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Microsoft Outlook 2010:
Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace — In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. The Outlook Social Connector brings together communications history, contact information, and professional …
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Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Microsoft to pull Facebook, MySpace into Outlook — Buzz up! — SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is taking another step toward turning Outlook, its desktop e-mail program, into a hub for information from popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
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iGeneration, TechFlash, GottaBeMobile.com, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, CNET News, All about Microsoft, Techland and AppScout
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
A First Look At HBO Go: Curb Your Enthusiasm — Today HBO announced it will be making its movies and TV Shows available on the Web to subscribers through HBO Go, which up until now has been in private beta. HBO Go is part of the cable industry's TV Everywhere strategy to make TV content available online to paying subscribers.
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Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:
HBO GO Launches Live On Verizon FiOS Thursday, Links With Fancast (TWX) — HBO Go, the subscription channel's streaming video service, will go live on Verizon FiOS by this Thursday, Feb. 18. — The two companies made the announcement this morning at a press event.
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Ramine Darabiha / ReadWriteWeb:
How I Became the Robert Scoble of Buzz — I had some free time this weekend, so instead of going to party, I decided to look into Google Buzz. It's not every day that a major social site is launched. I wanted to find a way to find my friends quickly, and gain many followers.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:How Google Went Into “Code Red” And Saved Google Buzz (GOOG)
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eWeek, Google Operating System, ReadWriteWeb, Guardian, Epicenter, CBC News, GMSV, MediaPost, bub.blicio.us, the Econsultancy blog, Tech Eye, USA Today and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Dan Goodin / The Register:Google Buzz bug exposes user geo location
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CNET News, Fast Company, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Graham Cluley's blog, InfoWorld, ha.ckers.org web … and PC World
Katherine Boehret / All Things Digital:Google Buzz Isn't Exactly Humming Along [The Mossberg Solution]
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Talks About Apple Insults, Flash's Future and More! — For a man scorned, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch looked awfully calm on my visit to the software company's San Francisco HQ yesterday. — He could, I suppose, be hopping mad. — To add insult to injury …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Palo Alto Hit By Power Outage; Related To Plane Crash — Palo Alto appears to be suffering a fairly widespread power outage. — I lost power in my house just a few minutes ago; traffic lights are out, at least in midtown and south Palo Alto, and my son reports no power at JLS middle school.
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Jalopnik:
3 Tesla Execs Dead In Palo Alto Plane Crash — A twin-engine Cessna piloted by a “high-ranking official at Tesla” crashed into an East Palo Alto neighborhood today killing the pilot and two others on board. A Tesla spokesperson has confirmed three employees were involved in the crash.
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Mashable!, Silicon Alley Insider, San Francisco Chronicle and PE Hub Blog, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Nathan Eddy / eWeek:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt at MWC Puts Mobile First — In his Mobile World Congress keynote address, Google CEO Eric Schmidt describes the mobile ecosystem as a confluence of computing power, connectivity and cloud computing, and proclaims a new focus for the industry: putting mobile first.
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Hutch Carpenter / I'm Not Actually a Geek:
PleaseRobMe Is the Logical Extension of Our Worst Fears about Location-Based Services — The rise of location-based social media holds a lot of promise and benefit for participants. But a legitimate concern about them is that they make it too easy to track where you are.
Google News Blog:
Open-sourcing the Living Stories format — For the past two months, small teams of reporters and editors from the New York Times and Washington Post have been experimenting with Living Stories, a new format for covering news on the web. Using this technology platform …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Video Ad Start-Up YuMe Raises $25 Million — Who will be the Google of video advertising - inserting ads into the ever-expanding torrent of video on the Web? — If Google has anything to say about it, of course, it will be Google. But that has not stopped a host of specialized start-ups …
BBC:
BBC to offer iPhone applications — The BBC has announced it will offer iPhone applications for its news and sport content from April. — The free apps will be followed by versions for BlackBerry and phones running Google's Android software. — The BBC said they had been developed …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation — According to a Tweet just sent from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Google has donated $2 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales says the official announcement will be made tomorrow. — The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit …
Jim Giles / New Scientist:
Typos may earn Google $500m a year — Google may be earning an alleged $500 million a year via companies and individuals who register deceptive website addresses. — The claim centres on a controversial scheme known as “typosquatting”, the practice of registering a misspelled variant of a popular web domain.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Salesforce Chatter Starts As A Private Conversation — Salesforce's enterprise friendly social collaboration platform Chatter was announced at last year's November Realtime CrunchUp with much fanfare. To many, there is no doubt that Chatter will have a lasting impact on the enterprise and cloud computing.
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ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, PC World, Between the Lines, TechCrunchIT, Mashable! and building43
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Looking for farmers: Zynga opens office in India for social game development — Zynga is announcing today that it will open an office in India to develop social games. — The office in Bangalore will be the company's first outside of the U.S. The office is expected to hire about 100 people …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Google Tightens FT.com's Free-Article Loophole — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) fell under the spotlight in November, when the debate over news sites' value to search engines swirled up in to rumour of a Bing-News Corp (NYSE: NWS) deal. Google responded by offering to limit, for publishers …
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Tiffany Philippou / TechCrunch Europe:
How we built secret London in a weekend — This is a guest post by Tiffany Philippou who started the Secret London Facebook Group. Two weeks after launch the group had amassed over 180,000 members, propelling its 21 year old creator into her first startup - see our previous coverage.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter's hiring binge brings it to 140 employees — Twitter has been on a hiring spree as of late, grabbing up employees left and right for its engineering and business development teams. — The company just crossed the symbolic 140-employee mark, mirroring its famous character limit for tweets, according to co-founder Biz Stone.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
How To Search Google Buzz — Looking to find something on Google Buzz? Ironically, for a product from Google, searching Buzz seems to have a lot that can be improved. Below, some tips I've pulled together. — Buzz Search From Google — Buzz has its own search box, as you'll find at the top of the page.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Open Feint X aims to make iPhone games as social as Facebook apps — Facebook game companies have become financial juggernauts. That's because games spread in a viral way to lots of Facebook users. And a small percentage of those users buy virtual goods with real money.
