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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook Blocked API Access to Ping After Failure to Strike Agreement, So Apple Removed Feature After Launch — It's not as mysterious as it seems, this mini-controversy about finding friends on Facebook for Apple's new social music network. — According to sources familiar …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iTunes Ping And Facebook Were Friends Yesterday. And I'm Still Connected. — There seems to be some confusion out there right now about iTunes Ping, Apple's new music social network, and Facebook. Some people seem to think it was never a part of iTunes, that Apple decided against connecting …
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Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog, Computerworld, VentureBeat, CNET News, Inside Facebook, Download Squad and MediaMemo
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Apple-Facebook Friction Erupts Over Ping — If it is true that the enemy of your enemy is your friend, then Apple and Facebook ought to be friends. Their common enemy, of course, is Google. — But Apple's entry into social networking with the iTunes music social network Ping on Wednesday, has made them frenemies.
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BoomTown, TechCrunch and BuzzFeed
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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Now Over 145 Million Users, Almost 300,000 Apps — When I read Twitter CEO Evan Williams post tonight about the state of Twitter from a mobile perspective, the first thing that jumped out at me what that Twitter for Android, an app Twitter worked hard on, isn't even in the top 10 most-used apps for the service.
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Laptops Look Like Racecars — and Not in a Good Way — At a meeting with Advanced Micro Devices the other day, representatives talked to me about chip sets and clock speeds, of discrete graphics and die sizes. But in passing, they mentioned an additional company initiative that really perked me up: laptop stickers.
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Lifehacker, Electronista, Geek.com and Technologizer
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
HUGE: Facebook Testing New “Subscribe To” User Feature — Facebook is in the process of testing a new feature which lets you subscribe to all the actions of a specific user. In other words, you can receive notifications anytime a specific user takes an action on Facebook.
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ReadWriteWeb, Techie Buzz, Fast Company and TechCrunch
Edmund Lee / AdAge:
AOL's Armstrong: Why We Went With Google — Content Portal's Search Traffic Is Falling, but Still Accounts for 20% of Its Revenue — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In a sign of Google's renewed belief in AOL's future, the search giant has outbid Microsoft to retain AOL's search traffic for another five years.
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Adotas
John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
Apple's trouble with TV — Apple TV has been a persistent loser from a company that usually only tolerates winners. It's clear that Apple wants to do something “in the living room,” but damned if it can figure out exactly what that is. Yesterday, Apple took another run at this thing, announcing an “all-new” Apple TV.
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Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb and Macworld
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia's new graphics chips will give you laptops with long battery life and 3D — Nvidia is announced today a new family of laptop graphics chips that will balance good 3D performance and battery life. The new Nvidia GeForce 400M series of graphics chips will be used in a number …
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Crave, Gizmodo and HotHardware.com News
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Ping Averts Its Gaze: Apple's New Social Network Doesn't Really Want to Know Much About You — Steve Jobs says Ping is supposed to be a “social music discovery” service: You share your musical taste with friends and vice versa. But if you really want to share, you're going to find it harder than you think.
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eMarketer and Blog Posts, Adotas, BetaNews, ReadWriteWeb and GigaOM
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Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Why Ping May Be Bad News for Blippy: UPDATED
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PC World and ProgrammableWeb, Thanks:atul
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
In The Coming HTML5 Browser Wars, The Markup Should Remain The Same — On Monday, Google made a big splash with a customized Arcade Fire video page that showed off all the cool things HTML5 can do, from video, animations and 3D rendering to gorgeous fonts and choreographed windows.
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jd/adobe, The Social Path and Guardian
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 …
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ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:hornokplease
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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Bits, more at Mediagazer »
Peter Parkes / The Big Blog:
Make group video calls with up to 10 people with the new beta version of Skype for Windows — Today we've released an update to Skype for Windows. The second beta of Skype 5.0 brings a number of changes both outside and in - most importantly, you can now make group video calls with up to 10 people.
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Mashable!, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Erictric and ReadWriteWeb
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Ex-Googler Lee Backs China Companies to Foster Startup Culture — Founded by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google's China division, business incubator Innovation Works is funding 12 startups amid strong demand for Web technology — Kai-Fu Lee, who headed Google Inc.'s (GOOG) …
Agence France Presse:
Walkman outsells iPod in Japan for first time — TOKYO — In a rare victory for Sony over arch-rival Apple, the Walkman portable music player outsold the iPod in Japan in monthly sales for the first time in August, a survey showed Thursday. — Sony's share of the Japanese market …
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Digital Daily, MediaPost, PE Hub Blog and Anything But iPod
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Ev Williams: Twitter Will Actually Help Information Overload — At its core, Twitter is a “recipient-driven medium,” said CEO Evan Williams in a public conversation tonight in San Francisco, Calif. What does that mean? Williams, an unusually theoretical CEO, is happy to explain.
Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Asks Court to Protect Craigslist from Defamation Suit — San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of public interest groups and law professors have asked a California appeals court to protect craigslist from a lawsuit that could spur websites to be less helpful …
Don MacAskill / SmugMug's Don MacAskill:
What the AppleTV should have been — tl;dr: The new AppleTV is a huge disappointment. Welcome to AppleTV 2007. — SmugMug is full of Apple fanboys. (And our customer list suggests Apple is full of SmugMug fanboys) We watch live blogs or streams of every product announcement as a company, debating and discussing as it unfolds.
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Silicon Alley Insider and SmoothSpan Blog, Thanks:donmacaskill
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
This Spam Infographic About Spam Infographics Makes My Head Hurt — Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post of Internet memes, wins the “more meta than thou” award for making “An Infographic Backlash Infographic” inspired by the tragic tale of a guy whose job it was to game Digg back when Digg had enough traffic to make it worth gaming.
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Apple and Google to clash in music space by Christmas — (Reuters) - Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Electronista, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo and Tech Trader Daily, Thanks:atul
Vivian Lin Dufour / Yahoo! Search Blog:
Yahoo! Search Serves Suggestions Closer to You — We're making Search more intuitive by taking user context and applying it to the search experience. Today we are introducing an enhanced Yahoo! Search Assist, providing suggestions geographically closer to you as you type your query.
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Search Engine Journal, Screenwerk and WebProNews
James Ledbetter / Slate:
Why is everyone always writing off Netflix? — People who think and write about technology companies for a living are prone to be wrong now and again. Try to find, for example, veteran analysts or journalists who haven't at some point made a claim about Apple that they didn't later regret.
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Lockergnome Blog Network and Hacking NetFlix
Ariel Schwartz / Fast Company:
Google's Eric Schmidt Shown as Perverter of Privacy on Times Square Jumbotron — Google's “Don't Be Evil” motto has become increasingly controversial in the past year as the Internet giant made private GMail contacts public with Google Buzz, collected personal information from Wi-Fi networks …
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ReadWriteWeb, Bits, Gawker, New York Magazine, Search Engine Land and Inside Google
Roberto Baldwin / Mac|Life:
Apple Removes Ability to Create Ringtones from iTunes 10 — While trying out the new iTunes today, we realized that we could no longer set the option to see if a track purchased from the iTunes store could be made into a ringtone within iTunes 10 for $.99. — In previous versions of iTunes …
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