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Facebook Developers News Feed:
Change is Coming. — At Facebook we're focused on making Facebook Platform a better experience for both developers and users. To that end, we're working on some changes that we're planning to roll out within the coming weeks that we wanted to be sure you know about beforehand.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Takes Further Steps To Curb User Abuse; Change In How Applications Are Measured — Last week Facebook updated their developer platform to restrict some of the more egregious abuses of users by application developers - bait and switch profile advertisements and friend spamming.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook's platform to reward good, punish bad applications — Facebook will introduce significant changes to its developer platform in the coming weeks, according to a post this evening by Facebook's lead platform developer, Dave Morin. — He says the goal is to build Facebook users' trust …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
NewsGator Launches Facebook App: NewsFriends — One of the leading RSS Aggregation startups, NewsGator Technologies, jumped on the Facebook bandwagon today with NewsFriends (add to Facebook here) - a social news application where Facebook users can aggregate and share news, videos and podcasts.
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Daniel Burka / Digg the Blog:
New Digg Home Page Live Today — Following up on Kevin's post from last week, we've gone live with improvements to our home page that allow you to see both news and videos on a single page. We've gotten a lot of feedback that the videos are entertaining but people miss them because they're isolated.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Digg Gets A Major Makeover — Changes to the Digg template and feature set discussed by Kevin Rose August 22 are now live. — The biggest change with the new look Digg is the inclusion of video on the front page. Other changes include tweaks to page and story summary layouts, streamlined navigation, and more customization options.
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Why Apple Can't Stop iPhone Hackers — AT&T and Apple may face an uphill battle prosecuting hackers that untether the iPhone from the AT&T wireless network — It sure sounds like a steal. On Aug. 31, George Hotz plans to trade in his iPhone for a metallic blue Nissan (NSANY) 350Z sports car and three brand-new iPhones.
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Nic Fildes / The Independent:
Orange threatens to spoil Nokia's online music entertainment party — Orange has threatened to spoil Nokia's high-profile launch of its new music download service this week after warning that it will refuse to offer its flagship music handset to its 16 million customers in the UK unless …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Jaxtr Closes $10 Million Series A; Announces 1 Million Users — Jaxtr has raised a $10 million Series A round led by August Capital with Mayfield Fund, Draper Richards, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Luxemburg-based Mangrove Capital participating. They've also doubled their registered user base …
David Kanter / Real World Technologies:
The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect — Introduction — In the competitive x86 microprocessor market, there are always swings and shifts based on the latest introductions from the two main protagonists: Intel and AMD. The next anticipated shift is coming in 2008-9 …
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GPhone - It's Confirmed — Update 5:36 PM CST (8/27/2007): 211 Blog Reactions to the story, according to Technorati. Apparently I struck a chord talking about the what people seemed to have now dubbed it, the "gPhone" (notice the iPhone-style capitalization).
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Breaking: Israeli Hackers 100% Unlock the iPhone Yet Again, AT&T Shrugs — [UPDATED 6:23PM: iPhone Dev Team sources have confirmed that three Israeli guys were on their IRC channel some time ago. They suspect that these may be the same people.] Three hackers named Dubbi …
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
IBM Server Worth $1.4 Million Falls Off Forklift — Federal contractor T.R. Systems says its workers were moving the server from a freight truck into its warehouse in Alexandria, Va., when the mishap occurred. — An IBM server worth $1.4 million was wrecked after it fell off a forklift during shipping.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony prepping an NWZ-series of Walkmans? — Not 100% clear what's going on here, but it looks like a new network Walkman was loosed (or is about to be) somewhere in the world. Cutting through the blur, we see that both players will offer 18 hours of video / 33 hours of audio with support for DRM'd WMA files.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge sides with RIAA: file-sharing apps lead to direct infringement — One of the arguments the RIAA has made in every file-sharing lawsuit it has ever filed is that making a song available on a P2P network is the same as distributing it, therefore violating the record label's copyright on the song.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:Judge Says That Making Available Is Infringement... RIAA Pounces Immediately
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