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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Improving Your Ability to Share and Connect — Over the past five years, Facebook has evolved to make sharing information more efficient and to give people more control. This year, we are going to continue making the flow of information even faster and more customized to those you want to connect …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Response To Twitter — Facebook made a number of announcements today about changes to its home page, profile pages, and activity streams. Taken together, these represent a concerted response to the rise of Twitter as a real-time message broadcasting system that goes beyond members' personal circle of friends.
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Alan Patrick / broadstuff:
FACEBOOK BLINKS, COPIES TWITTER, STILL GETS IT WRONG. — From the Facebook Blog comes the admission that they are having to change their model and copy Twitter: … Translation - we're copying Twitter's real time stream. … Translation: By 2009 it was clear no one gives a sh*t …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:Screenshots Of Facebook's New Real-Time Homepage
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
$2.99 Minimum Paid App Price at BlackBerry App World! — WOAHHHHHH... Hold your Horses! After RIM updated their BlackBerry App World website tonight, they also updated their Developer FAQ which now includes a chart that details the pricing tiers for apps. Take a look above.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Juicing the BlackBerry: RIM wants back-end money from new apps — Research In Motion (RIM) is set to launch its application store for the BlackBerry, now dubbed “App World,” at the end of this month. For third-party developers on the outside, it may sounds like a very enticing proposition …
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Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:BlackBerry Application Center redubbed as BlackBerry App World
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David Recordon / O'Reilly Radar:
Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden — A lot of what I've been working on the past two years has been built on the assumption that the model that social networks use today will fundamentally change. Social networks have largely been built on the premise of being walled gardens …
Courtney Chin / Inside AdSense:
Introducing expandable ads on AdSense sites — We're excited to introduce to you expandable ads, a new type of ad that can appear on your pages. Expandable ads are rich media ads that can expand beyond the original size of the ad unit, following a user-initiated action.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Schmidt: I Didn't Diss Twitter — Eric Schmidt explained on CNBC tonight that he didn't mean to insult Twitter when he said it was a poor-man's email system. What he meant, he says, was that people are going to want to use all their different communications systems together.
Nicole Loux / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 3.0.7 security and stability release now available — Editor's note: Mozilla released a security and stability update for Firefox 3.x users on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 4:04 pm PT. Check out the Mozilla Developer News announcement, reposted below, for more details.
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QuadsZilla / SEO BlackHat:
Twitter - The New Parasite Host on the Block — I hate twitter. But as long as twitter pages continue to rank in Google for everything under the sun, you're a fool if you're not using twitter accounts for parasite hosting. — For you new kids, parasite hosting is where you leverage …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Universal Music, YouTube near deal on music video site — Universal Music Group, the nation's largest recording company, and YouTube are closing in on a final agreement to create a new premium music video Web site, according to sources close to the negotiations.
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Ballmer: Microsoft needs to make faster Windows Mobile advances — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was told today that the appeal of the iPhone and other consumer devices has made it more difficult for chief information officers at large public agencies to continue justifying the use of Windows Mobile phones in their organizations.
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Open-source guru Ruby leaving IBM for Microsoft — It's increasingly common for prominent open-source developers to leave IBM or other open-source-friendly companies to try their luck at Microsoft. It's not common at all for them to blog about it before actually getting a formal offer.
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Hackers break in to Spotify — Much-vaunted online music service Spotify has been dealt a blow, after revealing that thousands of users' personal details may have been stolen by hackers. — According to an announcement by the service - which now has more than a million users worldwide …
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Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Amazon's Apple Deal: Kindle Cannibal? — Customers may have less incentive to buy a Kindle, now that they can download e-books onto the iPhones and iPods they already own — A new tool that lets consumers download digital books onto Apple devices could spur demand for some of the 240,000 …
Bankston / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EXCLUSIVE: Google Takes a Stand for Location Privacy, Along with Loopt — Thanks in part to feedback from EFF, Google has chosen to take a strong and public stand on what legal privacy protections should apply if the government comes calling for the location data collected by Latitude …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo! Launches Major Challenge to Facebook Connect — Yahoo! Updates, the company's answer to Facebook Connect, became available on more than 600,000 websites today with the launch of a new partnership with commenting infrastructure company JS-Kit. Whereas Facebook's technology …
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
D.C. Tech Chief Headed For White House Slot — President Obama plans to announce today that Vivek Kundra, chief technology officer for the District, will be the federal chief information officer, according to two administration officials. — It's a job that did not exist in previous administrations …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Nokia Plans LTE Devices for 2010 — A Nokia executive said today that the company has committed to LTE as its preferred network for devices, and plans to launch devices for those networks in 2010. James Harper, senior manager of technology marketing at Nokia, speaking at a PCCA meeting held in Grapevine …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK & Europe:
Sky News realises news breaks first on Twitter, not TV - Creates a Twitter Correspondent — TechCrunch has been saying for a long time - at least since November last year - that Twitter is an emerging source of news. Recent tragic events have only served to emphasise this.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
MacBook Pro 17-inch unibody review — There's not much that can be said about the 17-inch version of the MacBook Pro that hasn't already been said about the 15-incher (and to some extent, the MacBook). Still, the big, big brother of the family has a few key differences that make it stand out from the rest of the gang.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Global Warming May Get Its Very Own Top Level Domain — I'm deadpooling this .ECO top level domain right now. Not because it's global warming/eco related, there's plenty of money being thrown around to support just about every crazy green idea out there. I just don't think the world needs …
Matthew Gertner / Just Browsing:
The Browser Platform Wars — I was chatting recently with the founder of a high-profile startup that is making strategic use of Mozilla technology. “People keep telling me that WebKit is the future,” he complained. “Have we made the wrong choice?” — I did my best to reassure him of course …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Health Now Lets You Share Your Medical History With Loved Ones — After months of rumors, Google Health finally launched last May, promising to store our medical records in a secure way that is more accessible, easier to understand, and useful than traditional paper records.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Bulk Data Downloads: A Breakthrough in Government Transparency — As those of you who follow my tweets know, I spent last week out in Washington, D.C. meeting with various folks, attending Transparency Camp, and giving a couple of talks. One of the more interesting meetings was with staffers from Congressman Mike Honda's office.
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John Fontana / Network World:
Microsoft Windows on a mainframe? — Mantissa software supports Windows on IBM System z mainframes — Software that for the first time lets users run native copies of the Windows operating systems on a mainframe will be introduced Friday by data center automation vendor Mantissa.
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Lamond Not Telling Whole Story, Say Sources — Pierre Lamond, the legendarily successful Sequoia Capital partner, caused tongues to wag earlier this week when he abruptly announced that he was leaving the firm to join Khosla Ventures, just down the street on Sand Hill Road.
