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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 …
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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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” …
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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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.
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PC World:
Is the Taxman Eyeing ITunes? — Dan Moren, Macworld.com — The US$0.99 that the iTunes Store charges for individual songs has taken on an almost iconic role in the field of music downloads, becoming what many consider the standard for fair pricing. While the record labels have long lobbied …
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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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Steven Hodson / WinExtra:Tracking the Techmeme newcomers
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google: March Paid-Click Growth Awful (Again) — Google's (GOOG) US paid-click growth in March was as bad as in February—up only 2.7%—rounding out a violent deceleration in Q1, says Comscore (per Mark Mahaney at Citi). In all of Q1, Google's US paid clicks rose only 2% year-over-year versus 25% in Q4 and 48% in Q3.
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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Former Zillow manager takes on MySpace, MTV and more with video startup — PluggedIn, a new social network built around music videos launching Wednesday, is based in Santa Monica, Calif. but it has a few Seattle connections. — Like its chief executive, a former Zillow and Amazon.com manager who still lives in Mount Baker.
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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.
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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Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Turn Your iPod Touch into an iPhone — The iPhone and iPod touch are almost indistinguishable devices except for one major difference—you can make calls from your iPhone, and you can't from your iPod touch. For the privilege of making phone calls with your iPhone, you have to pay $100 …
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.
Reuters:
Motley Crue to release single on Rock Band game — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a nod to the ascendancy of video games, rock ‘n’ roll bad boys Motley Crue will become the first group to release a new single through Rock Band, the developer of the wildly popular game said on Monday.
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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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John Markoff / New York Times:
Larger Prey Are Targets of Phishing — SAN FRANCISCO — An e-mail scam aimed squarely at the nation's top executives is raising new alarms about the ease with which people and companies can be deceived by online criminals. — Thousands of high-ranking executives across the country …
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.
