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iFixit:
Apple TV 2nd Generation Teardown — After acquiring a small brown box during a daring heist this morning, we finally have the new Apple TV in our destructive mitts! Will this be the device that changes the direction of Apple as we know it? Tune in as we take apart the 2nd generation Apple TV.
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CNET News, Seattle Times, AppleInsider, NewTeeVee, PC World, Hardware 2.0 Blog, SlashGear, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, Gadget Lab, iLounge, Electronista, TiPb, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Pocket-lint, TG Daily, Ubergizmo, TUAW, iClarified, everythingiCafe and PC Magazine
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Teardown reveals new Apple TV comes with 8GB flash storage — The new Apple TV no longer allows users to purchase and store content on the device, but Apple still managed to cram in 8GB of flash storage, as well as 256MB of integrated RAM. The discovery was made by gadget repair site iFixit during …
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Computerworld, AppleInsider, Boy Genius Report, Gadget Lab, Ubergizmo and PC Magazine
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple TV review (2010) — You've been waiting, and it's finally here: the Apple TV review. Months before Steve Jobs announced the new set top box at Apple's annual fall event, we had been reporting on news that the company would strike out again into the TV market, offering a small …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Major Meltdown at Yahoo As More Top Execs To Depart, Including U.S. Head Hilary Schneider — The executive turmoil at the very top of Yahoo continues, with the company poised to announce the resignations of three top execs, including U.S. head Hilary Schneider (pictured here), according to sources close to the situation.
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mocoNews, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider and Tech Trader Daily
Wiltse Carpenter / Gmail Blog:
Turn off Gmail's conversation view — The way Gmail organizes mail into conversations is like cilantro. You either love it — and, like me, enjoy the nice citrusy, herbal finish it gives to everything from salsa to curry — or you hate it. And those of you who hate it hate it enough …
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Google Enterprise Blog, Technologizer, webpronews.com, JR Raphael's blog, InformationWeek, CloudAve, CNET News, Download Squad, Google Watch, Computerworld, Mashable!, Boy Genius Report, 901am, Silicon Alley Insider, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Digits, GottaBeMobile, BetaNews, The Next Web, SocialTimes.com, Techland, SlashGear, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, Neowin.net, Techie Buzz, Erictric, Google Operating System, Geek.com, Switched, Search Engine Journal, Pocket-lint, Voices on All Things Digital and GeekSugar
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Christopher Dawson / Googling Google Blog:
Google conversation view: Why would you disable it?
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Computerworld, Daggle, Technologizer and Between the Lines Blog
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Instant Gets Even More Instant With More Features And New Countries — Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Google's Marissa Mayer took the stage to talk with our own Michael Arrington. But before her talk she had a couple new things to announce.
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PC World, The Official Google Blog, Search Engine Land, Erictric and AppScout
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Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi Pooh-poohs Google Instant — A top Microsoft official dismissed as conceptually misguided the new Instant feature that lets Google's search engine refresh search results on the fly while people type queries. — Yusuf Mehdi, who as senior vice president …
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TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, Mashable! and webpronews.com
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook and Skype Readying Deep Integration Partnership — You didn't think Facebook would integrate with Google (GOOG) Voice, did you? — Actually, according to sources close to the situation, Facebook and Skype are poised to announce a significant and wide-ranging partnership …
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PC World, VentureBeat, MediaPost, ReadWriteWeb, Inside Facebook, NBC Bay Area, Startup Meme, Telegraph, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, 901am, Mobilized, TechEye, webpronews.com, Mashable!, Covering Web, dailywireless.org, Bits, Techland, SiliconANGLE, Macworld, All Facebook, Black Web 2.0, TechSpot, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Boy Genius Report, Switched, Telecompetitor, CNET News, GeekSugar, Fast Company, Erictric, Internet2Go, Pocket-lint, RCR Unplugged, Download Squad, Electronista, Softpedia News, Silicon Alley Insider, msnbc.com, VatorNews, MobileBurn.com, Go Rumors, The Next Web, The Atlantic Online and Engadget
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Should Facebook Buy Skype?
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Digital Daily, NewTeeVee, eWeek, Mashable!, Tech Trader Daily, webpronews.com and Gizmodo
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's Why Google Needs To Buy Twitter Immediately — Angel investor Dave McClure pointed out yesterday what is obvious to everyone but Google: Google needs to buy Twitter immediately. — We've been urging Google to buy Twitter for more than 18 months now, and it would have cost the company …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog
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DealBook:
McClure to Google: Buy Twitter
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Colin Walker, Adotas, GMSV, TechCrunch and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Kevin Rose: Digg Turned Down $80 Million Acquisition Offer — At TechCrunch's Disrupt conference, Digg's founder Kevin Rose presented a very candid view of the current state of Digg during an interview with TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington. Rose admitted that he and the rest of the team made mistakes when they launched Digg v4.
