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• Is Facebook Increasing The Size Of Our Personal Networks? Facebook Reveals The Answer
• Pre Recovery Tool Leaks Out, Including webOS Root Image(!)
• Evaluating Bing with Mechanical Turk
• Don't Blame Venture Woes on the Economy It's the VCs' Fault
• Venture capitalists pin growth hopes on green tech
• Magazine Researchers Explore New Ways to Weigh Ad Impact
• NYT: 20 Million Mix Of Concessions, Wage Cuts Saves Globe
• New Mogul Ascends With Old Hollywood Clout
• Screen Actors Guild Approves Studio Contract
• Revenue at Craigslist Is Said to Top 100 Million
• Smartphone Rises Fast From Gadget to Necessity
• Company Registration Choices
• The Sims 3 Sells 1.4 Million During Week One
• Mass Effect 2 brings countless improvements, updates
• Justice Department Seeks Information on Google Book Settlement
• The Big Ol' Ubuntu Security Resource IT Security http://www.focus.com
• Popular Giant Star Shrinks Mysteriously
• Schmidt: Bing Has Not Changed What Google Is Doing
• Why Carriers Love Social Networks On Mobiles
• First Pic of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in <i>Iron Man 2</i>
• Do you have a problem drinking....to slowly?...I can help
• Feds Step Up Antitrust Probe of Google Books Deal
• IT firms urge China to reconsider filter
• Chef Robot makes sushi even more dangerous
• How To Use StumbleUpon To Generate Traffic
• Palm Pre Cheat: upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart
• The 10 Dumbest Tech Products So Far
• The Dance of Entrepreneurship
• 'Failure to cut illegal downloads will cause widespread job losses'
• Upgarde to Fedora 11 from Fedora 10
• A Beautiful Race Condition
• Husqvarna Panthera Leo Concept Mower is Electric-Powered and LCD-Equipped
• Government hints at gaming tax breaks
• China To Require Filtering Software On PCs -- Web Filtering
• The Big Ol' Ubuntu Security Resource
• How To Use StumbleUpon To Generate Traffic
• The 10 Dumbest Tech Products So Far
• 150 Social Bookmarking Sites
• China Wins for Venture Capitalists Looking Abroad
• Is Facebook Increasing The Size Of Our Personal Networks? Facebook Reveals The Answer
• US Government cracks down on online poker, freezes player winnings
• SAP to Make Online Software Push
• The Self-Employed Depression
• Parents, Better Baby-Proof Those PCs
• "Robocop" gadget developed for police
• Evaluating Bing with Mechanical Turk
• U.S. Steps Up Probe of Google in Books -
• There's an art to writing on Facebook or Twitter -- really -
• Alan Cox: How I ported Linux to the 68k Macintosh
• This Team has an "I"

Is Facebook Increasing The Size Of Our Personal Networks? Facebook Reveals The Answer Posted: 09 Jun 2009 06:28 PM PDT Twitter / Allfacebook Is Facebook Increasing The Size Of Our Personal Networks? Facebook Reveals The Answer  —

Pre Recovery Tool Leaks Out, Including webOS Root Image(!) Posted: 09 Jun 2009 06:00 PM PDT Techmeme / Precentral Pre Recovery Tool Leaks Out, Including webOS Root Image(!)   —  Pre Recovery Tool Leaks Out, Including webOS Root Image(!) It's only been a few days since the Palm Pre was released, but one of the biggest brea...

Evaluating Bing with Mechanical Turk Posted: 09 Jun 2009 05:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Doloreslabs Evaluating Bing with Mechanical Turk  —

Don't Blame Venture Woes on the Economy It's the VCs' Fault Posted: 09 Jun 2009 04:22 PM PDT GigaOM / Gigaom Don't Blame Venture Woes on the Economy It's the VCs' Fault  — After a period of looking inward , venture firms are ready to start putting money to work during the second half of this year, according to Terry M...

Venture capitalists pin growth hopes on green tech Posted: 09 Jun 2009 04:15 PM PDT CNETNews.com / CNETNews Venture capitalists pin growth hopes on green tech  — The flurry of activity in green technologies has been funded in large part by venture capitalists who now face a contracting, more global industry,...

Magazine Researchers Explore New Ways to Weigh Ad Impact Posted: 09 Jun 2009 03:30 PM PDT NYTimesMedia / NYTimes Magazine Researchers Explore New Ways to Weigh Ad Impact  — When advertisers assess a magazine's reach, they rely on the results of door-to-door surveys. New services intend to update that model.

NYT: 20 Million Mix Of Concessions, Wage Cuts Saves Globe Posted: 09 Jun 2009 03:07 PM PDT PaidContent / Paidcontent NYT: 20 Million Mix Of Concessions, Wage Cuts Saves Globe   — The New York Times Co. ( NYSE: NYT ) said Tuesday that it will keep the Boston Globe open despite the Boston Newspaper Guild's narrow vote against ...

