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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
First OpenSocial Application Hacked Within 45 Minutes — It didn't take long for someone to hack the first OpenSocial application. In fact, it took just 45 minutes. — A developer who goes by the alias "theharmonyguy" and describes himself as "just an amateur" claims to have compromised …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Q&A with Blake Commagere: Top Facebook app developer sizes up OpenSocial — Blake Commagere is a top third-party developer on Facebook, having built or worked with others to build popular applications like Causes, Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves and Slayers (he also works with startup Mogad, which is developing a sort of news feed site).
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
What Google OpenSocial really means — When I wrote yesterday about the value-add of social networking, speculating that a "tool kit" might easily replace big sites like Facebook, I had no idea I was scooping myself. — In fact, at that very moment, our own David Berlind was being briefed …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Google to unveil 'Android' phone software — Google is ready to unveil a suite of software for mobile phones based on open-source technology, backed by some of the largest wireless industry companies in the world. — The company is expected to hold a press conference on Monday to unveil the project …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Breaking: More on Facebook's ads, and potential conflict with developers — A source has told us in some detail what Facebook will be launching on Tuesday, having seen and played with Facebook's offerings. — In a project code-named Pandemic, Facebook will remove the somewhat popular …
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Living with robots: The $3.5m DARPA Urban Challenge — Diary of a human Well, here I am at the crack of dawn getting ready for DARPA's Urban Challenge - the $3.5m robotic race of the century. — 5:12 a.m.The hard-working hacks, if you will, were up at 4 in the morning for this shindig.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Next Microsoft — Google shares rose above $700 this week, making the search giant worth more than Cisco, Intel, Apple, or IBM, but still less than Microsoft and General Electric, if just barely. Is the company really worth that kind of money or is this just the effect of a bubble market?
Phillip Carnell / The Register:
EU cracks down on fake blogger astroturfing — Everything you need to know about Virtualization at The Register's eSymposium — Comment Nothing beats word of mouth for getting people to put their hand in their pockets. So it didn't take long for cheeky marketing departments to cotton …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
AP: The News Gatekeeper is Dead! Long Live The News Gatekeeper! — The CEO of the Associated Press, Tom Curley, gave a speech yesterday to a group of news executives supposedly calling on them to drop their antiquated ways, learn to embrace the new opportunities of the internet and …
Michael Geist Blog:
Gov't Commissioned Study Finds P2P Downloaders Buy More Music — A newly study commissioned by Industry Canada, which includes some of the most extensive surveying to date of the Canadian population on music purchasing habits, finds what many have long suspected (though CRIA has denied) …
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MCV:
New low-price 'compact' PS2 to arrive in 2008 — Redesigned model boasts built-in power supply; 25 per cent price drop likely — Thought PlayStation 2 hardware sales were going to quietly disappear after the revenue frenzy of Christmas? Think again - Sony is preparing to introduce a new …
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
DailyMe Personal News Aggregator — Florida-based DailyMe is a personalized news aggregation service that creates a daily online newspaper that can be delivered at set times via email or browsed from the web. The site aggregates news in a wide variety of topic areas from over 3,000 mainstream …
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Hands-On With RIM's New OS 4.3.1 for the BlackBerry Curve & BlackBerry Pearl 8100 — With the BlackBerry 8130 now shipping with OS v4.3, we knew it wouldn't be too long before this updated operating system became available for other members in the BlackBerry family as well.
