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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:20:21 -0800

Apple’s New Tablet To Be Baptized iSlate? Let’s Dig A Little Deeper
Nice scoop by MacRumors, which reportedly retrieved historical evidence that Apple has acquired the domain name islate.com back...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:07:20 -0800

CrunchBase Funding Digest: Center’d, Lexy, Accelerate Mobile Apps, Brickfish
Every day I troll SEC Form D Filings to discover new startups, fundings and investments. I put everything I find into...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:58:47 -0800

Flixup Brings Its Movie Tweet Aggregator To The Web For The Holiday Movie Season
At our Realtime CrunchUp in November, Bazaar Labs showed off their iPhone application Flixup, which scans Twitter to create...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:31:11 -0800

Polyvore’s Virtual Styling Tool Aims To Be More Social With Facebook Connect
As "Fashion 2.0" sites continue to innovate, the social component of these style-focused sites becomes an important tool...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:29:23 -0800

SCVNGR Raises $4 Million From Google Ventures
SCVNGR, the platform that lets you build location-based games compatible with any mobile phone, is on a roll. The company has...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:00:14 -0800

Skout Studies What Happens When Dating Goes Mobile
Over the last decade or so, the public perception of online dating has shifted from being a bit odd to something that's pretty...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:56:57 -0800

The Great Location Land Rush Of 2010
Back in November, at our Realtime CrunchUp event, I sat on the geolocation panel with members of Twitter, Foursquare,...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:25:33 -0800

Chegg Founder Raises Another $7.5 Million For Stealth Startup Kakai
It's not often that you hear about a startup still in deep stealth that has over 40 employees and backing from some of the...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:15:06 -0800

Amazon Takes A Holiday Vacation, Takes Customers With It (Update)
Looks like Amazon has decided to go on holiday vacation early, and invited all of its customers to go along with it. Amazon...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:20:37 -0800

Introducing… The 27-inch iLemon
Regular readers will know my affinity for Apple products. In general, they're high quality, and I'm willing to pay a bit more...
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Ashley Morgan posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:29:16 -0800

Upstart Blogger 2010 musings
Recent events have forced my hand slightly. But, as regular readers know, there’s always a plan. Something wicked this...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:03:49 -0800

ChaCha Raises Another $7 Million
Human-powered mobile answers service ChaCha has raised $7 million funding, according to an SEC filing. The company has...
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Martin Kelley posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:27:45 -0800

Online Quaker classes
I've just signed up for Beacon Hill's Friends House's Quaker Studies class on "Moodle, Technique / Technology" that begins...
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Martin Kelley posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:16:17 -0800

Pilgrim & Stranger: Overseers, Committees and Oversight
Traditionally Quakers have had 3 offices: gospel ministers, elders and overseers. In modern liberal Quakerism none of these...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:31:08 -0800

Apple Not Liable For Plagued iMac Screens, Updates Firmware Anyway
Apple just dodged a bullet. A New York federal judge dismissed a potential class action lawsuit which alleged that Apple...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:48:46 -0800

Opera Reports Massive Growth For Mobile Web Usage, Particularly In Asia And Africa
Browser maker Opera Software has released its latest 'State of the Mobile Web' report this morning, which is based on the...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:28:31 -0800

Raptr Loses Director Of Product Strategy To Twitter
Whether Twitter is at some point going to launch (or buy) a desktop client is subject to speculation, but it's clear that...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:38:30 -0800

Apple May Be On The Verge Of Kneecapping The Cable Industry. Finally.
The cable companies suck. All of them. Some suck less than others. But they all suck. We need someone to whip them into shape....
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Martin Kelley posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:23:15 -0800

Wess Daniels: Advent Message “Come Be Born in Us”
The father of Quakerism, George Fox, wrote in his journal of his present and personal experience of Christ when he said:...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:46:19 -0800

YouTube Gets Its Own Short URLs. Except They’re Still Pretty Long.
Looks like Google is really going full steam ahead with its shortened URLs. Only a week after the search giant launched its...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:57:57 -0800

Backed By Google Ventures, EnglishCentral Raises $3.5 Million For Video Language Learning
Video language learning website EnglishCentral recently raised a total of $3.5 million, according to an SEC filing. Part of...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:50:55 -0800

Twitter Captures A Nexus One Unboxing And Another Video
A number of pictures have hit the web now showing the Nexus One, aka the Google Phone, in the flesh. But there haven't been...
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Martin Kelley posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:51:09 -0800

Passionate Ashley lifting her voice to condensension
He was condescending, he didn’t listen, and he interrupted women while they were speaking. I struggle with hearing men...
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Ashley Morgan posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:01:26 -0800

An apology
In September 2009 I became embroiled in something that was ill advised. I became aware of a very negative review of Twitter...
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Ashley Morgan posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:19:18 -0800

Upstart Blogger is now under your control
I recently wrote a post entitled Something wicked this way comes. I had intended to make this announcement in the new year,...
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