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CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It's Business as Usual in Silicon Valley.

Of course I have something to say about the news yesterday that AOL would be a key investor in a new early-stage venture fund being started by TechCrunch’s perpetually petulant editor Michael Arrington — with a big, fat and decidedly greasy a...
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iPad magazine TRVL launches beautiful premium ‘Coffee table book for the price of a coffee’
Following on from its recent relaunch with a gorgeous new design, Dutch iPad travel magazine startup TRVL has today introduced its first paid-for content – a ‘coffee table book for the price of a coffee’.
Until now, TRVL has offered arti...
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Viral Video: Common Sense Media's Kid's Online Privacy Panel
On Wednesday, I moderated a panel for Common Sense Media about online privacy, with a focus on the impact on children.
It was a lively talk at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, with a most excellent panel, so please check out the worthy and i...
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Zuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair's "New Establishment" List Again (And Look Who's No. 40)

Vanity Fair magazine put out its high-profile “New Establishment” list of the top 50 people, who are “an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies, and entrepreneurs, who quite often sport hoodies, floppy h...
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Exclusive: MailChimp Buys Phil Kaplan's Tiny Newsletter Start-Up, TinyLetter

MailChimp, the Atlanta-based email marketing service, has bought TinyLetter, which is well-known entrepreneur Phil Kaplan’s most recent start-up.
While MailChimp focuses on more commercial clients — including AllThingsD — who want to se...
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AdStruc’s latest billboard campaign features Ron English, the Godfather of Street Art
We first wrote about Adstruc in March, the New York City based startup that’s changing the future of outdoor advertising space, by providing an online auction and listing-based marketplace for sellers and buyers.
Founder and CEO John Laramie brought...
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Groupon Doesn't Care if You Got the Memo

To: Everyone
From: Groupon
Re: The Memo
There was a whole lot of hubbub last week about an internal email that Groupon’s CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason sent out to the employees of the Chicago-based social buying company, which AllThingsD got hold...
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Apple iPad News Reader Zite Sold to CNN for Just Over $20 Million
Zite, the magazine-style reading app for the Apple iPad, has been sold to news giant CNN for $20 million to $25 million.
The arena for news readers on tablets and smartphones is competitive, with high-profile efforts such as Flipboard, Livestand from Yaho...
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CNN acquires Zite, the “smarter” iPad news app for just over $20 million
In March, we covered the launch of Zite, a free, personalized iPad magazine that gets “smarter” as you use it. While at first I was slightly skeptical, the app has taken off, and every day I hear it’s becoming everyone’s favorite iPad news app...
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Rumor: Yahoo bidding on The New York Times?
Benzinga, a service which brings you “business news before it’s news” just tweeted that analyst rumors are swirling of Yahoo bidding for The New York Times. There’s nothing more to the story for now, other than this makes completel...
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The New York Times partners with YouTube to commemorate 9/11
It’s hard to believe that 9/11 was nearly 10 years ago and to remember that horrific day The New York Times and YouTube are partnering and asking people to upload their videos to a special channel. Users will be asked to upload videos of themselves answer...
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Viral Video: Chatbot Throwdown
So, asked the Cornell Creative Machines Lab: “What happens when you let two bots have a conversation? We certainly never expected this…”
Indeed not, as two chatbots get up in each others’ business.
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11 websites citizen journalists should know about
With the Libyan uprising still in full swing, earlier this week we looked at some of the trusted places people could go to get reliable coverage of events as they unfolded. Whilst some of these were the usual news outlets, such as Reuters and the BBC, the...
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World Press Photo Award winners highlight art and evolution of photojournalism
The organization World Press Photo today announced the winners of the 2011 Multimedia Contest, an online competition bringing together many of the world’s top multimedia storytellers.
The judging committee included an international panel of luminar...
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iPad travel magazine TRVL rolls out gorgeous new design
Last year we reported on how travel magazine startup TRVL was forging its own path in iPad publishing by offering beautifully designed content for free, allowing you to download only the articles you want. Now a new version of the app has been launched, w...
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Google TV reportedly launching in the UK within 6 months
Eric Schmidt, Google’s Executive Chairman, is giving a lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in Scotland today, and he is set to outline the Internet giant’s plans to launch Google TV in the UK.
Google TV is a Smart TV co-...
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Mossberg on Jobs (Video)

