15, especially given its origin as a hoax and as one of the first experiments in what episodic web content could be. But now that it's finally over, more than 500 episodes later …
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Peter Lattman / Wall Street Journal:
A Photobucket Bonanza, for Insiders — A Web-Site Bet Was Lucrative For Venture Firm, but Not Its Investors — When the photo-sharing Web site Photobucket.com was acquired last year for about $300 million, executives at New York-based venture-capital firm Insight Venture Partners made a small fortune.
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TweakGuides.com:
Vista Annoyances Resolved — Author: Koroush Ghazi — Introduction — “Oh lord, not another Vista article!” Like me, I'm sure many of you might be thinking something along those lines whenever you see an article with the word ‘Vista’ in the title these days.
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comScore:
Microsoft Ranks as Top U.S. Online Display Advertiser in June, According to comScore Ad Metrix — Major Display Ad Campaign Promotes Windows Live Search Programs — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its June ranking …
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Profy, Brier Dudley's blog, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, WebProNews, Digital Daily, Tech Tracks and CenterNetworks
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Google is neither buying nor running many online display ads …
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Alexkoc / Windows Genuine Advantage:
Update to WGA Notifications for Windows XP Professional — Starting this week, we will begin deployment of the latest version of WGA Notifications for Windows XP. In addition to the usual updates to validation that improve WGA's ability to detect the latest stolen or fake product keys …
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Infuriouscomics:
Murderdrome - KILLER APP — By now, you might have heard that Murderdrome has been banned by Apple. This is due to the part of the sdk that suggests content must NOT offend anyone in 'apple's reasonable' opinion. Here at infurious, we would love to work with Apple to ensure a content rating system …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Now Searching For Synonyms — Blink, and you might have missed it. Google's now doing synonym searching. It's something they quietly noted in a past Google blog post and one that comes up again today in a post that covers how Google uses experiments to improve the search interface.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA wins P2P case after defendant reformats hard drive — One of the most closely-watched copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the RIAA appears to have come to a screeching halt, much to the music industry's delight. A judge ruled Monday that a defendant had willfully …
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atomicwang.org:
Dear My Team — When I spoke to each of you about Tapulous, whether I recruited you, or inherited you from GoGoApps, I spoke of an engineering paradise where smart people would come together to ship beautiful applications, to lead a computing revolution, and to become a real force for world change.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
No Joke: The Onion Launches CitySearch Competitor — America's Finest News Source has launched Decider, a local entertainment site that includes interviews, event information, and restaurant reviews. The site is initially launching with content for Chicago, with plans to support more cities over the next few months.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
DMCA takedown notice forces Twitter to blacklist Mad Men characters — The micro-messaging service Twitter tonight suspended the accounts of users don_draper and peggyolson. If those names sound familiar, you're probably a fan of the hit AMC show Mad Men.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Webware.com, Techdirt, Valleywag, ben barren, InformationWeek, The Inquisitr and NewTeeVee
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Movie Labels To Launch New “Open Market” Play Anywhere Scheme As Last Ditch Effort To Save DRM — Most of the big movie studios and many online movie retailers are preparing to to launch a new initiative tentatively called Open Market, first proposed last year by Sony Pictures, we've learned.
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BBC:
iPhone ad rapped as ‘misleading’ — A television advert for the iPhone misled consumers, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled. — Two complaints to the watchdog noted that the advert said “all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone”. — But the ASA said because the iPhone …
