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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Giving You More Control — The biggest problem in social networking is helping you easily interact with your friends and share information in lots of different contexts. — For example, you might want to share photos from a family vacation with just your family, send a video from a party …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, Gizmodo, The Seattle Times, VentureBeat, Facebook Developer Blog, TechCrunch, The Register, Between the Lines Blog, Inside Facebook, Silicon Alley Insider, Adotas, Gawker, Digital Daily, VatorNews, John Battelle's Searchblog, The Huffington Post, Search Engine Land, Techie Buzz, BetaNews, Stowe Boyd, ResourceShelf, Yahoo! News, Geekosystem, MarketingVOX, Switched, Black Web 2.0, Redmond Pie, SiliconANGLE, Boy Genius Report, Digital Media Wire, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, PopWatch and Tech Trader Daily, Thanks:atul
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Daniel Chai / Facebook Blog:
New Groups: Stay Closer to Groups of People in Your Life — Facebook has always been a great place to share information with your friends and keep up with what they're doing. What hasn't been as easy is sharing information with small groups of people. — My wife and I take tons of pictures …
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Facebook Developer Blog, Inside Social Games, Inside Facebook, All Facebook, VentureBeat, Download Squad, TechCrunch, Epicenter, Lost Remote, CNN, NBC Bay Area and Reuters
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Now Allows You To “Download Your Information” — Whoah. Until now there hasn't been a way to download info off of Facebook, but at today's Facebook event in Palo Alto, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a feature that allows users to port their data from Facebook in a .zip file …
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Inside Facebook, Macworld, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC World, WebProNews, eWeek, GigaOM, CloudAve, HubSpot's Inbound …, Backupify, Ars Technica and Silicon Alley Insider
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook Launches A Dashboard For Your Connected Apps — Today, at Facebook's product announcement, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new dashboard for users that will allow Facebook members to see how many sites and applications they've allowed to access their personal data through the network and Facebook Connect.
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Inside Facebook
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
What did Facebook really just announce? — Today, Facebook rolled out what's arguably one of the most complicated product updates it's made in its short history, a series of new features and revamps to existing ones that aren't directly connected to one another, but which have a central aim …
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Datamation and ClickZ
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Facebook's Zuckerberg: Yep, we were in lockdown
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TechCrunch and MWD Tech News
Wall Street Journal:
Apple Readies Verizon iPhone — Apple Inc. is making a version of its iPhone that Verizon Wireless will sell early next year, according to people familiar with the matter, ending an exclusive deal with AT&T and sharpening the competition with Google Inc.-based phones.
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Computerworld, Electronista, The Seattle Times, Engadget, Macworld, AppleInsider, Smartphones …, Yahoo! News, mocoNews, App Advice, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, DSLreports, Digits, WebProNews, Fast Company, internetnews.com, LAPTOP Magazine, Product Reviews Net, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, TiPb, SlashGear, NBC Bay Area, TheAppleBlog, IntoMobile, MobileCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, Gadget Lab, Neowin.net, I4U News, blogs.chron.com, MWD Tech News, Obsessable, Techland, VentureBeat, USA Today, TechFlash, Macsimum News, Appolicious Advisor, Erictric, MacRumors, Gearlog, Post Tech, CNET News, Internet2Go, Silicon Alley Insider, Hillicon Valley and msnbc.com
Tom Krazit / Crave: The gadget blog:
Google plays coy on Google TV ads, data — SAN FRANCISCO—Two things Google ordinarily loves talking about, ads and data, were not on the agenda during its Google TV launch party. Rishi Chandra, lead product manager for Google TV, deflected questions about whether Google intends to run …
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Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Logitech Revue with Google TV details: $299; free iOS, Android apps, accessories are extra — Logitech's big Google TV reveal is still ongoing, but the product page is live and allowing for preorders of the $299 package ($179 if you're on Dish Network) set to ship by the end of this month.
Verizon:
Verizon Launches 4G LTE In 38 Major Metropolitan Areas By The End Of The Year — Verizon underscored its rapid deployment of the world's first large-scale 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network today from the CTIA Enterprise & Applications™ 2010 conference.
