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Dylan Casey / The Official Google Blog:
Google Realtime Search: a new home with new tools — When we first introduced our real-time search features last December, we focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Our goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usual search results.
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ReadWriteWeb, FM Blog, InformationWeek, Pluggd.in, Ars Technica, 901am, Geek.com, Google Operating System, TechSpot, MarketingVOX, VentureBeat, Startup Meme, Black Web 2.0, Bits, SiliconANGLE, Techie Buzz, Switched, Silicon Alley Insider, Erictric, The Register, ITworld.com, The Next Web, Between the Lines Blog, Voices on All Things Digital, paidContent, GeekSugar and Neowin.net
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Realtime Search Gets Home Page, Conversation View, Alerts & Geosearch — Google Realtime Search has finally gained its own home page, as well as some new tools including “conversations view,” Google Alerts for real time content and the ability to see tweets filtered by geography. — New Home Page
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Microsoft To Pay More Than Half A Billion Dollars To Jump-Start Windows Phone 7 — Editor's note: The following guest post is by Kim-Mai Cutler. — Nearly four years after Apple launched the iPhone and two years after Google open-sourced the code for its Android operating system …
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InformationWeek, MobileContentToday, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, WMPoweruser.com and The Microsoft Blog
Carl Sjogreen / Facebook Developer Blog:
Social From the Ground Up — At Facebook, we are huge believers in what a small dedicated team with a unique perspective can accomplish. We've already seen how a group of startups who built social interactions into the core of their product experience have completely changed how people play games online …
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Inside Facebook, ReadWriteStart and The Next Web
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Begin Giving Y Combinator Startups VIP Treatment — Startups that enter the Y Combinator program don't generally do it for the money alone — most companies receive $20,000 or less in seed funding. Instead, they do it for the exposure, connections, mentors, and resources that the YC program affords.
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VentureBeat and GigaOM
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Gmail users place 1M calls in 24 hours — It looks like Gmail users are already taking advantage of the cheap calling that Google launched yesterday. The company announced via Twitter that there were 1 million calls placed from Gmail in 24 hours. — The feature is particularly attractive …
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Lockergnome Blog Network, Erictric, WebProNews, NBC Bay Area, Fortune, Crave, Pulse2, Ubergizmo and TechFlash
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Suzanne Choney / Technolog:
Gmail calling takes off, but not without bumps — Google's Gmail “Call phone” link in the e-mail program makes it easy to place free calls — for now — within the United States and Canada. — More than 1 million calls were placed from Gmail's free calling service in its first 24 hours …
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Techdows, calliflower.com and eWeek
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Diaspora Three Weeks Away From Unveiling Open-Source Facebook Alternative — Remember Diaspora? You'll be forgiven if you don't. Since they received a lot of hype as the open-source “Facebook Alternative” this past May, they've been quiet. In fact, they hadn't given any updates on their progress since early July.
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Mashable!
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Guess Who Is Trying To Trademark The Word “Face”? (And Guess Who Is Trying To Stop It?) — When it comes to trademarks, Facebook is proving to be a bully. It is going after Teachbook in court for using a similar name, and already forced Placebook to change its name. But that is only half the story.
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TechStartups.com, Gizmodo and Threat Level
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Hey Facebook, Here Are Some Other Companies You Can Bully Or Sue
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CNNMoney.com, Kansas City Star, WebProNews and VatorNews, Thanks:leenarao
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Exchange ActiveSync to arrive on Hotmail on Monday — REDMOND, Wash.—One of the features promised as part of the latest update to Hotmail will arrive next week, CNET has learned. — In an interview here on Thursday, Microsoft's Dharmesh Mehta told CNET that Exchange ActiveSync …
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LiveSide.net, All about Microsoft Blog, Boy Genius Report, The Microsoft Blog, TiPb, PreCentral.net, Ubergizmo and The Next Web
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Smaller iPod nano without click wheel could be unveiled at Apple event — Rumors of a “significant redesign” of Apple's iPod nano have surfaced, suggesting the company could introduce a smaller device with no click wheel at its event next week. — Shaw Wu with Kaufman Bros. issued a note …
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CrunchGear, SlashGear, Velocity, Geek.com, Electronista, everythingiCafe and Edible Apple
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Developer of Tablets Loses Apple as Customer — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple severed ties with a small Silicon Valley design firm that for nearly a decade had helped with the development of some of its products, after the firm showcased its own prototype tablet computer.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Power Diggers React To New Version of Digg (video) — Yesterday the big news wasn't that Lindsay Lohan is out of rehab. The real news was that the new version of the social news site Digg launched to the public. Alex from Next Web has an overview of the new Digg.
