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Coates comments on Paul Graham’s XTech talk. Is his take on startups essenially a political one, or does it spring from experience? Coates thinks the latter is the case and goes on to explore suitable places for startups to spring up.
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Danah Boyd worries about new legislation that bans youth from accessing social media sites. Are there organisations aimed at defending social software users’ rights?
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Metcalfe objects to a New Scientist article focussing on the security problems with mashups. He thinks that mashups are too experimental for them to be concerned about hackers and such. Regulation would only stifle their development at this stage.
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Malarkey wants you to upload examples of newspapers to Flickr and tag them newspapertypography.
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Michael Arrington reviews Google Notebook and wonders why they haven’t included tagging. My guess is they’ve deliberately gone with a single category per post-scheme to set GN apart from the competition. However, I agree that this results in a far greater
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Dan Cederholm talks about his recently launched project Cork’d — a social wine tasting site. Great idea, nice clear design, I’ve signed up and will give it a try soon.
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A review of the new MacBook. People seem to disagree whether the following are improvements: shiny screen, new spaced out keys and matte finish on the black model. I’ll check them out myself soon.