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Design Tip: Never Use Black (ianstormtaylor.com)

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Coding Horror: I Was a Teenage Hacker (www.codinghorror.com)

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First full-resolution images of the Martian surface (www.nasa.gov)

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Some performance tweaks -- "this is the most amazing pull request ever" (github.com)

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Responding to Wired's ad hominem hatchet job (paranoia.dubfire.net)

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Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers (blog.burnerapp.com)

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Nokia sells Qt to Digia (www.digia.com)

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Show HN: We Use That. What startups use to get stuff done (weusethat.com)

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YC-Backed Grid Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age (techcrunch.com)

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Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints (http://eatthismuch.com)

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How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop (www.phoronix.com)

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Steam Expands Beyond Games (store.steampowered.com)

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First panorama picture of Mars (www.panoramas.dk)

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Daring Fireball: App.net (daringfireball.net)

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My TEDx Talk about Entrepreneurial Depression / Happiness (elasticsales.com)

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What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde (www.tor.com)

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Microsoft sticks to its guns, keeps Do Not Track on by default in IE10 (arstechnica.com)

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Trello Android App Available for Download (blog.trello.com)

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How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs. (rudd-o.com)

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Elon Musk Wants to Put Man on Mars in '12 to 15 Years' (abcnews.go.com)

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Dalton Caldwell: App.net is not Vaporware (daltoncaldwell.com)

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Android grabs 68% of worldwide market share (www.engadget.com)

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You Either Die A Hero Or You Become The Villain (massivegreatness.com)

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How YouTube lets content companies "claim" NASA Mars videos (arstechnica.com)

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Instacart Express = Amazon Prime for Groceries (news.cnet.com)

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The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator (www.amazon.com)

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Anonymous donors bring Hollywood production values to anti-MPAA video (arstechnica.com)

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We've launched a mobile site built entirely in AngularJS - thoughts? (goodfil.ms)

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LibreOffice 3.6.0: behind the scenes (people.gnome.org)

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Why I Quit My Job, Killed a Company in Six Weeks, And Still Feel Great (www.drtomallen.com)

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Lon Seidman gets YouTube takedown notice for public domain video from NASA (plus.google.com)

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Lay off W3Schools (www.sagegerard.com)

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John Schappert, Zynga COO, Resigns (edgar.sec.gov)

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How do you completely de-personalize Google results? - Gabriel Weinberg's Blog (www.gabrielweinberg.com)

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BufferBox Offers Open Platform Alternative to Amazon Lockers (blogs.wsj.com)

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TapIn.tv (YC S12) Brings Instantaneous Live Video Streaming To The iPhone (techcrunch.com)

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Elnode, the EmacsLisp webserver, nears release (nic.ferrier.me.uk)

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Android Game Development Tutorials (www.javacodegeeks.com)

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Wikileaks has been under DDoS attack for the last five days (www.zdnet.com)

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Show HN: Olympics Ranking Adjusted by Population (Evening Project) (moshayedi.net)

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Valve brings non-game software to Steam (www.neowin.net)

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Ouya tops $8.5 million as Kickstarter campaign comes to a close (www.joystiq.com)

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Mean Variance Optimization (www.datanitro.com)

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Scaling node.js to 100k concurrent connections (blog.caustik.com)

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GNOME Workstation OS (blog.monotonous.org)

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Google Now is awesome; merge them with the iGoogle team and make it amazing. (blog.michaelmassie.com)

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"Computer Science" is Not Science and "Software Engineering" is Not Engineering (www.geocities.com)

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Raspberry Pi book by The Pragmatic Programmers (pragprog.com)

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Gmail in personal search results (www.google.com)

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Leak Finder: a new tool for JavaScript (google-opensource.blogspot.com)

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Elon Musk and SpaceX to send humans to Mars by 2025 (spaceindustrynews.com)

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The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities Transport Layer Security Protocol (tools.ietf.org)

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TCP Fast Open: expediting web services (lwn.net)

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Tom Duff on Duff's Device (1988) (www.lysator.liu.se)

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Nobody will win the storage war (blog.filepicker.io)

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132-page internal memo shows how Samsung set out to copy the iPhone (www.bgr.com)

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Clojurescript/Lua Lives (raphamiard.posterous.com)

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Philip Wadler: Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages (www.infoq.com)

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An Asynchronous Image Uploading Interface for Svbtle (blog.alexmaccaw.com)

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Google to include people's Gmail in search results (www.google.com)

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Ex-Google executive's new venture helps students avoid corporate life (www.reuters.com)

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Is the Batman stock market heist possible? (www.extremetech.com)

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Chute releases jQuery lib to collect photos from users with 1 LOC (chute.github.com)

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Android based camera from Nikon: Coolpix S800 (nikonrumors.com)

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Are “Let’s Play …Videos” bad for the gaming industry? (indiegamr.com)

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HiDPI/Retina image upsizing by clients & servers, not javascript (github.com)

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Linux founder Linus Torvalds delivers a smackdown like no other (www.attendly.com)

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The IT world’s love-hate relationship with OpenStack (gigaom.com)

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Show HN: Automated writing analysis of Twitter and Reddit feeds (anthropologize.com)

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New York Times Set to Sell About.com for $270 Million to Answers.com (allthingsd.com)

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Links are a Contract/API (blog.moovweb.com)

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Dyslexia caused by faulty signal processing in brain (www.sciencedaily.com)

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Why Designing a Mars Rover Like Curiosity Just Got a Lot Easier (www.wired.com)

