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Emily Bryson York / AdAge:
McDonald's to Use Facebook's Upcoming Location Feature — Brands Eager to Build Apps Once Massive Social Network Launches Its Own Foursquare Competitor — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Facebook is preparing to launch location-based status updates for its users.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Are You Ready, Foursquare? Here Comes Facebook. — Okay, Dennis Crowley: Hope you've figured out the whole take-Yahoo's-money-or-not thing. Because here comes Facebook. — The social network is finally ready to start rolling out its location service this month and has linked up with McDonalds …
Google Mobile Blog:
Translate the real world with Google Goggles — Traveling to another country can be an amazing experience. The opportunity to immerse yourself in a different culture can give you a new perspective. However, it can be hard to fully enjoy the experience if you do not understand the local language.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Latitude Has 3 Million Active Users, Check-Ins Likely On The Way — “Hey Foursquare and MyTown, suck it.” — Okay, Google's Steve Lee didn't actually say that during the location panel at the Web 2.0 Expo today, but he may as well have. While Foursquare may have just crossed 1 million users …
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Ginny Hung / Y! Mobile Blog:
Apple iPad User Analysis — There's no question that the iPad is the latest “it” product, with first-day sales exceeding 300,000 and some analysts projecting as many as 7 million units sold by year's end. Inside Yahoo!, we're just as interested in the iPad phenomenon.
Chuck Hollis / Chuck's Blog:
What iPads Did To My Family — This one is most definitely off-topic, but you might find it interesting. — Last Sunday, I broke down and bought a non-3G iPad. I just was too damn curious. Walked into the Apple Store, played with it for 5 minutes, gave them my credit card, and walked out 15 minutes later.
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Jared Newman / PC World:
FCC's Broadband Regulation Push: Pros and Cons — Wounded from a court decision that stopped the government from regulating Internet service providers, the Federal Communications Commission has announced a new way to gain some control over the broadband industry.
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Julius Genachowski / The National Broadband Plan:
The Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
What Happens When You Deactivate Your Facebook Account — Facebook is a big part of millions and millions of peoples' lives, but what happens when you pull the plug? Last night I met a man who walked to the edge of the cliff and nearly deactivated his Facebook account.
Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Q&A: Facebook users aren't outraged over privacy issues — Beard talks about Facebook controls, user desires and CEO Zuckerberg's reported privacy beliefs … What was the glitch this week that exposed private chats? I don't know the specifics of it. We take privacy very, very seriously here.
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
That's a problem. — I went to buy Angry Birds on Topherchris' recommendation and got this: — The first two pages of search results for “angry birds”. — The first two are real. Rocket Bird 3D and MY BEST FRIEND are other things (although probably keyword spammers).
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Kindle 2.5 hands on: social networks, passwords, and more — Amazon is preparing to release an updated version of its Kindle firmware that brings more integration with the rest of the world by adding social networking support and the ability to see the most popular highlights in the book you're reading.
Ian Bogost:
FLASH IS NOT A RIGHT — What Gripes about Apple tell us about Computational Literacy — I've been watching reactions to Apple's controversial decision to prohibit the publication of iPhone applications created in environments other than Apple's own.
Bla1ze / CrackBerry.com blogs:
The BlackBerry Tablet - What We Know And What We Don't — To tablet or not to tablet... that is the question! — Alright, since the issue of the BlackBerry tablet seems to not be going away any time soon, we decided we'd summarize and share what information we know and what information …
Steve Cheney / steve's blog:
Apple and Controlling the Platform — It's almost scary how much power Apple seems to have these days. Heck, during the Gizmodo iPhone 4G saga, they apparently even had control over the police! — One thing is sure - Steve Jobs has been pretty serious about keeping power ever since Apple lost the PC vs Mac war.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Tim O'Reilly: Steve Jobs Is Trying To Build A Fundamental Challenge To The Web — This morning during his keynote talk at Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly took a look at the State of the Internet Operating System — a term he uses to describe the intertwined web services like search, the social graph …
Patrick Goss / TechRadar.com:
Opera joins in Jobs v Flash argument — Critical now, but Adobe needs to change fast — Opera has joined in the argument over Flash, with the company telling TechRadar that they will support Flash for the time being, but that the company needs to start embracing web standards if it doesn't want to come under constant attack.
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Jeff Longo / MacRumors:
WWDC 2010 Sells Out In 8 Days — Apple has updated their WWDC website to indicate that the event has sold out. The event took only 8 days to sell out after being officially announced last week. — WWDC 2010 will take place June 7-11 and is expected to focus intensively on the iPhone OS platform.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
How the iPad gobbles up netbook sales — Also getting cannibalized: iPod touches, eReaders, desktop PCs and handheld videogames — There's an interesting chart in a report to clients issued early Thursday morning by Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty. — The subject of her report …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Digg Cuts 10% Of Staff — Digg has cut around twelve people from its staff, we're hearing. The company's about page lists 72 employees, but it's possible that they have more than that overall. When contacted about the news Digg told us they'd be publishing a blog post shortly — we'll update with more information once that is up.
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Kevin Rose / Digg Blog:
The following email was sent to our employees today
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Web Struggling To Keep Up With The Stock Market Crash/Bounce — In case you haven't been on Twitter in the past 20 minutes, the U.S. stock market is collapsing. Well, it was collapsing (the Dow was down over 1,000 points at one point), but now it's bouncing back.
Tim Bray / ongoing:
HTML5 and the Web — I am an unabashed partisan of the Web — its architecture, culture, and content. I'm proud to have played a very small part in shaping bits of the machinery and having contributed probably too many words to that content But as for HTML5? It's a good enough thing to the extent it turns out to work.
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Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
VMware Acquires Gemstone in Deal To Fortify New Java Platform with Salesforce.com — VMware is acquiring Gemstone, a Beaverton, Or.-based company that develops real-time caching and distributed database technologies that serves as an in-memory data fabric for masive data processing and transaction environments.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Samsung No. 1 Among U.S. Mobile Phone Makers, Apple No.6 — The latest metrics on the U.S. mobile market from comScore, published Thursday, are about what you'd expect. Among mobile network operators, Verizon (VZ) ranked highest with 31.1 percent of the market during the three-month period ending March 2010.
