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Alex Payne / Online Writing:
The Very Last Thing I'll Write About Twitter — I have an odd mental relationship with my former employer. Clearly, I wouldn't have worked there for three and a half years if I didn't care about the product and the community. But then, I wouldn't have left if I really wanted to see that commitment through.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter's New Mini Platform: The Right-Side Pane
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Brian Solis, USA Today, Technology Review, eWeek, ResourceShelf, ReveNews, Search Engine Land, Computerworld and SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog
Join Diaspora Blog:
Developer Release — Today we are releasing the source code for Diaspora. This is now a community project and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control. From now on we will be working closely …
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Computerworld, Yahoo! News, PC Magazine, CNET News, OStatic blogs, Techland, The Next Web, Download Squad, V3.co.uk, Guardian and YOYODYNE, Thanks:hornokplease
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed: Sparse, But Clean; Source Code Released
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Open Source Blog, BBC, Mashable!, Geekosystem, Gizmodo and Computerworld
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Android vs. iPhone: Wait just a minute! — Sure Google is gaining on Apple, but not as fast as comScore's latest data suggest — I don't want to get into what Ben Bradley, the Watergate-era editor of the Washington Post, used to call a “defensive crouch,” but I've got a bone to pick …
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Apple Continued To Lose U.S. Marketshare Despite Spike From iPhone 4 Sales — Apple's iPhone 4 did not give the company the bump in sales it needed to put Android's momentum in check. Instead, Apple's smartphone marketshare in the U.S. dropped by 1.3 percent in the three months ended in July …
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Internet2Go, Jonny Evans's blog, The Toybox Blog, PC World, LAPTOP Mag, msnbc.com, MobileCrunch, TechEye, DailyTech, 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, Silicon Alley Insider, Know Your Cell, I4U News, Mashable!, Softpedia News, MobileBurn.com, webpronews.com, PreCentral.net, Search Engine Land, Slyck, Electronista, Digital Daily, Phones Review, iLounge, MediaPost, Macsimum News, Cult of Mac, Between the Lines Blog and Tech Trader Daily
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The real Facebook burglaries story — I did a little reporting to get the real story behind the reports of a Facebook burglary spree that supposedly used the service — right after its launch of Places — to find victims who were away on vacation. I emailed Nashua, NH detective Dan Archambault …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Justin.tv's Newest App Now Broadcasts Live Video From Your iPhone — Time spent watching live video is up 650 percent in the U.S. over the past year, thanks to the proliferation of a number of live video publishers including Justin.tv, Ustream, Qik and Livestream.
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Justin.tv, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, CNET News, NewTeeVee, The Next Web and Gizmodo
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
‘Halo: Reach’: $200M in 24 hours, biggest game in Microsoft history — “Halo: Reach,” the new installment in the blockbuster Xbox 360 series, topped $200 million in sales in the U.S. and Europe in its first 24 hours, according to data released by Microsoft tonight.
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BetaNews, Reuters, Neowin.net, gHacks Technology News, p2pnet, Softpedia News, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, The Next Web, Big in Japan, The Tech Herald …, WinBeta and Edge Magazine, Thanks:rawmeet
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Nokia Is the McDonald's of Phones — Didn't you notice? It was just Nokia World! But with sales plummeting and executives fleeing—both at alarming rates—maybe it should be a reckoning instead. — Let's not confuse things: Nokia still sells more phones than anybody on the planet.
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Geek.com, Engadget, French Tribune and Phones Review, Thanks:atul
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft: IE9 will never run on Windows XP — Chrome and Firefox always an option — Microsoft has ruled out putting Internet Explorer 9 on Windows XP, leaving millions of PCs open to Mozilla and Google browsers providing hardware-accelerated rich-internet.
