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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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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Yahoo unveils three-year plan to become cool again — Yahoo executives spoke to journalists at the company's Sunnyvale, Calif. headquarters this morning about their future plans — both upcoming improvements to products like Yahoo Mail, and an ambitious three-year strategy to revitalize the company.
Kakul Srivastava / Yahoo! Mail Blog:
Get Ready... Yahoo! Mail Beta Is Coming
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Download Squad, CNET News, GigaOM, Digital Daily, Softpedia News, Silicon Alley Insider, Black Web 2.0, 9 to 5 Mac, Search Engine Land and Gizmodo
Glenn Kelman / Redfin Corporate Blog:
Groupon's Success Disaster — There's a fascinating essay on Facebook just now from the owner of the lovely Posie's Cafe in Portland, about how Groupon nearly bankrupted her business. — The coffeeshop proprietor, Jessie Burke, was shocked at how much money the daily deals site charged to run the promotion.
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Jessie Burke / Posies Cafe:
Groupon in Retrospect — For months I've been thinking about whether or not to write a blog post about Groupon, and sharing the kind of experience it has been for the business. I've been weighing the possible repercussions of such a candid post as well, but after today …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Fraudulent Groupon Photography Deal Calls Attention To Service Drawbacks
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PetaPixel, PlagiarismToday and msnbc.com
Brandon Watson / Windows Phone Developer Blog:
Windows Phone Developer Tools Are Final — When the Windows Phone 7 OS went gold two weeks ago, the Windows Phone ecosystem began the final preparations for the upcoming launch. OEMs and mobile operators have begun final testing of their handsets, but developers have had to wait just a little while longer to complete apps and games.
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Bloomberg:
Verizon Won't Sell Microsoft Windows Phone 7 at Start — Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, won't sell handsets with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone 7 operating system when it debuts this year, a blow to the software maker's efforts to reach a broad market.
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TechFlash, Silicon Alley Insider, Phone Scoop, IntoMobile, The Next Web, FierceWireless, WMExperts, PhoneNews.com, Mobility Digest, Engadget, Gizmodo and Bloomberg
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Microsoft demoes Twitter and Netflix apps for Windows Phone 7 …
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MSDN Blogs, Laura Foy, MobileTechWorld, WMExperts and The Microsoft Blog
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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TechCrunch, techno.blog, Internet Evolution, Scripting News and Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, more at Mediagazer »
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Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
The Next “Facebook Platform” …
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Victus Spiritus, Thanks:jesse
Tamlin Magee / TechEye:
Why the snooping ex Google engineer is in trouble — Remember that 27 year old ex Google engineer, David Barksdale, who's allegedly been hassling minors, not miners, with cyber-stalking and snooping? The great and mighty 'Ogle fired him, but here's exactly how he's in trouble according to federal law in the US.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
If Future Employees Compromise Privacy, Don't Expect Google To Tell The World
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The Next Web, Gawker and Googling Google Blog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Details Of The Google Social Layer Emerge — Facebook may have known all the details about Google's new social product for months, but we're just now getting our sources to talk. — On Tuesday Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave additional details on the plan. We posted the entire press conference video …
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Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Schmidt: We'll pull Facebook's data by hook or by crook
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Skeptic Geek, Fast Company, Electricpig.co.uk, Ars Technica and The Next Web
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Logitech Revue with Google TV coming 9/29 for $299, Dish Network offering discounts? — Google TV is coming, and Logitech's Revue is gonna bring it to ya first. But, if you're a Dish Network subscriber, it looks like you might be able to get yours for cheaper — a lot cheaper.
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Gizmodo, Geeky-Gadgets, Android Phone Fans, CrunchGear, Crave, Gizmodo Australia, Ubergizmo and I4U News
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 …
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Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
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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Xbox Press, Fast Company, Neowin.net, CNET News, BetaNews, DailyTech, Pulse2, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Future Tense, gHacks Technology News, p2pnet, TechSpot, Big in Japan, Silicon Alley Insider, The Tech Herald …, WinBeta, Edge Magazine and The Next Web, Thanks:rawmeet
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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PC World, Geeky-Gadgets, Geek.com, ReadWriteWeb, SiliconANGLE, Electricpig.co.uk, I4U News, Search Blog, IEBlog and Ars Technica
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 Bradlee, 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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internetnews.com, PC World, TheAppleBlog, AppleInsider, TUAW, comScore, Inc., Internet2Go, Jonny Evans's blog, www.pocketgamer.biz, MobileCrunch, Mashable!, Softpedia News, I4U News, MobileBurn.com, MacDailyNews, PreCentral.net, Tech Trader Daily, Search Engine Land, The Microsoft Blog, Slyck, Digital Daily and iLounge
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
An iPad App that Stays in Sync with Your TV — The days when TV viewers did nothing else while watching their favorite shows are long over. Instead, many viewers now multitask while watching TV and browse the Internet on their laptops, iPads and smartphones.
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Macworld, abc.go.com, SmoothSpan Blog, MacDailyNews, Nielsen Wire, paidContent, Electronista and TUAW
AppleInsider:
iOS 4.2 packs new, improved YouTube, FaceTime features and more — Apple's forthcoming iOS 4.2 update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch includes a number of subtle improvements that have not yet been publicized, including expanded features for YouTube and FaceTime. AppleInsider offers a closer look.
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Gadget Lab, Erictric, O'Grady's PowerPage, iLounge, MacDailyNews and everythingiCafe
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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The Seattle Times, VideoNuze and TechFlash
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:
AT&T to launch LTE by mid-2011 — AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will launch commercial LTE service by mid-2011, and will cover between 70 million and 75 million POPs by the end of next year, a top executive said. — Speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2010 Media, Communications …
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, Engadget and MobileBurn.com
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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed: Sparse, But Clean; Source Code Released
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Bits, Gizmodo Australia, Open Source Blog, Gizmodo, BBC, Geekosystem, Online Dating Insider and Computerworld
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Extreme Netflix Some Users Have Rated 50,000 Movies — So, you think you've honed the Netflix recommendation engine by rating a thousand movies? That's nothing, according to the company's internal statistics. — Several hundred Netflix members have rated more than 50,000 filmed entertainment programs.
