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5:50 AM ET, June 2, 2011

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Julie Larson-Green / Microsoft:

Previewing ‘Windows 8’ — REDMOND, Wash. - June 1, 2011 - Today, at the D9 Conference, we demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8,” for the first time. Windows 8 is a reimagining of Windows, from the chip to the interface.

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Making Sense of Our First Look at Windows 8 — On Wednesday, Microsoft offered the first glimpse of Windows 8, a sneak peek that reveals much about both the influences and the strategic goals of the major overhaul of Microsoft's 25-year-old operating system.

Sean Hollister / Engadget:

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 (video) — We're live from Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky's keynote at D9, and there's something rather exciting on stage — a pair of experimental Windows 8 dev boards running an OS that looks very much like Windows Phone 7's Metro UI.

Discussion: Fudzilla, AllThingsD, Neowin.net, Electronista, Neowin.net, The Next Web, @tomwarren, The Microsoft Blog, MSDN Blogs, @maryjofoley, SAI and 9 to 5 Mac

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Why Windows 8 Is Fundamentally Flawed as a Response to the iPad — The new Windows 8 touch-based UI, revealed earlier today at the D9 Conference, looks good. It's clearly drawn from the same inspiration as Windows Phone 7, and shows some seriously innovative UI thinking.

Discussion: LiveSide.net, Technologizer, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, WinRumors, GottaBeMobile, Neowin.net and The Next Web

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft: If we ‘Build’ a new developers conference, will they come?

Discussion: BetaNews and @fredericl

Eric Grosse / The Official Google Blog:

Ensuring your information is safe online — The Internet has been an amazing force for good in the world—opening up communications, boosting economic growth and promoting free expression. But like all technologies, it can also be used for bad things. Today, despite the efforts …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google: Group In China Targeted Senior US Officials, Chinese Activists, Others With Phishing Attack

Discussion: Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Rootsecure.net and Daring Fireball

Evan Gilbert / The Official Google Blog:

The +1 button for websites: recommend content across the web — Since we started rolling out the +1 button in March, you've been able to recommend content to your friends and contacts directly from Google search results and ads. — But sometimes you want to +1 a page while you're on it.

Kent / Newsome.Org:

Google +1 Plus Google Apps Equals Nothing — The internets are all worked up today over the release of Google's latest attempt to be meaningful in the social networking arena: Google's +1 button. It sort of reminds me of the excitement over the soon to be shuttered Google Wave …

Jack Dorsey / Twitter Blog:

search+photos — Twitter brings the most meaningful information in the world right to your pocket. And, we're constantly working on ways to make that even better. — One good search can take you #anywhere. — Today we're starting to roll out a completely new version of Twitter search.

Discussion: Digital Trends, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Stay N Alive, TechCrunch, FM Blog, eWeek, mocoNews, Examiner, gigaom.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and SAI

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
New Twitter Search Is Nice, But Still Needs Work

Discussion: Mobile Marketing Watch, Twitter Engineering, TechCrunch and Mashable!

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

“Grandpa” Andreessen Says We Live in Dang Exciting Times — Marc Andreessen has been a venture capitalist for two years, and just scored his first big win: Selling Skype to Microsoft for $8.5 billion. His firm's aggressive investment strategy, in both early and late-stage companies, has put Sand Hill Road on notice.

Discussion: AllThingsD and @wsjtech

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Marc Andreessen Says There's No Bubble. But He's Happy if You Think There Is. — Marc Andreessen doesn't buy the bubble talk. Which is fortunate, since he's in the business of investing in the kind of companies that tend to generate some of the bubble talk.

Discussion: TechCrunch, SAI, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digits, The Tech Trade and @wsjtech

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

How Powerful is Twitter? Well, Shaq Just Tweeted His Retirement — Dick Costolo just spent 45 minutes on stage at D9 talking about the power of Twitter. But I think Shaquille O'Neal just made a better argument for Twitter's power in just two words. — “im retiring,” the NBA star tweeted Wednesday, linking to a video.

