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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Thoughts on Beacon — About a month ago, we released a new feature called Beacon to try to help people share information with their friends about things they do on the web. We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Messages: Small Change, Big Impact. — Dear Facebook: Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. — In August Facebook opened up their messaging system to allow people to add normal email addresses. I wrote a post praising the change, but I specifically asked for more:
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Zuckerberg's Mea Culpa, Not Enough — Update: Frankly, I am myself getting sick and tired of repeating myself about the all-important "information transmission from partner sites" aspect of Beacon. That question remains unanswered in Zuckerberg's blog post, which upon second read is rather scant on actual privacy information.
Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:Faceberg: We're sorry. Really. Okay, not really.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:Zuckerberg Apologizes, Allows Facebook Users to Evade Beacon
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broadstuff, Download Squad, Los Angeles Times, p2pnet, Between the Lines, Valleywag, eWEEK.com and IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 8 — Just as he was the first to talk about IE7, Bill Gates kept the tradition alive and discussed IE8 at the Mix 'n Mash event here on campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some bloggers about IE.Next and called it IE8, the same way we do here in the IE team hallway.
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:LiveSide asks Bill Gates a question (how cool is that?) - Read the full transcript
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:IE team shares ... a version number
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Chris Gilmer / Download Squad:
Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Preview is live — We broke the news the beginning of this year that Yahoo! was busy preparing a complete rebuild of Messenger made exclusively for Windows Vista users. The ground up rebuild has taken quite a long time (11 months), but it's finally here.
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Yahoo! Messenger Blog:
Yahoo! Messenger for Vista: Preview Release Available! — It's here! It's really here! We're thrilled to bring you the preview version of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista, the first Yahoo! Messenger built from the ground up for the Windows Vista operating system.
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WebProNews, istartedsomething, Brandon LeBlanc, The Universal Desktop and Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
USA Today:
AT&T flings cellphone network wide open — NEW YORK — Starting immediately, AT&T (T) customers can ditch their AT&T phones and use any wireless phone, device and software application from any maker — think smartphones, e-mail and music downloading. And they don't have to sign a contract.
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Jamesu / Inside UP:
OLPC in the News (Part 2) — Well, I will be flying out to Cambridge next week for my first meeting with some of the people at the OLPC, and I have to say I am looking forward to it. Some of my UPG co-workers from Microsoft have been meeting with the OLPC team for about a year now …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites — The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including "obscene" cartoons and drawings—or face fines of up to $300,000.
Steve Kanefsky / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Google on the iPhone: Fast and Fluid — We all know that using the web on mobile phones can be a challenge sometimes. Compared to our personal computers, the screens are smaller, it's more difficult to navigate and enter text, the network connections are slower, and the browsers lack many of the features we've become accustomed to.
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David Recordon / OpenID:
OpenID 2.0...Final(ly)! — While its certainly been a long process in the making, we're now quite excited to announce OpenID Authentication 2.0 and OpenID Attribute Exchange 1.0 as final specifications ("OpenID 2.0″). This morning was the closing day of the Internet Identity Workshop …
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Announcing Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC) — Today we're making available the release candidate (RC) of Windows Vista SP1 via Microsoft Connect, and tomorrow subscribers to TechNet and MDSN will have access to those RC bits too. In addition, the RC will be available to the public next week via Microsoft's Download Center.
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Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!:
Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates — You know you've really made it as an online entity when an entire country bans your site. In terms of a rite of passage, its just after the wide-spread adoption and critical mass stages (which of course is followed by random companies banning you …
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Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
Digging Deeper:: Hype and Backlash for Second Life Miss the Bigger Picture — Hype and Backlash for Second Life Miss the Bigger Picture — In May 2006, BusinessWeek ran a cover story on the virtual world Second Life (SL) by Robert Hof called My Virtual Life.
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