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VentureBeat and TechCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
When Google Wanted To Sell To Excite For Under $1 Million — And They Passed — On stage today at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures, recalled a story from the days when he backed Excite, one of the original Internet portals.
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Fortune, NBC Bay Area and Geek.com
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
You'll Be Able To Deposit Checks To PayPal Via Mobile Pictures In The Next Day Or So — Last month, we noted that PayPal would soon launch a new version of their iPhone app that would be more check-friendly. That app should be released in the next day or so, PayPal's Laura Chambers revealed …
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9 to 5 Mac, BlogsDNA, Cult of Mac, IntoMobile, Phone Arena, Boy Genius Report, SiliconANGLE, LaptopMemo and Gizmodo
Mark Sigal / O'Reilly Radar:
Apple's segmentation strategy, and the folly of conventional wisdom — There is a myth, more of a meme actually, about the ‘inevitability’ of commoditization. It is a view of the world that sees things linearly, in terms of singularities, and the so-called “one right path.”
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Facebook's Sandberg: In The Future, All Media Will Be Personalized — There will always be a place for mass marketing, but in the next three- to five years, a website that isn't tailored to a specific user's interest will be an anachronism, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told Arianna Huffington at the latter's Advertising Week event.
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Fortune, ReadWriteWeb, webpronews.com and Bits, Thanks:atul
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
The 4chan porn leak: First of many? — The Web probably looks a lot less anonymous and private to the thousands of people whose identities were posted to the Internet this weekend alongside the names of the pornographic films they are accused of downloading.
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Slyck, Gawker, The Not-So Private Parts, The Register and TechnoLlama
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
The Short Lifespan of a Tweet: Retweets Only Happen Within the First Hour — For some, Twitter is a social network and for others it is just a broadcast medium. Judging from the latest data from social media analytics and monitoring service Sysomos, for the majority of users, Twitter is indeed mostly a broadcast medium.
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Sysomos, Mashable!, CNET News, webpronews.com and broadstuff
Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Deleted Facebook and MySpace Posts Are Discoverable—Romano v. Steelcase — On my personal blog, I have repeatedly blogged about plaintiffs who tell one story in court only to have that story undone by their postings to social networking sites. See, e.g., Sedie v. US, People v. Franco …
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Metropolis and The Register
David Pogue / New York Times:
A Simple Swipe on a Phone, and You're Paid — It's always thrilling when somebody looks at the Way Things Have Always Been Done, and then asks: Why? — And then goes on to change the world forever. — 1967: Why is it necessary to wait in line for a human teller if all you want to do is withdraw cash?
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The Next Web
James Ledbetter / Slate:
The strange but inevitable rise of e-reader pornography. — As I write this, the most downloaded item for Amazon's Kindle is a novel by Jenna Bayley-Burke called Compromising Positions. Here is part of the plot description: “David Strong knows how to do a lot of things …
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broadstuff
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Michael Arrington's Road To Millions — Earlier this week, AOL snapped up TechCrunch, a technology blog network started by former attorney Michael Arrington for an undisclosed amount of money. The final price is said to be somewhere between $25 million to $60 million.
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Tango Brings a New Face to Mobile Video Calls — There is nothing new about video chatting on computers, where people commonly use Skype and other services to keep in touch visually. But the function is just getting started on mobile phones, at least in the U.S. The biggest name …
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App Advice
Internet Society:
What Will The Internet Look Like In 10 Years? — What Will The Internet Look Like In 10 Years? — The Internet Society engaged in a scenario planning exercise to reveal plausible courses of events that could impact the health of the Internet in the future.
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Amazon Android app store T&Cs leak — Amazon still aren't talking about the rumored Android app store they're tipped to be working on - which would sit alongside the official Android Market and offer users an alternative source for software - but the App Store Distribution Agreement participating developers …
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O'Reilly Radar, Google Android News …, BetaNews, ReadWriteWeb, Droid Life, Ubergizmo, Android Phone Fans, Android Tapp, mobiputing, Gizmodo and Android Police
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Says “Likers” Click Links To External Websites 5.4x More — Facebook has released new statistics on its Facebook+Media Page about users who click Like buttons on Open Graph-enabled websites, as well as the influence of the Like button and social plugins on site traffic and engagement.
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Facebook, TechCrunch and Mashable!
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
webOS surpasses 5,000 apps — We've been keeping a bit of an eye on the webOS app count lately and it's time we called it (along with @webostoaster): webOS has surpassed the 5,000 app mark when you include all of the apps from various feeds and direct downloads now available for it.
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Erictric, PhoneDog.com and MobileCrunch
