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Yahoo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Looking Ahead: The Future of Yahoo! Products — A few months ago, when I first yodeled my way into Yahoo!, I told folks that I was stoked for the opportunity to join up with some of the smartest and best-in-class talent in the world to deliver the future products vision for a company with such a rich history.
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Kakul Srivastava / Yahoo! Mail Blog:
Get Ready... Yahoo! Mail Beta Is Coming — Don't blink. Some big changes are happening to your Yahoo! Mail. — In the next few weeks, you'll be able to experience Yahoo! Mail Beta, a faster, cleaner, and safer way for you to communicate and share with the people you care about most.
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Download Squad, GigaOM, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, Softpedia News, Digital Daily, Black Web 2.0, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, Search Engine Land and Gizmodo
Jessie Burke / Posies Cafe:
Groupon in Retrospect — For months I've been thinking about whether or not to write a blog post about Groupon, and sharing the kind of experience it has been for the business. I've been weighing the possible repercussions of such a candid post as well, but after today …
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Silicon Alley Insider
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Glenn Kelman / Redfin Corporate Blog:
Groupon's Success Disaster — There's a fascinating essay on Facebook just now from the owner of the lovely Posie's Cafe in Portland, about how Groupon nearly bankrupted her business. — The coffeeshop proprietor, Jessie Burke, was shocked at how much money the daily deals site charged to run the promotion.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Fraudulent Groupon Photography Deal Calls Attention To Service Drawbacks — A photography deal offered on Groupon in Atlanta yesterday turned messy when it was revealed that the photographer had promoted her work with stolen images and was far from equipped to carry out the terms of the Groupon.
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PetaPixel, PlagiarismToday and msnbc.com
Bloomberg:
Verizon Won't Sell Microsoft Windows Phone 7 at Start — Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, won't sell handsets with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone 7 operating system when it debuts this year, a blow to the software maker's efforts to reach a broad market.
Brandon Watson / Windows Phone Developer Blog:
Windows Phone Developer Tools Are Final — When the Windows Phone 7 OS went gold two weeks ago, the Windows Phone ecosystem began the final preparations for the upcoming launch. OEMs and mobile operators have begun final testing of their handsets, but developers have had to wait just a little while longer to complete apps and games.
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Digits, Microsoft Advertising Blog, LiveSide.net, ScottGu's Blog, Channel 9, Bing Maps Blog, Network World, All about Microsoft Blog, TechFlash, MSDN Blogs, MobileCrunch, Boy Genius Report, WMExperts, BetaNews, MobileTechWorld, The Microsoft Blog, All Points Blog, Mobility Digest, IntoMobile, Neowin.net, WMPoweruser.com, Softpedia News, CNET News, CrunchGear, Ubergizmo, PhoneNews.com, Engadget and TechCrunch
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Microsoft demoes Twitter and Netflix apps for Windows Phone 7 …
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Channel 9, MSDN Blogs, MobileTechWorld, WMExperts and The Microsoft Blog
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Twitter Needs to Become More Open or Die — Twitter needs to become more decentralized and open, says the company's former chief engineer, or it will eventually wither and die like other “walled garden” approaches to the web. In a blog post, Alex Payne says he quit the company at the height …
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OStatic blogs, Thanks:nelsonko
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Alex Payne / Online Writing:
The Very Last Thing I'll Write About Twitter
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TechCrunch, techno.blog, Internet Evolution, Scripting News, dailywireless.org, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com and Gadgetell
Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
The Next “Facebook Platform” …
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Victus Spiritus, Thanks:jesse
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Details Of The Google Social Layer Emerge — Facebook may have known all the details about Google's new social product for months, but we're just now getting our sources to talk. — On Tuesday Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave additional details on the plan. We posted the entire press conference video …
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The Raw Feed
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Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Schmidt: We'll pull Facebook's data by hook or by crook
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Skeptic Geek, MediaPost, Fast Company, Electricpig.co.uk, Ars Technica, The Next Web and Mashable!
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon Wireless adds Good to Android lineup; Bad news for RIM — As if Research in Motion didn't have enough to worry about, Verizon Wireless has teamed up with Good Technology to equip all of its Android devices with better enterprise-grade security and management.
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eWeek, Verizon, Thoughts from the Sidelines and Electronista
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
RIM Sells Record Number Of BlackBerry Devices; Beats Q2 Estimates
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Between the Lines Blog and FierceWireless
Tamlin Magee / TechEye:
Why the snooping ex Google engineer is in trouble — Remember that 27 year old ex Google engineer, David Barksdale, who's allegedly been hassling minors, not miners, with cyber-stalking and snooping? The great and mighty 'Ogle fired him, but here's exactly how he's in trouble according to federal law in the US.
