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Robert X. Cringely / I, Cringely:
When Engineers Lie — Twenty years ago, when I was writing Accidental Empires, my book about the PC industry, I included near the beginning a little rant about how good engineers were incapable of lying, because their work relied on Terminal A being positive and not negative and if they lied …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The +1 Button Is Like A Button You Push For A Treat — Without The Treat — You people confuse me. — Ten days ago we put Google's +1 Button on TechCrunch — because why not? We try basically all these new buttons/counters/commenting systems much to the dismay of our precious page load speed …
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@dannysullivan and Social Media & Technology, Thanks:phylliskhare
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Google App Store Now Offering Way to Cheat WSJ Paywall — Gives new mean to the phrase “just Google it” — One of the more interesting dichotomies to develop in the software ecosystem over the past few years has been the open nature of Google's app stores versus the closed and controlled marketplace maintained by Apple.
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Examiner, AddictiveTips and SAI, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:benpopper
Mark Milian / CNN:
How Steve Jobs' Pixar experience helped lead to Apple's iCloud — (CNN) — The folks at Amazon and Google must have been wringing their hands on Monday when Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off a new service called iTunes Match. — That all-important “one more thing” from Apple's software presentation …
E.B. Boyd / Fast Company:
ComScore: Groupon-Living Social Battle Brewing In The New Wild West — A new analysis shows that the race between online discount services Groupon, Living Social, and others is less about what they're offering or even how they're offering it and more about where they're prospecting.
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comScore Voices and MediaPost
@google:
Good news for Les Paul fans: his doodle now has a permanent home, so you can keep playing http://goo.gl/Tx1Sj
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PC Magazine, Examiner, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Softpedia News and Search Engine Watch
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
LulzSec Hackers Get Personal, Dump 26,000 Porn Site Usernames And Passwords — After high profile takedowns of PBS and Sony, the anarchic hacker group LulzSec now seems determined to maximize its exploits' embarrassment factor. — On Friday afternoon the group announced that it had stolen …
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@lulzsec, @lulzsec, @lulzsec and Help Net Security
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Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
NATO's Newest Bombing Tool: Twitter — In the early days of the Libya war, U.S. commanders were adamant that they didn't communicate with the Libyan rebels about what targets to bomb. As it turns out, they don't need to. They've got Twitter. — NATO officials conducting air strikes …
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Twitter's Secret Handshake — CHARLIE SHEEN'S meltdown took many forms: a cocaine-fueled rampage in a New York hotel room, an erratic radio rant, a vulgar one-man comedy tour. But his biggest contribution to current culture may have been more subtle. With a simple Twitter phrase, #winning …
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@glennf, @google, @chrismessina and @lbraun2000
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
“Wikiwars,” CNN documentary on Wikileaks, debuts — This weekend, CNN will air “Wikiwars,” the network's much-promoted documentary on Wikileaks hosted by a former Navy SEAL. The one-hour program premieres Sunday, June 12, 8:00pm ET & PT, and will repeat at other times after that.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup. — American ISPs have convinced us that Internet access is expensive—getting speeds of 100Mbps will set most people back by more than $100 a month, assuming the service is even available. Where I live in Chicago, Comcast's 105Mbps service goes for a whopping $199.95 …
Jacques Hebert / YouTube Blog:
‘As Seen On’ YouTube pages: celebrating content curators — Every day, you embed YouTube videos on blogs and sites across the web, often adding their own commentary and perspective. This sharing of videos helps to show the variety of great content on YouTube, and often adds context to what you're watching.
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Google Operating System, ReelSEO Online Video … and TechCrunch
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Computer Studies Made Cool, on Film and Now on Campus — NEW HAVEN — When Keila Fong arrived at Yale, she had never given much thought to computer science. But then last year everyone on campus started talking about the film “The Social Network,” and she began to imagine herself building something …
