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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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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.”
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.
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”.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook socializes the web with powerful new plug-ins — Facebook is launching a series of plug-ins that will dramatically expand its presence across the web. — “Social plug-ins are a way you can provide an instnatnely personal experience with one line of HTML,” said Bret Taylor, the company's director of product
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Facebook nixing ‘Facebook Connect’ branding — SAN FRANCISCO—As part of its unveiling of its “Open Graph” product suite at the F8 developer conference, Facebook is getting rid of the standalone “Facebook Connect” product that it unveiled at the last F8 two years ago.
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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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Mike Chambers:
On Adobe, Flash CS5 and iPhone Applications — A little over a week ago Apple released a new draft of their iPhone developer program license which contained the following clause: … Essentially, this has the effect of restricting applications built with a number of technologies, including Unity, Titanium, MonoTouch, and Flash CS5.
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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.
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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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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 …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T Only Activated 2.7 Million iPhones Last Quarter, As U.S …
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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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Bits:
Google Acquires Another Piece of the Tablet Puzzle — This week, Google took another step toward bringing its popular Web tools onto a myriad of non-traditional computing devices like tablet computers. It acquired a mysterious Silicon Valley startup called Agnilux.
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Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
Google Buys Stealth Hardware Startup Agnilux
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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 …
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Google brings free turn-by-turn Navigation to UK Androids (updated) — Talk about random gifts from the ether. British Android device owners are waking up this morning to discover their robot-themed operating system has gone and upgraded itself overnight.
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.
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.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Visa Picks Up CyberSource For $2 Billion — Payment network operator Visa has agreed to acquire e-payment company CyberSource for $26 per share, or total consideration of approximately $2 billion to be paid with cash on hand. The price represents a near 34 percent premium over Mountain View-based CyberSource's Tuesday closing price.
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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.
Bloomberg:
Google Said to Hold Talks to Buy ITA; Travel Program Firm Seeks $1 Billion — Google Inc. is in talks to acquire ITA Software Inc., a maker of travel programs used by companies including Orbitz Worldwide Inc. and Microsoft Corp., three people familiar with the matter said.
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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 …
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 …
Electronista:
E Ink parent company also contributing to iPad panels — The same company that makes the E Ink displays is also involved in making the iPad's screen, according to a statement made Wednesday (subscription required). Prime View International (PVI), whose E Ink division makes screens for the Kindle and Nook …
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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.