New Mogul Ascends With Old Hollywood Clout Posted: 09 Jun 2009 02:15 PM PDT NYTimesMedia / NYTimes New Mogul Ascends With Old Hollywood Clout  — The superagent Ariel Emanuel is expanding his reach through his William Morris Endeavor Entertainment agency.

Screen Actors Guild Approves Studio Contract Posted: 09 Jun 2009 02:15 PM PDT NYTimesMedia / NYTimes Screen Actors Guild Approves Studio Contract  — Members of the largest U.S. actors union overwhelmingly voted to approve a two-year contract with Hollywood studios, ending nearly a year of labor ...

Revenue at Craigslist Is Said to Top 100 Million Posted: 09 Jun 2009 02:15 PM PDT NYTimesTechnology / NYTimes Revenue at Craigslist Is Said to Top 100 Million  — An outside firm is projecting a 23% jump in revenue for the Internet company in a year when classified advertising in newspapers has plummeted.

Smartphone Rises Fast From Gadget to Necessity Posted: 09 Jun 2009 02:15 PM PDT NYTimesTechnology / NYTimes Smartphone Rises Fast From Gadget to Necessity  — The increasing popularity of BlackBerrys, iPhones and their kin owes as much to sociology as technology.

Company Registration Choices Posted: 09 Jun 2009 01:30 PM PDT ReadWriteWeb / ReadWriteWeb Company Registration Choices  — This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here . Should you set u...

The Sims 3 Sells 1.4 Million During Week One Posted: 09 Jun 2009 01:08 PM PDT Newspond / Kotaku The Sims 3 Sells 1.4 Million During Week One  — Was there ever any doubt that The Sims 3 would be a smashing success? If so, sweep away those doubts, because the Electronic Arts published game is...

Mass Effect 2 brings countless improvements, updates Posted: 09 Jun 2009 12:30 PM PDT ArsTechnica / Arstechnica Mass Effect 2 brings countless improvements, updates  —  At E3 2009, EA treated us to a behind-closed-doors demo of Mass Effect 2 , lead by Project Director Casey Hudson. Hudson's claims ...

Justice Department Seeks Information on Google Book Settlement Posted: 09 Jun 2009 12:18 PM PDT Google News: Technology / OnlineWsj Justice Department Seeks Information on Google Book Settlement  — By JEFFREY TRACHTENBERG, JESSICA VASCELLARO and ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON The US Justice Department's antitrust division has sent certain publishers for...

The Big Ol' Ubuntu Security Resource IT Security http://www.focus.com Posted: 09 Jun 2009 12:10 PM PDT Del.icio.us / Brian3d'sBookmarks The Big Ol' Ubuntu Security Resource IT Security http://www.focus.com  —

Popular Giant Star Shrinks Mysteriously Posted: 09 Jun 2009 12:08 PM PDT Newspond / LiveScience Popular Giant Star Shrinks Mysteriously  — Betelgeuse is shrinking.

Schmidt: Bing Has Not Changed What Google Is Doing Posted: 09 Jun 2009 12:08 PM PDT AskNews / ZDNet Schmidt: Bing Has Not Changed What Google Is Doing  —  ZDNet - Found 56 minutes ago No big surprise here, but the arrival of Bing is not causing Google CEO Eric Schmidt to lose any sleep. ...

Why Carriers Love Social Networks On Mobiles Posted: 09 Jun 2009 12:07 PM PDT GigaOM / Gigaom Why Carriers Love Social Networks On Mobiles  — Though they probably never saw it coming, mobile phone companies have a new secret weapon: social networking. Indeed, thanks to our growing usage o...

First Pic of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in <i>Iron Man 2</i> Posted: 09 Jun 2009 12:07 PM PDT Gizmodo / Gizmodo First Pic of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in <i>Iron Man 2</i>   — Curious as to what Mickey Rourke is going to look like as Whiplash in next summer's Iron Man 2 ? Be curious no longer. Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) sp...

Do you have a problem drinking....to slowly?...I can help Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:43 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / BsdpunkBlogspot Do you have a problem drinking....to slowly?...I can help  —

Feds Step Up Antitrust Probe of Google Books Deal Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:40 PM PDT NewserTechnology / Newser Feds Step Up Antitrust Probe of Google Books Deal  — Justice Department investigators have intensified their probe into a deal Google made with publishers last year to put millions of books online, th...

IT firms urge China to reconsider filter Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:37 PM PDT ReutersTechnology / Reuters IT firms urge China to reconsider filter  — BEIJING (Reuters) - A Washington-based group representing information technology companies called on China on Wednesday to reconsider its requireme...

Chef Robot makes sushi even more dangerous Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:37 PM PDT Engadget / Engadget Chef Robot makes sushi even more dangerous  —  If you're squeamish about eating sushi then we doubt this is going to help. Chef Robot, on display at the International Food Machinery and Technol...

How To Use StumbleUpon To Generate Traffic Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:28 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Benpei How To Use StumbleUpon To Generate Traffic  — StumbleUpon is a great social networking / bookmarking site to use to drive traffic to your site. But how do you get your articles stumbled?

