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Chester Wisniewski / Chester Wisniewski's Blog:
Apple gets Ping'd with comment spam - They didn't see this coming? — Most of the security industry has been pointing out the migration of spam from an email-only venture to blog/forum comments, Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 platforms. But apparently Apple didn't consider this when designing Ping …
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Apple's Ping succumbs to the spammers — New social network built inside iTunes fails to keep out the spammers, showing a curse of social media - even inside proprietorial walls — Apple chief Steve Jobs's trumpeting of the 160 million credit card holders on iTunes was a siren call to spammers.
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Tech Trader Daily, The Apple Core Blog, Help Net Security, ReadWriteWeb, Pulse2, MacRumors, Macworld, PE Hub Blog, Guardian and MediaMemo
Wade Roush / Xconomy:
The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple's Undoing — Wade Roush wrote: — With each new product that Apple announces, including the revamped Apple TV and the new Ping social network, Steve Jobs reveals a little bit more of his plan to dominate the media universe.
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, Tech Check and Stowe Boyd
Evan Williams / Twitter Blog:
The Evolving Ecosystem — Just over four months ago, at Chirp, our Twitter developer conference, I talked about how “Twitter is too hard” and what we're doing to address that. — One major area of difficulty I highlighted was getting Twitter on your phone.
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Ev Williams: Twitter Will Actually Help Information Overload
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Brian Solis and Stowe Boyd
Mike Yang / The Official Google Blog:
Trimming our privacy policies — Long, complicated and lawyerly—that's what most people think about privacy policies, and for good reason. Even taking into account that they're legal documents, most privacy policies are still too hard to understand. — So we're simplifying and updating Google's privacy policies.
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Digits, Bits, Google, Tech Daily Dose, Erictric and Search Engine Journal, Thanks:hornokplease
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google To Update, Shorten And De-Jargon Privacy Policies - Here's What's Changing
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Digg's Decline, Illustrated — Why does Digg have a new design and a new CEO? Here's one answer, via a handy chart. — This one comes from Christopher Mascari, a Gawker Media marketing guy, and it illustrates the blog network's traffic from social media sites.
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msnbc.com, The Next Web, watchmojo.com and Silicon Alley Insider, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:atul
Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
BUSTED: Anti-Google Privacy Group Consumer Watchdog Is Tracking Your Clicks With Google Analytics — How's this for a little hypocrisy? — Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit advocacy group and vocal Google critic, has been a promoting a video that lampoons Google's privacy practices by depicting …
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Fortune, Consumer Watchdog and Search Engine Journal
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
YouTube Ads Turn Videos Into Revenue — SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Last month, a YouTube user, TomR35, uploaded a clip from the AMC series “Mad Men” in which Don Draper makes a heartfelt speech about the importance of nostalgia in advertising. — Viewers wouldn't notice, but that clip also makes …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple Building 2 Million iPads Per Month, But Shooting for 3 Million — “Shocked” by demand for the iPad after it launched, Apple (AAPL) has ramped up production of the device to meet it, but there's work left to do yet. Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty says Apple recently doubled its monthly iPad builds to 2 million.
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MacRumors, Silicon Alley Insider, GMSV, Erictric, MacNN, Pulse2 and FierceWireless
Alex North / Google Wave Developer Blog:
Wave open source next steps: “Wave in a Box” — Since the announcement that we will discontinue development of Google Wave as a standalone product, many people have asked us about the future of the open source code and Wave federation protocol. After spending some time on figuring out our next steps …
AppleInsider:
Apple now offers HTML5-based movie showtimes, locations — Apple has revamped its Movie Trailers page with movie showtimes and the ability to automatically find the nearest theater, all within HTML5, and compatible with iOS devices. — The new Showtimes page no the iTunes Movie Trailers …
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Google's TV Previewed at IFA, Suddenly Not the Smartest Kid on the Block — Google looked to have stolen a march on the smart Net-connected TV market when it revealed its integrated Google TV a few months back. Now we're seeing prototypes at the IFA electronics show …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Connected-TV Race: Yahoo Lands A European Telly Maker
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
BREAKING: Facebook Now Displaying All Liked News Articles In Search Results — Another big upgrade from Facebook: the company is currently testing search results which display articles ranked by likes. Additionally, the results for searches now shows the results from all around the web based on two things …
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ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:atul
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
iHome teases first AirPlay-compatible portable speaker dock — No surprise that iHome is first out of the gate with a speaker dock that's compatible with Apple's newly-open AirPlay music streaming system, but unfortunately the teaser page is maddeningly light on details …
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Pocket-lint and Gizmodo
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
iOS browsing is bigger than Android (6x) and Linux says NetApps — Apple's iOS has become the third most popular platform on the Internet with marketshare that's nealry six times larger than Android. Indeed, iOS is bigger than Linux, says Net Applications.
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AppleInsider, App Advice, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Pulse2, IntoMobile, MacRumors, TiPb, Boy Genius Report and Hardware 2.0 Blog
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
iPod touch Is Close, But Still No Contract-Free iPhone — If you don't count the ol' iPod Classic, Apple completely revamped the iPod line yesterday at its annual music event. The Shuffle saw the return of buttons. The Nano is now a miniature multi-touch marvel that can apparently double as a fancy watch in a pinch.
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PC World, Tech Check, Softpedia News, Gearlog, Go Rumors and Boy Genius Report
Matthew Moskovciak / CNET News:
Apple TV isn't 1080p and you shouldn't care — The refreshed Apple TV sports a new design, Netflix streaming, and low price, but like the old model, Apple's streaming video box is still limited to 720p content. While that means the Apple TV loses the spec war to competitors like the Xbox 360 and Vudu …
Kamau High / Speakeasy:
Controversial ‘Duke Nukem Forever’ Will Finally Be Released … “Duke Nukem Forever,” a video game synonymous with never being released, is finally being released. — The first person shooter about a space marine with a penchant for off-color humor who battles aliens with increasingly destructive weapons …
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Fred / A VC:
Mobile First Web Second — Paramendra wrote a post last night that got me thinking about a class of apps that I'll call “mobile first web second”. He mentions Twitter and Foursquare and I would agree that both of them are mobile first web second. — Back in the early days of Twitter, I sent and read most of my tweets via SMS.
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John Battelle's Searchblog, Thanks:atul
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's Twitter's Big Problem: It's Not Going Mainstream — The last few months have begun to confirm a conviction we've long held about Twitter—that, in its current form, it's not likely to become a huge mass-market phenomenon. — Given that the tech community is obsessed with Twitter …
Patrick Goss / TechRadar.com:
Angry Birds arrives on the Android platform — iPhone smash hit broadens — One of the iPhone's biggest gaming hits has finally arrived on the Android platform, with Rovio Mobile's phenomenally addictive Angry Birds making the jump to a new platform in beta.
