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Dave Morin / Facebook Developers:
Announcing Facebook Connect — At Facebook, we're committed to enabling people to communicate and stay connected wherever they go. — In August 2006, we introduced the first version of the Facebook API, enabling users to share their information with the third party websites and applications they choose.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect — Facebook will announce later today Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday. The actual product won't be released for at least a few weeks, so the timing on this …
Charlene Li / Groundswell:Facebook Connect - another step to open social networks
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
Inquisitor Joins the Yahoo! Search Team — Last year, Yahoo! Search launched Search Assist to help users find what they're looking for quickly and easily by providing query suggestions and related concepts in real-time. Today, Yahoo! Search is embracing the Mac community …
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David Watanabe / DWBlog:inquisitor joins yahoo!
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit — Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week. — There are stories around why the limitation exists at all. The official reason is that Facebook wants …
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Facebook Borrows $100 Million to Buy Servers — Facebook is about to spend big on upgrading its infrastructure. According to Business Week, the social network has closed a deal to take a $100 million loan ("venture lending"), all of which will be spent on new servers. Facebook gives up no equity as part of the deal.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Confirms Plans To Put Display Ads On Google.com — The most pressing question for Google (GOOG) shareholders is what product will drive the company's next growth boom as the search product cycle ends. Most likely candidate? Not sexy mobile or video. Just boring old display ads.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
AT&T's Wi-Fi Tease for iPhone Users — Maybe it's because I work as a reporter, but it seems to me that secrets are overrated. I suspect that so often the cost of keeping secrets is greater than whatever benefit they bring. — You may disagree. But there's one thing that should be clear …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
The 5 Stages of a Consumer Web Startup — In my years covering technology, I've gotten more than my fair share of pitches related to the latest consumer Internet startup. Thanks to this I've been able to witness what amounts to be a near-familiar life cycle for these companies.
Bloomberg:
Apple to provide refunds for power adapters — Apple Inc. agreed to pay refunds of $25 to $79 to as many as 2.3 million Macintosh computer owners to resolve claims that some of its power adapters were prone to spark. — Customers who bought certain replacement adapters for PowerBook …
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Apple 2.0, One More Thing, Gizmodo, InformationWeek, CrunchGear, Infinite Loop, MacUser, TechSpot, The Apple Blog, MacRumors, The Mac Observer and canada.com
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs Travel Update: Private Jet Grounded This Winter — Back in late February, Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty cited Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs' plane travel as a reason to be excited about Apple and its stock. — How does Huberty know Apple is working on lots of new toys? ...
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Note to startups: Turn off “track changes” — Some of you may have seen this already, since it has been passed around on Twitter, but I just had to point to Rick Segal's hilarious blog post about a startup that did everything right in its business plan — right up until it sent …
Electronista:
Zune reaches 2m sales; flat versus iPod — As part of its recent Zune update, Microsoft has revealed that it has sold two million of the music players since their launch in November 2006, revealing relatively flat growth for the device lineup. Although the company originally promised …
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Spam Moves to Cellphones and Gets More Invasive — If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself for round two: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. — Cellphones have become consumers' most personal technological devices. That is why some industry executives …
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Chris Laker / Daily Mail:
Pictured: The moment award-winning garden is destroyed after hundreds respond to Facebook water fight — More than 300 people ran riot and destroyed an award-winning garden after they responded to a campaign for a mass water fight on social networking website Facebook.
