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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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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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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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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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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook: 350M People Using Messaging; More Than 4B Messages Sent Daily
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Inside Facebook, BBC, Mashable! and Hitwise Intelligence
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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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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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Worth $41 Billion (Report)
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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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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Don't Count On Music Subscriptions or Streaming from Apple Tomorrow
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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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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Not So Casual: Microsoft To Revitalize MSN Games, Live Messenger And Bing Games
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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.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Path: the social system that will piss social mavens off — I didn't read any of Path's hype before trying it myself. I wasn't part of the beta. I don't owe Dave Morin lunch (he's the founder of this new thing called Path that's getting a deep amount of hype tonight. The photo is of him at the TED conference).
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Path: The Social App That's Not Viral (By Design)
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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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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
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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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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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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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, TechCrunch, frockwriter, Softpedia News, Go Rumors and BuzzFeed, Thanks:gizmodo
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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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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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
AMD will contribute ‘engineering expertise’ to MeeGo development project — Now here's a very positive new sign for MeeGo's future. AMD, Intel's oldest and boldest nemesis, has added its name to the list of companies actively supporting the development of the platform …
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