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Jim Moran / Yipit Blog:
Groupon Reveals Its Future Lies In Self-Serve — Groupon is quietly testing a self-serve deal platform for merchants to manage real time offers for consumers named Groupon Stores. According to Groupon, this is the future of the company: … Based on a google site search …
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Mashable!, midVentures, CenterNetworks and Pulse2, Thanks:jdmoran
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Netflix testing $7.99 and $8.99 streaming-only plans in US right now, one is not a discount (update) — When CEO Reed Hastings called Netflix “primarily a streaming company that also offers DVD-by-mail,” he wasn't messing around, as the company's quietly made streaming-only plans a reality on US shores.
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Pulse2, Boy Genius Report and Electronista
Ryan Block / gdgt:
Will the Mac App Store have enough to sell? — Apple bringing the App Store to the Mac was a pretty obvious move — I know I'm not the only one who was predicting it would happen sooner or later, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this is going to have a huge impact for some Mac software developers.
Markcuban / blog maverick:
How Google TV Could Hand Netflix the entire streaming universe — I personally can't think of anything stupider for the big broadcast networks to do than give their shows to Google for free. Why ? Because they are finally getting BILLIONS of dollars in retransmission fees from their distributors.
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The Next Web and jungleG
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
There is No New Media: It's All New Consumption — “The most ominous of fallacies-the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.” -Freyda Stark — So, now television broadcasters are blocking Google TV from getting access to the content they're putting online.
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Geek News Central and TeleRead, more at Mediagazer »
Chris / cdixon.org:
You need to use social services to understand them — I don't know if Malcolm Gladwell is right when he claims “the revolution will not be tweeted,” but I can say with certainty that the Twitter he describes is not the Twitter I know. Gladwell's central argument is that Twitter creates weak ties …
Cade Metz / The Register:
Gosling blows lid off Jobs Java nonsense — Java daddy deprecates Apple cult leader — Steve Jobs has apparently weighed into the debate over Apple's decision to deprecate Java on the Mac, and his terse explanation was promptly deprecated by Java founder James Gosling.
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Wild Webmink, On a New Road, CNET News and Guardian
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Thousands of Reddit Users Donate Their Data for Research — Last month, Condé Nast social news site Reddit asked users if they would donate their data for research purposes. This week the site made available a data dump from more than 40,000 people who opted-in to sharing what they do on the site.
Esther Schindler / ITworld.com:
Programmers Who Defined The Technology Industry: Where Are They Now? — Some early programmer names are familiar to even the most novice of software developers. You may never have seen a line of code written by Bill Gates, or written any application in BASIC (much less for the Altair).
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
In The Fight Against Apple's iAds, Google Plays The Cross-Platform Card — While there are many players in the mobile advertising market, there's no doubt that there's a little bit of a rivalry between Google's ad network AdMob and Apple's new foray into mobile ads, iAd.
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Wikileaks Founder Will Walk Out of Your Interview If Asked About His Rape Case — In addition to facilitating the largest military leak in U.S. history yesterday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is a petulant man-child. Watch him walk out of a CNN interview when talk turned to his pending Swedish rape case.
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New York Times, Switched, New York Magazine and Politics Daily
Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
The Goldmine Of Opportunities In Gov 2.0 — Seeing a need to help 60 million Americans manage their $4 trillion dollars in retirement accounts, Mike and Ryan Alfred launched BrightScope in 2008. They headed to Washington, DC, to obtain electronic data on 401K plans from the Department of Labor.
