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Robert Scoble / Google+:
I talked with Google VP Vic Gundotra tonight (disclaimer, he used to be my boss at Microsoft). He is reading everything we have written about names, and such. Both pro and con. — He says he is making some tough choices and that he will be judged over time how those choices turn out.
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Pulp Tech Blog, Googling Google Blog and The Next Web
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Jay Freeman / Google+:
In the last couple days, Google has taken to quite actively enforcing its “real name” rule — , banning or suspending accounts (with many reports of users getting locked out of all of Google, as opposed to just +) with names that “look funny” (such as including symbols, “including period") …
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Redmond Pie, @notmattbellamy, @dannysullivan, iDownloadBlog and Robert Scoble
Jon Evans / TechCrunch:
Google Plus Has A Problem. Fear Not: I Have A Solution
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ITProPortal, ZDNet, Examiner, PC World, Neowin.net, Pulp Tech Blog and Infotropism
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook's iPad App Is Hidden Inside Of Their iPhone App — There are things out there all around us that we often miss because we're just not looking. This is perhaps most true in the tech world, where thousands of secrets are out there in the wild, hidden in code.
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TechCrunch, App Advice, MacStories and SlashGear
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Airbnb Bags $112 Million In Series B From Andreessen, DST And General Catalyst — The scrappy apartment sharing startup has just raised $112 million at a one billion plus valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. We're hearing that the split is around 60 million from Andreessen …
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VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Venture Capital Dispatch, New York Times and GigaOM
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Ben Horowitz / ben's blog:
Meet Our Newest Portfolio Company, Airbnb — This is a guest post by Jeff Jordan, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. — Talk about a business with humble roots. Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007.
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Market Wire, Financial Times, VatorNews and Social Markets
John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
The Web's Stealth Presidential Race — Big names have quietly launched an Internet presidential race that will offer the winner a real election ballot spot in all 50 states. Will this be 2012's spoiler? — Imagine what our election system might look like if it were designed today …
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The Daily Caller, @shawngude and @mmckinnon
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David Weigel / Slate:
F**kYouWashington — On Saturday night, aided by “a nice pinot noir …
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The Huffington Post, CBS News, @anonyops, @andrewpbrett and PSFK
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Make Way for the Radical Center
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@timoreilly, Pitos Blog and Victus Spiritus
Felix Salmon:
The cost of patent trolls — I love This American Life's investigation into patent troll Nathan Myhrvold and his company Intellectual Ventures. You should go read — or listen to — the whole thing, but in a nutshell, they explored what happened if they took Intellectual Ventures at its word.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Looky Here, It's Me, In an Ad, On Facebook! Is This Legal? Allowed? Who Knows?! — In the past 12 hours, about ten friends (and counting) have sent me a copy of this ad on Facebook for a company called “AppSumo.” I have nearly 5000 “friends” on Facebook, a problem I've written about in the past, but seeing this ad threw me.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Moves Into Its New Campus [Photos] — Click to view slideshow. — Just like it told us it would back in February, Facebook has started to move its first group of employees into Building 10 of its new Menlo Park campus in the old Sun Building on the Bayfront Expressway. — How do we know this?
Richard Gaywood / TUAW:
Mac malware ‘explosion’ missing in action — The appearance of the MacDefender trojan back in May provoked a lot of back-and-forth between various tech writers (including your humble correspondent). Was this a sign that the good times were ending? That the Mac platform would come under ever-fiercer attack from malware authors?
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Guardian and Daring Fireball, Thanks:penllawen
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Flipboard Kicks Off Its First Advertising Program With Condé Nast — Users who follow The New Yorker magazine's Twitter and Facebook stream through iPad social reader Flipboard will start noticing advertising as part of the mix. The ads, beginning with a campaign by American Express …
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AllThingsD, PR Newswire, The inneractive Blog, AdAge and parislemon, more at Mediagazer »
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:
WSJ, Kobo falling in line in Apple's App Store, Google Books is out — The WSJ is reporting that Apple is laying down the law on apps that try to link externally to other payment systems in the App Store. The WSJ's own app and Kobo, another eBookseller were both forced to remove external links to payment stems from within their apps.
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TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, MacStories, FT Tech Hub, MacNN, CNET News, Good E-Book Readers, TeleRead and Kobo
