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Bing:
bringing a bit of twitter to bing — There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created primarily by Twitter. We've been watching this phenomenon with great interest, and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space.
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BoomTown, Search Engine Land, John Battelle's Searchblog, PC World, paidContent, CNET News, Search Engine Journal, Mashable!, Tech Beat and ResourceShelf, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Gmail Blog:
Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more — A few months ago Gmail got some new buttons and keyboard shortcuts to make labeling easier, especially for those of you accustomed to that familiar folder feel. Now we're making some more changes to Gmail's labeling toolkit. — 1) New location for labels
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GDGT Launches For Non Stop Gadget Action — Last summer we broke the news that Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block would team with former editor-in-chief Peter Rojas to create a new gadget startup. Today that new startup, GDGT, launches. Gadget lovers rejoice - this is a social site …
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New York Times, Mobility Site, CrunchGear, Boing Boing Gadgets, Silicon Alley Insider, mocoNews, Technologizer, VentureBeat, Agence France Presse, CNET News, jkOnTheRun, Gizmodo, The Blog Herald, AppScout, MediaMemo, Download Squad, Mashable! and digg.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Ryan / gdgt:
So, here we are — So, here we are — It's taken a little while for us to get here, but we're very happy to be finally unveiling gdgt to the world. So what is it? — Well, for starters it's the gadget site we've always wanted. We both love devices and spend an insane amount …
Chris Kelly / Facebook Blog:
Improving Sharing Through Control, Simplicity and Connection — The power to share is the cornerstone of Facebook. Privacy and the tools for tailoring what information is shared with whom are at the heart of trust. Over the past five years, Facebook has learned that effective privacy is grounded in three basic principles:
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GigaOM, Between the Lines, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Guardian, PC World, internetnews.com, Tech Beat, Bits, InformationWeek, AppScout, UMBC ebiquity and Mashable!
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:Facebook cleans up its privacy controls
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eWeek, MediaMemo, Digits, Inside Facebook, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider and All Facebook
Electronista:
Apple already dropping NVIDIA chips? — Apple and NVIDIA may be engaged in a fierce dispute that could exclude NVIDIA graphics chips from future Macs, according to sources reportedly aware of the talks. They claim to SemiAccurate that Apple views NVIDIA's proposals for renewed deals as …
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Child Porn Is Apple's Latest iPhone Headache — A photo ostensibly showing a 15-year-old nude girl has appeared in an iPhone app, highlighting Apple's inability to safeguard its application store from prohibited content. — The image appears in the free app BeautyMeter …
Joe Hewitt / Facebook:
Facebook for iPhone 3.0 — Facebook for iPhone 3.0 is coming very soon. I can't predict an exact date when I will submit to Apple, but I can say that I am about 98% done. So what's new in this update? — 1. The “new” News Feed — 2. Like — 3. Events (including the ability to RSVP)
Google Enterprise Blog:
Q2 2009 Spam Trends — Editor's Note: The spam data cited in this post is drawn from the network of Google email security and archiving services, powered by Postini, which provide email security to more than 50,000 organizations, including businesses of all sizes, government agencies, and educational institutions.
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internetnews.com, InformationWeek, the Econsultancy blog, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, The Official Google Blog, PC World and Security Fix, Thanks:atul
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Eric Lai / Computerworld:
No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam — But can enterprises take open-source alternatives Hadoop, Voldemort seriously? — Computerworld - The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party.
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Biz / Twitter Blog:
May The Tweets Be With You — The ecosystem growing around Twitter is something we very much believe in nourishing and supporting. There are lots of really awesome services and applications out there like TweetDeck, TweetMeme, Tweetie, BackTweets, Tweetboard, and others that we absolutely love as do many users.
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Library clips, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechCrunch, WebProNews, One By One Media, Softpedia News, The Social, Twitterrati, Technologizer, Domain Name Wire, MediaFile, The Blog Herald, VatorNews and the Econsultancy blog, Thanks:atul
Richard Wray / Guardian:
O2 wins Palm Pre exclusive — Network already has Apple's iPhone and move would strengthen its position in UK smartphone market — American gadget group Palm will next week confirm that it has signed a deal with O2 which will see the mobile phone network become the exclusive UK partner for its eagerly awaited Palm Pre handset.
