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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes] — For a couple of days now, we've been hearing rumors that the Yahoo layoffs included the entire Delicious team. Now Former Yahoo employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio has tweeted out the above Yahoo! product team meeting slide that seems …
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Following Layoffs, Yahoo Cuts Products: MyBlogLog, Delicious, Yahoo Buzz — At an all-hands meeting for the Yahoo product team following a round of layoffs yesterday that significantly impacted that group, EVP of Americas Ross Levinsohn and Chief Product Officer Blake Irving announced plans to …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me — Social bookmarking service Delicious announced five years ago last Thursday that it had been acquired by Yahoo The first comment posted on the blog entry announcing the deal was from TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, saying “Congratulations!
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Confirmed: Yahoo Closing Buzz, Traffic APIs - Maybe Delicious & AltaVista
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Feds charge five in Silicon Valley with insider trading of tech stocks — Federal prosecutors charged five Silicon Valley people with illegal insider trading today. The people charged traded on information they obtained about technology companies such as Dell, Apple, Advanced Micro Devices and Flextronics International.
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Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
Facebook Briefly Shuts Down After Code Leak — Facebook, one of the largest websites in the world, voluntarily shut itself down Thursday after the code for several new products was made public before the products were ready for launch, the company confirmed to Wired.com.
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Zack Whittaker / iGeneration Blog:
Facebook adds ‘Memories’: Internal prototype exposed by mistake — Facebook has added ‘Memories’ to the long list of new features rolling out on the site over the last few weeks. This will be particularly useful for college students who struggle to remember the drunken times they have had …
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Inside Facebook, TechCrunch, Neowin.net and The Next Web
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
The new Facebook Fan pages are live. No tabs, cleaner interface and more features.
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Mashable!, All Facebook and Jon Burg's Future Visions, Thanks:imgtxt
Michael Siliski / The Official Google Blog:
The next generation of mobile maps — I'm excited to announce Google Maps 5.0 for Android, with two significant new features: 3D interaction and offline reliability. We launched Google Maps for mobile a little more than five years ago. Since then, we've added dozens of features …
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Nexus S Teardown — Nearly one year after the release of the Nexus One, Google, in partnership with Samsung, has released its second official phone the Nexus S. It has some fancy gimmicks features that separate it from other Android phones on the market, such as a curved display and the newest 2.3 Gingerbread update.
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Nexus S has been rooted, let the madness commence!
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Carlos Pizano / Google Chrome Blog:
Safer plug-ins, faster search, and richer graphics — Last week, we previewed several upcoming features that will be available to users on Chrome and Chrome OS. Today we're excited to introduce a few of these new security, speed, and open web platform features into Chrome's beta channel.
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Kenneth Russell / Chromium Blog:
WebGL now in Beta: here comes the 3D web!
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Chrome Browser Sandboxes Flash To Protect Against Malware
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Computerworld and Softpedia News
Paul Tarjan / Facebook Developer Blog:
Making registration simple and social in just a few steps — Today we're launching a new registration tool that gives website owners the ability to offer quick, easy and social options for sign-up. It is an excellent alternative to using Facebook Login (formerly Facebook Connect) when …
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook's New User Registration Tool for Websites: Implementation …
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Bloomberg:
Groupon Said to Seek New Funding After Rebuffing Google's $6 Billion Offer — Groupon Inc., owner of a daily coupon website with 40 million subscribers, is seeking funds after rejecting a takeover offer from Google Inc., three people familiar with the matter said.
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Flipboard's Mike McCue: Web format has ‘contaminated’ online journalism — Flipboard, the social magazine app for the iPad, seems to be having a flipping good run. — Last week, the famously design-conscious Apple Inc. named Flipboard its App of the Year.
Emmanuel Orssaud / PlayStation Blog:
The Official PlayStation App, Coming Soon To iPhone And Android Handsets — I'm very happy to finally be able to announce on the PlayStation.Blog that we will launch the Official PlayStation App very soon. — The app will be available to download for iPhone and iPod Touch with OS 4 and above …
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Web Data Shows Windows Phone 7 Barely a Blip on the Radar — Microsoft's smartphone strategy isn't yet paying off in terms of sales, market share or user adoption, at least not from any measurable statistics, which are far and few between. The company hasn't offered even the slightest hint …
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Chitika, Inc., WMPoweruser.com, Computerworld, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com and Electronista, Thanks:bytebot
Jon Orwant / The Official Google Blog:
Find out what's in a word, or five, with the Google Books Ngram Viewer — Scholars interested in topics such as philosophy, religion, politics, art and language have employed qualitative approaches such as literary and critical analysis with great success. As more of the world's literature …
Apple:
Apple's Mac App Store to Open on January 6 — Apple® today announced that the Mac® App Store℠ will open for business on Thursday, January 6. By bringing the revolutionary App Store experience to Mac OS® X, the Mac App Store makes discovering, installing and updating Mac apps easier than ever.
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Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
How Twitter Use Has Changed, From 2009 to 2010 — It's been a good year for Twitter, and not merely because the company announced yesterday it has secured another huge round of funding. The microblogging platform has grown by over 100 million users this year and expanded its staff from 130 to 350 people.
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Congress Hears WikiLeaks Is ‘Fundamentally Different’ From Media — The Justice Department would have no problem distinguishing WikiLeaks from traditional media outlets, if it decides to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with violating the Espionage Act, a former federal prosecutor told lawmakers Thursday.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Word Lens Translates Words Inside of Images. Yes Really. — Ever been confused at a restaurant in a foreign country and wish you could just scan your menu with your iPhone and get an instant translation? Well as of today you are one step closer thanks to Word Lens from QuestVisual.
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Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:
Hotmail introduces interactive email using Active Views — Starting today, Hotmail and select partners are introducing a new type of interactive and dynamic email that runs on the Hotmail Active Views platform. — Beginning in the late 90s, email services evolved from supporting just plain text …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
About.Me Has 400,000 Beta Testers, Opens Doors To All — In September About.me started letting people reserve names for its personal profile page. They guaranteed your name (I'm about.me/mike, for example) and started letting those people in slowly in batches.
