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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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The Seattle Times, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Register, Facebook Developer Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Silicon Alley Insider, VatorNews, Inside Facebook, Yahoo! News, Tech Trader Daily, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, Stowe Boyd, BetaNews, Gawker, Digital Daily, John Battelle's Searchblog, The Huffington Post, Techie Buzz, ResourceShelf, Geekosystem, MarketingVOX, Switched, Black Web 2.0, Redmond Pie, SiliconANGLE, Adotas, Boy Genius Report, Digital Media Wire, PopWatch and Technologizer, 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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Inside Social Games, Facebook Developer Blog, Download Squad, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, All Facebook, TechCrunch, Epicenter, 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, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC World, Macworld, eWeek, WebProNews, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Silicon Alley Insider, CloudAve, HubSpot's Inbound … and Backupify
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, ClickZ and SFGate
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. plans to begin mass producing a new iPhone by the end of 2010 that would allow Verizon Wireless to sell the smartphone early next year, said people briefed by Apple. — The new iPhone would be similar in design to the iPhone 4 currently sold …
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Macworld, The Seattle Times, Smartphones …, Electronista, Yahoo! News, Engadget, AppleInsider, DSLreports, App Advice, Digits, Fast Company, PC World, mocoNews, internetnews.com, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, WebProNews, LAPTOP Magazine, TechFlash, Internet2Go, Product Reviews Net, Post Tech, Fortune, Daring Fireball, MobileCrunch, Gearlog, VentureBeat, CNET News, Tech Trader Daily, SiliconANGLE, TiPb, SlashGear, NBC Bay Area, TheAppleBlog, IntoMobile, Between the Lines Blog, Gadget Lab, Neowin.net, I4U News, blogs.chron.com, MWD Tech News, Obsessable, Techland, USA Today, Macsimum News, Appolicious Advisor, Erictric, DailyFinance, MacRumors and Hillicon Valley
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.
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, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Black Web 2.0, AppScout, Neowin.net, BlogPost, TG Daily, Techland, Domain Name News and SiliconANGLE
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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.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Fan John Gruber: Windows Phone 7 “Really Nice” And Better Than Android — Hey, maybe Microsoft isn't screwed when it comes to mobile, after all. — Windows Phone 7, its forthcoming mobile phone platform, just got a rave review from Daring Fireball's John Gruber …
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The Register, eWeek, NBC Bay Area, GottaBeMobile, WMPoweruser.com, Softpedia News, mocoNews and MobileTechWorld
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Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Windows Phone 7 Will Flounder, Gartner Predicts
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, WMPoweruser.com and Neowin.net
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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Tom Krazit / Crave: The gadget blog:
Google plays coy on Google TV ads, data
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ClickZ and techrockies.com
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Quietly Launched A New Search Backend Weeks Ago — While everyone was busy trying out New Twitter or tweeting about how they want New Twitter, Twitter itself was doing something secret behind the scenes. The startup quietly flipped the switch on an entirely new backend for their search, they reveal in a blog post today.
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Michibusch / The Twitter Engineering Blog:
Twitter's New Search Architecture
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web, Thanks:atul
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, SelectStart, TechEye and VentureBeat, Thanks:atul
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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Mashable!, PreCentral.net, Macworld, Boy Genius Report, eWeek, VentureBeat, jkOnTheRun, Phone Arena, I4U News, IntoMobile, PC World, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE and Product Reviews Net, Thanks:michaelkroker
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:
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, CrunchGear, SlashGear, MacStories, MacRumors and MediaPost
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
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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iLounge, Electricpig.co.uk, TechEye, I4U News, GigaOM, Free People Search … and Techie Buzz
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, CrunchGear, SlashGear, Erictric, MacStories and Electronista
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Google, PayPal Set on Android Deal — Google has finally enlisted eBay's PayPal service and is preparing to launch the payment system on its Android Market later this month. More on GOOG HP to Launch WebOS Phones in 2011RIM's Business Niche Under AttackGoogle TV Is the Start of Something Big …
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Download Squad, WebProNews, GigaOM, Google Android News …, Android Community, Droid Life, Android Phone Fans and AndroidGuys
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Twitter is not for sale says new CEO Dick Costolo — Dick Costolo, the newly appointed chief executive of Twitter, has told The Telegraph that he has no plans to sell the site, despite his record of selling start-ups to big players. — Costolo, prior to joining Twitter …
