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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Did Tumblr Just Reverse Take Down 4Chan? — Today was supposed to be the day that 4Chan took down Tumblr. Instead, it looks like 4Chan itself is down. Could Tumblr be behind it? — As you can see, 4Chan is down for everyone, not just me. And it has been that way for at least the past 15 minutes.
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
4chan vs. Tumblr: Whoever Wins, We All Lose — At 5pm today the unruly message board 4chan plans to take down the blogging platform Tumblr. 4chan has successfully cowed everyone from Gene Simmons to the Tea Party, but they may have finally met their match. — Tumblr users are freaking …
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Urlesque
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Just Announced Updates To AOL Mail — AOL just put out a press release announcing updates to AOL Mail. — Weird timing, since it's 12 pm eastern on a Sunday, which is not exactly the prime time for news. — Maybe it is just trying to get the jump on Facebook which is expected to announce its email product on Monday.
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Between the Lines Blog, Examiner, Business Wire, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Bits and Skype Journal
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JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
‘Project Phoenix’: Aol tries to raise email from ashes — Having lost the email crown long ago to Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo, Aol wants to jump back into the fray with ‘Project Phoenix,’ a web-based client built from scratch. — Since Google (GOOG) first introduced Gmail back in 2004 …
Chris Matyszczyk / CNET News:
Google engineer: Raise leaker exposed us to mugging — There are some things about which Google doesn't comment. However, it is entirely true that many Google employees are human beings with feelings, sometimes even strong ones. — So, though the company itself refused to go into detail …
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Examiner
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
HP Slate 500 sees ‘extraordinary demand,’ experiences six-week shipping delay (update) — Yes, the HP Slate 500 is officially backordered, less than a month after its enterprising debut, and Hewlett-Packard claims it's because of “extraordinary demand,” a phrase that's presently not quantifiable.
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AppleInsider, Examiner, displayblog, GottaBeMobile, SAI, Electronista, MacNN and Winrumors
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Should You Be Snuggling With Your Cellphone? — WARNING: Holding a cellphone against your ear may be hazardous to your health. So may stuffing it in a pocket against your body. — I'm paraphrasing here. But the legal departments of cellphone manufacturers slip a warning about holding …
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Examiner, Gizmodo Australia, SAI and Gizmodo
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Breaking the Web's Cookie Jar — The Firefox add-in Firesheep caused quite an uproar a few weeks ago, and justifiably so. Here's how it works: — Connect to a public, unencrypted WiFi network. In other words, a WiFi network that doesn't require a password before you can connect to it.
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Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone:
Firesheep, enterprise software and other broken models
Thanks:kevinmarks
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
The Phone Call Is Dead — more info (via: Wylio) In the tech industry saying that something is dead actually means “It's on the decline.” And yes, the phone call is on an inexorable decline. — My original title for this post was “The Phone Call Will Be Dead In __ Years” …
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Life On the Wicked Stage
Kaja Whitehouse / New York Post:
Thiel's pay pall — Silicon Valley high flier crashes on Wall St. — Tweet — Ask anyone who knows Silicon Valley venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and the first thing they will tell you is that he's really, really smart. — Ask the same people why it is, then …
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The Social and CNET News
Fred / A VC:
Self Expression Matters — Erick at Techcrunch sent me this chart yesterday and asked me why Tumblr was growing so fast. I guess it was related to this post he wrote about Tumblr yesterday. — I told him I had no idea but I could make an observation. My daughter came home from college …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
GoDaddy was just testing .co default, switches back to .com — The world's largest domain registration service, GoDaddy caused a bit of a stir yesterday when it began offering .co domains instead of .com as its default option. Well, it turns out that the move was just an experiment.
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Domain Name Wire, DomainIncite.com, .CO Domain Registration and Elliot's Blog, Thanks:ahmedomarz
