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• Hands Down, The Best Facebook Vanity URL
• Corner Office: On Will Wright's Team, Would You Be a Solvent, or the Glue?
• Ahmadinejad's victory greeted by Tehran protests
• Metal Gear Solid Rising getting re-done graphics engine
• Samsung B7610 Louvre rematerializes, spec'd and caught on camera
• Refined Palm Pre listened closely to iPhone
• Things A Startup Founder Will Never Say
• The App Store Needs A Genius Feature, ASAP
• Dark days: A first hand account of the Iranian presidential election
• Digital Domain Hey, Just a Minute (or Why Google Isn't Twitter)
• New MacBook Pro Battery Life Better Than Advertised
• Daily Routines : How writers, artists, and others organize their days
• How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX
• Study Finds iPhone Users Genetically Superior to Everyone Else
• Week in Microsoft: No bundled IE8 for Europe, Apple's Win 7 ...
• Interview With NPR On Process Journalism
• Bing Makes Changes to Allow Porn Filtering
• Switch to Digital TV Off to Smooth Start, With Some Shrugs
• Study nixes guilty dog assumptions
• US developer: China's Green Dam steals our code
• Podcast Season 1 Episode 10
• Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending
• Andreessen and Horowitz Complete Raising 300 Million Venture Fund
• Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, now what?
• Microeconomics of the Consumer Web
• Dear CNN, Please Check Twitter for News About Iran
• ASUS 'Seamless Experience' is the best conception of the future we've seen in the past five minutes
• Microsoft Seeking Hot-Or-Not Patent
• 5 web-based tools for improving user experience
• New Products Can Be Obsolete in a Heartbeat
• MSI X-Slim X600 specs get detailed in full
• Facebook viral marketing: When and why do apps jump the shark?
• Top 10 Social Media Stories of the Week
• Is Google working on a way to search Twitter and other microblogs?
• Twitter Taking Over
• Podcast Season 1 Episode 10
• Andreessen and Horowitz Complete Raising 300 Million Venture Fund
• 5 web-based tools for improving user experience
• New Products Can Be Obsolete in a Heartbeat
• Twitter Taking Over
• Web fonts and CSS features
• Behind Microsoft's IE-free, Windows-for-Europe ploy
• Mac Users Warned Of Porn Malware Threat
• The CIA Pick Up: A Windows Azure and Twilio mashup
• Holy Xbox Modding Batman – Inspiration! « Just Bliss!
• Microshaft set to violate EU rules again over low quality IE
• As Foretold 8 Months Ago: Why You Must Be on Twitter
• New German Microblog
• Most Ad supported sites actually have a B2B entreprise sales model
• Low quality MSN Canada website hacked

Hands Down, The Best Facebook Vanity URL Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:46 PM PDT YahooBuzz / TechCrunch Hands Down, The Best Facebook Vanity URL  — As you no doubt heard last night, the whole Facebook vanity URL grab thing was big. Within seven minutes of the service being available last night,...

Corner Office: On Will Wright's Team, Would You Be a Solvent, or the Glue? Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:00 PM PDT NYTimesTechnology / NYTimes Corner Office: On Will Wright's Team, Would You Be a Solvent, or the Glue?  — The video game developer describes different roles on a team, and explains why failure should often be celebrated on the road to success.

Ahmadinejad's victory greeted by Tehran protests Posted: 13 Jun 2009 03:31 PM PDT Megite: Technology / Reuters Ahmadinejad's victory greeted by Tehran protests  —  TEHRAN (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters clashed with police after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won an election which his reformist challenger ...

Metal Gear Solid Rising getting re-done graphics engine Posted: 13 Jun 2009 02:00 PM PDT Megite: Technology / Joystiq Metal Gear Solid Rising getting re-done graphics engine  —  Like a case of bad allergies, Metal Gear Solid 4 's graphics left us rubbing our eyes. That said, when it comes to developing the recently unveile...

Samsung B7610 Louvre rematerializes, spec'd and caught on camera Posted: 13 Jun 2009 12:48 PM PDT AskNews / Engadget Samsung B7610 Louvre rematerializes, spec'd and caught on camera  —  Engadget - Found 21 hours ago It's been some time since we've heard a word about Samsung's enigmatic QWERTY slider, the B7610 Louvre....

Refined Palm Pre listened closely to iPhone Posted: 13 Jun 2009 12:47 PM PDT Google News: Technology / SeattletimesNwsource Refined Palm Pre listened closely to iPhone  — Palm's new Pre smartphone in many way performs better than the pacesetting iPhone, but it still could use some of Apple's polish and depth.

Things A Startup Founder Will Never Say Posted: 13 Jun 2009 11:15 AM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch Things A Startup Founder Will Never Say  — Chris Yeh from PBWorks responds to Things A Venture Capitalist Will Never Say slide show with a few funny-because-they-are-true slides of his own: ...

The App Store Needs A Genius Feature, ASAP Posted: 13 Jun 2009 11:15 AM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch The App Store Needs A Genius Feature, ASAP  — You may not realize it yet, but the App Store is broken. I spent this week at Apple's WWDC conference in San Francisco talking to quite a few iPhon...

