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Jillian York / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
A Case for Pseudonyms  —  pseu  ·do  ·nym  —noun a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name.  —  There are myriad reasons why individuals may wish to use a name other than the one they were born with.  They may be concerned about threats …
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
New iPhone 5 cases indicate a thinner but half inch wider and longer frame
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
YouTube embraces Google+ Hangouts for live streaming  —  YouTube is closely integrating Google's Hangouts group video chat platform with its live streaming in an effort to make video watching more social.  The site has already quietly begun to make live video feeds available to Hangouts users …
Charlie White / Mashable!:
Missouri Forbids Teachers and Students To Be Facebook Friends  —  If you're a student living in Missouri, you'd better not be Facebook friends with any of your teachers - that will soon be illegal.  —  According to Missouri Senate Bill 54 that goes into effect on August 28, any social networking …
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged  —  Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net's most popular sites are using a tracking service that can't be evaded — even when users block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or use browsers' “incognito” functions.
Discussion: @mathewi, socalTECH.com and @tomsinger
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Is Hulu considering ad-free subscriptions?  —  A couple of interesting messages just appeared from the Hulu Support Twitter account.  In several recent responses to subscribers complaining about ads that Hulu plays as part of its premium subscription service, the account tweeted:
Discussion: eHomeUpgrade
Agnes Valdimarsdottir / Agence France Presse:
Icelanders hand in draft of world's first ‘web’ constitution  —  REYKJAVIK — A group of 25 ordinary citizens on Friday presented to Iceland's parliamentary speaker a new constitution draft, which they compiled with the help of hundreds of others who chipped in online.
Discussion: Deutsche Welle, Mashable! and Gizmodo
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
A Brief History of Apple Not Buying Things  —  And so it begins again.  BGR has an exclusive scoop from an “unproven” (ooh!) source: Apple is in talks to buy Barnes & Noble, the country's last remaining national bookseller.  As BGR points out, the acquisition would get Apple B&N's digital books …
Todd Haselton / BGR:
AT&T's sleek Samsung slider isn't the Galaxy S II after all  —  Last week, we exclusively reported that AT&T was planning to launch a variant of Samsung's Galaxy S II with a full QWERTY keyboard.  Well, we have good news and bad news: BGR learned on Friday from a trusted source that this handset …
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Extends iTunes Previews to 90 Seconds Internationally  —  Apple seems to have extended iTunes song previews to 90 seconds internationally.  Apple first rolled out 90 second previews in the U.S. back in December, 2010.  International song previews had been stuck at 30 seconds.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How The Hell Is This My Fault?  —  You've doubtless heard about the Airbnb fiasco - being dubbed #ransackgate by some - that's been exploding the last couple of days.  If you're not familiar with the story, we first covered it here, and there's some terrific source material from the woman who's home …
James Temple / SFGate:
Exclusive: Victim in Airbnb-related ransacking speaks outs  —  In today's Chronicle, this column covered the case of EJ, the anonymous woman who blogged that her San Francisco home was burglarized and vandalized by a guest who arranged to stay there through the service Airbnb.
Discussion: Pulse2, Thanks:cryogenxx
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Nanette Byrnes / Reuters:
Senator supports online sales tax reform
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Why game developers hate the Facebook-Zynga marriage, and how Google+ can benefit
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft patents reveal touch+pen plans, Windows 8 tablet future?
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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