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CEO Chat: Scrapblog Makes Online Scrapbooks and Innovates Advertising Model

Today I had the opportunity to speak with Scrapblog CEO Carlos GarcĂ­a. Scrapblog launched their app last year at DEMO. Scrapblog is one of those apps that has mainstream appeal…

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Google Damages Property Values?

A Pittsburgh couple is suing Google for including their house in Google’s Street View service. According to a lawsuit filed in Allegheny County’s Court of Common Pleas…

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Breaking the Techmeme Habit

Techmeme is a great place to stay up-to-date with the current tech news in the blogosphere, showing the most popular and current news items of the day. The site also offers a…

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All Eyes on Stanford

Get ready for Round Two in the battle of the FCC. At stake is whether we should allow a handful of giant corporations to close the Web for their own gain, or whether we should put…

DHS: arc of security is long, but bends toward Real ID

For DHS Secretary Chertoff, Real ID used to be the law of the land with which all states must eventually comply. Now it's more like the promised land, which Chertoff himself has…

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Denton's Reward To Valleywag Drones: 33% Pay Cut

Earlier this week Valleywag writer Jordan Golson complained, on Valleywag, that his pay rate had been changed, but that his cruel and despotic owner hadn't told him what the new…

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Blogger ensnared in hotly contested autism-vaccinne lawsuit

It may not be safe to blog about controversial areas of science. A lawsuit is challenging the scientific evidence that mercury-containing vaccines are not linked to autism, and…

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PopURLs is on Fire

Single page aggregator PopURLs may be a few years old, but this side project of Austrian entrepreneur Thomas Marban just keeps getting cooler. Now Marban has partnered with Intel…

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Fight brewing between UK ISPs, labels on disconnecting users

UK ISP Talk Talk says today that it cannot "forsee any circumstances" in which it would disconnect users on the basis of music industry allegations. No "three stirkes" deals have…

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"Free" is Killing Us--Blame The VCs

I believe it should be possible to start a small business and to have a small number of profitable customers, and to earn a living. From there, it should be possible to work hard,…

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2008 Social Networking Survey - 41% of Young Children Have a Public Profile

The Office of Communications in the U.K. has just published an 80-page social networking study that should be on your list to read. The study looks at social networking usage…

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Will The Wii Fit Work? Not If It's A Power Pad

Nintendo's Wii Fit, which goes on sale next month, is supposed to marry video games with exercise, and it's supposed to be a huge hit. One analyst predicts it could sell 4 million…

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Google Reveals Spectrum Auction Strategy

During the recent wireless spectrum auctions that just brought the FCC $19.6 billion in license fees, there was a lot of speculation about what drove each of the different…

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Study: more couch potatoes parked in front of PC to watch TV

Full TV shows watched online are growing in number, according to the Convergence Consulting Group, and may make up almost a quarter of all TV watched in 2010. Broadcasters are in…

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Why Apple's Faster '3G' iPhone Will Cost The Same $399 (AAPL)

We expect Apple to start selling a new, "3G" iPhone this June, around the same time the company rolls out its "iPhone 2.0" software update and support for third-party iPhone apps.…

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