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM: Shaq's Retirement Drives 500k Viewers to Tout in 3 Hours

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable — Making small talk with your pot dealer sucks. Buying cocaine can get you shot. What if you could buy and sell drugs online like books or light bulbs? Now you can: Welcome to Silk Road. — About three weeks ago …

Grace Chen / PlayStation Blog:

PlayStation Store is Available and Updated Now — The PlayStation Store is back online and thank you everyone for your patience. You will notice a huge lineup of new downloadable games, demos, add-on content, themes, avatars and videos. Also, PlayStation Plus has been updated with new full game trials …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Crave, Softpedia News, PS3Hax Network, Neowin.net, Electronista, VG247 and Joystiq

Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:

New Apple antivirus signatures bypassed within hours by malware authors [Update] — Update June 1, 6:00AM PDT: The bad guys have wasted no time. Hours after Apple released this update and the initial set of definitions, a new variation of Mac Defender is in the wild.

Discussion: Geeky-Gadgets, MacRumors, CNET News, The Mac Security Blog, Gadgetwise and The Register, Thanks:jtkeating

Chris Rawson / TUAW:

AirPort devices out of stock in many Apple Stores, refresh imminent? — We've received reports from several Apple Stores across the US stating that some AirPort devices are either low in stock or out of stock altogether. — A reader let us know that all of the Apple Stores in his area …

Discussion: Apple Headlines, MacStories, Electronista and parislemon, Thanks:miketrose

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Tells Developers to “Move Up the Value Chain” (Video) — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo shared details and perspectives about Twitter usage, developer relations and monetization in an interview with Walt Mossberg today at D9. He also introduced new photo and search products.

Discussion: @wsjtech and WebProNews

Reuters: Twitter CEO says 80 percent of advertisers renew

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

Flip creator gets into the grilled cheese business, Sequoia invests — Well, this is ... unexpected. Jonathan Kaplan, who previously led the company that created the Flip camera, just announced his new project on-stage at the D9 conference — and it's a grilled cheese company.

Discussion: Digital Trends, PR Newswire, Business Week, Mashable!, Epicenter, RCR Unplugged, Inc.com, AllThingsD, IBD Click, Venture Capital Dispatch, Pulse2 and Techland

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

Apple Takes Control of iCloud.com — Apple has taken ownership of the domain iCloud.com. The domain was believed to have been sold to Apple for a price tag of $4.5 million. Prior to today, the whois domain registration listed Xcerion as the owner. — This change in domain registration …

Discussion: Apple Headlines, Gizmodo, Computerworld and The Next Web

Kevin May / Tnooz:

Airbnb admits rogue sales team used Craigslist for stealthy property drive — Apartment rental service Airbnb has confirmed salespeople made unsolicited approaches to property owners on classified listings service Craigslist. — An unknown number of salespeople contracted to the company …

Discussion: SAI

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on Google, Clones and Hubris-But Not on an IPO — Groupon's CEO Andrew Mason makes history today as the first speaker at the D conference to ever request that his image be based on a recent driver's license photo — goofy grin and all.

Discussion: AllThingsD, CNN and SAI

Donald Melanson / Engadget:

Samsung Chromebook goes on sale early at Gilt (update: sold out) — We can't say we expected Gilt to be the first place to offer Samsung's new Chromebook but, well, here we are. Google's now sending out emails like the one above to at least some folks that signed up to be a part of the Cr-48 pilot program …

Discussion: thechromesource, AllThingsD, This is my next, Crave, BGR, Tools, Geek.com and The Digital Reader

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Jack Dorsey Is “The James Franco of the Internet” — Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Square and product chief at Twitter, didn't have much of anything going on today so he dropped in on D9. — All kidding aside, the seemingly super-human Dorsey will be taking questions from AllThingsD's Kara Swisher …

Discussion: Fortune, VentureBeat, L.A. Times Tech Blog, AllThingsD, AllThingsD and @stevenjayl

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Former Threadless CTO Is Now Obama Campaign CTO — The Obama 2012 campaign is about to get a lot hipper. Former CEO and apparent unabashed wacky person Harper Reed has just been named as its CTO. Reed was at Threadless until 2009, then moved to Rackspace for a couple of months …

Discussion: Chicago Tribune and @benhuh

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