Dark days: A first hand account of the Iranian presidential election Posted: 13 Jun 2009 11:03 AM PDT HackerNews / Ehsanakhgari Dark days: A first hand account of the Iranian presidential election  —

Digital Domain Hey, Just a Minute (or Why Google Isn't Twitter) Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:48 AM PDT Google News: Technology / Nytimes Digital Domain Hey, Just a Minute (or Why Google Isn't Twitter)  — By RANDALL STROSS TECHNOLOGY blogs have wondered whether Google is a lumbering giant in this Twitter moment, unable to handle streams of tweets tha...

New MacBook Pro Battery Life Better Than Advertised Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:47 AM PDT Google News: Technology / Notebooks New MacBook Pro Battery Life Better Than Advertised  — By Xavier June 13, 2009 Apple's new 15 MacBook Pro has an advertised battery life of seven hours, but AnandTech was able to get over eight hours...

Daily Routines : How writers, artists, and others organize their days Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:43 AM PDT HackerNews / DailyroutinesTypepad Daily Routines : How writers, artists, and others organize their days  —

How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:24 AM PDT DiggTechnology / Noupe How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX  —  AJAX has gotten more and more popular over the years, and has allowed web applications to act more and more like desktop applications. AJAX can pr...

Study Finds iPhone Users Genetically Superior to Everyone Else Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:22 AM PDT Gizmodo / Gizmodo Study Finds iPhone Users Genetically Superior to Everyone Else   — Well, they may not have gone quite that far, but an independent study conducted by Forrester Research found that iPhone owners are better educated,...

Week in Microsoft: No bundled IE8 for Europe, Apple's Win 7 ... Posted: 13 Jun 2009 09:02 AM PDT Google News: Technology / Arstechnica Week in Microsoft: No bundled IE8 for Europe, Apple's Win 7 ...  — In this week's top Microsoft news, we cover Windows 7 E, Apple's latest jabs at Windows, Microsoft Money's demise, Bing, IE8's latest campaign, Mor...

Interview With NPR On Process Journalism Posted: 13 Jun 2009 08:30 AM PDT TechCrunch / TechCrunch Interview With NPR On Process Journalism  —  Yesterday I did an interview with NPR's On The Media about the idea of Process Journalism . Process Journalism is the posting of a story before i...

Bing Makes Changes to Allow Porn Filtering Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:45 AM PDT ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb Bing Makes Changes to Allow Porn Filtering  — Microsoft launched its new search engine Bing earlier this month and one of its great new features is a video search tool called called Smart Motio...

Switch to Digital TV Off to Smooth Start, With Some Shrugs Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:45 AM PDT NYTimesMedia / NYTimes Switch to Digital TV Off to Smooth Start, With Some Shrugs  — For most people, the switch to digital television was a hiccup at most, but some people - in up to 12 million homes - may lose their TV access.

Study nixes guilty dog assumptions Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:33 AM PDT Google News: Technology / Upi Study nixes guilty dog assumptions  — NEW YORK, June 13 (UPI) -- A New York researcher says dogs that appear guilty when being scolded by their owners can be innocent and simply respond...

US developer: China's Green Dam steals our code Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:48 AM PDT AskNews / ZDNet US developer: China's Green Dam steals our code  —  ZDNet - Found 45 minutes ago This Green Dam story just keeps getting weirder. First, China issues this mandate that all new PCs will ...

Podcast Season 1 Episode 10 Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Tuxradar Podcast Season 1 Episode 10  —  Linux Podcast ,Presenters: Andrew Gregory, Paul Hudson, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders. VERY COOL SHOW (Linux/Unix)

Something’s Got to Give in Medicare Spending Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Nytimes Something's Got to Give in Medicare Spending  —

Andreessen and Horowitz Complete Raising 300 Million Venture Fund Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Allthingsd Andreessen and Horowitz Complete Raising 300 Million Venture Fund  —

Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, now what? Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / NewsYcombinator Ash HN: I just bought a Macbook Pro, want to multiboot, now what?  —

Microeconomics of the Consumer Web Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:22 PM PDT GigaOM / Gigaom Microeconomics of the Consumer Web  —  The marginal cost of delivering web-based content is approaching zero, so while some publishers continue to charge for it , they are the exception...

Dear CNN, Please Check Twitter for News About Iran Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:15 PM PDT ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb Dear CNN, Please Check Twitter for News About Iran  — The western world's most feared government is shaking with insurrection in the streets after a contested election and the leading name in news, CNN...

ASUS 'Seamless Experience' is the best conception of the future we've seen in the past five minutes Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:07 PM PDT Engadget / Engadget ASUS 'Seamless Experience' is the best conception of the future we've seen in the past five minutes  —  Are you fully prepared to live in one company's most likely inaccurate and yet still totally awesome vision of the future? If not, check out the v...

Microsoft Seeking Hot-Or-Not Patent Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:45 PM PDT Slashdot / Slashdot Microsoft Seeking Hot-Or-Not Patent  — theodp writes "In its just-disclosed patent application for the Online Personal Appearance Advisor, Microsoft describes the 'invention' of its thre...

