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Alexia Tsotsis / The Snitch:
Zuckerberg's Bizarre Facebook Insignia Revealed, And What It Means — To much media fanfare, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took off his signature hoodie at D8 conference Wednesday, revealing a what looked strange Illuminati-like diagram printed on the blue silk lining.
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
At This Monday's Apple Keynote? Help Us Liveblog — It's no surprise: Apple has not responded to our requests to attend the WWDC keynote on Monday at 10am PST. But we'll still cover the news. Want to help? — If you're going to the keynote, and want to be a part of the exciting Apple coverage …
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Yusuf Mehdi / Search Blog:
A Farewell to Bing cashback — One of the principles we have here at Bing is to constantly experiment and learn. We do this to ensure we are keeping pace with new social and technology trends, and can continue to deliver great value for our customers and advertisers.
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Jim Lanzone / Clicker Blog:
How Much Video Can You Actually Stream With AT&T's New Data Plans? — OK, we're going to tell you the punchline right away. Run, don't walk, to get your iPad 3G before the end of the weekend. If want to stream video while on-the-go from sources like Netflix or the ABC Player …
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Computerworld, socalTECH.com, Epicenter, Obsessable, Boy Genius Report, PC World, GottaBeMobile and Bits, Thanks:oscalito
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Steven Johnson / stevenberlinjohnson.com:
Is Steve Jobs Repeating His Past Mistakes? — One of my very favorite writers, Robert Wright, had an interesting Opinionator post at the NY Times site this week, which revolved around the question of Steve Jobs' alleged lust for power and why he was making the same mistakes with the iPhone …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
4chan's Founder on Why Anonymity Can Be Valuable — Christopher Poole, the founder of the anarchic website and discussion forum known as 4chan, spoke earlier this year at the TED conference, and the video of his talk has just been posted (it's also embedded below).
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Evidence suggests MobileMe will become free — It's not a whole lot to go on, but rumors never are. Recent changes to the Account Type statuses of Apple's MobileMe service is leading many to believe that the cloud-based syncing offering may soon become free.
Aza Raskin / Aza on Design:
Macintosh Project Genesis and History — I was recently looking at some of my father's, Jef Raskin old documents and came across his February 16, 1981 memo detailing the genesis of the Macintosh. It was written in reaction to Steve Jobs taking over managing hardware development.
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Safari 5 to be launched at WWDC with Safari Reader? — MacGeneration reports that Apple is planning on a major update to Safari at this week's WWDC. Safari 5 will apparently include a Reader functionality that will make web page reading easier by extracting and organizing the text.
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Jad Mouawad / New York Times:
Airlines Work to Catch Up to the Digital Age — Airlines have made great technological leaps in recent years, allowing passengers to check in from home or download boarding passes on their smartphones. But if you've ever been stranded at an airport during a raging thunderstorm …
Larry Seltzer / Security Watch:
Zero-Day Attacks Hitting Flash, Acrobat — The mainstream 10.0 generation of Flash are vulnerable to an unpatched vulnerability which is being exploited in the wild according to Adobe. The 9.x versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat which incorporate 10.0 Flash support are also vulnerable.
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Adobe, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Krebs on Security, Computerworld and SANS Internet Storm Center …
David Heinemeier Hansson / Signal vs. Noise:
You couldn't pay me to work for Ballmer — I'm not going to lie. I was never a Microsoft fan. Not even when I was using Windows (that I begrudgingly moved to after the Amiga). But at least you used to have some awe and respect for the gorilla that was Microsoft.
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
John Gruber jumps the shark — I have been using Macs since February 1984. From just about the day the Mac was announced I was writing software for it from my college dorm room using one of the school's two $10,000 Apple Lisa computers. The Lisa was, at that time, the only tool you could use …
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Washington Times:
FTC floats Drudge tax — Journalism can reinvent itself without government ‘help’ — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking ways to “reinvent” journalism, and that's a cause for concern. According to a May 28 draft proposal, the agency thinks government should be at the center of a media overhaul.
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Wired Explains: Everything You Need to Know About 4G Wireless — If your smartphone seems more like a slowphone, hang in there. The next generation of wireless technologies, known as 4G, promises blazing-fast data transmission speeds. — The first 4G handset, Sprint's HTC Evo …
Arn / MacRumors:
Other WWDC Possibilities: iPhone OS 4, Mac Pro, Apple TV, Cloud-Based Services — Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off next Monday with a keynote given by Steve Jobs. While almost all of the attention has been focused on the leaked iPhone, Jobs will likely be talking about more than a new iPhone at the event.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Google resolves WebM licensing conflict with BSD license — Google is adopting the BSD license for WebM in order to address a licensing conflict. When Google opened up the VP8 codec and announced the launch of the WebM project during the Google I/O conference last month …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Wants HuffPo Badly — Yahoo is clearly positioning itself to become a stronger player in the online content game, as evidenced by its recent acquisition of Associated Content. But we are hearing that the real prize they want is the Huffington Post. The two companies are currently …
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John D. Sutter / CNN:
With Foursquare's founder, life is a virtual game — New York (CNN) — Dennis Crowley was jogging across a New York bridge when he spotted something exciting: a cartoon mushroom, spray-painted on the sidewalk. — It looked like something out of Nintendo's “Super Mario Bros.,” which Crowley grew up playing.
