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Monday, 19th July 2010

BurstNET Links Blogetery to Al-Qaeda

BurstNET, the host for the blog platform Blogetery, released a statement today. Blogetery's 70,000 blogs were shut down with little notice last week, as we reported yesterday. "BurstNET received a notice of a critical nature from law enforcement officials, and was asked to provide information regarding ownership of the server hosting…

Curt Hopkins comments

What Advantages Does Your Startup Really Have?

When describing some of the common mistakes he'd seen in recent pitches for the incubator Capital Factory, Smart Bear Software founder Jason Cohen listed "invalid unfair advantages" as something that many startups needlessly tout. These include having a certain feature, having a team full of PhDs, being passionate and hard-working, and having…

Audrey Watters comments

Cloud Computing

Google Doubles Spending for Cloud Infrastructure... But Where?

Google has doubled what it spends on its data centers - the company's largest investment since 2008. According to Data Center Knowledge, Google spent $476 million in the second quarter, compared to $239 million in the previous quarter . Historically, the company's capital spending tracks data center construction. That means this increase could…

Infrastructure Alex Williams comments

Beyond Foursquare: What Search Engines Could Do With Location Data

Foursquare says it's in talks with all the major search engines to index the startup's location data. We're hearing that Google in particular may be in talks with all the major players in the location-based social networking market. What would a big search engine do with a little startup's check-ins and annotations about locations? Here are some…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

A Case of Indecent Exposure: iChatr Pulled From App Store

It looks like Apple is continuing its anti-porn crusade, but this time around it isn't even porn it's going after, it's the iPhone app iChatr, the portable version of everyone's favorite random webcam encounter service, Chatroulette. It's been just over a week since iChatr hit the App Store and already, it it has met with an untimely end…

Mike Melanson comments

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