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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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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 …
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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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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.
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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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 …
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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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.
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 …
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Phil Glockner / ReadWriteWeb:
Twimailer Enhances Twitter Follow Notifications — Twimailer is a new service that provides a simple, yet extremely useful function: It enhances the standard Twitter email notification with lots of good information on the new follower including recent tweets, follower and following stats, and more.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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.
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 …
Jesse / The views expressed here reflect …:
Tethering your Kindle 2 — As I mentioned in my previous post, I've spent far too much of the past week playing with my lovely new Kindle 2. — As I've been exploring the device, I ran across igorsk's blog post about the debugging commands on the first Kindle. They're still there....with a few additions.
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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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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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 …
Stephanie Condon / CNET News:
Facebook, Google helping feds stop online stimulus scams — WASHINGTON—President Obama's economic stimulus plan has already spurred activity in at least one online industry, though not one the administration was hoping to encourage. — Deceptive Web sites, advertisements …
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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Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Legislator moves to limit Google Maps because of terrorist threat — California bill would cloud details in images of schools, government buildings, churches — Computerworld) A California state legislator has submitted a bill that would limit the amount of detail allowed in images available …
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Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
Illegal Trading on YouTube — Online criminals regularly post their ads on YouTube, looking for buyers for their products. — Some recent examples: — No big surprises there. — A bit more surprisingly, when you want to report such videos to YouTube admins, they actually …
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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.
