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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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Facebook Developer Blog, Gizmodo, Mercury News, Babbage, TechCrunch, The Seattle Times, VentureBeat, Between the Lines Blog, Inside Facebook, The Register, Gawker, Digital Daily, John Battelle's Searchblog, Adotas, Silicon Alley Insider, The Huffington Post, Techie Buzz, BetaNews, Stowe Boyd, ResourceShelf, Yahoo! News, Geekosystem, MarketingVOX, Switched, Black Web 2.0, Redmond Pie, VatorNews, SiliconANGLE, Boy Genius Report, Digital Media Wire, Search Engine Land, 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, TechCrunch, Download Squad, 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, PC World, Macworld, WebProNews, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CloudAve, HubSpot's Inbound …, eWeek, GigaOM, Backupify, Silicon Alley Insider and Ars Technica
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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ClickZ, Datamation and TechCrunch
Kurt / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Facebook Moves Closer to EFF Bill of Privacy Rights
Thanks:atul
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Facebook's Zuckerberg: Yep, we were in lockdown
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TechCrunch and PC World
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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Electronista, Computerworld, Engadget, AppleInsider, The Seattle Times, Macworld, Smartphones …, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, Yahoo! News, Gizmodo, mocoNews, App Advice, WebProNews, LAPTOP Magazine, DSLreports, Product Reviews Net, Fortune, Digits, Fast Company, internetnews.com, 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, msnbc.com, MobileBurn.com, Digital Daily and DailyFinance
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, ThinkMobile, Gadgetell, Sidecut Reports, FierceWireless, Electronista, GigaOM, dailywireless.org, Android Phone Fans, Tech Sanity Check, Phone Arena, msnbc.com, Telecompetitor, Android and Me, DSLreports, Mashable!, PreCentral.net, I4U News, techblog.dallasnews.com, Ars Technica, Neowin.net and mocoNews
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.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter Hits 1 Billion Queries Per Day, Announces New Search Tech — If Twitter were like an old-style McDonald's, the sign outside would have changed to “1 Billion Queries Served” today. And to keep serving up those queries to humans and machines alike, Twitter is now using a new underlying search technology.
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Michibusch / The Twitter Engineering Blog:
Twitter's New Search Architecture
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TechCrunch, The Next Web and ReadWriteCloud, Thanks:atul
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, Black Web 2.0, Neowin.net, BlogPost, TG Daily, Techland, Domain Name News, ReadWriteWeb, SiliconANGLE and AppScout
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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, Inc.com and Gizmodo
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, Neowin.net and WMPoweruser.com
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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, eWeek and GottaBeMobile
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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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, TechEye, Silicon Alley Insider, SelectStart, Neowin.net and VentureBeat, Thanks:atul
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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TheAppleBlog, Silicon Alley Insider, 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
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:
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, MacStories, Electronista and Erictric
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, Phone Arena, PC World, I4U News, IntoMobile, SiliconANGLE, jkOnTheRun, eWeek, Boy Genius Report, VentureBeat and Product Reviews Net, Thanks:michaelkroker
