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What I’m reading and finding for August 31st 2011 through September 2nd 2011:

• The Great Twitter Unfollow Experiment of 2011-
  chrisbrogan.com
  - ceb
  This week, I unfollowed everyone on Twitter. That was over 131,000 people. I didn’t do it manually, but rather, with some help (ask @jesse, if you need custom help like that). My reason was that I’d started receiving over 200 direct message spams a day. (These messages said things like “lol, look at this funny photo,” with a link that would enslave my account to send similar messages.)
  I learned a few things in the process.
  People React Before They Investigate
  Because I knew some people might n…  show all text
• Tech Blogger to Invest in Start-Ups-
  nytimes.com
  - By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
  

  Michael Arrington, who writes about start-ups for the TechCrunch blog, is opening a fund to invest in the same kinds of companies.
• peHUB » Groupon PR to peHUB: Call Us Before You Write Another ‘Nastigram’-
  pehub.com
  - Connie Loizos
  

  For a company that’s in registration to go public and thus forbidden from pumping up the company stock in advance of an IPO, Groupon is having an awfully hard time keeping quiet. Last week, of course, a memo from Groupon CEO Andrew Mason to employees about “insane accusations” being reported about the company’s financials was mysteriously leaked to the popular tech blog AllThingsD.
  Yesterday, our colleagues at Reuters reported that “Groupon spends millions of dollars enticing new subscribers, b…  show all text
• Lawnchair: Simple JSON Storage – a lawnchair is sorta like a couch except smaller and outside. perfect for html5 mobile apps that need a lightweight, adaptive, simple and elegant persistence solution.
• Apple loses another unreleased iPhone (exclusive) | Apple – CNET News-
  news.cnet.com
  

  An Apple employee lost yet another unreleased iPhone in a San Francisco bar last month, leading to an investigation by San Francisco police and Apple security, CNET has learned. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Apple.
• U.S. Files to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger – Bloomberg-
  bloomberg.com
  

  The U.S. Justice Department sued to block AT&T Inc.’s proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile USA Inc., saying the deal would “substantially lessen competition” in the wireless market.
• From Twitter – http://t.co/rqi3NZ2 Facebook rumored to launch a music service next month

What I’m reading and finding for August 28th 2011 through August 31st 2011:

• “Respect Explorer’s Heritage” | TechCrunch-
  techcrunch.com
  - MG Siegler
  

  When photos started circulating yesterday of the new interface for Windows Explorer in Windows 8, I was sure they were a joke. Surely, this was an Onion mock-up. Or maybe they were from some Apple fan making fun of Microsoft’s design aesthetic in which more is quite often… more. I mean, there’s no way that this is something Microsoft could actually release — let alone in 2012, right?
  Wrong.
  As Windows chief Steven Sinofsky and Windows management team member Alex Simons detail in length on the B…  show all text
• From Twitter – http://t.co/44nTwUd Streaming Services Compared Amazon, Hulu Plus, iTunes, Netflix and VUDU
• The Memory Buyer’s Guide: What’s the Best RAM for My System? – How much do you need? How fast should it be? Are latencies important? Today, we’ll be covering everything you need to know to get the right RAM for your system.
• Death Threats and Hate Crimes, Attacks On Women Bloggers Escalating | IttyBiz-
  ittybiz.com
  - Naomi Dunford
  I’m going to tell you a story and it’s very, very important. Please read it, all the way through. Women’s lives are at stake.
  Once upon a time, there was a website. We’ll call it Mean Website 1. The owner of this website didn’t seem to like me very much. As a successful woman on the internet, this is hardly surprising.
  The comments on Mean Website 1 got a little out of control, and people said some Not Very Nice Things. Because I am a woman, naturally these Not Very Nice Things quickly degenera…  show all text
• Seesmic Focuses On The Social Enterprise; Debuts Android, iPad Apps For Salesforce CRM | TechCrunch-
  techcrunch.com
  - Leena Rao
  

  Social application developer Seesmic is making a big move into the social enterprise and is debuting a dedicated Android app and iPad app for Salesforce’s CRM product (Windows Phone 7 will also be added soon), called Seesmic CRM. The Android app will be launched tomorrow morning at Salesforce’s annual conference, Dreamforce, and Seesmic will launch the iPad app in a few weeks.
  For background, Seesmic, which was founded by French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur, helps you monitor and track the social …  show all text
• H-P’s One-Year Plan – WSJ.com-
  online.wsj.com
  
• Hurricane Irene Hype: How the Media Went Overboard – The Daily Beast-
  thedailybeast.com