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Caterina.net:
Hunch! — We've started sending out invitations to friends and people who signed up on Hunch. We're going to be launching the full public site in the coming months, but for now — invitations! — What is Hunch? — Look. Decision-making is difficult, and decisions have to be made constantly.
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Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, The Noisy Channel, Gawker, CNET News, paidContent.org and SiliconBeat, Thanks:atul
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
After trying it out, I have a good feeling about Hunch — I am an extremely indecisive person. This sometimes frustrates other people, but it frustrates me even more because I absolutely hate wasting time. And being indecisive means I sit there thinking about decisions for far too long.
Phil Glockner / ReadWriteWeb:Flickr Co-founder Unveils Her New Startup: Hunch
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Andru Edwards / Gear Live:
Exclusive: Twitter integration coming to OnStar — OnStar users, look out—Twitter is about to become a part of your experience. How so? Well, being an owner of a couple of Cadillacs with OnStar built-in, we sometimes receive surveys or phone calls asking us how we are liking things.
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Dell Latitude 2100 ‘Welch’ Netbooks Leaked — A tipster just leaked these Dell Latitude 2100 ‘Welch’ laptops to us, which have a 10-inch display and are aimed under $600. The best part are the names: School Bus Orange and Red Apple. — Here are the details: they're a new Latitude notebook design branded …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Facebook Purposefully Lowballing Its Official User Numbers? — Facebook updates its official user numbers periodically on a statistics page that currently says 175 million users. They say that they update it every 25 million users, but many of us have long suspected that they may trail by much more than that.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
AT&T stores now offering early upgrade pricing on iPhone 3G — In the latest move aimed at helping Apple clear inventory of iPhone 3Gs ahead of new models anticipated this spring, AT&T retail stores are now offering some customers early upgrades to the Apple handset at subsidized pricing.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Has Apple begun clearing iPhone 3G inventory?
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Former AOL Head Jon Miller Heads to News Corp. as “Chief Digital Officer” — BoomTown has confirmed a report by Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily that former AOL head Jon Miller is set to take over as digital head at News Corp., replacing Peter Levinsohn.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook “Definitely” Raising Capital This Year; Google Considered Acquisition — Last October we wrote about how Facebook's breakaway growth combined with a declining advertising market was forcing the company back to the capital markets. — The company has been all over the place …
Alexei Oreskovic / MediaFile:
Google layoffs don't stop hiring efforts — Google may be giving pink slips to some 200 hapless souls, but that's not stopping the company from hiring in certain places. — The search giant has about 360 job openings listed on its Web site, and a spokesman has confirmed that they are indeed open positions.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
When every student has a laptop, why run computer labs? — Only four freshmen showed up at the University of Virginia in 2007 without a computer of their own, and the school has decided that it's no longer worth the expense of running campus computer labs. — What's the point of running …
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent.org:
Tracking The Online-Only Seattle P-I: Traffic Down 20 Percent — It makes some sense: Cut your editorial staff by 80 percent, and there's at least a decent chance that Web traffic will tumble. And that's just what has happened at the new online-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Thanks:mrinaldesai
Luis Corrons / PandaLabs:
Don't get taken in by the Conficker panic — Lately it seems everybody is talking about Conficker and its variants. And much more so if we have to take into account the build up fear around the coming day of April 1st. It's been a while since we saw so much coverage in the general media …
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Prosecutor Who Threatened Teens With Child Porn Charges For Taking Pics Of Themselves Gets Sued — Back in January, we got a tremendous response in the comments to a post about some teens in Pennsylvania who were facing the potential of child porn charges from an overzealous local prosecutor.
internetnews.com:
Verizon Confirms Plans to Sell Netbooks — If Verizon wants to win the subsidized-netbook battle, it needs to undercut competitor service plan prices. — Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is entering the netbook market with plans to sell 3G-equipped versions of the tiny laptops in its stores as early as next month.
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
JavaScript to get 3x speed boost in iPhone OS 3.0 — Regardless of whatever new hardware Apple might introduce this summer, existing iPhone users will see an average 300 percent speed increase in JavaScript performance in Mobile Safari. The increased speed will be helpful for iPhone-specifc web apps …
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Huawei's U.S. Coming Out Party — The company's North American inroads may mean the end of worries over its Chinese government ties. — Huawei's long march to North America may finally be achieving results. — For years, the Chinese networking and telecom vendor's attempt to expand …
InfoWorld:
IBM leading ‘Open Cloud Manifesto’ charge — Let's put the speculation about who's behind the Open Cloud Manifesto to rest right now: InfoWorldhas learned that IBM is the driving force. That's according to two cloud vendors who said they signed the document.
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Chris Pendleton / Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog:
Virtual Earth Imagery Release, March 2009 — Another huge addition to the digitization of our planet just hit the web last night - 21TB - all ortho imagery launched into Microsoft Virtual Earth, powering Live Search Maps (and other Live Search properties). Now, this one isn't huge in terms …
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Elizabeth Holmes / Digits:
Tying the Hyperlocal Knot — The Knot is launching 75 new localized sites in the hopes of reaching brides-to-be from Tampa to Tucson. — The Knot — David Liu, CEO of the wedding Web site, said the idea is to provide the “ingredients” that people planning weddings seek out.
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Screenwerk, GPS Obsessed, Kelsey Group Blogs, Lost Remote and paidContent.org, Thanks:mrinaldesai
MediaShift:
‘Cluetrain Manifesto’ Still Relevant 10 Years Later — When The Cluetrain Manifesto appeared on the web in 1999, neither its supporters nor its authors believed it was trying to say anything particularly new. Rather, the 95 theses and the following chapters — written in almost a stream of consciousness …
Robert Frank / The Wealth Report:
A Facebook for the Fortunate — The problem with Diamond Lounge, A Small World and other “elite” social-networking sites is that they tout themselves as high end but can't verify people's wealth or income. Inevitably, the online riff-raff spoil the party of the elites.
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple developing ‘stealth’ biometric security for iPhone — Apple has developed a new technique that would hide a biometric reader inside an iPhone or a Mac and let owners lock down their systems with fingerprints or even facial recognition — all without ever having to break from their usual routine.
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Technologizer, Gizmodo, Coolest Gadgets, Mobilewhack.com, IntoMobile, Engadget, CrunchGear, The iPhone Blog and Electricpig.co.uk
