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Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
FriendFeed API: Extend and improve FriendFeed — We are very excited to announce the launch of the FriendFeed API, which enables developers to interact with the FriendFeed site programmatically. It's designed to make it possible for anyone to improve FriendFeed or integrate FriendFeed into other applications.
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Ross Mayfield's Weblog, Scripting News, The Social Times, The Last Podcast, SheGeeks and Mashable!
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
FriendFeed Launches API - This Should be Interesting — Cross-site activity stream aggregator FriendFeed has answered the loud calls of users and developers and today released the first version of its Application Programming Interface, or API. The FriendFeed experience will now be accessible …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft to Raise Yahoo Bid to $34—Citi — Two months later, and we're back where we began: Microsoft (MSFT) bids $31 for Yahoo (YHOO), Yahoo counters with $40, and a price in the mid-$30s should get the deal done. — True, Yahoo had to explore other options.
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InfoWorld:
Citigroup: Microsoft likely to raise bid for Yahoo — Microsoft will most likely increase its initial $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, according to a Citigroup Investment Research analyst. — “We believe that a Yahoo sale to Microsoft — at a price higher than the initial $31 [per share] …
The Huffington Post:
New York Apple Stores Sold Out Of iPhones — New York may now have three Apple stores, but there's not a single iPhone among them. — Apple Store employees at all three New York locations — the original SoHo store, the 59th Street location, and the most recent addition, on West 14th Street …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Google To Holders: Vote No On Anti-Censorship Proposal — Google (GOOG) is once again advising its investors to vote down a shareholder proposal calling for the company to adopt a set of policies to prevent censorship of the Internet. — The shareholder proposal, included in the proxy …
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Open source: Microsoft lawyer on patent question — If everything is on schedule, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith should be concluding his appearance at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco right about now — including a full hour of questions from a panel and the audience.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Defection Watch: Google's Director of Social Media Decides It's More Social at Facebook — If you are the director of Social Media at Google, wouldn't you rather be working at Facebook? That is what Ethan Beard decided to do. The Google executive turned in his resignation last week and will be joining Facebook.
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation — Community Organization to Assure Neutrality and Longevity of — Specification for Building Social Applications Across the Web — SUNNYVALE & LOS ANGELES & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Mar 25 …
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Bits, Outside the Lines, TechCrunch, Yodel Anecdotal, Official Google Blog, CenterNetworks, The Social Times, Techland, TECH.BLORGE.com, BetaNews, Google Code Blog, Guardian Unlimited, STARTUP CHATTER, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Beth's Blog, Tech Tracks, ReadWriteWeb, FaceReviews, Furrier.org, WebProBlog, Mashable!, ProgrammableWeb, Search Engine Watch Blog, Digital Trends, eWeek, WebGuild, Compiler, Bloggers Blog, 901am, The Social Web, I4U News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Stay N' Alive
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:Yahoo, Google, MySpace form nonprofit OpenSocial Foundation
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New York Times, Publishing 2.0, Tech Beat, Epicenter, Electronista, The Social Times, ReadWriteTalk, Coop's Corner, RCR Wireless News, BBC NEWS, GigaOM, Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, AppScout, Search Engine Land, CNET News.com, Marc's Voice, Computerworld, WebProNews, Valleywag, TechCrunch, Reuters, paidContent.org, VentureBeat, Mobility Site and CenterNetworks
Haochi / Googlified:
GMail Trends — Mihai Parparita, a developer at Google (mostly on Google Reader) and author of many cool things that you have heard of or used, released a Python program today called Mail Trends that “let's you analyze and visualize your email.” The program will generate a page …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Craigslist Scam Cleans Out Oregon Man: Who Should Pay? — Here's today's quiz: — If an ad on Craigslist says that someone is giving something away for free, should you be able to take it? If you put an ad on Craigslist saying someone is giving something away for free but he isn't and someone takes it …
Jon Fortt / Big Tech:
Microsoft looks to cash in on the iPhone — Microsoft has a profitable business building software for the Mac; now it has an eye on the iPhone, too. Image: Apple — Tom Gibbons, head of Microsoft's Specialized Devices and Applications Group, said the focus would be on extending Office functions onto the iPhone and iPod touch.
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Download Squad, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, The iPhone Blog, VentureBeat, Tech Tracks, IntoMobile, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Micronet's blog, TechCrunch, Business Technology, Infinite Loop, TechRadar.com, Beyond Binary, TECH.BLORGE.com, mocoNews.net, Macsimum News, Silicon Alley Insider, MacRumors, Insanely Great Mac, MacDailyNews, LoopRumors, CrunchGear and Electronista
Emily / textually.org:
SKULLPHONE HIJACKS DIGITAL BILLBOARDS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — Southern California is all abuzz the hijacking of digital billboards. — Silenced Majority Portal, reports that last Thursday, 18 year old graffiti artist Skullphone hacked into 10 of ClearChannel's digital billboards in Hollwood …
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Blip.TV Gets ‘Diggnation,’ ‘GILF’ — Blip.tv signed distribution deals with two of the bigger digital video studios: Revision3 and 60 Frames. The deal allows blip.tv to distribute all series produced by the two production companies, including Revision3's “Diggnation” and 60 Frames' “GILF.”
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Sony-BMG's Music Subscription Idea Won't Work — from the wrong-way-to-go-about-things dept — With the recording industry's latest infatuation with “subscription” music systems, you would think that maybe they would look at why none of the existing subscription services have done all that well.
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Karl / DSLreports:
Bell Canada Confirms Throttling - Tells wholesalers: too bad, so sad... Techdirt, Slashdot and Canadian law Professor Michael Geist all discuss our report yesterday on Bell Canada's decision to start throttling traffic of their residential wholesalers before it hits their networks without telling those ISPs they were doing so.
Erika Morphy / E-Commerce Times:
Domain Name Registrars: The Weakest Link in Online Free Speech — Protesters have learned to target domain name registrars instead of the actual publishers of offending content, because those usually anonymous Internet players will fold like a tent in the face of an impending storm.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Innocent man pinched by RIAA asks SCOTUS for attorney's fees — Cliff Thompson, a San Antonio resident sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement, has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether the record labels should be forced to pay attorneys' fees in cases where they voluntarily dismiss copyright infringement cases.
