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Bret Taylor / Facebook Developer Blog:
The Next Evolution of Facebook Platform — We're hosting our third f8 conference in San Francisco today. There are two important themes behind everything we're delivering today. First, the Web is moving to a model based on the connections between people and all the things they care about.
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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Building the Social Web Together — Facebook has always focused on building ways for people to connect with each other and share information with their friends. We think this is important because people are shaping how information moves through their connections.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Facebook F8: One graph to rule them all — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg onstage at the F8 conference. — SAN FRANCISCO—Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at the company's F8 developer conference on Wednesday to unveil what he said is “the most transformative thing we've ever done for the Web.”
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Seeks To Build The Semantic Search Engine — If HTML is the way developers get information into Google's search engine, meta data is the way developers will get data into Facebook's semantic search engine which will be based on the company's “Open Graph”.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Announces “App2User” Liquidity Program for Merchants to Convert Rewards Points into Credits — Here at Facebook's f8 conference in San Francisco, Deb Liu, product marketing manager for Credits, just announced a new Credits program called “App2User,” designed to enable merchants …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Removing 24 Hour Caching Policy on User Data for Developers
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Be Evil. Facebook's New Like Button Has An Interesting Option
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Pat Kinsel / Docs.com Blog:
INTRODUCING DOCS... for FACEBOOK — I'm so excited to announce today the launch of a new beta Facebook app from FUSE Labs called “Docs”, also available at our docs.com website. Built on Microsoft Office 2010, the Docs app enables Facebook® users for the first time to create …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Botched McAfee update shutting down corporate XP machines worldwide — [We can't officially confirm this yet but,] We're hearing from all over that a bad McAfee for Windows XP update is causing computers worldwide to shut down. Apparently DAT update 5958 deletes the svchost.exe file …
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Google Acquires Another Piece of the Tablet Puzzle — This week, Google took another step toward bringing its popular Web tools onto a myriad of nontraditional computing devices like tablet computers. It acquired a mysterious Silicon Valley start-up called Agnilux.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Gray Powell's father: ‘He was devastated’ — The father of Gray Powell, the Apple engineer who reportedly lost a prototype of the iPhone 4G, says his son was reeling following the incident. — “Of course he was devastated,” Robert Powell told CNET in a phone interview Wednesday. “He loves the company.”
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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Why Apple Should Sue Gawker Over ‘Lost’ iPhone Story
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Adobe halts investment in iPhone-specific Flash dev tools, has another dig at Apple (update: Apple responds) — Color us unsurprised, but it's still notable to hear that Adobe is stopping investment in its software's capability to port content over to iPhone OS.
Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
PayPal Powers eBay's First Quarter, eBay Beats Consensus — eBay squeezed past the Street's expectations, reporting first quarter profits of 42 cents a share (or $554.2 million) on revenues of $2.2 billion, analysts were looking for profits of 41 cents a share.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AT&T earnings propelled by iPhone activations, connected devices like e-readers, GPS systems — Updated: AT&T said Wednesday that it added 1.9 million wireless subscribers in the first quarter as the company continued to benefit from smartphone adoption and a bevy of connected devices such as e-readers …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Netflix Reports Big Jump In Instant Streaming — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) continues to add subscribers at a fast clip, adding a record 1.7 million subscribers to its roster during its first quarter, bringing its total to nearly 14 million. That growth helped the company once again meet high earnings expectations.
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
iTravel: Apple's Future Travel Centric App for the iPhone — Christina Warrens of Mashable covered our iTunes Concert Ticket + report last week and added that “Delta Airlines, which is headquartered in my hometown, supports digital boarding passes at some of its bigger airports.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
FriendFeed cofounder: No plans to shut down the site — FriendFeed, a site where users can aggregate their social networks and communicate in real-time, has become something like a forgotten stepchild after Facebook acquired the company last year. As one of a dwindling number of users …
Anil Dash:
Know Your S**t: Ten Years of Twitter Ads — Last week, Twitter announced its new advertising system, called promoted tweets. I was at Twitter's Chirp conference as a speaker, so I got an up-close look at the reaction to the big news, along with the (frankly, more interesting to me) announcements for developers and media.
Andy Rubin / Adobe Featured Blogs:
Adobe AIR on the Android Platform — Partnerships have been at the very heart of Android, the first truly open and comprehensive mobile platform, since we first introduced it with the Open Handset Alliance. Through close relationships with carriers, device manufacturers, developers …
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Phil Bronstein / SFGate:
Bill Gates on Journalism and Social Media (and the iPad, too) — Bill Gates strikes me as a guy who rarely says anything other than what he wants to say. And these days he's largely talking about the big, multi-billion dollar philanthropic work of his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Ben / Yelp Official Blog:
Yelp Partners with Facebook for a More Personal Experience — Here at Yelp, we're always excited to announce feature and site improvements with the help of great partners. Today, we've been invited to collaborate with the folks at Facebook to make your Yelp experience even more personal.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Target to sell Amazon's Kindle in select stores with broader rollout to follow — Target, a long-time Amazon partner, is going to give the Kindle a distribution hand in a small number of stores with a larger rollout later in the year. — The retailer said Wednesday that it will carry …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Salesforce Buys Business Directory Jigsaw For $142 Million In Cash Plus Earn-Out — Salesforce.com has just announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Jigsaw, which provides crowd-sourced data services in the cloud, for approximately $142 million in cash …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype By the Numbers: It's Really Big — We all marvel at Facebook and its number of users, which at last check stood at around 400 million. For context, consider Skype, which at the end of the fourth quarter of 2009 had 560 million registered users, a data point Skype's chief technology strategist …
