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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:
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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Black Web 2.0, Erictric and Engadget
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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Tech Check, Xconomy, The Register, Stowe Boyd, BoomTown, hypebot, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog
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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A VC, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TUAW, GigaOM, Black Web 2.0, Silicon Alley Insider, IntoMobile, Twittercism, Erictric, TechCrunch, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, CallingAllGeeks, Twitterrati, VentureBeat, Web Analytics World, WebProNews, GottaBeMobile, Edible Apple, jkOnTheRun, Cult of Mac and Techland
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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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ReadWriteWeb, Help Net Security, MacRumors, Computerworld, MediaMemo, PE Hub Blog and Guardian
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Chester Wisniewski / Chester Wisniewski's Blog:
Apple gets Ping'd with comment spam - They didn't see this coming?
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Inquirer, 9 to 5 Mac, The Register, Graham Cluley's blog and Phones Review
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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Download Squad, The Register, ReadWriteWeb and Go Rumors, Thanks:hornokplease
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, while the nano is a miniature multi-touch marvel that can apparently double as a fancy watch in a pinch.
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Go Rumors and Boy Genius Report
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, WatchingTV Online and GMSV
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google Hopeful Of 2010 Launch For iTunes Rival Despite Lack Of Signed Label Deals — We all know Google Music is coming, it's just a question of when - and what it'll look like, of course. According to Reuters, Google hopes to launch the service as early as December 2010.
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Company Town and p2pnet
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Apple and Google to clash in music space by Christmas
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9 to 5 Mac, Erictric, Music Ally, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, IntoMobile, Electronista and Tech Trader Daily, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:atul
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.
Thanks:atul
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
The Future Of Digg — An interview with Digg's VP of product …
Thanks:zee
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.
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Stowe Boyd
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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PC Pro, Hardware 2.0 Blog, blogs.chron.com, Lifehacker, Electronista, Geek.com and Technologizer
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia's new graphics chips will give you laptops with long battery life and 3D — Nvidia is announced a new family of laptop graphics chips today 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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Computerworld, TechEye, Inquirer, Electronista, Softpedia News, HotHardware.com News, Gizmodo and Crave
Ben Adida / Benlog:
an unwarranted bashing of Twitter's oAuth — Ryan Paul over at ArsTechnica claims a compromise of Twitter's oAuth system, but fails to demonstrate such a compromise. It's unfortunate, because some of his comments are indeed worthwhile, and there are a few interesting recommendations that Twitter should follow (hah, no pun intended).
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Link archive for scripting.com, hueniverse and Ars Technica, Thanks:atul
Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Reddit Diggs Traffic Surge, Prepares For Expansion — It's all hands on deck at Reddit this week. — In the wake of Digg's bungled redesign, its rival is enjoying a surge in traffic and a jump in ad and subscription sales. Since Monday, the site has been averaging 900,000 uniques per day …
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MediaPost, VentureBeat and Download Squad, more at Mediagazer »
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Is 4chan Turning Into Internet Good Guys? — 4chan, the anarchic Internet messageboard, appears to be experiencing an identity crisis. Whereas terror campaigns against tweens were once planned amid stomach-churning images, a strong streak of do-gooderism has taken hold.
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GigaOM
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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eWeek, PC World, Inquirer, Mashable!, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, V3.co.uk, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, Erictric and ReadWriteWeb
Team Vox:
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 …
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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MacRumors, Computerworld, TiPb, Boy Genius Report and Hardware 2.0 Blog
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
BuzzFeed Opens Up Access to Its Viral Dashboard — BuzzFeed, which tracks online topics that have gone viral, is offering a version of the analytical dashboard it uses to monitor the spread of Internet “memes” to any website, brand or publisher that wants to track the popularity of their content.
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BuzzFeed Blog, Thanks:mathewi
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter For iPhone Push Notifications Are Being Internally Tested; Rolling Out Soon — To many users, Twitter for iPhone (the artist formerly known as Tweetie) is perhaps the perfect Twitter client (though I'd argue that the new Twitter for iPad is right there with it).
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Mashable!, Cult of Mac, Lifehacker, MobileCrunch and Gizmodo
