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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
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 …
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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.
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, Electronista, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Techie Buzz, Engadget, Phones Review and Android and Me
Steven Levy / Wired:
Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots — One afternoon about 12 years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin gave John Doerr a call. A few months earlier, the Google cofounders had accepted $12.5 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Doerr's venture-capital firm, as well as an equal amount from Sequoia Capital.
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Cult of Mac, Shiny Objects, Geek.com and Fast Company
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Does Google's Larry Page care about social networking?
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SlashGear and down the avenue
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
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.
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 …, Electronista, eWeek, CrunchGear, Ubergizmo, eHomeUpgrade, TUAW, MacStories, SlashGear, Engadget, 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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App Advice
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
AP Stylebook Finally Changes “e-mail” to “email” — The AP Stylebook, the de facto style and usage guide for much of the news media, announced on Friday that the abbreviated term for “electronic mail” is losing a hyphen, and with it, a relic of a simpler time when Internet technology needed to be explained very carefully.
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Huffington Post, Geekosystem, @apstylebook, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Gawker, Poynter, lalawag and Switched, more at Mediagazer »
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
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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The Domains and Slashdot
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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Computerworld, Gadgetwise, InformationWeek, Securosis Highlights, ReadWriteWeb, New York Times, msnbc.com and eWeek
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Goldman Sachs Programmer Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Code Theft — A former Goldman Sachs programmer convicted of stealing the bank's high-speed trading software was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison. — Sergey Aleynikov, 41, was convicted in December of theft of trade secrets.
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DealBook, Reuters, Telegraph, Associated Press, Law Blog and Wall Street Journal
