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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.

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.

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 …

Discussion: TechNet Blogs, Computerworld, 901am, Lifehacker, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Inside Facebook, Techie Buzz and The Windows Blog

Dan Gillmor / Salon:
Facebook's über-communications platform

Discussion: GigaOM, PC Magazine, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat and Ubergizmo

Kannan Muthukkaruppan / Facebook:
The Underlying Technology of Messages

Discussion: TechCrunch, LiewCF.com, All Facebook and Inside Facebook

Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Facebook Sets Email Service; Facebook.com Addresses For Users

Discussion: Inside Facebook, SAI, Insights on the tech industry, Electronista and Mashable!

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Eric Schmidt shows off a Nexus S at the Web 2.0 summit, says Gingerbread coming in ‘next few weeks’ — We had a feeling Eric Schmidt would be doing something surprising at the Web 2.0 summit, and the man didn't disappoint — he just showed off the Nexus S running on T-Mobile …

Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
Google's Schmidt: Android Gingerbread to have near-field-communication support

Discussion: TechCrunch, Engadget, Android and Me, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, Insights on the tech industry, SlashGear, Android Community, Mashable!, Near Field Communications … and ReadWriteWeb

Claire Cain Miller / Bits: Schmidt: Android Phones Will Be Credit Cards

Antony Bruno / Billboard:

Best Bet: Apple To Announce Addition of Beatles Catalog to iTunes — Rock and Pop — The smart money on tomorrow's mysterious iTunes announcement is that Apple will finally be adding the Beatles catalog to the digital music store. — That's not fully confirmed, but after a day of phone calls …

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Hints of ‘iTunes Live Stream’ Service Found in iTunes 10.1 — Speculation and rumors regarding tomorrow's iTunes-related announcement are continuing to come in from all directions, and the latest bit of speculation relies on some bits of information pulled out of the iTunes 10.1 release …

Discussion: TrendSlate, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, BGR, AppleInsider, MacStories, Ars Technica, IntoMobile, everythingiCafe and Electronista

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Don't Count on Music Subscriptions or Streaming From Apple Tomorrow — What's Apple planning at its iTunes announcement tomorrow? Good question! — But I'll be very surprised if it is music related-like a new music subscription service, or even one that lets you stream music you already own to multiple devices.

Discussion: Shiny Objects, AppleInsider, MacStories, Fast Company, Gadgetell, I4U News, Bits, SiliconANGLE, Appolicious Advisor, SAI, Daring Fireball, everythingiCafe, Geek.com, Edible Apple and MacRumors

Federico Viticci / MacStories:
“Exciting Announcement from iTunes” Coming Tomorrow, What Is It?

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Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:

Google Hotpot: Local Recommendations From Your Friends — Google has just launched Hotpot, a personalized recommendations engine based on what you like and what your friends like. — When Facebook launched Places to compete with Foursquare, we here at Search Engine Land explained …

Discussion: Mashable!, The Next Web, SEO and Tech Daily and Agence France Presse

Lior Ron / Google LatLong:

Discover Yours: Local recommendations powered by you and your friends — There's something so exciting about discovering new places. Nothing beats finding a great new place I've never been—whether it's a new bakery with a special dessert, a hole-in-the-wall Mediterranean place I didn't notice …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Google Mobile Blog, Droid Life, Android and Me and PhoneArena

Jinen / Twitter Blog:

More Cities, More Trends, More Understanding — We're happy to announce two improvements that will help people connect and discover what's new — no matter where they are in the world or what languages they speak. — Almost any topic you can imagine is being discussed on Twitter.

Discussion: VentureBeat, The Next Web and ReadWriteWeb

Brooke Crothers / CNET News:

Intel Sandy Bridge chip coming January 5 — Intel will launch its next-generation Sandy Bridge chip line on January 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show, the chipmaker confirmed today. — The launch will take place at Venetion Hotel in Las Vegas. Mooly Eden, Intel vice president …

Discussion: AppleInsider, The Register, Electronista and Engadget

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

Microsoft Opened Its Wallet to Build WP7 App Success — Foursquare VP of Mobile and Partnership Holger Luedorf guesses his company would have waited until Microsoft sold at least 10 million Windows Phone 7 devices before it rolled out a Foursquare app. So how was there a Foursquare app available for the WP7 launch last week?

Discussion: WMPoweruser.com and IntoMobile, Thanks:oryankim

Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:

Sprint Palm Pre gets End-of-Life — Five hundred twenty eight days after first landing in the hands of thousands of eager customers across the world, Sprint is done with the Palm Pre. The launch may not have been the blockbuster iPhone-matching success that Sprint and Palm had hoped it would be …

Discussion: VentureBeat, The Next Web and PhoneNews.com

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 …

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and The Next Web

Microsoft:

Kinect for Xbox 360 Hits Million Mark in Just 10 Days — Early customer demand for controller-free entertainment solidifies biggest year in Xbox history. — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has sold 1 million Kinect for Xbox 360 units worldwide in 10 days and is on pace to hit 5 million by the end of the year.

Discussion: Mashable!, The Next Web, Joystiq, Techie Buzz, CrunchGear, TechFlash, The Microsoft Blog, Crave and SAI

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

Google CEO: Android Is for Touch, Chrome OS Is for Keyboards — Google CEO Eric Schmidt has finally made it clear what differentiates Google's Android OS from the soon-to-be-released Chrome OS: keyboards. — That's a rather simplified expression of the bigger picture; but ultimately …

Discussion: Engadget and Liliputing

Eric Barry / All Facebook:

11% Have Had Sex with Someone They Met on Facebook — Thinking of poking that special friend? You're not alone. — A new study conducted for the revamped British airing of “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew” shows that 11% of Britons have engaged in sexual intercourse with someone they met through Facebook.

Stew Magnuson / National Defense Magazine:

Cyber Experts Have Proof That China Has Hijacked U.S.-Based Internet Traffic — For 18 minutes in April, China's state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world's Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies.

Discussion: The Next Web

Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:

Zynga: 320 Million People Have Played Our Games — On stage at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Zynga chief Mark Pincus said that 320 million people had played Zynga games to date. He unveiled a number of other interesting figures. — Zynga's games see more than 3 million …

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, VatorNews, The Next Web and VentureBeat, Thanks:ojchiang

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.

Discussion: The Social, The Next Web, Pulse2, VentureBeat and SAI

Matt Galligan / SimpleGeo · Blog:
An Important and Exciting Update

Discussion: Matt Galligan, Mashable! and Erictric

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