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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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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, ReadWriteWeb, Help Net Security, Pulse2, Macworld, MacRumors, PE Hub Blog, Guardian and MediaMemo
Wade Roush / Xconomy:
The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple's Undoing
The Leaning Tower of Ping: How iTunes Could Be Apple's Undoing
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TechCrunch, Stowe Boyd, VentureBeat and Inside Facebook
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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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
Google To Update, Shorten And De-Jargon Privacy Policies - Here's What's Changing
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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, Search Engine Journal and Consumer Watchdog
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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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VideoNuze, Bits, Geek.com, Silicon Alley Insider, WatchingTV Online and GMSV, more at Mediagazer »
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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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Silicon Alley Insider and watchmojo.com, Thanks:atul
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
The Future Of Digg — An interview with Digg's VP of product …
The Future Of Digg — An interview with Digg's VP of product …
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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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eWeek, CNET News, VentureBeat, Macworld, VatorNews, Pulse2, Black Web 2.0, FierceMobileContent, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, GigaOM, Twittercism, IntoMobile, TechCrunch, Erictric, Mashable!, Silicon Alley Insider, Twitterrati, ReadWriteWeb, Web Analytics World, CallingAllGeeks, WebProNews, Edible Apple and GottaBeMobile
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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 …
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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 …
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PC World
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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
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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, MacRumors, Pulse2, IntoMobile, TiPb, Boy Genius Report and Hardware 2.0 Blog
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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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Tech Check, Go Rumors and Boy Genius Report
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Facebook Wants To Be In A Relationship With The Big Boys — They Want To Be Just Friends — Yesterday, Apple launched iTunes Ping, their new music social network. Part of that launch was a very basic implementation of Facebook Connect, simply to hook in and find out which of your Facebook friends were also using Ping.
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Epeus' epigone, BoomTown, Geek.com, Black Web 2.0 and Mashable!
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Apple-Facebook Friction Erupts Over Ping
Apple-Facebook Friction Erupts Over Ping
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GigaOM, CBS News, Tech Check, Switched, Inside the Circle, TechCrunch, The Register, BoomTown, hypebot, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, TUAW, BlogsDNA, Computerworld and Ars Technica
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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 …
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Vox is closing September 30, 2010 — Vox has been a fun place to explore, create and connect with your friends. But Vox is closing its doors on September 30, 2010. — This doesn't mean you have to say goodbye to your blog. We want you to make sure you can keep the great content you've shared on Vox …
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TechCrunch, Venture Chronicles, Epicenter, The Blog Herald and Pulse2
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How Tagged Found A 100 Million User Path Post Facebookocalypse (Video) — Heard of Tagged? Back in 2005 it was a teenager-only social network, catering primarily to U.S. high school students as Facebook charged through the college crowds. By 2007 they were profitable and worth over $100 million.
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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.
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Brian Solis and Stowe Boyd
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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.
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U.S. and Israel spying behind BlackBerry woe: Dubai police — DUBAI (Reuters) - Concerns over Israeli access to BlackBerry data, and the use of the device by the United States to spy on the United Arab Emirates are behind the Gulf state's moves to curb the smartphone, Dubai's police chief said.
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