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YouTube:
YouTube Everywhere — We try really hard to make YouTube as open as possible. Anyone can upload and view videos, which can be embedded anywhere and viewed on all kinds of different devices. And, of course, anyone can participate in our community by commenting on videos, rating them, and sharing them with friends.
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
YouTube, once just a destination, becoming a service too — Google's YouTube just announced that it is expanding its APIs to allow more direct access to the service. — The updates to the APIs, or application programming interfaces, give developers deeper access into YouTube for video uploading …
Apple:
iPhone SDK Downloads Top 100,000 — Apple® today announced that more than 100,000 iPhone™ developers have downloaded the beta iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) in the first four days since its launch on March 6. The iPhone SDK provides developers with the same rich set …
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
100,000 Apple iPhone SDKs Downloaded So Far — Apple says that over 100,000 iPhone software development kits have been downloaded since its celebrated unveiling on March 6, not a week ago. The announcement below is atypical of Apple: following the standard chest-puffing from execs …
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9 to 5 Mac
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Developers toe the platform line — Apple has finally opened up the iPhone to third-party developers. — What took it so long? — Sitting in a London room with the head of iPod marketing, I asked: “Don't you think you should have some sort of means to let people write third-party applications that will run on the iPod?
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The Open Road
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's Nightmare Scenario, Part One — Here's what many people within Yahoo, who are not CEO Jerry Yang and the board of directors, are chattering about these days: That the Internet portal will not make a deal, any kind of deal, related to the outstanding unsolicited acquisition offer by Microsoft …
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New York Times:
Chief of AOL's Parent Is Open to Deal — AOL, the company that introduced millions of people to the Internet, has tried to reinvent itself many times. The latest effort, like those before it, does not seem to be going well. — On Tuesday, Jeffrey L. Bewkes, the chief executive of Time Warner …
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Yahoo May Join Google-Led Social Networking Alliance — Yahoo intends to join OpenSocial, a Google-led alliance that is developing a common set of standards so developers can create programs that run on many social networks and other Web sites, according to a person with direct knowledge of Yahoo's plans.
Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Japan investigates possible iPod defect — TOKYO - Japan is investigating a possible defect in Apple Inc.'s iPod after one of the popular digital music players reportedly shot out sparks while recharging, a government official said Wednesday. — An official at the trade and economy ministry …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Fire in the iPod — Japan has ordered an investigation …
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Inquirer
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
The Tools Google Uses Internally — A web seminar Google held yesterday at KMWorld Magazine offered a great deal of insight into how Google manages projects and communication internally. The presentation by Google followed an employee through his first few weeks at the company …
Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com — A new web service that lets users rate and comment on the uniformed police officers in their community is scrambling to restore service Tuesday, after hosting company GoDaddy unceremonious pulled-the-plug on the site in the wake of outrage from criticism-leery cops.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone Dev Team jailbreaks firmware 2.0... before it's out — This is just getting silly, don't you think? The iPhone Dev Team has once again proven their totally gnarly talents by freeing up the latest firmware before it's even the latest firmware. Apple, here's our suggestion …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twine Disappoints After Semantic Web Hype — Twine is the most hyped semantic app of the season and recently opened up for some press previews. General availability of this smart, social bookmarking and research tool may come in a matter of weeks. — If that's the case, it will probably be too soon.
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Dave Prochnow / Popular Science:
Build It: The Electronic Post-It Note — Who needs pen and paper? Jot down reminders on a digital screen, using only your finger — “Pick up milk.” “Feed dog.” “Finish homemade nuclear sub.” Like many people, I can't function without writing little reminders to myself.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Tech's Late Adopters Prefer the Tried and True — SAN FRANCISCO — Every time he fired up his Netscape Web browser since mid-February, John Uribe was greeted with a message urging him to switch to one of Netscape's two successors, Firefox or Flock. — The missives came from AOL …
