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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.
Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
Critical IE, Excel updates headline bumper Patch Tuesday — Microsoft has shipped a major Internet Explorer update to cover at least three code execution vulnerabilities in its flagship Web browser. — The cumulative IE update (MS07-045) headlines a bumper batch of nine bulletins …
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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, Silicon Alley Insider, P2P Blog, Slyck, Download Squad, Idolator and Contentinople
Dan Warne / APC:
Google launches YouTube-style embeddable maps … First up, if you know how to embed a YouTube video in your blog, you'll be able to embed Google Maps in your website, Google promises. — It'll be as simple as cutting and pasting a bit of HTML code into your website, just like a YouTube video.
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Profy.Com, Download Squad, Mashable!, Google Operating System, Today @ PC World, Read/WriteWeb and WebProNews
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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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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 …
John Borland / Wired News:
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign — On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically …
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 …
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!, Between the Lines, Googlified, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, Insider Chatter, UNEASYsilence, bytes|genes, Compiler, davidrothman.net, BloggingStocks, Download Squad, Google Operating System, Search Engine Land, paidContent.org and All Points Blog
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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John Tierney / New York Times:
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch — Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else's hobby. I hadn't imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version …
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 …
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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Use TokBox To Set Up Instant Video Chat — TokBox is a new site that we just heard about moments ago. It's completely live but appears to have been flying under the radar until now. — It allows you to set up a video chat channel in seconds. It instantly and accurately detected …
