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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, The Daily Caller and @mmckinnon
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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, @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
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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Robert Scoble / Google+:
I talked with Google VP Vic Gundotra tonight (disclaimer …
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The Next Web
Jon Evans / TechCrunch:
Google Plus Has A Problem. Fear Not: I Have A Solution
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ZDNet, Examiner, PC World, Neowin.net, Infotropism and Pulp Tech Blog
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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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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VatorNews, Market Wire, Social Markets and Financial Times
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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, New York Times, Venture Capital Dispatch and GigaOM
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
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.
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, The inneractive Blog, PR Newswire, AdAge and parislemon
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.
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PhoneArena, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, Techie Buzz and 9to5Google
