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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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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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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Adding a Google Map to your blog — Google will be releasing a new feature next week that will enable people to easily embed a Google Map into their Web site or blog, just like you can do with a YouTube video. No coding or programming required; just copying and pasting a snippet of HTML, a Google spokeswoman says.
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Dan Warne / APC:Google launches YouTube-style embeddable maps
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Download Squad, Mashable!, Profy.Com, Google Operating System, Today @ PC World, Read/WriteWeb and WebProNews
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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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VentureBeat, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Valleywag, Mashable!, Googlified, Between the Lines, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, Insider Chatter, UNEASYsilence, bytes|genes, Compiler, davidrothman.net, BloggingStocks, Download Squad, Google Operating System, Search Engine Land, All Points Blog and paidContent.org
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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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.
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Buggy ATI Driver Leaves Vista Open to Attack — Microsoft and AMD are fixing a bug in an ATI driver that leaves the Vista kernel open to attack. — Microsoft is working with AMD to fix a bug in an ATI driver that ships preinstalled on millions of laptops and which leaves the Vista kernel open …
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