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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
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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louisgray.com, @marshallk, @kevinrose, @jason, @rafat, Computerworld and The Huffington Post
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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 …
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.
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@mattcutts and @dannysullivan
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, Insight, Gadgetwise, InformationWeek, Securosis Highlights, msnbc.com, eWeek and New York Times
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:
Bloomberg:
Bloomberg Game Changers: Marc Andreessen — “Bloomberg Game Changers” profiles Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and co-founder of Internet pioneer Netscape Communications Corp. This program features interviews with Netscape co-founder Jim Clark; Jim Barksdale …
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SAI
Joab Jackson / PC World:
Sun.com Name Could Fetch Oracle $1 Million — Last year, when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems, it got a wealth of customers, technologies and personnel for its US$7.4 billion. It also obtained one of the choicest domain names on the Internet, Sun.com. — Now that Oracle …
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Techie Buzz, The Domains and Slashdot
Loek Essers / PC World:
Dutch Court Rules WiFi Hacking Is Now Legal — Breaking in to an encrypted router and using the WiFi connection is not an criminal offence, a Dutch court ruled. WiFi hackers can not be prosecuted for breaching router security. — A court in The Hague ruled earlier this month that it is legal …
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@eric_andersen, p2pnet and Slashdot
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Report: Verizon iPhone snagged 4.5% of iPhone mobile ad impressions in Feb. — In its first two weeks on the market, the Verizon iPhone accounted for 4.5 percent of all iPhone ad impressions in the U.S. on Millennial Media's mobile ad network, according to the company's February Mobile Mix report.
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Millennial Media, TechCrunch and mocoNews, Thanks:devindra
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, SlashGear, TUAW, Engadget, Gizmodo, GeekSugar, The Next Web, WebProNews, MacStories 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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