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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Digg this: Reddit goes open source — In the arena of crowd voting sites there is Digg and then there is everyone else. Every once in a while a challenger will come up that looks promising, but it fades away. — For a while that was Netscape (now called Propeller), then it was Mixx …
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reddit:
reddit goes open source — Today we're excited to announce that we're open sourcing reddit. We've always strived to be as open and transparent with our users as possible, and this is the next logical step. When we say ‘open-source’ we mean specifically that the code behind reddit …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
At Social Site, Only the Businesslike Need Apply — SAN FRANCISCO — For a Web site, it could hardly look less exciting. Its pages are heavy with text, much of it a flat blue, and there are few photos and absolutely no videos. — But LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, is dull by design.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is LinkedIn Worth $1 Billion? — LinkedIn Worth $1 billion? — I think so — It is seriously overvalued — I don't care either way. — The big news tonight is business social network LinkedIn raised $53 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $1 billion.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:LinkedIn Closes Its Round; Got That Billion Dollar Valuation
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Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Power User's Guide to Firefox 3 — You already know about Firefox 3's marquee new features, but now it's time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even Easter eggs that Mozilla marketing doesn't mention. In honor of today's official release of Firefox 3—at 10AM Pacific Time …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo — Photo sharing site Flickr is one of the leading lights of Yahoo - but cofounders (and husband/wife team) Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield won't be around to keep driving the product forward. They are both joining the mass exodus of executives from the company.
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PR Newswire:
Microsoft Announces Acquisition of Navic Networks — Navic enables Microsoft to work with industry partners to optimize the delivery and placement of television advertising. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the acquisition of Navic Networks, a leading provider of television advertising solutions.
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Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Between the Lines, MarketingVOX, The Inquisitr, Beyond Binary and Clickety Clack
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John Chan / CNET News.com:
Experiencing Google's Android — Google may have put to rest the notion that it will be creating a Google phone, but there's still quite a bit of excitement surrounding the Android platform that it is championing. Among the companies that have signed on with its Open Handset Alliance …
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Preliminary autopsy results on Mozilla's Download Day ... Mozilla's Guinness World Record attempt “Download Day” is still ongoing, but things got off to a shaky start yesterday. It seems that distributing popular (and much hyped) software doesn't go hand-in-hand with record attempts.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Skype 4.0 Beta: It's All About Video — Skype is getting a major, much-needed upgrade: Skype 4.0. President Josh Silverman calls it the “biggest new release in Skype's history.” The new software client, which which will be released here in beta tomorrow (for Windows only), takes up the whole screen.
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InfoWorld:
Google's App Engine breaks down — Google's application-hosting service suffered an outage on Tuesday, highlighting one of the downsides of the new cloud computing services. — Between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. West Coast time and again later in the day, a significant percentage of users trying …
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Agence France Presse:
China in anti-monopoly probe of Microsoft — BEIJING (AFP) - China has begun an anti-monopoly investigation into US giant Microsoft and several other global software firms, the country's intellectual property watchdog said Wednesday. — The development comes with Microsoft already embroiled …
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
OurSignal: Mashup of Digg, Reddit, Delicious and HackerNews — OurSignal is the latest site from the makers of CushyCMS, designed to bring you the freshest and most popular news from across the Web. It's a mashup of several social bookmarking sites focused on news, including reddit, digg, delicious and hackernews.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Irony: If Google Can't Reach Your Robots.txt File, It Might Not List Your Site — I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable this morning that Google said if your robots.txt is unreachable, your site might not make it into the Google index. By unreachable, Google means that if your server simply times …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
New York Times goes social with TimesPeople — The New York Times has added a new feature to its Web site that takes a few cues from Facebook and Digg: TimesPeople, now in beta. It's an application that takes a few cues from Facebook and Digg: users build up friends lists and can see a …
Daniel Langendorf / ReadWriteWeb:
The Coming World of Mobile Sensors — At Supernova 2008 this week we got a glimpse of what's next for mobile; and it has little to do with hardware like the iPhone, software like Google's open-source operating system Android, mobile platforms put forth by Apple, Google, Nokia, Research in Motion, and the carriers.