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PC World, Gadgetell, Sidecut Reports, GigaOM, Phone Arena, FierceWireless, Ars Technica, Electronista, dailywireless.org, Android Phone Fans, Tech Sanity Check, msnbc.com, Telecompetitor, Android and Me, DSLreports, Mashable!, PreCentral.net, I4U News, techblog.dallasnews.com, Tech Trader Daily, Neowin.net and mocoNews
Violet / techyum:
Official: vb.ly Link Shortener Seized by Libyan Government — It's official: the Libyan government has seized vb.ly. This was done with no warning. Despite the fact that vb.ly was a one-page link-shortening service, Nic.ly (the registry for .ly domain reseller registrar Libyan Spider) …
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Gawker, ReadWriteWeb, Black Web 2.0, AppScout, Neowin.net, BlogPost, TG Daily, Techland, Domain Name News, SiliconANGLE and Ben Metcalfe Blog
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Trouble In Clever Domain Land: Bit.ly And Others Risk Losing Theirs Swift.ly
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The Next Web, Gizmodo and Inc.com
Patrick Altoft / Blogstorm:
Google starts showing full page previews in search results — Google is today testing a major new layout to their search results - full page previews of the target site and blue backgrounds behind the search results when you hover over them. Click the image below for a full size version.
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Windows Phone 7 Will Flounder, Gartner Predicts — Microsoft's new mobile OS will only provide a slight, temporarily boost to the company's meager mobile OS market share, according to research firm. — Microsoft's introduction of Windows Phone 7, set to be formally introduced next week …
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, WMPoweruser.com and Neowin.net
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Fan John Gruber: Windows Phone 7 “Really Nice” And Better Than Android
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The Register, NBC Bay Area, WMPoweruser.com, mocoNews, GottaBeMobile and eWeek
Erik Sherman / Wired In Blog| BNET:
Patent Makes Facebook Super Mayor of Mobile Location Networking — Early into a technology it is often possible to nail down broad patents that will make competitors weep. Facebook may have done just that with location-based social networking. A patent issued yesterday has broad claims …
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ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, TechEye, SelectStart, Neowin.net and VentureBeat, Thanks:atul
Michibusch / The Twitter Engineering Blog:
Twitter's New Search Architecture — If we have done a good job then most of you shouldn't have noticed that we launched a new backend for search on twitter.com during the last few weeks! One of our main goals, but also biggest challenges, was a smooth switch from the old architecture to the new one …
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web, Thanks:atul
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Nice Hobby! Apple TV Reportedly Selling Out In Many Stores — It's nice if you can make a little money with your hobby, don't you think? — Apple (AAPL) seems to have a modest hit on its hands with the new Apple TV box. JMP Research analyst Alex Gauna writes this morning that the device …
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Silicon Alley Insider, TheAppleBlog, SlashGear, CrunchGear and MacStories
Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Facebook's Fundamental Flaw, And Why Its New Groups Misses The Mark — Facebook announced a new version of its Groups features at a press event on Wednesday. The company is attempting to address a fundamental problem to its service: the lack of ability to share information and content with only a subset of one's entire friend list.
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Inside Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, The Atlantic Online and TechCrunch
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Facebook does better than Twitter lists (they don't enforce a power law)
Thanks:graemehunter
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
HP to launch new webOS phones in early 2011 — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co will introduce smartphones in early 2011 using the webOS software it acquired through its $1.2 billion Palm buy earlier this year, a senior company official said on Wednesday. — “You will see us coming early next year …
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Macworld, Mashable!, PreCentral.net, eWeek, Phone Arena, PC World, I4U News, IntoMobile, jkOnTheRun, Boy Genius Report, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat and Product Reviews Net, Thanks:michaelkroker
AppleInsider:
Apple's MacBook Air supply dries up as rumors of new 11.6-inch model persist — Exclusive: Supplies of Apple's MacBook Air have dried up throughout the company's indirect sales channels, fueling rumors that a significant makeover to the lightweight notebooks is fast approaching.
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TUAW, Engadget, CrunchGear, SlashGear, Erictric, MacStories and Electronista
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Is your private phone number on Facebook? Probably. And so are your friends' — Uploads from iPhones using the Facebook app will push all your contacts onto Facebook's servers - where they'll be matched against any and everyone. Worried at all? Update: Or how about a random Facebooker's number?
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Electricpig.co.uk, iLounge, TechEye, I4U News, GigaOM and Techie Buzz
Sachin Agarwal / Sachin's Posterous:
Groupon daily emails and RSS feeds, a lesson in nagging and timing — I'm hooked on Groupon. In the past year, I have purchased dozens of deals for restaurants, cruises, a dentist, and all sorts of random stuff. The discounts are incredible. — There are two main components to their site:
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Fred Wilson on AngelGate and Where the Web Is Going — I had a chance to talk with Union Square Ventures partner Fred Wilson today, both during and after a meeting he had with half a dozen startups at the offices of Extreme Venture Partners, a fund and incubator based in Toronto.
Thanks:baznet
