http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR20100728061…

The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual’s Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/analysis_what_are_the_webs_top_sources_o…

Title says it all.  Nothing surprise other than the StumbledUpon stats.

http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/27/intel-demos-silicon-photonics-chips-to-tran…

In another life, I once had a client working on creating a photonic chip, but they were never able to produce a polymer that could handle the heat.  Looks like Intel beat them to it.

http://gigaom.com/2010/07/27/fact-most-people-have-never-heard-of-location-ba…

Amid all the attention that location-based services have been getting — particularly Foursquare, which recently crossed 2 million users and landed a substantial round of venture capital financing — it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that most people have never used them, and in many cases may not even realize that they exist.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Mashable/~3/HjSoOPlKMkQ/

Interesting…

http://feeds.venturebeat.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/tECHWRYfiic/

Any time Fred talks publicly, be it on AVC or at an event, I’ll listen.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/20/times-paywall-readership

Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic