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Joel Seligstein / Facebook Blog:
See the Messages that Matter — Imagine the kind of family you might see in a modern American sitcom: loving parents trying to maintain a family unit with a teenager engrossed in text messaging, a college-aged child who is always chatting online, and various wacky relatives who spend their days sending “funny” emails to the family.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Download Squad, Rob Hof's Blog, Inside Facebook, CNET News, Black Web 2.0, Reuters and Laughing Squid
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Modern Messaging System: Seamless, History, And A Social Inbox — We're here today at the St. Regis in San Francisco where Facebook is unveiling what CEO Mark Zuckerberg is calling a “modern messaging system”. — Zuckerberg recalled talking to high schoolers recently and asking them how they communicate with one another.
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Inside Facebook, GigaOM, Download Squad, All Facebook, IntoMobile, FierceVoIP, BGR, Gizmodo, Mashable!, The Next Web, dailywireless.org, PaulColligan.com and The Huffington Post
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Facebook Sets Email Service; Facebook.com Addresses For Users — Facebook today expanded its email service, jumping into a crowded market that already includes Google (GOOG) Gmail, Microsoft (MSFT) Hotmail and Yahoo (YHOO) Mail. The company will offer a facebook.com email address to users, based on their Facebook user names.
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Insights on the tech industry, TechCrunch, Digits and Electronista
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook: 350M People Using Messaging; More Than 4B Messages Sent Daily
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Inside Facebook and BBC
Microsoft:
Microsoft Launches New Casual Games Hub — The company today rolled out the Microsoft Game Hub, which helps fans of casual games like Bejeweled play and interact socially across MSN Games, Bing Games and Windows Live Messenger. — Solitaire doesn't have to be so solitary anymore.
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CNET News, Download Squad, LiveSide.net, VentureBeat, SelectStart, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News and Winrumors
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Not So Casual: Microsoft To Revitalize MSN Games, Live Messenger And Bing Games
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VatorNews, PR Newswire, Inside Social Games, The Windows Blog and Gadget Lab
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook Passes EBay in Value, Becoming No. 3 U.S. Web Company — Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc.'s estimated worth is now bigger than EBay Inc.'s valuation, making it the third- largest U.S. Internet business and underscoring the growing allure of social media for investors.
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Mashable!, Venture Capital Dispatch, Adotas, Pulse2, GMSV, Softpedia News, SAI, Go Rumors and Rev2.org
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Worth $41 Billion (Report)
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All Facebook and SiliconANGLE
Jason Calacanis / Calacanis.com:
Why I'm suing Mike Arrington — Note: I just sent this to the JasonNation.com email list (which you can sign up for on the top right of this blog, or at www.jasonnation.com. I'm reposting it here since I'm getting a lot of press calls. If anyone wants to interview me on this issue …
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The Next Web
Sameer Samat / The Official Google Blog:
Improvements to Product Search for this holiday season — Every year retailers start the holiday shopping season earlier and earlier—and still I procrastinate until late December before getting started. This year I've already made my list and I'm ready to go.
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Path: The Social App That's Not Viral (By Design) — Silicon Valley is in the midst of a mini photo-sharing app boomlet. We have Instagram (which started adding 100,000 users per week as soon as it launched last month), Picplz (which beat out Instagram to get a Series A round with their shared investor …
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Screenwerk, Epicenter, GigaOM, Computerworld, CNN, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, Ben Metcalfe Blog, blogs.chron.com, Gizmodo, parislemon, Techland, Continuations, TechCrunch and SFGate
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Path: the social system that will piss social mavens off
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SAI, New York Times, The Social, ReadWriteWeb, Fast Company, Mark Evans Tech, PhoneArena and The Next Web, Thanks:thekenyeung
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
“Exciting Announcement from iTunes” Coming Tomorrow, What Is It? — Oh, look what we have here. Apple just updated its homepage on apple.com to include this banner, which states an “exciting announcement” from iTunes is coming tomorrow at 7 AM PST. “Tomorrow is just another day.
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ReadWriteWeb, ZDNet, The Apple Core Blog, VentureBeat, Mobile Marketing Watch, Fortune, Gizmodo, BGR, TechFlash, GigaOM, Digital Daily, Engadget, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, SAI, Softpedia News, Techie Buzz, GMSV, Tech Trader Daily, CBS News, Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste …, Gadget Lab, Mashable! and The Next Web, Thanks:viticci
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
SimpleGeo Hires Former Digg CEO Jay Adelson — Jay Adelson, the CEO of Digg until April 2010, just landed in a new position. He's taking over as CEO of location services startup SimpleGeo, and will join the company's board of directors. Founding CEO Matt Galligan will become the company's Chief Strategy Officer.
