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What I’m reading and finding for February 9th 2012 through February 12th 2012:

• Wired Opinion: The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox | Epicenter | Wired.com-
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  - Andy Baio
  

  The other day, I tried out Unroll.me, a clever new service that reads your inbox to let you unsubscribe from mailing lists and other unwanted e-mail flotsam with a single click.
  As I was about to connect my Gmail account, my finger hovered over the “Grant access” button.Wait a second. Who am I giving access to my Gmail account, anyway? There was no identifying information on their site — no company address, no team page listing the names of its team members, and broken links to their privacy…  show all text
• From Twitter – Protests erupt across Europe against web piracy treaty http://t.co/7Ylm1F61
• From Twitter – Study Finds BitTorrent Does Not Hurt U.S. Box Office Numbers http://t.co/ByY5DbxY
• Wall Street Journal Columnist Jeffrey Zaslow Is Killed in Crash – WSJ.com-
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  Wall Street Journal Moving On columnist Jeffrey Zaslow, who wrote some of the paper’s most memorable front-page features and became a best-selling author, died in a car crash Friday.
• 24 Hours » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter-
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  There are crazy days and then there are days like yesterday. Kickstarter has experienced some frantic hours but nothing like what happened in the 24-hour span between Wednesday at 6:54pm and Thursday at 6:44pm. Two million-dollar projects, a …
• Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million From Chris Sacca, Max Levchin And Others To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System | TechCrunch-
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  Gumroad, the buzzy one-man startup launched by Pinterest and Turntable app designer (and 19-year-old college dropout) Sahil Lavingia, officially launches today with over $1.1 million in seed funding from investors Accel Partners, Chris Sacca, Max Levchin, SV Angel, Josh Kopelman, Seth Goldstein, Naval Ravikrant, Collaborative Fund and Danny Rimer.
• From Twitter – Tiché PC HDD Vibration Killer http://t.co/HUTushIi

Filtering the web so you don’t have to for February 12th 2010

• Fuck you, Google « Fugitivus -
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  I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother.
  There’s a BIG drop-off between them and my other “most frequent” contacts.
  You know who my third most frequent contact is?
  My abusive ex-husband.
  Which is why it’s SO EXCITING, Google, that you AUTOMATICALLY allowed all my most frequent contacts access to my Reader, including all the comments I’ve made on Reader items, usually shared with my boyfriend, who I had NO REASON to hide my current location or workplace from, and ne..   show all text
  QueenofSpain: holy crap Google Fail http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/fuck-you-google/ (via @marianiles)
• Microsoft halts Windows Update distribution of security fix after blue-screen reports – Microsoft removes one group of patches it released as part of this week’s Patch Tuesday from its Windows Update service until it can investigate reports by some users that it is causing havoc with their PCs.