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1.Blogging And Mass Psychomanipulation (techcrunch.com)
If I ever write another book it will probably be about one of three topics. The first is the truth about how the press and journalism really works - the sausage making - to show just how much of a beautiful, subjective and chaotic mess it all is. The s...
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2.Stealth Mode Watch: Another Nail In The Coffin Of ‘Stealth’ (techcrunch.com)
Stealth Mode Watch, a searchable data spider of often very revealing SEC form D filings, is the brain child of Denis Papathanasiou, who came up with the idea while researching funding options (a.k.a spying) for his ebooks startup Fifobooks, "I was just...
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3.The Real Social Network: Your Mobile Contacts (techcrunch.com)
The term "social network" is of course synonymous with online networks like Facebook. But think about what you're actual social life is like for a second. Are you really closest to the people whose items you "like" the most on Facebook? What about the ...
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4.Craigslist.com blocks access to adult services ads (www.reuters.com)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Craigslist.com has dropped its "adult services" listings, which have become the target of U.S. state attorneys general who say the much-visited online classified ad site is not doing enough to quash prostitution.
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5.Inside Facebook Seattle [Pictures] (techcrunch.com)
A couple weeks ago, Facebook officially opened their new office in Seattle, WA. At the time, Facebook's Ari Steinberg (the main engineer in charge up there) wrote a post and shared a few pictures of what it looks like. But those pictures sort of made i...
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6.Does Apple Value Secrecy More Than The Environment? (techcrunch.com)
According to new research from Pew Internet, 82% of American adults own a cell phone, Blackberry, iPhone or other similar devices. And 65% of adults who own them say they have slept with their cell phones on or right next to their beds.
Yet consumers ...
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7.Rise of the Anti-Content Farmers (techcrunch.com)
Editor's note: The following guest post is by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the CEO of WatchMojo, a producer and distributor of premium video content. Read his other posts here, or follow him on Twitter @ashkan
My cohort at Revision 3, CEO Jim Louderback, re...
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You'll forgive me for sneaking in some pop culture in the mix because it's Saturday and all, right? Rapper Kanye West is having a bit of a moment on Twitter the past few hours, apologizing for the Taylor Swift incident from last year when he stormed th...
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9.Tech Industry Managers: Little Men in Big Shoes? (techcrunch.com)
When I was ready to transition from computer programmer to project manager, my employer, Xerox Corporation, sent me to its huge training center in Leesburg, Virginia. Over two weeks, the people there taught me some of the skills I needed in order to su...
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10.“Tourist VCs Go Home”–Stats from VC Industry (www.pluggd.in)
VCs invest in businesses that have the potential to go big and at the same time, given them a handsome RoI within a few years (maybe a short cycle?). VCs judgment (of understanding a business, from a typical MBAish perspective) has been questioned umpt...
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11.Lanyrd – Plancast Meets Upcoming For Conferences (techcrunch.com)
Look out Plancast and Upcoming, here comes Lanyrd. Ok, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but if it's possible to have a SXSW "tipping point" at an event then Lanyrd just had it at dConstruct, a popular design and developer conference in the UK.
So w...
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The Funded founder Adeo Ressi was arrested and briefly detained earlier this evening over an altercation with a flight attendant. The airline? Virgin America, which I've been holding up as virtually the only airline that doesn't suck (See Virgin Airlin...
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13.Hate The iTunes 10 Icon? Think You Can Do Better? (techcrunch.com)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs' obsessive focus on design detail is at least partially responsible for why the tech sphere and the design sphere are so intertwined at the moment. Which makes the ire that Jobs has received for the current iTunes 10 logo (not to m...
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14.Craigslist Censored: Adult Section Comes Down (techcrunch.com)
Bad news for Craigslist users who like to peruse the Erotic Services Adult Services section of their site. It's gone, replaced by a large black and white "censored" logo.
I've reached out to Craigslist for comment and await their reply. But the choice...
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15.Fast Trains to Connect US Cities, Alleviate Highway Congestion (techcrunch.com)
The Obama administration promised $8 billion in funding for cities and states to build high-speed, intercity rail projects back in January.
This week, the Department of Transporation issued its specifications for the manufacture of new fast trains, na...
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16.Why This New Apple TV Makes Sense — For Now (techcrunch.com)
As a longtime Apple TV owner, I'll admit a dirty little secret: I really like the device. Sure, it has been one of the rare flops for Apple in recent years. And it could be so much more with say, a Blu-ray player or a web browser. But it is really good...
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17.Google Streamlines Its Privacy Policy. Should Facebook Be Next? (techcrunch.com)
Location-based service Echo Echo recently posted the above image to their blog in a (successful) attempt to garner some media attention as the debate around online privacy continues to rage.
As extreme as their "If Mark Zuckerburg Cared About Privacy"...
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Vidyo, a company that specializes in high-quality video conferencing technology for the enterprise, is betting big on bringing video conferencing to mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones. Similar to Skype, Vidyo offers a technology that all...
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19.Want To Use Gmail Priority Inbox With IMAP? Tough Luck (techcrunch.com)
Curious what Google's Gmail Priority Inbox means for those of us who use an IMAP or POP client like Mac Mail or the Mail function on an iPhone? Well as of yet the feature is not fully enabled on either IMAP or POP-compatible third party or mobile clien...
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Can someone please explain this Bloomberg Businessweek story to me? I've read it a few times and am still having a hard time understanding what is or what isn't being implied, or not implied, about a partnership between Coinstar and Apple.
First of al...
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21.Video Impressions Of Google TV On Logitech Revue Hardware (techcrunch.com)
It seems that one of the beta testers for Google TV couldn't keep all that goodness to himself, and has posted several pictures and some video of the near-finished interface and hardware. It's a brief and not particularly shocking video, but seeing it ...
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First we had the Google vs China debacle, then came Saudi Arabia's tussle with RIM. And now it's India's turn: threatening to block RIM, Google and Skype unless the companies agree to set up localised servers, all the better for state monitoring of com...
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23.A Closer Look At Apple’s Latest Patents (techcrunch.com)
Apple has been granted nine new patents, and I thought I'd take a look at the claims therein and see whether they match up to the descriptions, and whether they seem (to this humble blogger) like realistic items for which to gain exclusive rights. I've...
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It was only a year ago that Tweetmeme declared their intention to be the king of retweets. And for most of the past year, that was the case. Their retweet button was everywhere. Of course, that was before Twitter launched its own button last month. The...
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25.DoubleClick Ad Planner’s Bestiality Bug (Screenshot) (techcrunch.com)
Is Google serving up ads targeted at sites which categorize themselves as "extreme porn," bestiality," and "child porn"? Rest assured, it is not. But if you are a website publisher using DoubleClick's Ad Planner to select categories to match your sit...
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