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PogoWasRight.org
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
If Future Employees Compromise Privacy, Don't Expect Google To Tell The World
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The Next Web, Gawker, Googling Google Blog and PogoWasRight.org
Matt Gross / New York Times:
A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme — SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They were the kind of photos that every parent takes, but one in particular stood out …
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Logitech Revue with Google TV coming 9/29 for $299, Dish Network offering discounts? — Google TV is coming, and Logitech's Revue is gonna bring it to ya first. But, if you're a Dish Network subscriber, it looks like you might be able to get yours for cheaper — a lot cheaper.
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Gizmodo, Geeky-Gadgets, Android Phone Fans, CrunchGear, Gizmodo Australia, Crave, Ubergizmo and I4U News
Digits:
Live-Blogging Oracle Earnings: Mark Hurd Making Appearance — Oracle's new co-president, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, is making his first appearance to discuss the business-software giant's earnings with analysts. — The company's fiscal first-quarter profit grew 20% as Oracle benefited …
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New York Times, internetnews.com and Forbes
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft: IE9 will never run on Windows XP — Chrome and Firefox always an option — Microsoft has ruled out putting Internet Explorer 9 on Windows XP, leaving millions of PCs open to Mozilla and Google browsers providing hardware-accelerated rich-internet.
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PC World, Geeky-Gadgets, ReadWriteWeb, SiliconANGLE, Geek.com, Electricpig.co.uk, I4U News, Search Blog, IEBlog and Ars Technica
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
‘Halo: Reach’: $200M in 24 hours, biggest game in Microsoft history — “Halo: Reach,” the new installment in the blockbuster Xbox 360 series, topped $200 million in sales in the U.S. and Europe in its first 24 hours, according to data released by Microsoft tonight.
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Xbox Press, Fast Company, Neowin.net, CNET News, DailyTech, BetaNews, Pulse2, Softpedia News, Future Tense, gHacks Technology News, p2pnet, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Big in Japan, Silicon Alley Insider, The Tech Herald …, WinBeta, Edge Magazine and The Next Web, Thanks:rawmeet
AppleInsider:
iOS 4.2 packs new, improved YouTube, FaceTime features and more — Apple's forthcoming iOS 4.2 update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch includes a number of subtle improvements that have not yet been publicized, including expanded features for YouTube and FaceTime. AppleInsider offers a closer look.
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Gadget Lab, Erictric, O'Grady's PowerPage, iLounge, MacDailyNews and everythingiCafe
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Extreme Netflix Some Users Have Rated 50,000 Movies — So, you think you've honed the Netflix recommendation engine by rating a thousand movies? That's nothing, according to the company's internal statistics. — Several hundred Netflix members have rated more than 50,000 filmed entertainment programs.
Richard Tom / Hulu Blog:
Hello Seattle — Perhaps when you think of Seattle your taste buds prepare themselves for a freshly brewed espresso or a not-so-simple soy-decaf-single-shot-one-pump- vanilla-iced-latte. Or perhaps Seattle conjures images of the halls of Seattle Grace Hospital, where lives are saved and relationships flatline.
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The Seattle Times, VideoNuze and TechFlash
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:
AT&T to launch LTE by mid-2011 — AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will launch commercial LTE service by mid-2011, and will cover between 70 million and 75 million POPs by the end of next year, a top executive said. — Speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2010 Media, Communications …
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, Engadget and MobileBurn.com
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Android vs. iPhone: Wait just a minute! — Sure Google is gaining on Apple, but not as fast as comScore's latest data suggest — I don't want to get into what Ben Bradlee, the Watergate-era editor of the Washington Post, used to call a “defensive crouch,” but I've got a bone to pick …
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PC World, MediaPost, internetnews.com, TheAppleBlog, AppleInsider, TUAW, Mashable!, comScore, Inc., Jonny Evans's blog, MobileCrunch, www.pocketgamer.biz, I4U News, MobileBurn.com, Softpedia News, MacDailyNews, PreCentral.net, Tech Trader Daily, Search Engine Land, Digital Daily, The Microsoft Blog, Slyck, iLounge and mocoNews
Wall Street Journal:
VMware Is in Talks to Acquire Novell's Linux Software Unit — Novell Inc. is in advanced talks with at least two buyers, including VMware Inc., to sell the software company in separate pieces, people familiar with the matter said. — VMware is pursuing Novell's SUSE Linux operating system business, these people said.
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GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, Tech Trader Daily and Reuters