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ReadWriteWeb, Geek.com, I4U News, Electricpig.co.uk, Beyond Binary and IEBlog
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Matt Gross / New York Times:
A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme — SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They were the kind of photos that every parent takes, but one in particular stood out …
Richard Tom / Hulu Blog:
Hello Seattle — Perhaps when you think of Seattle your taste buds prepare themselves for a freshly brewed espresso or a not-so-simple soy-decaf-single-shot-one-pump- vanilla-iced-latte. Or perhaps Seattle conjures images of the halls of Seattle Grace Hospital, where lives are saved and relationships flatline.
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VideoNuze, TechFlash and Silicon Alley Insider
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Microsoft demoes Twitter and Netflix apps for Windows Phone 7, releases final dev tools — Coming this holiday season to a Windows Phone 7 phone near you: Twitter, Netflix, Flixster, OpenTable, and Travelocity apps. The adroit coders behind those slices of software have managed …
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Windows Phone Developer Blog and ScottGu's Blog
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Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Schmidt: We'll pull Facebook's data by hook or by crook — Google wants the data in Facebook and CEO Eric Schmidt isn't afraid to say that they'll find a way to get it. Facebook isn't just winning the battle for web users' time (comScore says Facebook passed Google this month), they are also pulling some of Google's star engineers.
Chris Ramsdale / Google Web Toolkit Blog:
Google Relaunches Instantiations Developer Tools - Now Available for Free — In early August, Google acquired Instantiations, a company known for its focus on Eclipse Java developer tools, including GWT Designer. We're happy to announce today that we're relaunching the following former …
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Finding the Best Way to Read Books on an iPad — Though it's just five months old, Apple's iPad is a certifiable hit, having already sold millions of units and spawning tens of thousands of apps tailored for its 10-inch screen. The tablet has prompted many of its owners to use it instead …
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
iOS 4.2 turns iPad's screen lock into volume switch — Among the tweaks found in the iOS 4.2 software for the iPad, which became available to developers on Wednesday, is a return of the volume silencer switch. — Not the hardware, mind you, which remains the same.
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Bits, Gearlog, TeleRead, The Apple Core Blog, TiPb, webpronews.com, The Next Web, techeblog.com and Engadget
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Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Look YouTube, No Hands! Looxcie Introduces Wearable Camcorder — Just when you thought our digital culture was bumping against the limits of oversharing, Looxcie steps in with a device that makes it even easier for oversharers to document every mundane moment of their lives.
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Obsessable, Gizmodo, Switched, GottaBeMobile, LAPTOP Mag, Geek.com, Electronista, Engadget, Future Tense, Technabob and Newlaunches.com
Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
Sony Taps MySpace to Market Facebook Movie — We Know ‘The Social Network’ Isn't Helping Facebook. But MySpace Is Another Story — When you've established yourself as the social network for music and movies, that means serving up all the latest entertainment content — even if it plugs a competitor.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Motorola Acquires Location-Based Mobile Software Startup Aloqa — Motorola this morning announced that it has bought Aloqa, a privately-held startup that develops location-based software and technologies designed to enable the discovery of relevant web content by mobile smartphone users.
Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Bullish on Kinect — TOKYO—Microsoft Corp. is targeting global sales of more than three million units of its new Kinect motion-sensor gaming accessory for its Xbox 360 console in the first two months after the Nov. 4 launch in the U.S., providing a much needed holiday sales boost …
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
HTC HD7 resurfaces on a T-Mobile accessories list, could be with us by November 1 — Aha! The phone you heard about here first has made its second document-based appearance, this time crossing the Atlantic and showing up on a T-Mobile inventory sheet. We can apparently look forward …
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Softpedia News, AndroidSPIN, IntoMobile, TmoNews, Phone Arena, Boy Genius Report, MobileTechWorld, WMPoweruser.com, SlashGear, WMExperts, Electronista and Phones Review
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Look Out Dropbox, Here Comes Verizon's Mobile Cloud — V CAST Media Manager, a Verizon Wireless (z vz) subscription service to offload media and documents from mobile phones on to Verizon's servers, is available for Android and BlackBerry smartphones. The service initially launched last year …
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Music Ally, mocoNews, FierceMobileContent, Phone Arena and Mobile Entertainment
