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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Pogue dodges a bullet — So the fecal matter hit the spinning blades for our good friend and loyal fanboy David Pogue (in photo above, pleasuring himself with a MacBook) this week. Today, Clark Hoyt, the “public editor” at the Times, published a piece about Pogue that basically says yeah …
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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
He Works for The Times, Too — DAVID POGUE, the popular technology columnist, is a high-energy, one-man multimedia conglomerate. — In addition to his weekly “State of the Art” column in The Times, and his blog and videos on the newspaper's Web site, and his weekly e-mail newsletter …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple To Kill Off iPod Classic, Double Down On Touch, iPhone Developer Predicts — Apple's annual iPod/iTunes product event will take place this Wednesday in San Francisco. In addition to announcing new iTunes features, Apple will almost certainly introduce an updated version of the iPod touch …
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten / The Next Web Blog:
Technorati now hiring bloggers (and biting the hand that feeds them?) … Technorati used to be the darling of the Blogging industry. Unfortunately they have lost some of their shine in these past years with declining market share, bugs and downtime, and an unclear strategy for the future.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Meetup Had Its First Profitable Month In July — Meetup cofounder and CEO Scott Heiferman has a nice column in today's New York Times, as part of its “The Boss” feature. — It describes how he got his start in New York — first, working for Sony in New Jersey, then as founder of i-traffic, an online ad agency.
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Scott Heiferman / New York Times:The Pursuit of Community — I GREW up with four siblings …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Regarding WordPress and Security — Readers keep asking me why I'm “against” WordPress. I'm not against WordPress. But I think it's important, for anyone who cares about their web sites, to understand just what you're getting into when you decide to host your own WordPress site.
Shane Richmond / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Google UFO logo ‘mystery’ solved — The internet was apparently baffled yesterday when Google changed its logo to show a UFO abducting one of Google's Os. Our story on the “mystery” is currently our most-viewed technology story, with 220 comments. — While some of our readers are speculating …
Dion Hinchcliffe / Enterprise Web 2.0:
How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business — These days in the halls of IT departments around the world there is a growing realization that the next wave of outsourcing, things like cloud computing and crowdsourcing, are going to require responses that will forever change the trajectory …
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Japan Today:
NTT DoCoMo eyes fully entering U.S. cell phone market next year — NEW YORK — NTT DoCoMo Inc is considering fully entering the U.S. cell phone market next year, offering smartphones and other high-performance handsets with its “i-mode” mobile Internet service, sources familiar with the matter said Friday.
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Google Japan fights concerns about Street View — Google Japan is attempting to fight privacy-related concerns towards its Street View application. On September 4th, Google Japan's legal representative announced that the company would be putting forth new efforts to fighting malicious secondary-use …
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Asteroids, Part 2 — Will we see a negative story in the Sunday New York Times business section tomorrow morning? We would not be surprised. Pogue will try to stop it, of course, especially since he raved about Snowy and called it “Apple's sleek upgrade” then turned around and admitted …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
As Other Real-Time Search Engines Fizzle, OneRiot Gets Some Early Traction — While there have been many real-time search engine launches over the past few months (Scoopler, Topsy, Collecta, CrowdEye), most of them so far have fizzled (see Google Website Trends chart above).