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GigaOM and Andy Beard
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
What Digg Needs To Change To Keep Its Users Happy
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ReadWriteWeb and Redmond Pie
Pete Warden / HubSpot:
The March Of Twitter: Analysis of How And Where Twitter Spread — To answer that question I created a visual history of Twitter's growth, feeding data from Dharmesh Shah (developer of TwitterGrader.com) into OpenHeatMap to produce an animated visualization of the service's growth …
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PeteSearch, Thanks:atul
foursquare:
Am I mayor yet? — We made a quick yet long-awaited tweak to our apps today. When you're getting close to winning a Mayorship (within 10 check-ins), you'll now see how far away you are from ousting the current Mayor. You'll see the count in the post check-in screen when you check into a place.
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About Foursquare, msnbc.com, TechCrunch, The Next Web and ReadWriteWeb
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Charges Settled Over Fake Reviews on iTunes — SAN FRANCISCO — Savvy Internet users know that glowing online reviews of things like books or restaurants can't always be trusted. But federal regulators are giving notice that if you stand to gain financially from the review you are writing, you should be up front about it.
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Andy Beard, Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac, WebProNews and MacNN
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Facebook: Actually, there are 44 million active monthly users of our iPhone app, not 104 million — Yesterday, the internet collective noticed that Facebook was claiming some astonishing monthly active user figures on its respective app fan pages. At the time, Facebook was showing …
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WMPoweruser.com, TUAW, Edible Apple and iLounge
Ivaylo Popov / Google Code Blog:
Google Buzz API adds Track and some improvements — Let's say you're really interested in coffee and tea and would like to know every time someone talks about them. You've been able to do that for the web with Google Alerts. Now you will be able to do the same thing for Google Buzz with our latest feature: Track.
Thanks:chrismessina
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Digg's Matt Van Horn leaving for start-up Path — Matt Van Horn, business development director at social news site Digg, is departing for Path—the ultra-stealthy start-up co-founded by former Facebook executive Dave Morin and Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning.
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TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Index Ventures Buys Into Etsy, Triples Valuation To Nearly $300 Million — Crafty commerce site Etsy just raised another $20 million in its fifth venture round (that would be the Series E). Index Ventures is the new investor leading the round, with partner Danny Rimer getting an observer's seat on the board.
Will Richmond / VideoNuze:
Over 88% of Hulu Plus Content is Already Available for Free on Hulu.com — A new analysis of all the content available on Hulu Plus reveals that over 88% of all the full-length TV program episodes available in the $10/mo subscription service are already freely accessible on Hulu.com.
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Yahoo Revs Up Its Local Content Efforts — Over the last year, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has talked repeatedly about the importance of both local content and local advertising. But, while the company has announced local ad partnerships with Gannett (NYSE: GCI) and direct marketer Valassis …
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Reflections of a Newsosaur, MediaMemo, Lost Remote and MediaShift, more at Mediagazer »
Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:
FTC drops P2P file sharing probe of LimeWire — Agency cites upgrades to LimeWire software that aim to prevent inadvertent P2P file sharing — Computerworld - In a rare break for LimeWire, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week decided to drop its investigation into the embattled …
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Federal Trade Commission and ReadWriteWeb
