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Harry Huai Wang / Facebook Blog:
A new way to share with friends — Chances are, you use parts of the Internet that aren't Facebook. You might post photo albums using Flickr or Picasa, for example, instead of on Facebook. There are a lot of good sites out there, unfortunately, that can sometimes mean a lot of switching around …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook is kinda competing with FriendFeed, like it kinda competes with Twitter — Update with a response from FriendFeed's Paul Buchheit, below the article — Facebook has just launched a new feature that lets you add actions from other sites to the mini-feed of actions on your profile …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Six Apart wrestles the social-media dragon — A look at Six Apart's Blog It, a tool that lets you manage both blogging accounts and messaging services from a single page. — (Credit: Six Apart) — The Web might have just gotten one step closer to a universal “social dashboard” …
Roddy Lindsay / Facebook Blog:
Facebook Lexicon — At Facebook we love tools that allow you to see what people around the globe are searching for or discussing on blogs, such as Google Trends or Technorati. We thought it would be cool to show trends on the public and semi-public forums across Facebook (also known as Walls).
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:Facebook's Lexicon shows trends among its 70 million users
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Running With Foxes
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Meme13 Tries and Fails to Solve the Techmeme Echo-Chamber Problem — Many people love to check out automated blog meme aggregator Techmeme throughout the day for the latest in tech news - but a considerable number of other people consider it a self-promoting echo chamber that poisons …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Danger, Incorporates Company Into Premium Mobile Experiences Group — New business group strengthens company focus on innovative mobile consumer experiences. — Microsoft Corp. has completed its acquisition of Danger, Inc., the company announced today.
Grant Gross / InfoWorld:
Lawmakers complain that Google ‘gamed’ auction — San Francisco - Three lawmakers complained Tuesday that Google “maneuvered” its way into an open wireless network without having to come up with a winning bid in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) recently completed 700MHz spectrum auction.
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Charles Arthur / Guardian Unlimited:
So exactly who or what is Psystar? We dig a little.. — You'll have noticed the claims of Psystar that it will be selling an “OpenComputer” (smart, avoiding the use of the Apple trademark in the “OpenMac” name it previously used) that will, in effect, be an Apple clone.
Bryan Gardiner / Wired News:
Forget the Courts — Apple May Fight Mac Clones With Tech — Apple may have a hard time shutting down the new maverick Mac-clonemaker Psystar, say legal experts. — Psystar, a Miami-based IT services company, started advertising the $400 OpenComputer this week.
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Audioholics Home Theater Reviews and News:
Blue Jeans Cable Strikes Back - Response to Monster Cable — Not long ago we reported that Monster Cable had issued a cease and desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable about their Tartan cables. Little did the lawyer drones over at Monster know that Kurt Denke, the president of Blue Jeans was, in a former life, a lawyer by trade.
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Capitol Valley, Techdirt, Venture Chronicles, The Culture of Ownership, Gizmodo, Geek.com and TECH.BLORGE.com
Paul Graham:
Why There Aren't More Googles — Umair Haque wrote recently that the reason there aren't more Googles is that most startups get bought before they can change the world. … This has a nice sound to it, but it isn't true. Google's founders were willing to sell early on.
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STARTUP CHATTER, The Blog Herald, A VC, HipMojo.com, RealityCrunch, SmoothSpan Blog and TechCrunch
Oracle:
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2008 — A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. It also includes non-security fixes that are required (because of interdependencies) by those security patches.
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Seagate makes good on solid-state drive patent threats — Barely three weeks ago, Seagate CEO Bill Watkins simultaneously pronounced solid state drives (SSDs) to be toys for a niche market and then threatened to start suing people if it appeared that flash-based storage might become a threat to the magnetic storage industry.
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:Top Hard-Drive Maker Files Suit Against Rival
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Techdirt, CNN, eWeek, Electronista, Hardware 2.0, Engadget, E-Commerce Times, DailyTech, Digital Daily, Digital Trends, Wall Street Journal and The Tech Report
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Gone in 60 seconds: Spambot cracks Live Hotmail CAPTCHA — Internet users are quite familiar with the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA), a quick method that verifies whether or not the user trying to sign up is a person or a bot.
Alex / Box.net Blog:
Play Googolopoly, the internet board game from Box.net — At Box, we obviously spend a lot of time talking about what's going on on the internet. With such a high quantity of real and rumored products and acquisitions announcements, Google obviously gets a lot of attention in our animated discussions.
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Don't Be Evil or don't lose value? — Google vice-president Marissa Mayer in Sydney last week. — Asher Moses — As Google comes under ever increasing scrutiny for the power it has over our lives, the web giant is tiptoeing back from its long-held corporate motto, Don't Be Evil.
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Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
Gawker Media Sales Signals the Market Has Topped Out — Nick Denton, the unofficial king of blog media, bade a fond farewell to three blogs, Idolator, Gridskipper and Wonkette yesterday. Denton sold the blogs off to BuzzNet, Curbed, and to the Wonkette managing editor, Ken Layne, respectively.
