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Clifford J. Levy / New York Times:
Using Microsoft, Russia Suppresses Dissent — IRKUTSK, Russia — It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff with barely a word and instead set upon the computers before carting them away.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
As “Instant” Services Proliferate, Instantise Gives Them All A Home — Yesterday I wrote about how all web services could possibly be more useful with some “Instantization”; Scottish engineer Tam Denholm had the very same idea, and built Instantise to house the recent outcrop …
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Feross Aboukhadijeh / Feross.org:
YouTube Instant. The last two days... The last two days of my life have been amazing, insane, sleepless, and humbling! — After the Google Instant announcement on Wednesday, I decided to build YouTube Instant, a site that lets you search across the vast YouTube video database in real-time.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Maps, Like YouTube, Get Instantized
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Go That Way, Really Fast — When it comes to running Stack Overflow, the company, I take all my business advice from one person, and one person alone: Curtis Armstrong. — More specifically, Curtis Armstrong as Charles De Mar from the 1985 absurdist teen comedy classic, Better Off Dead.
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
How Google Reader and RSS beat Twitter in some cases — Scoble and myself had another argument a few days ago about reading RSS feeds. Robert argues that no-one should read any feeds anymore outside of Twitter and Facebook, the rest is useless (right?) while I am still using Google Reader every day.
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PC Magazine and Channel 10
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Reading E-Books in All the Colors of the Rainbow — BLACK-AND-WHITE movies have their film noir appeal, yet it's glowing color that rules on most consumer displays these days, with one exception: the pages of e-book readers. There, color is still supplied the old-fashioned way — not by filtered pixels, but by readers' imaginations.
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launches Page Discovery “Browser” — Facebook has launched a new way to “Discover Facebook's Popular Pages” called Browser. It shows icons of Pages that are popular in a user's country, but factors in which Pages which are popular amongst their unique friend network.
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Mashable! and UMBC ebiquity
Ross Rubin / Engadget:
Switched On: Why the digital hub died — Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. — A decade ago at Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs provided a rare look into the vision guiding Apple. Breaking with naysayers foretelling the demise of the PC …
Erik Sherman / Wired In Blog| BNET:
Patent Office Admits the Truth: Things Are a Disaster — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, under its new director, David Kappos, has finally begun to seriously address transparency of information with a new data visualization dashboard. The big lesson?
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The “Verizon iPhone” Versus “The iPhone On Verizon's Network” — If you think back to 2005, you'll remember that the Motorola RAZR phone was all the rage. Not entirely unlike the iPhone today, it was the sleek phone that everyone wanted. But if you happened to be on the largest carrier in the U.S., Verizon, you couldn't get one.
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Tim Bray / ongoing:
Tab In My Pocket — Friday afternoon, Fedex brought me my Samsung Galaxy Tab, and from here on in let's just say “Tab”, which I predict everyone will and may represent mad product-naming skillz from Samsung. Since then it's been in my pocket and living room. — Meta
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Bartz in a China Shop: Has Yahoo's CEO Wrecked the Valley's Most Valuable Chinese Relationship? — The Chinese aren't exactly prone to emotional outbursts in front of Western reporters. In China, if you insult a business partner in the press, there's likely a calculating reason behind it.
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