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Chris Putnam / Facebook Blog:
Faster, Simpler Photo Uploads — Facebook is the largest photo-sharing site with over 2.5 billion photos uploaded to Facebook each month. In order to make sharing photos even easier, today we are announcing a new and improved photo uploader. — Recently we've received feedback …
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Macmillan Books Return to Amazon After Dispute — Electronic and paper books from the publisher Macmillan were returning to Amazon.com Friday evening, ending a week-long public conflict as the parties negotiated over the future price of e-books. — Details of the resolution have not been made public …
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Recommends The Competition On Your Business “Place” Page — I'm scratching my head over this one: Google has added a new content block on place pages that, quite often, gives free advertising to a local business's competition. It's called “Nearby places you might like” …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Wolfram Alpha Still Trying To Justify That $50 iPhone App With New Virtual Keyboards — In October, computational engine Wolfram Alpha launched a slick iPhone app. The only problem? They miscalculated what it should cost. The app is great and all, but it's simply not worth $50 when you can use the website for free.
Alexei Oreskovic / MediaFile:
Gmail Creator says he is not working on new email platform — With nearly 400 million users, Facebook is increasingly challenging the traditional Web overlords like Google and Yahoo on all fronts. — So the reports on Friday that Facebook was developing its own Web-based email …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Passes 1 Million Check-Ins A Week. Rate Doubled In The Past Month. — Yesterday, we got a nice little breakdown of which clients are used most often for the location-based service Foursquare (hint: still the iPhone). Today, the company has some new big news to share via a tweet …
ZDNet:
Symbian tablets ‘very likely’, says Foundation chief — On Thursday, the Symbian Foundation announced that it had completed the open-sourcing of its mobile operating system — the largest such migration in software history. — ZDNet UK spoke to Lee Williams, chief executive of the Symbian Foundation …
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Apple's A4 chip: Engineers correct stupid journalist — Updated with several more emails. — I have no clue about computer chip design and manufacturing. So I trolled VentureBeat's readers with a challenge: Explain to me how Apple's switch from third-party chip manufacturers to its own …
MacNN:
FCC worries about iPad bandwidth congestion — The iPad could potentially cause serious havoc for US data networks, say people writing on behalf of the Federal Communications Commission. Updating an official blog, Phil Bellaria, director of scenario planning for the Omnibus Broadband Initiative …
SageCircle Blog:
Forrester tells analysts no more personally-branded research blogs with interesting implications for analyst relations — Credible reports are coming into SageCircle that Forrester management has set a new policy that analysts with personally-branded research blogs must take the blog …
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Irregular Enterprise
Dan Fletcher / Time:
Facebook's Doppelganger Week Is Viral Groupthink — When I logged in to Facebook this week, I was greeted with updates from such friends as Mariah Carey, Natalie Portman and Ryan Gosling. Exciting, right? Except that when I clicked through, it was clear that these posts were from my same …
Steve Kelman / fcw.com:
The dark side of crowdsourcing? — Earlier this week, at our weekly faculty research lunch seminar at the Kennedy School (one of the few “free lunches” that has survived our budget crunch-driven cost savings), Jonathan Zittrain, the Internet law and policy guru at Harvard Law School …
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Trends in the Living Networks
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla ends Firefox support for Mac OS Tiger — Calls Mac OS X 10.4 ‘hindrance’ to development; Apple's already dumped Tiger — Computerworld - Baring any last-minute change of mind, Mozilla will permanently drop support for Mac OS X 10.4 from future editions of Firefox.
Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:
Patent office to review VoIP patent — IDG News Service - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has agreed to review a controversial patent issued in 2001 that is claimed to cover much of the technology underlying VoIP. — The patent, held by a small company called C2 Communications Technologies …
Bing / Search Blog:
Enhanced Cooperation with Facebook on Search — Facebook has been a close and valued partner of Microsoft for a number of years. We have worked together on several fronts all designed to create great experiences and services for our users. As we begin 2010, we are stepping up that collaboration yet again.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:More social, please: Facebook nixes banner ads
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AWS Evangelist / Amazon Web Services Blog:
Kindle: more than an e-book reader, it's a development platform — Last month we announced the forthcoming release of the Kindle Development Kit, a suite of programming interfaces, tools, and documentation that allows you to build active content that you can promote in the Kindle Store.
Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:
Silicon Valley companies look to hire — From giant tech vendors to tiny solar start-ups, some of Silicon Valley's hottest companies are dusting off their “Help Wanted” signs as they gear up for a return to growth. — But the hiring may occur gradually, and some of those jobs will be spread around the world.
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NBC Bay Area
Lauren Hatch / Silicon Alley Insider:
NBC Airing Emmys Live For The First Time, Thanks To Twitter (GE) — NBC is considering scrapping the time delay when it airs the Emmys on Aug. 29, according to Broadcasting & Cable. — The TV show typically airs live on stations on the East and in Central time zones, with a delay for the West coast.
