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Improv Everywhere sets up three full-size desktop computers at Starbucks. Kudos to Agent Plaza for setting hers up on her lap.

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Jerry Yang has about 20 days to convince Yahoo (YHOO) shareholders that they’re better off saving the company than selling it, and he is pulling out all the stops. Last night Yahoo officially launched Buzz, a social news service where “buzz-worthy” articles are ranked according to user interest. It’s essentially Digg (if Digg was purple), redundant and three years late to the social news market.

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Pakistan Restores Access to Funny Cat, Dog Videos

Pakistan today lifted the ban that inadvertently caused YouTube’s near global blackout Sunday, after the site removed a video the country’s government claimed was offensive to Islam. Pakistan insists it was not responsible for YouTube’s outage and says it was forced to take the issue into its own hands when YouTube failed to respond to the complaint it submitted through the standard channels. Abdullah Riar, Pakistan’s minister for information technology and telecommunications, described the whole incident as “very sad, very unfortunate,” adding “We have nothing against the YouTube site itself.”

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The sad thing about this is that literally hundreds of people who were not paid to stand in line, or paid by their employer to attend, were prevented from even entering the building.”

–Craig Aaron, a spokesman for Free Press, comments on Comcast’s efforts to pack the FCC hearing on Net neutrality yesterday with its own employees.

Google (GOOG) took a nasty slide this morning as comScore released new data that reveals what appears to be a material weakening in the company’s advertising business. How material? Google’s sponsored clicks were down 7% month-over-month, effectively flat year-over-year and down 12% quarter-over-quarter.
Perhaps the slowing economy is having an impact on Google’s growth after all. [...]

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If your corporate mission is to organize the world’s ever-increasing mass of digital information and make it universally accessible and useful, sooner or later the telecom costs and peering fees associated with the transmission of that information are going to get, you know, quite large. So large, in fact, that it may make sense to build out your own network.

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It’s been 267 days since Apple last updated the MacBook Pro. That’s 81 days longer than the company historically takes between updates. Which means it was high time for an upgrade. And today we were finally given one.
This morning Apple (AAPL) refreshed both its MacBook and MacBook Pro lines, adding Intel’s Penryn [...]

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Instrumental approach to predict the sensory profile of espresso coffee