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Steve Blank:
New Rules for the New Internet Bubble — We're now in the second Internet bubble. The signals are loud and clear: seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble.
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A VC, p2pnet and The Huffington Post
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Paul Kedrosky / Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Top Ten Signs the Valley is on Tilt Again — It's apparently that time again — the Valley has gone on tilt. Consider the following top ten signs: — 10. Conferences are selling out — 9. Venture capitalists are launching blogs — 8. Everyone you know has a startup
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@owenthomas
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
25 Things I Hate About Google, Revisited 5 Years Later — Five years ago, I wrote a story called “25 Things I Hate About Google.” It went viral, to my surprise. I thought it was worth revisiting that story on its five year anniversary, to see how many of those “hates” have been fixed.
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
RIP Digg. — Startups in Silicon Valley are like old generals. They don't die anymore, buoyed on life-rafts of lingering venture capital and modest revenues. They just fade away, eventually purchased for assets that are a shadow of their former promise. It's pretty clear that Digg is on that path.
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@kevinrose, @jason, @rafat, The Huffington Post and p2pnet
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Kevin Rose Resigns From Digg, Closing Round On New Startup — Wow, when I wrote last night that Kevin Rose doesn't really use Digg anymore, I had no idea how perfect the timing was. It turns out Rose really has tuned out. Because, say multiple sources, he's already resigned from the company …
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Sprint's CTIA announcements: HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO View 4G, Motorola XOOM, much more — We have just been informed of most of Sprint's planned announcements at CTIA this year. There have been mumblings surrounding the two headline devices, but we finally have the information to share with you.
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IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Techie Buzz, Electronista, Phones Review, Engadget and Android and Me
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
What the RSA breach means for you (FAQ) — RSA warned its customers yesterday that its network had been breached and data had been stolen that could affect customers using its popular SecurID token authentication technology. Although details are scarce, here's what we know so far. — What happened?
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RSA, Computerworld, Gadgetwise, InformationWeek, msnbc.com, Securosis Highlights, New York Times, eWeek and ReadWriteWeb
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Evolution of SXSW Interactive — Andy Budd, on last week's SXSW Interactive: … I had a great time, once again, but only in the sense that Austin is a fine city and you can't help but have fun hanging out with good friends from across the country (and globe) whom you see in person only rarely.
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Andy Budd::Blogography …, TechCrunch, @gaberivera and HorsePigCow:
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Does Google's Larry Page care about social networking? — We saw the publication of two lengthy articles this week about Larry Page, who is scheduled to take over as Google's chief executive on April 4. After I read them, one big question lingered: What does his takeover mean for Google's long-rumored Facebook competitor?
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down the avenue
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Steven Levy / Wired:
Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots
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Cult of Mac, SlashGear, Shiny Objects, Geek.com and Fast Company
eMarketer:
Days of Double-Digit Growth in Social Network Users Are Over — Social networking now reaches most internet users in the US and has become an integral part of their lives. Thanks to the rapid growth of Facebook, updating status, posting comments and sharing links with friends have become routine activities for millions of people.
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VatorNews and WebProNews
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mozilla outlines 16-week Firefox development cycle — Although Mozilla is still readying Firefox 4 for its official release, the organization is already laying out its plans for subsequent versions of the open source Web browser. In a roadmap published earlier this year …
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InfoWorld, Computerworld, The Tech Report, Webmonkey and Webware.com
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Reddit, Social News Frontrunner, Is Down To One Developer — Two out of the three remaining Reddit programmers quietly left the social news community last week, Mike Schiraldi going to Google and David King going to Hipmunk where he joins Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
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SAI, Soshable and VentureBeat
Courtney Boyd Myers / The Next Web:
Security hole spotted in Tumblr — This morning on Hacker News, members spotted a gaping security hole in Tumblr, which exposed more than 748 lines of sensitive configuration information out into the open. Members pointed to possible errors at the core of the PHP scripting language that might make the data dump inevitable.
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Tumblr and PC Magazine
Ambarish Kenghe / The Official Google TV Blog:
Google TV Remote for iPhone — A very popular feature of Google TV to use your phone as a remote control. We released the Android version of the Google TV Remote app in December and I am happy to say that the app is now available for iPhones, iPads, and iPods running iOS 3 or higher.
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ReelSEO Online Video …, eWeek, Electronista, Ubergizmo, CrunchGear, eHomeUpgrade, TUAW, SlashGear, Engadget, MacStories, The Next Web, Gizmodo, WebProNews, GeekSugar and iClarified
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Wow, Google Has Ported My Ten Thousand Button Nightmare To The iPhone!
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