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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack — The Twitter document leak fiasco started with a simple story that personal accounts of Twitter employees were hacked. Twitter CEO Evan Williams commented on that story, saying that Twitter itself was mostly unaffected.
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Computerworld, Memex 1.1, lalawag, broadstuff, Simon Willison's Weblog and digg.com, Thanks:atul
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg's Kevin Rose Not Pleased With DiggBar Change — Earlier today we reported on a change in how Digg handles URL redirects from its URL shortening service called DiggBar. Users of the service are not happy - links are now sometimes going to Digg's summary of the story instead of the story itself.
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Jd Rucker / Social News Watch:
Did Digg Just “Bait & Switch” Twitter Users? — UPDATE: Let Digg know how you feel through Twitter. Send an @digg via @socialnews reply and your tweets will be posted here as well. — Either there's an error happening with Diggbar or Digg just made a big mistake.
James Altucher / Wall Street Journal:
The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment) — I can live all day inside the Internet. I can talk to my friends, listen to music, watch TV, trade stocks, play games, do work - all on the Internet. From 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. every day I can spend on the Internet and it would be a day well spent.
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Trends in the Living Networks, Elias Bizannes, TechFlash, Seeking Alpha, Pulse2, HipMojo.com, Beyond Search and digg.com, Thanks:atul
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Fred / A VC:
The Internet Is Alive And Well (As An Investment) — James Altucher penned a column in today's WSJ titled The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment). James is a fund manager and well read columnist on investing and he is entitled to his opinion. He puts his money where his mouth is.
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Why Japan's Cellphones Haven't Gone Global — TOKYO — At first glance, Japanese cellphones are a gadget lover's dream: ready for Internet and e-mail, they double as credit cards, boarding passes and even body-fat calculators. — But it is hard to find anyone in Chicago or London using …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Could Apple really dictate iPhone terms to Verizon Wireless? — The bricks just keep being thrown through AT&T's reputation window. — This time, TechCrunch's MG Siegler has an entertaining rant on how Apple needs to dump AT&T and put the iPhone on Verizon Wireless.
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Software Engineering: Dead? — I was utterly floored when I read this new IEEE article by Tom DeMarco (pdf). See if you can tell why. … If your head just exploded, don't be alarmed. Mine did too. To somewhat reduce the migraine headache you might now be experiencing from reading the above summary …
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Davidw / Joho the Blog:
Transparency is the new objectivity — A friend asked me to post an explanation of what I meant when I said at PDF09 that “transparency is the new objectivity.” First, I apologize for the cliché of “x is the new y.” Second, what I meant is that transparency is now fulfilling …
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ProgrammableWeb:
What's in Data.gov? — Editor's note: This guest post comes from Jim Hendler, a professor, web researcher, and Semantic Web evangelist working at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. You can see more of his teams' ongoing research at Tetherless World. — A recent article by Tim Berners-Lee …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Across U.S., ESPN Aims to Be the Home Team — LOS ANGELES — Not content with being a sports colossus with broadcasts in 200 countries, ESPN is taking aim at hometown sports coverage, threatening one of the last strongholds of local newspapers and television stations.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Interview: AOL's Armstrong First 100 Days: ‘People Are Missing The Real AOL Story’ — Sixteen cities in ten countries, from Baltimore to Bangalore, Denver to Dublin. 26 Town Hall and All Hands meetings. 71 product reviews. 51 partner/customer meetings. The numbers charting Tim Armstrong's 100 …
