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Published January 30, 2012 at 124 × 180 in Bloggers Unite To Help Raise Money For The Electronic Frontier Foundation

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The Week in Review

Friday

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Bitcoin is legal, but mainstream adoption will mandate playing by the rules For the Internet of things, will it be verticals or horizontals? A bitcoin bubble could be good for everyone New Zealand-based Vend raises $8M without turning to the Valley Hotseat: Gravity’s Amit Kapur defends the integrity of the MySpace mafia PandoHouse Rock: A history of 3D printing, from prototypes to pistols With the bleeding stopped, ShoeDazzle is in the market for a strategic acquisition or investment Bitcoin’s consumerization continues with Perk, a rewards platform and Web browser for normal people How to become a VC without leaving home Gliph joins Boost.vc, launches bitcoin messaging and payments app Zinio’s new subscription product only solves half a problem Facebook ponders its place in the Internet of Things The Apathy Epidemic: Why your startup will suck you dry

Saturday

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PandoMonthly New York with Chris Dixon, the full interview Stop bitching about Millennials

Sunday

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Dave McClure is no male chauvinist

Monday

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You are your data: The scary future of the quantified self movement The new Flickr: Biggr, Spectaculr, Wherevr Yahoo didn’t buy Tumblr. They bought Tumblr’s market position Google closes Checkout, pushing thousands of merchants into Braintree’s arms Pass the pipe: Gawker’s “Crackstarter” is skeezy but potentially significant Sorry, NYC, Tumblr selling to Yahoo was not the “win” we needed On the outskirts of the Maker Faire Why Yahoo’s track record with acquisitions isn’t relevant to Tumblr Writers should be paid Don’t confuse Google’s ubiquity for openness NextGuide Web launches. Can it possibly be a discovery powerhouse? Minbox: The way file-sharing should work Former MySpace and NASA security exec raises $700k, launches Prevoty to defend websites against malicious user code Yahoo buys Tumblr and Mayer “promises not to screw it up” like past deals Forget armchair activism, new app Buycott helps people shop with a conscience

Yesterday

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PopExpert raises $2 million for its video teaching marketplace The race to a “smart” television is over. Xbox won In biggest pan-industry push since SOPA, tech leaders get set for March for Innovation The importance of grit, rules, and discipline In Oklahoma’s time of crisis, Sparkrelief is working to unify relief efforts Memo to this year’s YC class: It’s damn hard to build an enterprise company What are the effects of RelayRides’ New York cease and desist? Finally, a Lumia-like device unbound by Windows Phone How a Valley veteran found happiness and opportunity building tech in Mexico Yes, the Valley can be vacuous – but it’s more complicated than the New Yorker would have us believe The case against Shinichi Mochizuki as bitcoin’s “dance away genius” Swipely raises another $12m from tiny Rhode Island Is influencer marketing over? Here’s another pivot, this time from Wahooly ServiceMax’s SaaS platform could make training technicians and replacing software a thing of the past