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SAI, The Next Web and Mashable!
Takeshi Numoto / The Microsoft Office Blog:
Office + Facebook = Easily share your ideas and documents with friends — Starting today, from Facebook you can view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents via Office Web Apps with just one click. Visit the Facebook blog for full details. — It goes without saying that social networks …
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CNET News, The Windows Blog, TechNet Blogs and SlashGear
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Pulse, Popular App, Moves to Attract More Users — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Publishers' offices at print newspapers and magazines are tension-filled places these days, as executives watch readers and advertisers flock to the Web and cellphone screens. — Contrast that to the atmosphere …
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Zatz Not Funny!, Marco.org, mobiputing, Softpedia News, The Next Web, iClarified and TUAW
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
More Kinect Craziness: Mind-Blowing 3D Video Effect — The Kinect may be divisive as a gaming peripheral, but I think we can all agree that a $150 off-the-shelf depth-aware camera system is a good thing. And just in the week since the device launched, people have already come up with some crazy applications for it.
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The Microsoft Blog, Engadget, MSDN Blogs, Digital Society, Geek.com, Beet.TV and technabob
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Microsoft vs. McAfee: How free antivirus outperformed paid — How effective is free antivirus software? I had a chance to see a real, in-the-wild example just this month, and the results were, to put it mildly, unexpected. The bottom line? Microsoft's free antivirus solution found …
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, Thanks:edbott
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Raid The MiniBar: Meebo Gets Into The Site Check-In Game. But Don't Call It A Game. — With the rise of Foursquare, the “check-in” has become fairly commonplace. With the launch of Places, Facebook will only make it more so. It shouldn't be surprising that we're seeing dozens …
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Scobleizer, GigaOM, Download Squad, NetworkEffect, ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News and VentureBeat
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Let a Zillion Users Blab: Yahoo Debuts “Contributor Network” — Yahoo is debuting a new offering for its hundreds of million of users, which takes the Demand Media model and notches up the volume by presumably allowing a thousand flowers to bloom. — Or, more to the point, blab.
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Yahoo!, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, Yodel Anecdotal and AdAge
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Rumor: Google Taking On eBay With Boutiques.com Site Launch — Fashion bloggers are squealing that Google's going into the fashion business, following an invitation for a swanky NYC launch event this Wednesday, where “high tech fuses with high fashion.” Supposedly, they'll …
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Download Squad, frockwriter, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Go Rumors and BuzzFeed, Thanks:gizmodo
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Motorola MOTOPAD to usher in Android 3.0 — Just as Motorola helped Google usher in Android 2.0 with the DROID, the reborn gadgeteer is now seemingly charged with a similar task for Android 3.0. Details for the time being are remarkably slim, but Mobile-Review.com — home …
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Fortune, Android Community, Droid Life, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, SAI, Electronista, Softpedia News, I4U News, Know Your Cell, PhoneArena and AndroidGuys
Bryan Wolfe / App Advice:
Comcast Releases Universal Remote Control App — If you are like most people, you have a lot of remote controls sitting around. Now, Comcast is giving its customers an early Christmas present: a new app, which will allow them to throw away some of those remote controls.
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9 to 5 Mac, mocoNews, Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo, Engadget and Electronista
Riva Richmond / New York Times:
Attacker That Sharpened Facebook's Defenses — A friend on Facebook suggests that you watch an amazing or funny or sexy video. The link may seem innocuous enough. But with a few simple clicks, you could end up infecting your PC with the Koobface worm. — Koobface, whose name is an anagram …
Ben Edelman:
Hard-Coding Bias in Google “Algorithmic” Search Results — I present categories of searches for which available evidence indicates Google has “hard-coded” its own links to appear at the top of algorithmic search results, and I offer a methodology for detecting certain kinds of tampering by comparing Google results for similar searches.
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The Register and Insights on the tech industry
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Smartphone Sales Taking Toll on G.P.S. Devices — BERLIN — The auto navigation device, a fixture of dashboards around the world for the past seven years, may soon begin to disappear, industry experts say, as satellite-tracking technology is absorbed into smartphones and automobiles.
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Ars Technica
