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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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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, All Facebook, Inside Facebook, Inside Social Games, TechCrunch, Epicenter, Download Squad, CNN, NBC Bay Area and Lost Remote
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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New York Times, Inside Facebook, PC World, L.A. Times Tech Blog, WebProNews, HubSpot's Inbound …, CloudAve, Datamation, eWeek, GeekSugar, GigaOM 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 / The Social:
What did Facebook really just announce?
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TechCrunch and ClickZ
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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eWeek, Electronista, AppleInsider, Engadget, Computerworld, Cult of Mac, Product Reviews Net, Latest Voice,IMS 2.0 news, The Seattle Times, The Next Web, mocoNews, Gizmodo, Fortune, Macworld, Appletell, SiliconANGLE, TiPb, SlashGear, NBC Bay Area, TheAppleBlog, IntoMobile, Smartphones …, DSLreports, MobileCrunch, App Advice, Between the Lines Blog, Gadget Lab, Neowin.net, LAPTOP Magazine, MWD Tech News, Obsessable, Techland, WebProNews, I4U News, Digits, VentureBeat, USA Today, Yahoo! News, TechFlash, Macsimum News, Appolicious Advisor, Gearlog, Fast Company, MacRumors, Post Tech, Erictric, blogs.chron.com, Silicon Alley Insider, msnbc.com, internetnews.com, MobileBurn.com, Digital Daily, DailyFinance, Hillicon Valley, Internet2Go, Tech Trader Daily, TUAW, Geekosystem, CNET News and Edible Apple
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 — 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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The Next Web, TechCrunch and ReadWriteCloud, Thanks:atul
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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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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eWeek, ThinkMobile, FierceWireless, Electronista, dailywireless.org, Android Phone Fans, Gadgetell, Phone Arena, PC World, msnbc.com, Sidecut Reports, GigaOM, Telecompetitor, Mashable!, PreCentral.net, DSLreports, Android and Me, I4U News, Neowin.net, techblog.dallasnews.com, mocoNews, Ars Technica, Liliputing, Tech Trader Daily and Xconomy
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, TechEye, Silicon Alley Insider and Neowin.net, Thanks:atul
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Granted Patent on Check-ins, Don't Bet on Them Using it
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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, Domain Name News, SiliconANGLE, Techland, TG Daily, AppScout and ReadWriteWeb
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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
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.
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.
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The Next Web, Silicon Alley Insider, Search Engine Land, Fast Company, VatorNews, WebProNews, Technologizer, TechCrunch, CNET News, Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb and Tnooz
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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VentureBeat, TUAW, CrunchGear, SlashGear, MacStories, Electronista, Engadget and Erictric
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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Neowin.net, WMPoweruser.com and Hardware 2.0 Blog
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:
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, TechCrunch and The Huffington Post
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Facebook does better than Twitter lists (they don't enforce a power law)
Thanks:graemehunter
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 …
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Yahoo! Search Blog, TechCrunch and BoomTown, 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 and MediaPost
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Internet Keeps Growing! Traffic up 62% in 2010 — Whether it's Hulu, or 85 million-plus daily tweets or millions of photos being uploaded to Facebook, Internet traffic keeps growing and growing. That's not going to change any time soon, mostly because the Internet is now becoming a crucial part of our daily lives.
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Ars Technica, TeleGeography Research, Analysys Mason and VatorNews
