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Blaise DiPersia / Facebook Blog:
Coming Soon: Facebook Usernames — From the beginning of Facebook, people have used their real names to share and connect with the people they know. This authenticity helps to create a trusted environment because you know the identity of the people and things on Facebook.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Facebook Developers, BetaNews, Mashable!, The Social, ReadWriteWeb, Technologizer, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, Facebook, Marshall Kirkpatrick's Site …, All Facebook, Between the Lines, Personal Branding Blog, The Technology Chronicles, Webmonkey, TECH.BLORGE.com, Download Squad, New World Notes, Silicon Alley Insider, AppScout, TheNextWeb.com, Gadgetwise and The Blog Herald, Thanks:wbw_jeff
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
You Have Three Days To Pick Your Facebook Vanity URL. Choose Wisely, Or You're Screwed. — What are you doing this Friday night? Going to a bar with friends? Going to a movie? Wrong. — If you're a real web addict you'll be sitting at your computer waiting for the clock to strike 12:01 AM Eastern Time.
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The Register, eWeek, Mashable!, Paying Attention, Inside Facebook and digg.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Google Enterprise Blog:
Use Microsoft Outlook with Google Apps for email, contacts, and calendar — Over the last year, we've had a razor sharp focus on making it as easy as possible for businesses to deploy Google Apps. In the last few months you've seen some of the results, from offline Gmail to user directory synchronization …
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Ars Technica, Reuters, WebProNews, TechCrunch, The Register, GigaOM, Technologizer, jkOnTheRun, Tech Sanity Check, VentureBeat, The Official Google Blog, Lifehacker, InformationWeek, eWeek and AppScout
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Schmidt: Bing Can't Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It — CEO Eric Schmidt has weighed in on the Bing launch — and he's not sounding panicked, not that I would expect him to be. But he certainly puts out a conflicted message that Bing isn't a serious competitor and yet argues …
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Google Mac Blog:
Introducing Google Quick Search Box — When most people think of Google, search comes to mind - and rightly so! Hundreds of millions of people have come to know and love Google.com as their starting point for searching the Internet. About 2 years ago, we introduced Google Desktop …
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Asustek Vows to Out-Apple Apple — Two years ago, Asustek wowed the world with the hottest selling computing product to arrive in recent memory: the Eee PC netbook. But even that blockbuster device has failed to do much to boost the company's brand in the United States, a situation the Taiwanese computer maker intends to correct.
MacDailyNews:
Unannounced iPhone 3G S feature: Oleophobic Multi-Touch™ screen (skin oil repellent) — Eagle-eyed MacDailyNews reader “GizmoDan” found the following on Apple's “iPhone How To: Cleaning iPhone” page: — To clean iPhone, unplug all cables and turn off iPhone (press and hold the Sleep/ Wake button …
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Brian Gormley / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Investors Predict Globalization Of Industry, Especially To China — Venture capitalists expect their industry to grow increasingly global, as firms shift more attention to Asia and as institutional investors around the world seek to add venture funds to their portfolios, a survey shows.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Billboard for WWDC is torn down; startup smells rotten Apple — The co-founders of a small startup suspect something more than a dark subway stairwell prompted a billboard to be pulled from a downtown San Francisco wall before the crowd attending Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference could see it Monday morning.
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comScore, Inc.:
Bing Off to a Good Start in First Week of Search Activity, According to comScore — Microsoft Posts Gains in U.S. Searcher Penetration and Share of Search Results Pages After Introduction of New Search Engine — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Revenue at Craigslist Is Said to Top $100 Million — SAN FRANCISCO — As the newspaper industry and its classified advertising business wither, one company appears to be doing extraordinarily well: Craigslist. — The Internet classified ads company, which promotes its “relatively noncommercial nature” …
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Digits:
Where's Steve Jobs? — Apple fans got a new iPhone, but company CEO Steve Jobs, who is taking a medical leave of absence, was a no-show at Monday's keynote presentation for the company's Worldwide Developer Conference. — Getty Images — Steve Jobs jokes about his health during an Apple event October 14.