5 web-based tools for improving user experience Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Briancray 5 web-based tools for improving user experience  —  Very cool for your site/blog check tis site http://www.anthony68.web-log.nl with the gadgets (Gadgets)

New Products Can Be Obsolete in a Heartbeat Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Washingtonpost New Products Can Be Obsolete in a Heartbeat  —  Last Sunday, I was lurking at the local Apple store, poking at laptops and feeling a mild bit of concern for my fellow shoppers. (Tech Industry News)

MSI X-Slim X600 specs get detailed in full Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Engadget MSI X-Slim X600 specs get detailed in full  —  According to Notebook Italia, there will be two variations of the laptop available: one packing a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Solo processor, 4GB of RAM, ...

Facebook viral marketing: When and why do apps jump the shark? Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Andrewchenblog Facebook viral marketing: When and why do apps jump the shark?  —

Top 10 Social Media Stories of the Week Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:15 PM PDT Mashable / Mashable Top 10 Social Media Stories of the Week  — This week's social media news was dominated by three stories: the launch of Facebook Usernames, the activation of Twitter Verified Accounts, and th...

Is Google working on a way to search Twitter and other microblogs? Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:07 PM PDT VentureBeat / Venturebeat Is Google working on a way to search Twitter and other microblogs?  — Google is definitely collecting data on the web every second these days so that it can capture data coming in from microblogging services such as T...

Twitter Taking Over Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Techuse Twitter Taking Over  —  With Twitter stated as the top 3 social networking site, it may take over some social groups/site. See what the critics have to say about this. (T...

Podcast Season 1 Episode 10 Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Tuxradar Podcast Season 1 Episode 10  —  Linux Podcast ,Presenters: Andrew Gregory, Paul Hudson, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders. VERY COOL SHOW (Linux/Unix)

Andreessen and Horowitz Complete Raising 300 Million Venture Fund Posted: 13 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Allthingsd Andreessen and Horowitz Complete Raising 300 Million Venture Fund  —

5 web-based tools for improving user experience Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Briancray 5 web-based tools for improving user experience  —  Very cool for your site/blog check tis site http://www.anthony68.web-log.nl with the gadgets (Gadgets)

New Products Can Be Obsolete in a Heartbeat Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Washingtonpost New Products Can Be Obsolete in a Heartbeat  —  Last Sunday, I was lurking at the local Apple store, poking at laptops and feeling a mild bit of concern for my fellow shoppers. (Tech Industry News)

Twitter Taking Over Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Techuse Twitter Taking Over  —  With Twitter stated as the top 3 social networking site, it may take over some social groups/site. See what the critics have to say about this. (T...

Web fonts and CSS features Posted: 13 Jun 2009 06:03 PM PDT HackerNews / Mozilla Web fonts and CSS features  —

Behind Microsoft's IE-free, Windows-for-Europe ploy Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:28 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Channelregister Behind Microsoft's IE-free, Windows-for-Europe ploy  — Microsoft's offering what it's called the best solution to shipping Windows 7 in Europe while staying within European regulatory law. Microsoft's l...

Mac Users Warned Of Porn Malware Threat Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Informationweek Mac Users Warned Of Porn Malware Threat  —  Trojan software presents visitors to certain porn sites with a pop-up message to download a Video ActiveX Object the download carries Mac malware...

The CIA Pick Up: A Windows Azure and Twilio mashup Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Theciapickup The CIA Pick Up: A Windows Azure and Twilio mashup  —

Holy Xbox Modding Batman – Inspiration! « Just Bliss! Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:08 PM PDT MixxTechnology / JustblissWordpress Holy Xbox Modding Batman – Inspiration! « Just Bliss!  — Some seriously crazy modding, alligator skin xbox?? WTF?

Microshaft set to violate EU rules again over low quality IE Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / GroupsGoogle Microshaft set to violate EU rules again over low quality IE  —  "IE has no fee paying sponsors. It is money stolen from OS customers by illegal monopoly levy which is then used to fund a competing browser" (Mi...

As Foretold 8 Months Ago: Why You Must Be on Twitter Posted: 13 Jun 2009 04:43 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Webdesignerdepot As Foretold 8 Months Ago: Why You Must Be on Twitter  —  Twitter is kind of like Apple fandom - either you love it or you find it a dreadful inconvenience to interface with. In reality, Twitter is not a ...

New German Microblog Posted: 13 Jun 2009 04:28 PM PDT MixxTechnology / BleeperDe New German Microblog  — It's like Twitter for german nerds

Most Ad supported sites actually have a B2B entreprise sales model Posted: 13 Jun 2009 04:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Andrewchenblog Most Ad supported sites actually have a B2B entreprise sales model  —

Low quality MSN Canada website hacked Posted: 13 Jun 2009 03:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / NewsSoftpedia Low quality MSN Canada website hacked  —  "The index page has been infected with obfuscated JavaScript code to redirect users to a known malware host" (Microsoft)

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