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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Path: The Social App That's Not Viral (By Design) — Silicon Valley is in the midst of a mini photo-sharing app boomlet. We have Instagram (which started adding 100,000 users per week as soon as it launched last month), Picplz (which beat out Instagram to get a Series A round with their shared investors …
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ReadWriteWeb, blogs.chron.com, Epicenter, Ben Metcalfe Blog, GigaOM, TechCrunch, SAI, parislemon, Continuations and SFGate
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Dave Morin / Path:
Introducing The Personal Network — Today we are proud to launch The Personal Network. Practically all of us carry a camera phone, and our photos tell the stories of our lives. Starting today, we hope that Path is the place you will always feel comfortable being yourself and sharing …
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ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, Los Angeles Times, Social Medium, Mashable!, Xconomy and Gizmodo
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Path: the social system that will piss social mavens off — I didn't read any of Path's hype before trying it myself. I wasn't part of the beta. I don't owe Dave Morin lunch (he's the founder of this new thing called Path that's getting a deep amount of hype tonight. The photo is of him at the TED conference).
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Fast Company, Mark Evans Tech, New York Times, The Social, Softpedia News, PhoneArena and The Next Web, Thanks:thekenyeung
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook Passes EBay in Value, Becoming No. 3 U.S. Web Company — Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc.'s estimated worth is now bigger than EBay Inc.'s valuation, making it the third- largest U.S. Internet business and underscoring the growing allure of social media for investors.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Raid The MiniBar: Meebo Gets Into The Site Check-In Game. But Don't Call It A Game. — With the rise of Foursquare, the “check-in” has become fairly commonplace. With the launch of Places, Facebook will only make it more so. It shouldn't be surprising that we're seeing dozens …
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Scobleizer, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, NetworkEffect, Softpedia News and VentureBeat
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
More Kinect Craziness: Mind-Blowing 3D Video Effect — The Kinect may be divisive as a gaming peripheral, but I think we can all agree that a $150 off-the-shelf depth-aware camera system is a good thing. And just in the week since the device launched, people have already come up with some crazy applications for it.
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Pulse, Popular App, Moves to Attract More Users — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Publishers' offices at print newspapers and magazines are tension-filled places these days, as executives watch readers and advertisers flock to the Web and cellphone screens. — Contrast that to the atmosphere …
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Marco.org, TUAW and The Next Web
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Ebooks Winners & Losers — Let's come back to the ebook with more questions. There is no doubt: the digital book will find its place under the sun; its prospects look much better than those of the online press. In the first place, there isn't an ingrained, now decade-old, habit of reading news for free on the internet.
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
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Amazon Web Services takes GPU servers to the cloud — Amazon Web Services on Monday launched graphical processing unit instances for its high performance computing workloads. — In a statement and blog post, Amazon said graphical processing unit (GPU) servers have become popular enough to bring to AWS.
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Amazon Web Services Blog, CNET News, The Register, Amazon.com, PC World, TechEye and Softpedia News
Peter Pae / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
The future of writing on tablets: A Q&A with Information Architects — They say they are organizing the Web so you don't have to. To them, every serif means something. — Founded by Oliver Reichenstein in 2005, Information Architects is a design strategy group focused on how information …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunchIT:
EMC Buys Enterprise Data Storage Company Isilon For $2.25 Billion In Cash — Enterprise software giant EMC has just acquired Isilon Systems for $2.25 billion in cash or appoximately $33.85 per share. The deal was rumored to be in the works but now it's official.
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PR Newswire, Tech Trader Daily and DealBook
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Mark Papermaster should be happier at Cisco than he was at Apple — In many ways, the networking giant is a better fit for the 26-year IBM veteran — Papermaster. Photo: Apple Inc. — Last week wasn't a total disaster for Cisco (CSCO) — which got a $29 billion market cap haircut Tuesday …
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Gizmodo, The Register, Inquirer, Softpedia News and Network World
Jon Evans / TechCrunch:
Dear Foursquare, Gowalla: Please Let's Stop Pretending This Is Fun — It's a bad month to be Foursquare or Gowalla. Ten days ago, 900-pound gorilla Facebook announced Facebook Deals for Facebook Places (i,e., location-based coupons) and check-ins for third-party apps.
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Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Smartphone Sales Taking Toll on G.P.S. Devices — BERLIN — The auto navigation device, a fixture of dashboards around the world for the past seven years, may soon begin to disappear, industry experts say, as satellite-tracking technology is absorbed into smartphones and automobiles.
Voltier Creative:
A Look at the Kind Heart of One of the Most Influential Communities on the Internet — Reddit.com, the popular news aggregator and social media site owned by Condé Nast Digital, has become quite a powerhouse of social and cultural clout in recent years.
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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The Register, Mashable!, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, Pulse2, Bits, Between the Lines Blog, Business Wire, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Examiner and Skype Journal
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JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
‘Project Phoenix’: Aol tries to raise email from ashes
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