Wolfram:
Wolfram|Alpha Update Today — There's new data flowing into Wolfram|Alpha every second. And we're always working very hard to develop the core code and data for the system. In fact, internally, we have a complete new version of the system that's built every day.
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Caterina Fake's Hunch.com, launching Monday, is already redefining ‘decision engine’ — Microsoft's megabucks advertising campaign for Bing.com couldn't have come at a better time for Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake's new consumer advice site, Hunch.com. — With much pomp and circumstance …
Reuters:
Google CEO says looking to buy smaller firms — * Google on the prowl for smaller firms to buy — Google Inc (GOOG.O) is looking to buy smaller technology companies to enhance its technology portfolio, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview with the Fox Business network on Tuesday.
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Ian Paul / PC World:
Will TomTom's iPhone App Herald the End of One-Function Devices? — TomTom's turn-by-turn direction iPhone application, which was unveiled at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference yesterday, has been met with much enthusiasm. The company's stock price increased by 17 percent …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone OS 3.0 Now Available in Torrent—Tested, It Works — You can get it now. Just fire up your favorite Torrent client and look for iPhone OS 3.0 7a341. Everyone can install this, not just developers. Here's how it works: … Warning: Do this at your own risk — 2:29 PM
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
U.S. Presses Antitrust Inquiry Into Google Book Settlement — SAN FRANCISCO — In a sign that the government has stepped up its antitrust investigation of a class-action settlement between Google and groups representing authors and publishers, the Justice Department has issued formal requests …
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Red Hat's Fedora 11: So easy you'll forget it's Linux — Red Hat has taken heat over the past few years for allegedly neglecting the personal computer in favor of more profitable enterprise servers. It's a fair critique: Red Hat is an enterprise software company, a decision it made years ago, and to good effect.
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google News experimenting with links to Wikipedia on its homepage — The discrete news article, it has been said, is a framework that worked well in print but doesn't make much sense on the web. News sites can offer context in a variety of ways that explode the story model …
Jordan Golson / GigaOM:
T-Mobile Confirms Breach, Says No Risk to Customers — T-Mobile confirmed today that its network was indeed hacked, but said it doesn't believes any of its customer data is at risk and the penetration is not nearly as deep as the purported hackers alleged. The anonymous group claimed …
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p2pnet, Electronista, MobileContentToday, Mobile Messaging 2.0, Robert McMillan's blog, Threatpost Blog and The Register
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Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Green Dam filtering software scorned by many Chinese — Some Chinese geeks have been playing with the new government-mandated Green Dam censorship software over the past couple days. People are reporting their findings on Twitter and on blogs. Eisen blog posted the screenshot above …
Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:
Feds have frozen online poker winnings, group says — WASHINGTON (AP) — An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players.
Ed Oswald / Technologizer:
AT&T's Network Problems Aren't Just in Big Cities Anymore — The AT&T hate is strong these days, especially following the carrier's inability to deliver two of the most highly anticipated features to the single largest iPhone market in the world. But now even I am beginning to hate AT&T …
comScore, Inc.:
On the Go and in the Know: comScore Reports Mobile Audience for Local Content Grows 51 Percent vs. Year Ago — Local Search Sites Expand Reach via Mobile Phones with Mobile Subscribers Increasingly Using Downloaded Applications and SMS for Local Content — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) …
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Why YouTube Will Sink or Swim With Obama Girl — ‘Midtail’ Content Safer for Advertisers Than User-Generated Fare — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Forget Hollywood. YouTube's future lies less in “Desperate Housewives” and more in low-budget fare from producers such as Next New Networks, Machinima, Howcast and MondoMedia.
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
Exclusive: MoGo Talk Bluetooth headset for iPhone folds down to 5mm thin — we're giving 50 away, plus a 30% discount — Ah, the Bluetooth headset. Often times, it's the bane of any cell phone owner's hands-free existence. You're too cautious to stick it in your pocket because it'll …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Microsoft patches record number of security bugs — Adobe crashes monster patch batch — Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial — Microsoft on Tuesday patched a record number of security vulnerabilities, plugging 31 holes in its Windows operating systems, Internet Explorer browser, and other products.
