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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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GigaOM, FM Blog, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Scripting News, Gadgetell and Nieman Journalism Lab, more at Mediagazer »
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Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
The Next “Facebook Platform” …
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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 and Computerworld
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, CNET News, PC Magazine, Yahoo! News, Switched, 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, Online Dating Insider, Gizmodo, BBC, Geekosystem, Mashable! and Computerworld
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Live From Yahoo's Product Runway Event — I'm at Yahoo Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, where Yahoo is planning to outline its future product strategy and preview a number of upcoming new products. This is a big event for Yahoo, which has long been criticized for having a murky brand identity and an unclear core focus.
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Yahoo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Looking Ahead: The Future of Yahoo! Products — A few months ago, when I first yodeled my way into Yahoo!, I told folks that I was stoked for the opportunity to join up with some of the smartest and best-in-class talent in the world to deliver the future products vision for a company with such a rich history.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Yahoo! Search Blog, Search Engine Land, Tech Trader Daily, Yahoo! Mail Blog and Yahoo!
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
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Internet2Go, Jonny Evans's blog, The Toybox Blog, PC World, LAPTOP Mag, msnbc.com, MobileCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, TechEye, Silicon Alley Insider, DailyTech, I4U News, Mashable!, Softpedia News, MobileBurn.com, Know Your Cell, webpronews.com, PreCentral.net, Search Engine Land, Slyck, Phones Review, Digital Daily, iLounge, MediaPost, Macsimum News, Cult of Mac, Between the Lines Blog and Tech Trader Daily
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, Laura Foy and ScottGu's Blog
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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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CNET News, BetaNews, Fast Company, DailyTech, Pulse2, Neowin.net, VentureBeat, gHacks Technology News, Softpedia News, p2pnet, Big in Japan, Silicon Alley Insider, The Next Web, The Tech Herald …, WinBeta and Edge Magazine, Thanks:rawmeet
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 …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
If Future Employees Compromise Privacy, Don't Expect Google To Tell The World — Earlier this week, news broke that a Google employee had been fired in July for accessing the private information of a few individuals without permission, in violation of Google's policies.
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The Next Web and Gawker
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Tamlin Magee / TechEye:
Why the snooping ex Google engineer is in trouble
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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 …
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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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
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
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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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.
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VatorNews, mocoNews, PR Newswire, dailywireless.org, SiliconANGLE, Internet2Go, Digital Daily, Under the Radar, Tech Trader Daily, Pulse2, silicontap.com and Electronista
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.
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Skeptic Geek, Fast Company, Electricpig.co.uk, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Mashable!, Search Engine Journal, Google Watch and Los Angeles Times
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, Switched, LAPTOP Mag, Gizmodo, GottaBeMobile, Geek.com, Engadget, Future Tense, Electronista, Technabob and Newlaunches.com
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 …
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, techeblog.com, The Next Web and Engadget
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