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I love Gmail. So, when I read that Gmail was bidding adieu to “on behalf of” I thought, great, I’ll never need to open Outlook again! Not so fast.

To get right down to it, the configuration of my email provider, Dotster does not allow me to get rid of “on behalf of.” [...]

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TechCrunch swears by it. AppScout mocks it. So what’s the real story? Is twitter a digg killer? A flash in the pan? Or is it something else entirely?
On the AppScout side there are some compelling numbers in digg’s favor. They cite a popular PC Mag article which received 38,069 [...]

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There has been a flurry of press lately about, ehhh, how to save the press. At fault, of course is the nefarious internet and scheming bloggers. The most earnest and conversation-stirring of these articles comes from a cover article by Walter Isaacson, former Managing Editor of TIME and current President of the Apsen [...]

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Boxee, the free, open-source software that turns your TV into a socially-networked media hub, recently launched the Windows Alpha version of their software and I am lucky enough to be a part of it. Upon some testing of it my overall impression is very good, but the service raises all kinds of questions that [...]

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It has been argued by many in the digerati that Twitter is the new worldwide, omniscient, democratic news authority. It’s the AP, CNN, and NY Times rolled into one, minus the biased filters. It’s information nirvana, and that spells doom for the aforementioned Main Stream Media.
Wrong.
The US Airways flight 1549 story is a [...]

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Nick Denton says media is doomed (in the near to mid-term).
Adeo Ressi says the VC model is broken.
Nouriel Roubini has been saying for a while now that the US is nearly bankrupt.
Call them all pessimists, but they’re having their day right now, Roubini especially. When everyone else wants to say “Things are bad, BUT…” [...]

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In an updated to the last post, Lulu PR has confirmed rumors that they have acquired weRead. Lulu would not release details of the transaction but said it was more strategically motivated than monetarily (presumably, though, their strategy does include money…). Anyway, they went on to describe the move as for the “benefit [...]

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Morrisville based Lulu.com has partnered with Bangalore, India startup Ugenie and their flagship application weRead. Ugenie’s facebook app, iRead, has over 1 million users on facebook according to their website (though facebook puts them at 552,687 active users at the moment, still none too shabby). The facebook app, and similar apps on other [...]

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