Here’s a video of Walt Mossberg — who perhaps knows the outgoing Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs better than anyone else covering tech — talking about his career in a video he recently did for The Wall Street Journal.
Mossberg also ...
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Aupeo: A beautiful new take on music streaming for the iPad
Berlin startup Aupeo turns your iPad into a personal radio station with a beautiful, lightweight and amazingly fast new app.
For very good reasons, music streaming services have become extremely popular. While you for sure know about Spotify, last.fm and ...
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The Gizmodo Media Lab For Kids Who Can't Tech Good [Charity]






We all take things for granted. Like having a school. Or a computer. That's why Gizmodo and some friendly gadget companies are teaming up with Surf For Life, a non-profit that lets people help local cause...
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Readmill makes ebooks more social with a beautiful ‘Last.fm for reading’ [Invites]
As useful as ebooks are, they don’t really take much advantage of the potential that an Internet connected device offers for enhancing the reading experience. Readmill is a Germany-based startup looking to change that.
The Berlin team has created a ...
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Missouri Teachers Sue Over Absurd Facebook Law [Facebook]






Missouri teachers really want to hang out with their students online. In fact, they've just filed a lawsuit for the right to do so in response to a newly-inked state law that seeks to prohibit student-te...
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Pitch perfect: A startup’s guide to getting coverage
Most young startup’s needs 3 things: Money, a good idea and a dogged determination to see that idea through to completion. But what about publicity?
Some may argue that if an idea is good enough, people will discover it one way or another, and there...
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Roger and Pre: Those Were the Days, McNamee (He Thought Palm Would Always Be)

Given all that has happened to the once promising Palm mobile platform this week, via the strategery machinating of its current owner Hewlett-Packard, it is long past time for a good laugh.
Ergo, Silicon Valley venture capitalist and pundit Roger McNamee...
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4 formats and services that could save the music industry
Although recent reports have pointed to a slightly less bleak outlook for digital music than may have been perceived, it’s still likely that the MP3s role as the primary source of the music industry’s digital music revenue could change in the ...
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ScreenReach partners with Bauer Media to bring location-based content to radio apps
We’ve been charting the growth of ScreenReach since 2010, and back in April we reported that the UK-based startup had penned a deal that would see its technology rolled out to 800 coffee shops across the USA.
The company’s Screach technology i...
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The Big Playoff: The Internet truly comes to TV in a Survivor-style contest
It’s not at all uncommon for TV shows these days to have Internet-only content. Unfortunately, most of the things that have started on the Internet and then transitioned to TV (Sh*t My Dad Says, for instance) have been pretty terrible. But what if y...
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How The LA Times is winning with social media
Surprisingly, newspapers are paving the way for using social media effectively. That theory has come true, as a recent case study published by the Nieman Journalism Lab shows how the LA Times has embraced social media alongside a smart SEO strategy, to br...
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How not to apologise after insulting someone on Twitter. [Video]
As far as apologies go, it does’t get much more insincere than this… But, possibly with good reason.
Yesterday, an unlikely pair, American sports commentator Andy Levy and singer Chris Brown, went head-to-head on Twitter. Levy added a comment ...
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Viral Video: Like Palm's Creepy Naked Lady, TouchPad's Floating Celeb Heads Get the HP Boot

The lastest advertising for Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad is kind of cool, especially compared to the old ones for its webOS cousin the Palm Pre, featuring the creepy naked lady.
(I still have nightmares that she is going to appear at the end of my b...
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Yahoo Loses Longtime Ad Tech Exec Dev Patel

Yahoo has lost another one of its longtime top advertising tech execs, as Advertiser and Publisher Solutions VP Dev Patel ankles out the door.
(I would have posted a photo of him, but the first thousand images I searched for were for the Indian star of &...
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Viral Video: The Wacky Japanese Dance
I have no idea what to make of this group of kooky dancing Japanese men, except to say you must watch it.
No, really:
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What? [Google TV]






It appears our peers at Silicon Alley Insider got sucked into some sort of space-time vortex, tumbling out in a world without Google TV. But they've made it back! And they're here to spread the news: Goog...
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Exclusive: Apple's Mobile Ad Head Andy Miller Departs for Highland Capital

Andy Miller (pictured here), the high-profile VP of mobile advertising at Apple, is planning on leaving the company, according to sources close to the situation.
Sources said Miller — who sold Quattro Wireless, the mobile advertising company he co-...
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She Does: Kim Kardashian to Wed at Eric Schmidt's SoCal Estate

