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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
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Jon Evans / TechCrunch:
Google Plus Has A Problem. Fear Not: I Have A Solution — Google Plus is terrific. I don't think it will ever be more than the Pepsi to Facebook's Coke, alas, but it's much slicker and better designed. It's too bad that the service has sacrificed a pile of goodwill over the last week …
Violet Blue / Pulp Tech Blog:
Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers — A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names - alienating and frightening the people it aims to serve.
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Examiner, ZDNet, Infotropism, adafruit industries blog, PC World, @jowyang, Neowin.net, @bloatedlesbian, Violet Blue, @avflox, @adafruit and @xenijardin, Thanks:violetblue
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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@shawngude, @mmckinnon and The Daily Caller
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David Weigel / Slate:
F**kYouWashington — On Saturday night, aided by “a nice pinot noir,” the tech and business-of-news writer Jeff Jarvis started to tweet. — “Hey, Washington a**holes,” he wrote, “it's our country, our economy, our money. Stop f**king with it.” — He started rolling. Inspiration struck.
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The Huffington Post, CBS News, @anonyops and @andrewpbrett
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Make Way for the Radical Center — DID I mention that I've signed a pledge — just like those Republican congressmen who have signed written promises to different political enforcers not to raise taxes or permit same-sex marriage? My pledge is to never vote for anyone stupid enough to sign a pledge …
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@timoreilly, Victus Spiritus and Pitos Blog
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Intellectual Ventures responds to This American Life exposé: ‘We fundamentally disagree’ — Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm and invention house founded by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, was already-well known in technology circles.
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The Business Insider and Slashdot
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
The Roku 2 Review — The original Roku media streamer launched back in the spring of 2008 as the “Netflix Player.” In fact, the product was spun off from Netflix itself when Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood returned home... with his Netflix project team and funding in tow.
Jun Yang / Bloomberg:
Samsung Smartphone Sales May Pass Apple — Samsung Electronics Co., the world's second-largest handset maker, may have surpassed Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) and Apple Inc. (AAPL) in smartphone sales in the second quarter, driven by the popularity of Android-based models, according to Boston- based Strategy Analytics.
Alex Hudson / BBC:
Podcasts: Who still listens to them? — Since becoming a buzzword more than five years ago, the term “podcasting” has largely disappeared from view as attention has increasingly turned to social media. So why has such a popular technology received such a small amount of attention?
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Killian Fox / Guardian:
Africa's mobile economic revolution — Half of Africa's one billion population has a mobile phone - and not just for talking. The power of telephony is forging a new enterprise culture, from banking to agriculture to healthcare — Earlier this month, on a short bus ride through the centre of Kampala …
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Qunar Baidu Deal Closes. How This Could Ripple Through Chinese Startups. — Chinese search giant Baidu's investment in Qunar officially closed this week, and the two teams are working on integrating Qunar's search results into Baidu's travel vertical now.
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
NoSQL is What? — I found myself reading NoSQL is a Premature Optimization a few minutes ago and threw up in my mouth a little. That article is so far off base that I'm not even sure where to start, so I guess I'll go in order. … Uhm... WHAT?! — I've spent more than a few years using MySQL …
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