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9:25 AM ET, October 7, 2010

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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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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 …
Kurt / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Facebook Moves Closer to EFF Bill of Privacy Rights
Thanks:atul
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook Launches A Dashboard For Your Connected Apps
Discussion: Inside Facebook
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
What did Facebook really just announce?
Discussion: ClickZ
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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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
How Facebook Groups Integrates With Other Core Apps: News Feed, Events, Mobile
Discussion: TechCrunch
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Lockdown: An Interview With Mark Zuckerberg & Justin Shaffer …
Discussion: GigaOM
Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Facebook's Fundamental Flaw, And Why Its New Groups Misses The Mark
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Facebook does better than Twitter lists (they don't enforce a power law)
Thanks:graemehunter
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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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.
Discussion: TechCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Impeccable Timing Of The Verizon iPhone Rumors  —  The Verizon iPhone rumor is as old as the iPhone itself.  So whenever anyone trots it out, you take it with a grain of salt.  It's like The Beatles coming to iTunes.  It will happen eventually, but who knows when.
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Readies Verizon iPhone
Stan Medvedenko / Sony Insider:
Sizes And Pricing for Sony Google TV Family Leaked  —  Many of our readers out there are pretty excited about the Sony Google TV.  We've written about it nearly a dozen times and it's basically a television with an Intel processor and the ability to fully surf the web (including flash sites).
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 …
Nick Saint / The Business Insider:
Sorry Facebook, Google Already Had A Patent On Location-Based Social Networks  —  Facebook created quite a stir yesterday when it emerged that the company has a patent on location-based social networking, a very competitive and crowded field Facebook has just entered.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Granted Patent on Check-ins, Don't Bet on Them Using it
Discussion: ZDNet
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Mark Zuckerberg's Take on “The Social Network”  —  Despite previous statements that he had no plans to see The Social Network, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg did, in fact, watch the film on the company's field trip to the movies last Friday.  —  I just wrapped up an interview …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Rolling Out New “Accordion” Search & Other Features  —  Yahoo is launching a number of search enhancements this evening that start to deliver on the UI innovation that the company has been promising since the Microsoft search deal was announced.  It's part of Yahoo's bid to remain relevant …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Digg Tries To Bring Back Inactive Users From The Dead  —  It looks like Digg is trying to resurrect inactive users, according to an email sent to us by a reader.  Apparently Digg sent out the email to users in hopes of trying to get those who are inactive back to the site.  As the email states, “Come Alive On Digg.
Discussion: MediaVidea and Product Reviews Net
Jeff / HootSuite blog:
HootSuite Mobile Apps Go Free for iPhone and Android on Oct. 13  —  Mobile HootSuite fans will enjoy an added bonus next week - as of noon PST on October 13, the full version of HootSuite for iPhone and HootSuite for Android will be absolutely FREE to download.
Discussion: The Next Web
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
comScore: Android Continues Assault On RIM, Apple  —  It looks like there is yet again more data to support the trend Google's Android platform is eating away at the share of other smartphone operating systems, including RIM and Apple.  ComScore's smartphone numbers were just released today …
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.
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
David Pogue / New York Times:
TV's Future Has Arrived (Almost)  —  Americans used to gather in front of their TV sets on, say, Thursday at 8 p.m. and tune in to Channel 3.  The upside: the whole country had a common cultural bond.  —  The downside: everyone had to sit down Thursday at 8 p.m.
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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Praveen Neppalli Naga / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn Platform: Announcing Early Access to Our New Javascript API & OAuth 2
Thanks:atul
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
MSNBC.com May Change Its Name
Discussion: DailyFinance
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Internet Keeps Growing! Traffic up 62% in 2010
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Ford Drives Digital Dashboards to Next Level
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple settles backdating class-action lawsuit for $16.5M
Discussion: MarketWatch, The Register and MacNN
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Groupon daily emails and RSS feeds, a lesson in nagging and timing
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Chip maker AMD not for sale, CEO says
Discussion: TechEye, VentureBeat and Macsimum News
Bloomberg:
Motorola Spinoff May Come Early Next Year, CEO Says
Discussion: SiliconANGLE
AppleInsider:
Apple's MacBook Air supply dries up as rumors of new 11.6-inch model persist
 

 
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