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blogs.ft.com, T3.com News, My Pre, Palm WebOS, Techgeist, The Register, Electronista, Pat Phelan, Pocket-lint.com, Engadget, Ubergizmo, PreCentral.net and all things Pre
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Popular Facebook App Has Been Broken Or Exploited For Days. — Twitter has long had an official Facebook application that allows users to update their Facebook status with tweets. It's quite useful for those of us who don't want to have to spend all day updating multiple services with the same messages.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Starts Officially Tweeting — It's Twitter day at Microsoft, apparently. Not only did the software giant announce that it would start adding tweets to its Bing search results, the company actually started officially using Twitter today. — To be clear, Microsoft …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
‘Accidental Billionaires’ is deliberately careful — This review contains some spoilers about the plot of “The Accidental Billionaires,” but most of them are common knowledge to people familiar with Facebook's history. — There's a reason why there aren't more lurid tell-all books …
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Tech IPO LogMeIn Jumps 25% — Only five U.S. startup companies have gone public this year, down from 86 in 2007, according to data from the National Venture Capital Association, as related by Bloomberg. — Supply, then, is so thin, that today it drove a 25% stock price appreciation on the first day of one of those IPOs.
Brad Ideas:
Design for a universal plug — I've written before about both the desire for universal dc power and more simply universal laptop power at meeting room desks. This week saw the announcement that all the companies selling cell phones in Europe will standardize on a single charging connector, based on micro-USB.
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium — In two recent posts (Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do upgrades really cost? and Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium?), I took a closer look at the differences between Windows 7 editions and their counterparts from Apple.
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Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Coke, Pepsi Make Nice on Twitter — Amnesia Razorfish Promotes ‘Public Hug’ — Yes, even hardcore rivals can be social-media friends (or followers, at least). Earlier today Amnesia Razorfish launched an experiment to see if it could get the cola brands to follow each other on Twitter.
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Dan Monzelowsky / Socialgeist:
Twitter Raises API Limits? — As I always do, the first thing I did when I got home this evening was to open TweetDeck. What did I see waiting for me? — Instead of the usual 100 API calls per hour, TweetDeck says that I now have a maximum of 150. — Is this something permanent?
David Coursey / PC World:
AT&T Problems Can Delay iPhone Voicemail — Ever feel like your iPhone is holding out on you? Not delivering voice mail in a timely manner? Well, I have and now I know why—sometimes AT&T doesn't deliver visual voicemail for days. — That's according to Glenn Tenney …
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Michael Wolff / Vanity Fair:
Politico's Washington Coup — Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes-and feeds-a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico's print version is what's helped make it profitable.
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Lauren Pollock / Wall Street Journal:
Overstock Drops Affiliates In 4 States to Protest Taxes — Overstock.com Inc. informed its marketing affiliates in four states — California, Hawaii, North Carolina and Rhode Island — that it is ending its business with them to avoid collecting sales tax. — Lawmakers in the states …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents — Microsoft's recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of Microsoft's FAT filesystem.
Mark Scott / Business Week:
Pirate Bay's Weird New Business Plan — The new owner of the swashbuckling Swedish peer-to-peer outfit will bundle up the collective Internet bandwidth of its users and resell it to ISPs — When the founders of file-sharing Web site Pirate Bay were given a year's prison sentence in April …
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Threat Level, paidContent, TorrentFreak, paidContent, Silicon Alley Insider, BBC, NewTeeVee and The Swedish Wire
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
iPhone Gets Big Stamp of Approval — In the hotly competitive smart phone arena, bragging rights mean a lot, and when one handset can claim a big stamp of approval over the competition, it gets a lot of attention. And such will be the case in Cupertino where Apple's iPhone team can print …
Avivra / TwitPwn:
MoTB #01: Multiple vulnerabilities in bit.ly service — What is bit.ly — “bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier. bit.ly can be accessed through our website, bookmarklets and a robust and open API. bit.ly is also integrated …
Richard Perez-Pena / Media Decoder:
Google Drops News Comment Feature — Google has eliminated an experimental feature that allowed people quoted in articles in Google News to post comments on those articles. — People in media were intrigued by the idea of giving article subjects the unique power to comment, and the idea drew considerable news coverage.
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Marvel At the Ingenuity of the Chinese iPhoney, iPhone Knockoffs Now Near Perfect … Counterfeit iPhones have come a long way. They're now almost identical to original iPhones, fooling bargain hunters on sites like eBay. — Look at the video below from Dana Stibolt, founder of MacMedics …
