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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Plaxo launching Pulse, its own social network — Plaxo, the online address book, will try to recreate itself as an open social network called "Pulse" beginning Monday. — In retrospect, you should have seen this coming. Plaxo is primed for this. — The Mountain View …
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Fred / A VC:
The Open Social Network — We've got social networks with lots of users, like MySpace, Beebo, Facebook, etc, and we've got open social networks like Marc Canter's People Aggregator and Marc Andreessen's Ning. But we really don't yet have an open social network with a lot of users.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Plaxo Prepares To Launch Pulse Social Network - Will Users Trust It? — So Plaxo's new social network, called Pulse (we wrote about it last month), is still extremely buggy. Robert Scoble and Matt Marshall say it launches properly on Monday, so hopefully they'll have the kinks worked out by then.
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Tariq Krim / Netvibes.com Blog:
Facebook Meet Netvibes: Netvibes Introduces the Facebook Widget — Well you've all been asking for it, and it's finally here. — The new Netvibes Facebook Widget will allow users to view their Facebook notifications and friends. You can now access your Facebook info on Netvibes, and keep up to date on what your friends are doing!
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Netvibes Launches Facebook Widget, Challenges Lock-In — There's a war being fought over ownership of your identity. Today Netvibes launches the Facebook Widget, which lets you view your Facebook notifications and friends within Netvibes. — Data displayed includes links to your profile …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Lock-in becomes a Web 2.0 issue — Amazing piece on Mashable, finally the issues we've been writing about here for 10-plus years are starting to surface in dramatic terms in the commercial space. To all vendors who are tuned in, look for ways you're keeping your users from managing their own data.
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BBC:
Google sidesteps mobile reports — Google has refused to deny mounting speculation that it is working to produce its own brand mobile phone. — Reports suggest that the web giant is developing a "GPhone", centred on its mobile services, such as search, e-mail and maps.
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:Not one, but many "gPhones" in the works: report
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PC World:
Microsoft Cuts Vista Price to $66 in China — Microsoft Corp. has dramatically cut the price of Windows Vista in China in a bid to boost sales of its new operating system. — Microsoft cut the retail price of Windows Vista Home Basic in China to 499 renminbi (US$65.80), from 1,521 renminbi— a 67 percent reduction.
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Reuters:
Microsoft slashes Vista price in China — Microsoft has more than halved the retail price of its Vista operating system in China. — The Home Basic edition dropped from $201 (1,521 yuan) to $66, and the Home Premium package dropped from $238 to $118. The move was effective as of Wednesday.
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PC World:
Sony to Replace Casing on DSC-T5 Cameras (PC World) — Sony to Replace Casing on DSC-T5 Cameras — Sony Corp. is offering to replace part of the casing on some models of its DSC-T5 digital still camera because the metal coating may peel away and scratch or cut the skin of users.
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Amazon Web Services Blog:
Ka-Ching! — Ever since the first Amazon Web Service was released in mid-2002, we have encouraged developers to use them to create new types of businesses. — This encouragement has taken many forms over the years. Let's revisit some of the more interesting moments in the last 5 years of AWS history...
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Twitter Is A Publication — Here's a theory that's emerged from my web communication experiment: Twitter isn't a communication tool, it's a publication. — That's not to say there isn't a strong communication element to it, just like there is in the comment sections of blogs …
BBC:
Warning of webmail wi-fi hijack — Using public wi-fi hotspots has got much riskier as security experts unveil tools that nab login data over the air. — Demonstrated at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, the tools make it far easier to steal account details, said Robert Graham of Errata Security.
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Exclusive: Amazon "Delivers" Justin.TV — We have been facinated by Justin.TV and Justin Kan. His wearing a live webcam on his baseball cap is much more than a publicity stunt, it's a demonstration of the viability of live video origination and broad distribution via embed code.
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
ARIN fights IP address trading as transition to IPv6 may get new deadlines — Yesterday, the American Registry for Internet Numbers published a statement outlining its thoughts on the Internet address policy going forward in Canada and the US, the area it has responsibility for.
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The Official Parallels Virtualization Blog:
New Parallels Desktop beta starts today, and a friendly hello — In typical Parallels "how the heck did you do that so fast?" fashion, we're launching beta testing for the next update of Parallels Desktop for Mac. And, I'm happy to let you all know that we listened to your feedback …
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