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New York Times:
The Sofa Wars: Plenty to Watch Online, but Viewers Prefer to Pay for Cable — It is a fantasy shared by many Americans: dropping cable television and its fat monthly bills and turning instead to the wide-open frontier of Internet video. — Some are finding that the reality is not that simple.
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Crowded Field for Bringing Web Video to TVs — If you want to watch Internet video on most televisions, you need a gadget that pulls it in. And a growing number of technology companies want to sell it to you. — Start-ups and tech giants alike are offering what they say are easy ways …
Jack McKenna / TechCrunch:
You Can Block Any Facebook User Except Mark Zuckerberg — The title of this post kind of says it all. As pointed out by blockzuck.com, you can block anyone on Facebook except CEO Mark Zuckerberg. If you try to do it (we did), you'll get a message saying “General Block failed error: Block failed.”
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iGeneration Blog, Softpedia News and Gawker
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs: The Rise Of Microblogging, The Death Of Posterity — A little over a week ago, I closed down all of my social media accounts, with the exception of Twitter, which I locked. The explanation I gave was that, in an age when everyone and their dog is sharing every aspect of their life …
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The Next Web
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Leo Laporte / LOL: The Life of Leo:
Buzz Kill — Something happened tonight that made me question …
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The Next Web, Stowe Boyd, jasonhiner.com, TomsTechBlog.com, Collaboration 2.0 Blog, Andy Beard, FM Blog, The Raw Feed, LiveSide.net and Howard Owens, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:rawmeet
Jeff Rivera / GalleyCat:
New York Times Bestseller Seth Godin to No Longer Publish Books Traditionally — New York Times bestselling author and marketing guru, Seth Godin vows to never publish traditionally again. After over 12 books with a legacy publisher, Godin says he's had enough.
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Seth's Blog and TeleRead
Taylor Buley / Buleyean String:
Free of Freemium, Things Are Starting To Look Up At Ning — Ning, provider of on-demand social communities, has recently been one of Silicon Valley's most interesting companies. Five months ago the company announced the sudden exit of chief executive Gina Bianchini, eventually gave …
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Pay no attention to that playful UI behind the Google Maps curtain (video) — Thought the page-turning Macallan was nifty? You ain't seen nothing yet — The Astonishing Tribe (the brains behind the look of Android) aims to give you billowing, rippling cloth-like curtains of clever interactive content with their concept Velvet UI.
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TAT and Fone Arena
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Chatroulette Taken Down. Get Ready For Chatroulette V.2 — Chatroulette, the service that lets strangers meet over video, has been taken down. A message reads “The experiment #1 is over for now. Thanks for participating - Redesigned and updated version of the website will be launched tomorrow.”
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Fast Company, Between the Lines Blog, Gizmodo, VentureBeat and The Next Web
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Exclusive: Samsung Cetus i917 bows for AT&T, shows off its Windows Phone 7 ways — Does the almost Pre-esque shape of this beast look vaguely familiar? It should, because it matches up nicely with the outline of the Samsung Cetus we saw in the FCC a little while back.
Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
Apple rejecting apps that require user registration first? — iOS app Read it Later's latest update was rejected by Apple's App Store team for what is apparently a new (and confusing/troubling) reason: that, “Applications cannot require user registration prior to allowing access to app features and content”.
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App Advice, Read It Later Blog, MacStories and The Digital Reader, Thanks:atul
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Kindle Outselling iBooks 60 To 1 — If you follow the ebook market you were likely stunned this June when Steve Jobs claimed to have captured 22% of the electronic book market overnight with the release of iBooks and iPad. Many of us who watch this market with careful eyes were leery …
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PC World and MSDN Blogs, Thanks:m4tt
JD Rucker / Soshable:
Tumblr's Biggest Strength is its Biggest Weakness to Google — If you haven't heard of Tumblr, you will. The pace that it's currently growing is similar (if not greater than) the type of growth that Twitter experienced 2 years ago. The blog/microblog/community hybrid social media site …
