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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Did Tumblr Just Reverse Take Down 4Chan? — Today was supposed to be the day that 4Chan took down Tumblr. Instead, it looks like 4Chan itself is down. Could Tumblr be behind it? — As you can see, 4Chan is down for everyone, not just me. And it has been that way for at least the past 15 minutes.
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
4chan vs. Tumblr: Whoever Wins, We All Lose
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Pulse, Popular App, Moves to Attract More Users — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Publishers' offices at print newspapers and magazines are tension-filled places these days, as executives watch readers and advertisers flock to the Web and cellphone screens. — Contrast that to the atmosphere …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Raid The MiniBar: Meebo Gets Into The Site Check-In Game. But Don't Call It A Game. — With the rise of Foursquare, the “check-in” has become fairly commonplace. With the launch of Places, Facebook will only make it more so. It shouldn't be surprising that we're seeing dozens …
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All Things Digital, VentureBeat, GigaOM and Scobleizer
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Just Announced Updates To AOL Mail — AOL just put out a press release announcing updates to AOL Mail. — Weird timing, since it's 12 pm eastern on a Sunday, which is not exactly the prime time for news. — Maybe it is just trying to get the jump on Facebook which is expected to announce its email product on Monday.
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Pulse2, Bits, Business Wire, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Associated Press, Examiner and Skype Journal
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
HP Slate 500 sees ‘extraordinary demand,’ experiences six-week shipping delay (update) — Yes, the HP Slate 500 is officially backordered, less than a month after its enterprising debut, and Hewlett-Packard claims it's because of “extraordinary demand,” a phrase that's presently not quantifiable.
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AppleInsider, GottaBeMobile, SAI, displayblog, Examiner and Electronista
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Path: The Social App That's Not Viral (By Design) — Silicon Valley is in the midst of a mini photo-sharing app boomlet. We have Instagram (which started adding 100,000 users per week as soon as it launched last month), Picplz (which beat out Instagram to get a Series A round with their shared investors …
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CNET News, New York Times, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch and Epicenter
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
The iPadification of OS X - Part II — Two weeks ago, I argued that iOS will evolve into the operating system for future incarnations of iMacs and MacBooks. The comments on the article provided abundant food for thought, so much so that I decided to argue the opposite point of view: Yes …
Nick Bilton / Bits:
One on One: Tim Wu, Author of ‘The Master Switch’ — Tim Wu, the Columbia law professor who came up with the term “net neutrality” in a research paper, has just written a new book, “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires,” published by Knopf.
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
More Kinect Craziness: Mind-Blowing 3D Video Effect — The Kinect may be divisive as a gaming peripheral, but I think we can all agree that a $150 off-the-shelf depth-aware camera system is a good thing. And just in the week since the device launched, people have already come up with some crazy applications for it.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
The Phone Call Is Dead — more info (via: Wylio) In the tech industry saying that something is dead actually means “It's on the decline.” And yes, the phone call is on an inexorable decline. — My original title for this post was “The Phone Call Will Be Dead In __ Years” …
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Examiner, TeleRead and Life On the Wicked Stage
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 beats iPhone 4 and Android ... in a grilling contest (video) — Let's face it, it's a question the world's been dying to know the answer to: which of the T-Mobile G2, HTC Surround and iPhone 4 will withstand a (literal) grilling the longest? Well, just in time for a mildly singed breakfast today, we have the answer.
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AndroidSPIN and Covering Web
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Should You Be Snuggling With Your Cellphone? — WARNING: Holding a cellphone against your ear may be hazardous to your health. So may stuffing it in a pocket against your body. — I'm paraphrasing here. But the legal departments of cellphone manufacturers slip a warning about holding …
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Gizmodo Australia, Examiner, SAI and Gizmodo