Palm Pre Cheat: upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Engadget Palm Pre Cheat: upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart  —  We couldn't believe it either, but as it turns out, from the launcher screen of your Pre, simply type in the phrase "upupdowndownleftrightleftrigh...

The 10 Dumbest Tech Products So Far Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Pcworld The 10 Dumbest Tech Products So Far  —  Awful wearable PCs, gaming systems that made you sick, free handhelds no one would take, and more. What'll they think of next? (Gadgets)

The Dance of Entrepreneurship Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Activegarage The Dance of Entrepreneurship  —

'Failure to cut illegal downloads will cause widespread job losses' Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Guardian 'Failure to cut illegal downloads will cause widespread job losses'  —

Upgarde to Fedora 11 from Fedora 10 Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Unixmen Upgarde to Fedora 11 from Fedora 10  —

A Beautiful Race Condition Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:23 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / MailinatorBlogspot A Beautiful Race Condition  —

Husqvarna Panthera Leo Concept Mower is Electric-Powered and LCD-Equipped Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:07 PM PDT Gizmodo / Gizmodo Husqvarna Panthera Leo Concept Mower is Electric-Powered and LCD-Equipped   — Growing up, I hated mowing the lawn. My backyard was huge, my allergies were bad and I was stuck with a temperamental push mower. If I had this bat...

Government hints at gaming tax breaks Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:07 PM PDT TheRegister / TheRegister Government hints at gaming tax breaks  — Labour admits it's looking into it Newly appointed Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw has hinted that UK videogame developers may be granted direct tax...

China To Require Filtering Software On PCs -- Web Filtering Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:04 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Informationweek China To Require Filtering Software On PCs -- Web Filtering  —  Web filtering software called Green Dam Youth Escort must be installed on all PCs sold in China as of July 1, 2009. The software also must be incl...

The Big Ol' Ubuntu Security Resource Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:03 PM PDT HackerNewsUpcomingNewest / Focus The Big Ol' Ubuntu Security Resource  —

How To Use StumbleUpon To Generate Traffic Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:28 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Benpei How To Use StumbleUpon To Generate Traffic  — StumbleUpon is a great social networking / bookmarking site to use to drive traffic to your site. But how do you get your articles stumbled?

The 10 Dumbest Tech Products So Far Posted: 09 Jun 2009 07:24 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Pcworld The 10 Dumbest Tech Products So Far  —  Awful wearable PCs, gaming systems that made you sick, free handhelds no one would take, and more. What'll they think of next? (Gadgets)

150 Social Bookmarking Sites Posted: 09 Jun 2009 06:43 PM PDT HackerNews / Seotips4freeBlogspot 150 Social Bookmarking Sites  —

China Wins for Venture Capitalists Looking Abroad Posted: 09 Jun 2009 06:28 PM PDT Twitter / BitsBlogsNytimes China Wins for Venture Capitalists Looking Abroad  —

Is Facebook Increasing The Size Of Our Personal Networks? Facebook Reveals The Answer Posted: 09 Jun 2009 06:28 PM PDT Twitter / Allfacebook Is Facebook Increasing The Size Of Our Personal Networks? Facebook Reveals The Answer  —

US Government cracks down on online poker, freezes player winnings Posted: 09 Jun 2009 06:08 PM PDT Twitter / Inquisitr US Government cracks down on online poker, freezes player winnings  —

SAP to Make Online Software Push Posted: 09 Jun 2009 06:08 PM PDT Twitter / BlogsWsj SAP to Make Online Software Push  —

The Self-Employed Depression Posted: 09 Jun 2009 06:03 PM PDT HackerNews / Nytimes The Self-Employed Depression  —

Parents, Better Baby-Proof Those PCs Posted: 09 Jun 2009 05:44 PM PDT DiggTechnologyUpcoming / Pcmag Parents, Better Baby-Proof Those PCs  —  Baby- or toddler-proofing your house? In addition to covering those electrical outlets and putting gates on top of the stairs, you might also want...

"Robocop" gadget developed for police Posted: 09 Jun 2009 05:28 PM PDT MixxTechnology / Telegraph "Robocop" gadget developed for police  — A police scanner reminscent of the hi-tech gadgets in films such as Robocop which can detect weapons hidden beneath a criminal's clothing has been ...

Evaluating Bing with Mechanical Turk Posted: 09 Jun 2009 05:23 PM PDT HackerNews / Doloreslabs Evaluating Bing with Mechanical Turk  —

U.S. Steps Up Probe of Google in Books - Posted: 09 Jun 2009 04:48 PM PDT Twitter / OnlineWsj U.S. Steps Up Probe of Google in Books -  —

There's an art to writing on Facebook or Twitter -- really - Posted: 09 Jun 2009 04:48 PM PDT Twitter / Usatoday There's an art to writing on Facebook or Twitter -- really -  —

Alan Cox: How I ported Linux to the 68k Macintosh Posted: 09 Jun 2009 04:43 PM PDT HackerNews / LinuxUk Alan Cox: How I ported Linux to the 68k Macintosh  —

This Team has an "I" Posted: 09 Jun 2009 04:43 PM PDT HackerNews / Google This Team has an "I"  —

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