Here’s a delicious juxtaposition you don’t get often: Reality show empress Kim Kardashian’s upcoming wedding to New Jersey Nets basketball player Kris Humphries will be held at the Montecito estate of Google’s Executive Chairman a...
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Amazon boosts its publishing credentials by signing self-help guru Tim Ferriss
Amazon may have been publishing books for several years, but it’s starting to crank up its credentials in that particular field as news emerges the self-help guru Tim Ferriss has signed up to Amazon Publishing.
A few months back, Amazon revealed it ...
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Viral Video: One-Trick Pony Googlers and Steve Jobs As Darth Vader

You have to hand it to the CGI folks at Taiwan’s Next Media Animation for this depiction of Google’s $12.5 billion bid for Motorola Mobility.
It includes the search giant’s co-founders riding a pony (it’s a one-trick one), Asian h...
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Viral Video: Om Nom Nom Nom

On Sunday, I motored up to Petaluma to be on This Week in Tech, or TWiT, at its new offices. Hosted by Leo Laporte, it’s a roundtable on the news of the week in the digital sector.
The other panelists included GigaOm’s Om Malik, CNET’s ...
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Istyosty, the proxy Daily Mail browsing site, is forced offline due to legal threats
The UK’s Daily Mail newspaper may now be the world’s second most popular newspaper online, but the publication has also drawn a great deal of criticism for its right-wing leaning position on many subjects, such as immigration.
As such, Istyost...
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The Future of Social Media at AllThingsD

AllThingsD has undergone a lot of changes in the past year that Walt and I are truly proud of, and today we are posting together about changes to social media on the site.
Social media, especially Twitter, has been a major part of the AllThingsD operatio...
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New Jobs Bio Cover Is All Apple With Pub Date of November
Walter Isaacson’s new biography of tech legend Steve Jobs certainly looks like an Apple product — at least the simple and elegant cover does, as you can see here:

It is actually an old and well known, if striking, photo of Jobs, which has bee...
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UK media rights deal means Twitter just became much better for football reporting
Representatives from the English Premier League, the Football League and media organizations have thrashed out a new last minute rights deal that will change the way football matches can be covered online.
On Saturday morning, a matter of hours before the...
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Viral Video: The Mini-Warbler Steals the Movie
The recently released, “Glee: The 3D Concert Movie” didn’t do too well at the box office on its opening weekend, tanking across the country.
Maybe that’s because the most charming part of the film were the clips from a pair of YouT...
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How the BBC 606 radio show kick-started an online football community
“Today, after eight years and many hundreds of thousands of user comments, we are closing down the 606 website.” [Ben Gallop, Head of BBC Sport Interactive, 31st May 2011]
The fall of 606
The end of the 2010/2011 football season also heralded ...
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Dueling Facebook-Google Games Events Not So Dueling After All

Last week, when both Facebook and Google seemed to suddenly have gaming announcements at the exact same time last Thursday, much was made of the ongoing war between the pair of Silicon Valley giants due to the scheduling snafu.
Some had speculated that F...
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October. Oc … to … ber. Repeat After Me: Apple iPhone 5 to Launch in October.

Maybe because it is a Friday in August, it’s natural that the Apple iPhone 5 rumors would get jacked up again.
Today, it was an erroneous report that Apple would hold a media event on Sept. 7, which was soon countered by another post that said the...
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Tech Stocks Recover, But What Will Next Week Bring?

After a down and up and down week, tech stocks had a solid recovery yesterday, keeping pace with or even surpassing the Dow Jones Industrial Average gains of nearly four percent.
Can anyone predict what will happen next?
Probably not — including th...
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Viral Video: Scary Hunchback Cat
That just about says it all.
Plus, it’s Friday.

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VibeDeck now lets artists sell music from YouTube
VibeDeck is a web service that lets music artists sell their music directly to their fans, without incurring any additional costs.
Launched in beta two months ago following a $2m investment round in June, VibeDeck last week announced it had deployed Sound...
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Does AOL's Huge Stock Decline Make It a Bargain Acquisition Target?

In the last month, the stock of AOL has declined just over 50 percent.
But that drop is not just due to the turbulent markets of late. AOL stock had a 50 percent drop over the last six months, a 57 percent decline since the beginning of the year, and a 5...
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Myspace: A Cautionary Tale or Just a Basic Belly Flop?

A sad little period was put on the even more pathetic story of Myspace yesterday by its former owner, News Corp., which said it had lost $254 million. The media giant announced the writedown during its quarterly earnings call.
The down-the-drain social n...
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