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The relative merits of native and web apps — [LINK]

Apps vs. the Web.

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Roger McNamee on today’s information technology opportunities — [VIDEO]

RELATED: Apps vs. the Web. Beware, the sound of this CNBC video is weak: Post-mortem of past technology predictions: SOMEWHAT RELATED: – Technology Is The New Smoking.

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Watch this one-minute video: Egyptian protesters film themselves with their smartphones, and then upload to YouTube. Who needs the traditional mass media, anymore? – [VIDEO]

After Tunisia, Egypt. Then, Algeria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, etc.

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Why you should discard reports about Android sales… –> It’s the usage that counts, not the sales. – [CHART]

iOS browser usage (in green) still growing faster than Android (in blue):

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Mark Zuckerberg and Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes – [VIDEO]

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The redesign of the Gawker Media sites

Their focus is not on generating pageviews but on attracting (and retaining, I guess) new readers. – http://gawker.com/ – http://beta.gawker.com/ – Nick Denton interviewed by Henry Blodget @ Ignition – Felix Salmon on Gawker Media

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Great interview of WordPress’s Matt Mullenweg

The interviewer asks all the good questions.

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David Pennock’s buddy wants you to explore the Web with “Pivot”. – [VIDEO]

Ass-busting Gary Flake (nicknamed “The Dark Vader Of The Internets” since he joined MicroSoft from Yahoo!) has been showing off “Pivot“.

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TED: Awesome Knowledge Videos

What are you going to do this Summer? My advice: Don’t watch TV, don’t go to the movies. Instead, download all the TED videos from YouTube. (Use Video Download Helper to download the videos on your hard drive.) I have … Continue reading

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Few people write up blog posts, but many read them (“scan-read” them, more exactly). That’s true for both Midas Oracle and the Blogosphere as a whole.

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