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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Facebook *is* opening up — And it's starting to happen right now, today in fact. — I reported earlier on a new feed in Facebook, allowing notifications to be visible outside the wall. — It's getting reallll interesting — I've found some more RSS feeds in Facebook's UI. — 1. Friends Status Updates.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Opens Up Their Data Feeds — Dave Winer is tracking some new features being released by Facebook that debunk the theories that the company is focused on building a completely closed silo of user data and news. — Facebook's news feeds, launched last year to a lot of controversy, has proven to be a brilliant move.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
New Study Shows that Online Creativity and E-learning Popular with Kids — A new study released today by the National School Boards Association shows that 96 percent of students with online access use social networking technologies - defined as as chatting, text messaging, blogging …
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Barbara M. Hunter / NSBA:New Study Explores the Online Behaviors of U.S. Teens and 'Tweens
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Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Microsoft issues 6 'critical' patches — SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. issued fixes for nine security flaws, including four meant to keep hackers from breaking into computers through Web pages, during a regularly scheduled update Tuesday. — Microsoft gave the four Web browsing-related patches its most severe "critical" rating.
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Market Wire:
Lime Wire to Enter Music Download Market With New Digital Store and Inks Deals With Music Companies — Lime Wire LLC, maker of the popular LimeWire file-sharing software, announced today that it will open a digital music store. — Initially the store will be a stand-alone website …
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GigaOM, P2P Blog, Silicon Alley Insider, Slyck, Download Squad, Idolator and Contentinople
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
VMware's IPO - Insanity turns Silicon Valley back to normal — Darling Diary Welcome to The Register's live coverage of VMware's IPO. The world has gone insane over this sucker, and I'm not one to deny ecstasy. — Preamble — It's 6 in the morning here in California, and things have turned palpable.
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Kevin Poulsen / blog.wired.com:
Vote On the Most Shameful Wikipedia Spin Jobs — Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith just launched an unofficial Wikipedia search tool that threatens to lay bare the ego-editing and anonymous flacking on the site. Enter the name of a corporation, organization or government entity …
Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
EIF: Home abusers can be turned off and banned, warns Sony — Home boss discusses bannings and branding for mature users — Peter Edward, director of the Home platform for Sony, has told an audience at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival that users who consistently abuse …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Battle over attorneys fees' brewing between RIAA, ex-defendant — The RIAA and a former file-sharing defendant have filed briefs in an Oklahoma federal court as they battle over whether the RIAA will be forced to pay attorneys' fees for both parties. The case in question involves Tallie Stubbs …
Jessie Scanlon / Business Week:
Getting Serious About Gaming — Everyone knows video gaming is a growth industry. What's less well known is how Web 2.0 and big business are contributing to that growth — Like happening upon a gnome in the online fantasy game World of Warcraft or breaking the speed limit in Grand Theft Auto …
Marshall Kirkpatrick:
Introducing good bloggers and companies to hire them — I've been getting so many inquiries lately from companies looking to hire bloggers, and so many responses to messages I send out about them over twitter, that I'm losing track. I really like helping bring these two groups together.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Ask Jumps, Google Slips and Yahoo Leads American Customer Satisfaction Index for Search — For the first time, Yahoo has beaten Google in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The survey measures U.S. consumer satisfaction across a broad range …
Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
Adobe mulling a move into the Office market? — Wired is suggesting that Adobe Systems may launch a competitor to Microsoft Office. Not only would this not be surprising (though I see little evidence in the article pointing to the presumption), but if anyone were to do it well, it would be Adobe.
MrJolly / MCV:
Nod given to HDD-only 360 titles — GAMEFEST: MMO developers permitted to require Xbox hard drive for future titles — Owners of Microsoft's basic Core Xbox 360 may soon find themselves unable to play the latest titles following Microsoft's announcement that developers of online MMO games …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
PSP download store held up by DRM — Fans of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) media device must continue to wait for a download store, a feature that experts have said is a must if the player is ever to launch a significant challenge to the iPod. — Sony representatives …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
First Google Health Screenshots — Google Health, codename "Weaver", is Google's planned health information storage program. Google's Vice President of Engineering Adam Bosworth lobbies for the program for quite a while now. Adam said the current US health care system is challenged when it comes to …
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Chris Reidy / Boston Globe:
Home of the bean and the blog — Boston has long been viewed as the land of the bean and the cod — and now the Hub may also be the land of the blog. — According to OutsideIn.com, a website that tracks neighborhood blogging, Boston was the "bloggiest city" in America for the two-month period it examined, March and April.
