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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Hints of iGoogle Turning Into Its Own Social Network — Google has long used its personalized homepage, iGoogle, as a launching point for its foray into social-networking applications. Any developer who builds an OpenSocial app, for instance, can make it work as a widget (er, gadget) on iGoogle.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google's New Social Network: iGoogle — Google has a social network: orkut, but it's only successful in Brazil and India, without gaining too much traction in the US. With the launch of OpenSocial, an API for writing social gadgets, it was clear that iGoogle will play an important role in Google's second attempt to socialize.
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple files for universal iPhone instant messaging patent — Apple has set the groundwork for instant messaging on the iPhone and other touchscreen devices with an application for a patent on a universal interface for real-time text chat services. — Published in March …
Jennifer Guevin / CNET News.com:
Netflix profits up 36 percent — Online DVD rental service Netflix announced Monday that profits for the first quarter this year were up 36 percent, due in part to an increase in its subscriber base. — Netflix reported it had 8,243,000 total subscribers at the end of the quarter, which ended March 31.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Twitter: grabbing defeat from the jaws of success — Amazing, Twitter has been half down all weekend long. Dave Winer and others have been writing about it. The problems have been covered on TechMeme and other places where one looks for interesting tech news.
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
Web 2.0 Expo Preview: Torture by Information Overload — Now that the first burst of enthusiasm for social networking has died, people are realizing that web 2.0 is actually a huge time sink. — Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Plaxo may have helped foster community and communication …
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Daniel Terdiman / Webware.com:
Dilbert.com relaunches with Web 2.0 flavor — Dilbert.com has relaunched and now allows readers to write their own punch lines for strips, as well as a series of other new features. — (Credit: United Media/Scott Adams) — Update: I've added some comments from Scott Adams that came in by email after this posted.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
It's official! Windows XP SP3 goes RTM today — The moment that Windows XP users have been waiting for. Today Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) goes RTM. — What's in SP3? — Here's what you can expect from XP SP3: — All previously released Windows XP updates, including security updates and hotfixes.
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Spencer Reiss / Wired News:
Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today. — Jeff Bezos' store in the sky is hard to beat for books, CDs, and a zillion other products. It's also great for quick technology fixes. Say you need a fat HP server for hosting the too-moronic-to-fail Facebook app you plan to launch next week.
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Molly Wood / Crave: The gadget blog:
5 reasons my Zune is dead to me — I really wanted to love my 80GB Zune. I'd heard good things about its Wi-Fi and its FM radio, its software, the Zune Marketplace, its easy navigation, and its non-iPod-ness. But then I got it, and now I hate it. Here's why, in ascending order of annoyance.
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TheStreet.com:
Jim Cramer's ‘Stop Trading!’: Buy Apple — AAPL (The Telecom Connection PICK) MRK NOK RIMM — Buy Apple AAPL, Jim Cramer said on CNBC's “Stop Trading!” segment Monday. — Cramer said that there is a “grudging recognition” in the market, especially after Nokia's NOK cautious guidance …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed by Azureus — Data collected by the BitTorrent client Azureus shows that Comcast might only be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to BitTorrent throttling ISPs. Early findings show that customers from quite a few other Internet service providers experience an unusually high amount of TCP-resets.
Paul J. Gough / Reuters:
NBC has news for MySpace — NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News and MSNBC.com will provide political news and other content to social networking site MySpace. — Terms of the deal weren't announced Monday. But NBC, MSNBC and MSNBC.com's text and video will populate the “Decision '08” …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Buzzlogic To Track Reading Habits With Acquisition of Activeweave (BlogRovR) — Keeping track of what people are reading about a company's products on blogs is an inexact science. BuzzLogic will try to make it a little more exact with the acquisition of Activeweave, creator …
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Reuters:
Murdoch leaves door open to joint Yahoo bid — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - News Corp's Rupert Murdoch left the door open on Monday to a joint bid with Microsoft Corp to buy Yahoo Inc, a day ahead of Yahoo's quarterly financial report. — In response to a reporter's question about his interest …
John Tozzi / Business Week:
From Bricks and Mortar to Digital Music Master — As music merchants struggle to adapt their business models, one New York shop is embracing the Web — Josh Madell needs to invent a new business model, and soon. The 37-year-old co-owner of Other Music, a New York retailer specializing …
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