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Quora:
Why did Twitter suspend UberTwitter? — Answer (1 of 7): Twitter told us today that they suspended our applications for three reasons: — 1. Twitter said that in UberTwitter and Twidroyd we use a tweet-elongation service named tmi.me that allows people to write more than 140 characters …
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Mark Evans Tech, GigaOM, Gadgetell, @andrewbaron, PC World, Business Wire, Twittercism, Scripting News, PC Magazine, @scobleizer and The Next Web
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Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
Twitter, I love you man, but ... I'm not an investor, I have no right to tell you what to do. — I'm not an advisor & I'm not privy to any internal information at your company. You have to make the tough judgment calls. — I'm not omnipotent so I can't use market power to influence your behavior.
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Why does everything suck?, @dickc, Victus Spiritus, @msuster, @raulsantaella and Quora, Thanks:pkedrosky
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Suspends UberMedia Clients For Privacy And Monetization Violations, Trademark Infringement — We'll this is interesting. According to this post, Twitter has suspended UberTwitter and twidroyd for violating its policies. It's unclear how the clients violated Twitter's policies …
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@bill_gross, PC World, @twitterglobalpr, @davemcclure, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Scripting News, Stage Two, @fromedome, TechCrunch, BerryReview.com, FT tech hub, TechCrunch, @loic, ConversionRater, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, PhoneDog.com, eMoney, Neowin.net, Android Phone Fans, MobileWhack, Faster Forward, mediabistro.com, Android and Me, @support, ReadWriteWeb, Geek.com, VatorNews, SAI, TiPb, Engadget, Androinica, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, Guardian, Examiner, VentureBeat, Tech Broiler Blog, BetaNews, AppScout, @bill_gross, Techie Buzz, Pulse2, IntoMobile, Twitter Help Center, The Huffington Post, Electronista, SlashGear, CrackBerry.com blogs, LaptopMemo, The Blog Herald, Gearlog, paidContent, GeekSugar, Download Squad, The Huffington Post and SAI
Quora:
What will happen to http://bit.ly links when Gaddafi shuts down the Internet in Libya due to protests? — Answer: Should Libya block Internet traffic, as Egypt did, it will not effect http://bit.ly or any .ly domain. — For .ly domains to be unresolvable the five .ly root servers …
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Domain Name Wire, SAI, @borthwick, Mashable!, CenterNetworks and SAI
Arn / MacRumors:
New MacBook Pros Likely to Launch on Thursday, February 24th — Apple last updated the MacBook Pros almost one year ago with Intel's Core i5 and i7 processors. Apple has been due to refresh the MacBook Pros with the latest Intel Sandy Bridge processors which are said to be a significant improvement over last year's processors.
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Apple Bitch, MacGazette.net, Neowin.net, RazorianFly, MacStories, TUAW and Electronista
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James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Libyan Disconnect — Renesys confirms that the 13 globally routed Libyan network prefixes were withdrawn at 23:18 GMT (Friday night, 1:18am Saturday local time), and Libya is off the Internet. One Libyan route originated by Telecom Italia directly is still BGP-reachable, but inbound traceroutes appear to die in Palermo.
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Futurepaul / paul j. miller:
Leaving AOL — Today was my last day at Engadget. — I've been writing for Engadget for more than five years. What an insane thing to be able to say! In my time as Contributing Editor / Associate Editor / Senior Associate Editor / Pixel Density Enthusiast, I've written 1.5 million words on roughly 5,500 posts.
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p2pnet, Neowin.net, VentureBeat, SAI, @peterrojas and @mathewi, Thanks:lockergnome
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
The AOL Way claims its first victim: Engadget editor Paul Miller resigns — A few weeks ago, in case you've missed the news, AOL released an internal document to its staff that was entitled The AOL Way. The documents contained what could be taken as a manifesto, of sorts, but really showed how AOL was intending to do business.
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@joshuatopolsky and @joannastern
Anil Sabharwal / Docs Blog:
12 new file formats in the Google Docs Viewer — The Google Docs Viewer is used by millions of people every day to quickly view PDFs, Microsoft Word documents and PowerPoint presentations online. Not only is viewing files in your browser far more secure than downloading and opening them locally …
Michael Stone / Examiner:
Anonymous delivers ultimatum to Westboro Baptist Church — Anonymous, a notorious collective of unnamed Internet activists, has put the Westboro Baptist Church on notice. Tuesday, the group Anonymous released an open letter to Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church (WBC).
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Joe. My. God., p2pnet and Slashdot
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Feature: Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government — On November 16, 2009, Greg Hoglund, a cofounder of computer security firm HBGary, sent an e-mail to two colleagues. The message came with an attachment, a Microsoft Word file called AL_QAEDA.doc, which had been further compressed and password protected for safety.
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Daily Kos
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
More HBGary Federal Fallout: The Government Wants To Buy Software To Fake Online Grassroots Social Media Campaigns
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p2pnet, The Raw Story, Gawker and Examiner
Owen Thomas / VentureBeat:
What President Obama's Web-hipster beer hoax tells us — “Pics or it didn't happen,” the kids like to say on Internet discussion boards when confronted with an unlikely scenario that calls for photographic verification. — How about making that “Pics and it didn't happen”?
Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:
Krazit says, ‘So long, CNET’ — Today is my last day at CBS Interactive and CNET. I've accepted an offer to write about mobile technology—what I've come to realize is my passion in this slice of the world—for the fine folks at ContentNext Media, who operate PaidContent.org.
Jared A. Favole / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Talked R&D With Jobs, Zuckerberg — Research spending and technology exports were some of the menu items Thursday evening when President Barack Obama sat down for dinner with corporate chieftains from Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. — At the home of venture capitalist John Doerr …
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Gov 2.0, VatorNews, eWeek, Switched, Engadget, TiPb, Voices on All Things Digital and TechCrunch
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple television in the works, Apple job listing hints — Not the Apple TV, but an Apple television. Apple has posted a new job position looking for people to work on next-generation power supply technology. Apple needs people to to “work on the forefront of new power management designs …
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Examiner, SlashGear, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Neowin.net, Redmond Pie, VentureBeat, SAI, RazorianFly, BlogsDNA, TiPb, CrunchGear, MacRumors, Crave and Electricpig.co.uk