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DB Superstar Jim Starkley touts NuoDBs new patent (gigaom.com)

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CyclicBarrier Example in Java - Use case (javarevisited.blogspot.sg)

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Thinkpad Carbon - Air Competitor (www.zdnet.com)

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My Life as a Telecommuting Robot (online.wsj.com)

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$1.1 billion raised by AngelList alumni (blog.angel.co)

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Upstart lets you invest in people (techcrunch.com)

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Here’s What Happened At Fluent (techcrunch.com)

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Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers (www.theverge.com)

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Patent troll Intellectual Ventures seeks “VP of Global Good” (gigaom.com)

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How much of your codebase is only understood by one person? (gist.io)

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Diabetes May Be Reversed By Long-Used Vaccine For TB (www.bloomberg.com)

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Curiosity's mysterious Mars photo stirs speculation (www.latimes.com)

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NASA can't handle the DNS config to redirect nasa.gov to www.nasa.gov (blogs.nasa.gov)

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Microsoft defense that fetched $50,000 prize bypassed in just 2 weeks (arstechnica.com)

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Amazon Lockers? We Had That Idea First (blogs.wsj.com)

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Everytime you order pizza, you're handing over your entire digital life (www.schneier.com)

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Pseudoscience unchallenged at IIT Kanpur (nirmukta.com)

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CLEAN REPOST: Super Short Read "At Least I F***ing Tried" (andysparks.co)

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How I kick-start a new Code-Igniter Project (roomforcreativity.wordpress.com)

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Ask HN: Best IP Geolocation Database or Service? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Fossil SCM 1.23 released (www.fossil-scm.org)

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If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet (www.wired.com)

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School Doesn't Make Sense (bennesvig.com)

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On Fluent.io Ending (a retrospective) (rethrick.com)

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Giant 3D Printer Builds Homes in 20 Hours (www.tomshardware.com)

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Go Down the Stack Young Man – Story of a (Network Performance) Bug (blog.strategiccyber.com)

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Create something. Share it. Stay on it until it doesn’t suck anymore. (ninjasandrobots.com)

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The Enterprise Sales Learning Curve (www.khoslaventures.com)

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Louis C.K. on eating pressure (www.avclub.com)

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Show HN: Zune-Inspired Music Interface Concept (vyemusic.com)

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Is ‘cloud security’ an oxymoron? (www.extremetech.com)

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Android Q2 market share jumps to 68% as iOS drops from 23% to 17% (www.theverge.com)

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LibreOffice 3.6 released (www.libreoffice.org)

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Quine in multiple languages (d.hatena.ne.jp)

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App.net is a real-time social feed without the ads (https://join.app.net)

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Boundless Pushes Forward w/ Free, Open Alternative to Textbooks (techcrunch.com)

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Nasa's Curiosity rover lifts its navigation cameras (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Google doesn't care about Keywords in the Meta Description for indexing (tomaltman.com)

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Mobify (www.mobify.com)

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An Introduction to Google Fiber Customer Service (googlefiberblog.blogspot.com)

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New Google Tools to Make the Search Engine More All-Knowing (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

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Better than Google Glasses (movies.io)

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How to Launch on Hacker News (www.youtube.com)

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HTML5 Face Detection (neave.github.com)

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Man builds bicycle out of cardboard for $9 (www.fastcoexist.com)

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Popcorn ingredient linked to Alzheimer's (www.upi.com)

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How to use Google Chromebook for Web Security Testing (blog.websecurify.com)

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Building a search engine with Clojure presentation (video & code) (github.com)

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The Linkblog Cancer (behindcompanies.com)

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Designers and Developers: Why Can’t We Get Along? (blog.smartbear.com)

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Ask HN: Should I go for higher pay, older technology job offer? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Twitpic’s Heello reboots as App.net-like real-time communication platform (thenextweb.com)

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Legit Ebook Lending Site Taken Down By An Angry Twitmob of Writers (www.techdirt.com)

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Why the Market Loves LinkedIn and Hates Facebook (business.time.com)

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How to Sample Data Like a Pro (carlos.bueno.org)

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The road to safer, more stable, and flashier Flash (blog.chromium.org)

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Facebook Developer World HACK 2012 (developers.facebook.com)

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Book publishing is dying? No kidding (sebastien-arbogast.com)

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TPP seeks to export unjustifiably long copyright terms to other countries (www.eff.org)

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Monsanto awarded $1b due to patent on never shipped product (www.techdirt.com)

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Ashoke Sen: India's Million Dollar Scientist (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Paperzoom is a scanning device (2011) (www.erasme.org)

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Stimulate the User's Sense of Nostalgia and Emotion (cdn1.sbnation.com)

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Need 3,000 more Sigs Now for Force TSA to Follow Law (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

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Ask HN: Blog post on pricing structure and revenue? please help (news.ycombinator.com)

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Google Goes Back to the Drawing Board for Nexus Q (www.nytimes.com)

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If you use Mark Otto's GitHub buttons your site is broken (github.com)

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Obama looking to impose CISPA via executive fiat. (thehill.com)

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Protein that boosts longevity may protect against diabetes (web.mit.edu)

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Ask HN: What problem isn't already solved in iOS app store? (news.ycombinator.com)

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Do you want to learn how to start unit testing? (www2.gotomeeting.com)

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Desktop 2.0 and the future of the networked operating system (www.theverge.com)

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Retailers starting to prefer eBay over Amazon (www.reuters.com)