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Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Thoughts on Opera Unite — I met today's news about Opera's new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe. — On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps. It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Increases Capacity, Pats Itself On Back, Denies Being A Covert Government Agency — As just about everyone reading this likely saw, Twitter was down for a bit today. The maintenance was planned, and was actually postponed from yesterday to allow for the protests flowing over Twitter about the Iranian elections to continue.
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State Department to Twitter: Keep Iranian tweets coming — Elise Labott — CNN State Department Producer — The halls of Foggy Bottom are ringing with the Tweets coming with Iran and the State Department is working to ensure they keep coming. — Senior officials say the State Department …
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New York Times:
U.S. Steps Gingerly Into Tumult in Iran — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration says it has tried to avoid words or deeds that could be portrayed as American meddling in Iran's presidential election and its tumultuous aftermath. — Yet on Monday afternoon, a 27-year-old State Department official …
Kari Lee / Facebook Blog:
Look Who's Talking Now — Today, we're beginning to test new versions of Facebook Search with a small group — just a fraction of a percent of the people on Facebook. Those of you in the test group will be able to find content from the people, organizations and public figures that matter to you as soon as they share it on Facebook.
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Inside Facebook, paidContent, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Search Engine Watch, MarketingVOX, Pulse2 and Search Engine Journal, Thanks:buy_resveratrol
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Apple:
iTunes: About unsupported third-party digital media players — Products Affected — Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App Store.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple: Yeah, About That Palm Pre iTunes Sync Feature... Right before the launch of the Palm Pre, the press was buzzing about a feature that had remained quiet until that time: That the Palm Pre can sync with iTunes. This is a key feature at least in theory as the Pre is seen as the biggest competitor to Apple's iPhone to date.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Twitterverse working to confuse Iranian censors — Yesterday, I got an e-mail from a reader who had seen my story about Twitter users slamming CNN for its initial absence on the post-Iranian election protests, urging me to remove an image in the story. — The rationale?
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
New versions of Tweetdeck, Seesmic square off — There's a new version of the Tweetdeck Twitter client, 0.26, launching tonight, following the earlier release today of a preview of Seesmic Desktop 0.3. Both updated Twitter clients look like significant improvements from their previous versions.
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Snow Leopard features hint at Apple tablet — Though Apple isn't saying whether it's working on a touchscreen tablet, the company may have shown its hand at its World Wide Developers Conference last week. — Of course, the Apple tablet has become the Apple press corp's version of a Bigfoot hunt.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPhone 3.0 Update for iPod Touch Page Appears in iTunes, Not Yet Functional [Updated] — One MacRumors reader has discovered an iTunes page that appears to offer the iPhone OS 3.0 software update for iPod touch for download for $9.95. While iTunes permits the transaction to go through …
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Amol Sharma / Digits:
T-Mobile's Second Android Phone Expected Soon — and Jessica E. Vascellaro — T-Mobile USA is expected to announce details around a new phone powered by Google's Android operating system next week, say people familiar with the matter. — T-Mobile — T-Mobile is expected to unveil …
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John Cook / Gawker:
You Don't Have a Right to Anonymity — A British court has ruled that the Times of London is free to unmask an anonymous British blogger, just ten days after the National Review caused and uproar by outing a left-wing blogger named Publius. This is a good thing.
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Frances Gibb / Times of London:Ruling on NightJack author Richard Horton kills blogger anonymity
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Gmail to Get More Protection From Snoops — A group of 38 computer scientists, law professors and security experts is urging Google to do to more to protect Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs from snooping. Specifically, the group is asking Google to use a standard encryption technology …
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Alma Whitten / Google Online Security Blog:HTTPS security for web applications
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft gives up YouTube chase — SAN FRANCISCO—In the coming months, Microsoft plans to significantly scale back Soapbox, the video site it once hoped might take on YouTube in the user-generated content arena. — In an interview on Tuesday, Microsoft Vice President Erik Jorgensen …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
MySpace slashes head count by 30 percent — Amid economic woes, stagnant growth, and a management shakeup, onetime social-networking pioneer MySpace has announced that it has cut its head count by slightly under 30 percent in what the company calls a “return to start-up culture.”
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Want The Kindle Source Code? You Can Have It. — So this isn't new, it's actually been available since late 2007 as far as I can tell, but enough people are tweeting about it today, that's it's worth mentioning again. Amazon has a page where you can download the Kindle's source code.
Kevin Maney / The Atlantic Online:
The Rating Game — RICH BARTON, A superstar of the Internet era, settles across from me in a coffee shop in Centreville, Virginia, looking like a 1950s sitcom dad—glasses, preppy haircut, V-neck sweater. He built Expedia in the 1990s, co-founded the real-estate site Zillow in 2005 …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Image Recognition Startup SnapTell Acquired by Amazon Subsidiary A9.com — SnapTell, a startup that primarily focuses on image-recognition based mobile marketing, has been acquired by A9.com, Amazon's search engine technology arm. SnapTell did not disclose the terms of the acquisition.
Ryan Rea / Neowin.net:
Exclusive: Microsoft's new Anti-Virus, ‘Morro’, revealed — Ever since Microsoft discontinued its “OneCare” Anti-Virus suite, gossip has been flying that Microsoft would be releasing a free Anti-Virus\Anti-Spyware tool codenamed “Morro”. — The software product, codenamed “Morro” …
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Ars Technica, Techgeist, TechSpot, CNET News, Redmond Pie, Download Squad and The Microsoft Blog, Thanks:tom_warren
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Firefox 3.5 ‘Web upgrade’ planned for end of June — Mozilla plans to issue a release candidate for Firefox 3.5 on Friday and the final version by the end of the month, Firefox director Mike Beltzner said Tuesday. — The browser, code-named Shiretoko, began its life as a modest 3.1 upgrade.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore: Let's Put the Digital “Genie Back in the Bottle” [UPDATED] — Poor John Squires. The Time Inc. SVP seems like an affable fellow. So what has he done to deserve this impossible task-figuring out a digital strategy for Time Warner's (TWX) publishing unit?
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Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Maybe Google Isn't Losing Big Bucks on YouTube After All — Ever since Credit Suisse came out with a report in early April estimating that Google's YouTube will lose as much as $470 million this year, many people have been predicting the video sharing site is doomed and calling Google stupid for continuing to run it as is.
