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Joe Brockmeier / ReadWriteEnterprise:
Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs — It's time for free software to find a new voice. Once again, Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman is putting his feet firmly in his mouth. This time, Stallman says that he's glad Steve Jobs is gone.
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Guy Kawasaki / Google+:
What I Learned From Steve Jobs — Many people have explained what one can learn from Steve Jobs. But few, if any, of these people have been inside the tent and experienced first hand what it was like to work with him. I don't want any lessons to be lost or forgotten …
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Hunter Walk / TechCrunch:
#LiveLikeSteve — This is a guest post by Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk), Director of Product Management at Google. I'm fairly certain Steve Jobs wouldn't be satisfied hearing about how your IIe was the gateway to a life in programming. Or your retweet of “[].”
Thanks:hunterwalk
Christopher Carfi / The Social Customer Manifesto:
Steve Jobs Tribute in Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine — Normally, Businessweek comes on Friday. For some reason this week, the magazine showed up today instead. I didn't think much of it when I walked out to the driveway, actually. There it was, folded up in its weatherproof bag, just like usual.
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Christopher Bonanos / New York Times:
The Man Who Inspired Jobs
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VentureBeat, Business Insider, @loic and Technologizer, Thanks:bonanos
Randall Stross / New York Times:
An Analogy of Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs
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O'Reilly Radar and Bokardo
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working On Chips For The Post-PC Era — As we ponder what will happen to Apple without Steve Jobs, I keep coming back to a conversation I had a few weeks ago with a veteran Silicon Valley CEO who knew Jobs. This was just after Jobs had resigned as CEO of Apple.
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CNET News, TUAW, Electronista, iClarified, ReadWriteWeb, CydiaHelp, Howard Lindzon, Mashable!, Examiner, PalmAddicts and Fortune
Reuters:
Yang eyes Yahoo buyout with private equity — (Reuters) - For the last few years, a widely circulated joke about Jerry Yang was that he had the best tan in Silicon Valley from all the time he spent on Stanford University's golf course. — But the jests stopped about six months ago …
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CNET News and Business Insider
John Cook / GeekWire:
Tech: The worst IPOs of 2011 — The tech industry has produced some of the fastest growing companies on the planet, from Amazon.com in online retail to Google in Internet search. But is tech the best place to park your money when looking at initial public offerings?
Noah Davis / Business Insider:
Demand Media Is Cutting Back On Its Massive Volume Of Writing — In an email sent to Demand Media's thousands of freelance writers the company laid out a rather significant shift in strategy. — The so-called “content farm” is cutting back, a process it mentioned in its Q1 report.
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@jason, The Domains and Search Engine Land, more at Mediagazer »
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
American Express To Release An API For Digital Wallet Platform Serve; Focuses On Data And Personalization — Over the past year, American Express has been making several key payments partnerships with technology companies and launched its take on the digital wallet, Serve.
Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:
TechCrunch Disrupt Champion Shaker Shakes Down Investors For $15 Million — TechCrunch Disrupt champion Shaker, an Israeli virtual world startup, has closed a $15 million round of financing. The round was led by Shervin Pishevar at Menlo Ventures. CrunchFund was already an investor in Shaker …
Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Google Must Be Feeling Burned For Investing In Intellectual Ventures — Yesterday, gigantic patent troll Intellectual Ventures sued Motorola for patent infringement over Android. — Google is in the process of buying Motorola in part to provide patent protection for Android.
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Ed Bott / The Ed Bott Report Blog:
German government accused of spying on citizens with state-sponsored Trojan — Summary: A well-established group of German hackers has accused the German government of releasing a backdoor Trojan into the wild. Security firm F-Secure has confirmed that the program includes a keylogger …
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Naked Security, F-Secure Antivirus …, Chaos Computer Club Updates, Geekosystem, Examiner and Hardware 2.0 Blog, Thanks:edbott
