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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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Between the Lines, The Technology Chronicles, Guardian, Tech Central, VentureBeat, Feeds, Digital Daily, ReadWriteWeb, Webware.com, blogs.ft.com, Computerworld Blogs, Facebook Developers, TechCrunch and Obsessable, Thanks:atul
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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.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Screenshots Of Facebook's New Real-Time Homepage — Facebook will launch a new homepage starting next Wednesday. Its centerpiece is the new “stream,” which is a real-time updating version of the current feature called the “News Feed.” — Before announcing the changes …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Live from Facebook: A move to share more information — I'm here at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto, Calif. for a presentation. Apparently this is going to be a long one, so I figured I'd live blog it. — Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is up first. Here's what he's saying (paraphrased):
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Inside Facebook, All Facebook, Epicenter, TechCrunch, Mashable! and Social Media News, Thanks:atul
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon Wireless grills exiting customers about the iPhone — Verizon Wireless must be feeling the sting of losing customers to AT&T due the popularity of the iPhone. A reader just alerted us to a survey peppered with iPhone references that was presented to him upon cancellation of his Verizon account.
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 …
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The Social Times, paidContent.org, Obsessable and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Amazon.com:
Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available For Free From Apple's App Store — Read some on your iPhone, read some on your Kindle, customers can now synchronize their reading and enjoy over 240,000 books, including 104 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, on the iPhone and iPod touch
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Walt Mossberg / Mossblog:First Impressions of Kindle on iPhone
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Associated Press, Computerworld, TeleRead, Crave, Ars Technica, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Brier Dudley's blog and NEWSFACTOR
WMPoweruser.com:
HTC Leak 2009 part 2 - the details! — We have just received a tip regarding HTC's 2009 line-up which includes details on a number of upcoming devices. — First, the exciting ones: — The HTC Whitestone will have a 3.6 inch WVGA screen, 5 megapixel camera, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM …
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Engadget Mobile, IntoMobile, jkOnTheRun, WMExperts, GPS Obsessed, Gizmodo, MobileCrunch and Unwired View
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Twitter: We Can Do What Google Can't — Venture Capital Backer Says Search Is Reason It Walked Away From Facebook Deal — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Twitter sees lucrative opportunities in search, albeit a different kind of search than what Google offers, and, as co-founder Biz Stone told Ad Age recently …
Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Tesla CEO in Digital Witch Hunt — Enraged by leaks at his troubled Silicon Valley electric carmaker, CEO Elon Musk cooked up a sophisticated electronic scheme to catch the blabbers. It backfired hilariously on the brilliant entrepreneur, who's a bit blabby himself.
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.
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Chris' Repository of Knowledge:
Win7 Build 7048: IE8 Is REMOVABLE — I couldn't believe this when I saw it, but it's true. Internet Explorer 8 is fully removable in Windows 7 build 7048. I believe this fully squashes the case that the EU has against Microsoft? — As you can see in the above screenshot there is a new entry …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Ex-Googlers Start Up Likaholix, A Micro-Sharing Service For Personal Recommendations (200 Invite Codes) — Likaholix is a brand new web service that lets you share personal recommendations about virtually anything with the world. The tool lets you build a list of things you like and recommend …
Gavriella Schuster / The Windows Blog:
Behind the Scenes of Windows 7 Enterprise — There's been a lot of talk in the community about what Windows 7 offers consumers. Today, I'd like to highlight the enterprise value of the product and how it reflects what customers and partners told us enterprises need most.
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The Register, All about Microsoft, Silicon Alley Insider, DailyTech, eWeek and InfoWorld
The Official Palm Blog:
Sprint Treo Pro available March 15 — The Treo Pro will make its debut on Sprint's Mobile Broadband Network on March 15. The Treo Pro — running on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 — is a proven and reliable tool for mobile enterprise customers. And the Sprint Treo Pro adds some new elements that make it even more powerful.
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Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
ZillionTV, the next generation of video on demand — During a long career as a television and technology executive, Mitch Berman has tried to sell several different iterations of TV, often in their formative stages. These included premium cable networks (at HBO), original cable programming …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Crave, VentureBeat, Epicenter, CrunchGear, NewTeeVee, paidContent.org, Fast Company, GMSV, Obsessable, fierceonlinevideo.com … and Reuters
Andres / Spotify:
Spotify security notice — Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromise our protocols. After investigating we concluded that this group had gained access to information that could allow testing of a very large number of passwords, possibly finding the right one.
comScore:
YouTube Surpasses 100 Million U.S. Viewers for the First Time — Americans' Time Spent Viewing Jumps 15 Percent versus Previous Month — comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released January 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing …
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.
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
If we can't save the paper newspaper, what's next? — Stop the Presses. The Rocky Mountain News' final edition. Credit: Marc Piscotty / Getty Images — Last week I asked readers of this column to send in questions about the Web and social media. The premise was that …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Lessons from Demo on surviving recession — PALM DESERT, Calif.—How does one measure the effects of economic meltdown? — At Demo 09 here, there are two ways, one that's obvious, yet hard to see, and another that is both obvious and visceral. — While Demo for years has featured …
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Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Nvidia Mulls Taking on Intel's Turf — Nvidia Corp. said it is considering the idea of making an x86 microprocessor—a field dominated by rival Intel Corp.—to combine with other Nvidia circuitry to make what the industry calls systems on a chip. — The Silicon Valley company stressed …
Zee / TheNextWeb.com:
Twitter Profiles, DM's and Follow Backs. All via Email with Topify. — Zee, Internet Marketer, Design Connoisseur & Web App Devotee — Blogger and Entrepreneur Ouriel Ohayon, previously of Techcrunch.fr, and Israeli developer Arik Fraimovichis are about to launch what I can only describe …
Grant Gross / Computerworld:
U.S. agencies face broadband stimulus challenges — IDG News Service) U.S. government agencies may have a difficult time promptly allocating the $7.2 billion for broadband deployment in an economic stimulus package recently passed by Congress, two broadband experts said.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
A Google Search of a Distinctly Retro Kind — Last month an e-mail message washed up at the offices of The Cook Islands News in the South Pacific. It was a request to place a half-page advertisement in the newspaper, which has a circulation of 2,500. The cost was $370.
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Questions For: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Chairman — Firefox has long been the Burger King to Internet Explorer's McDonald's. Mozilla, the Mountain View, Calif., nonprofit behind Firefox, has been supportive of the European Commission's renewed antitrust probe of Microsoft …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
MySpaceID: More social content for the web and a way forward for MySpace — MySpace is trying to make it easier for other sites to access its user data — and eventually features like streaming music playlists. The service, called MySpaceID, is partway through being rolled out …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Alan Meckler, WebMediaBrands Inc. Fire 60 (Memo) — WebMediaBrands Inc.— the MediaBistro and Internet.com parent-company better known by its former name, Jupitermedia — laid off 60 employees yesterday. That's about 25% of WebMediaBrand's workforce. — Everyone else gets a 5% pay cut.
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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.
