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Samuel W. Lessin / Facebook Blog:
Tell Your Story with Timeline — Since the beginning of Facebook, your profile has been the place where you tell your story. People use it to share everything from the small stuff, like their thoughts on an article, to the most important events of their lives, like the photos of their wedding or the birth of their child.
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Mike Isaac / Wired.com:
Facebook's Makeover: A New Vision of Sharing — Facebook announced a slew of new products at its f8 developer conference in San Francisco on Thursday, aiming to fully integrate users' lives through a series of major media and lifestyle-centric application integrations with its social network.
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right This Second — This morning Facebook announced Timeline, a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It's like a story book of your life — or at least the online, documented parts.
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Business Insider and Lifehacker
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Color Recasts Itself as a Facebook Photo and Video App — Back in March, a splashy start-up called Color Labs introduced a cellphone app that let people share pictures with friends and strangers nearby. The service seemed to have everything going for it: an accomplished serial entrepreneur …
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide.net:
Facebook's Timeline maps powered by Bing Maps — Today at Facebook's F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg is unveiling some major new changes to Facebook, including the introduction of Timeline, a new way to curate and share your life, via Facebook. — One of the filters available in Timeline is Maps …
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The Seattle Times, TechCrunch, msnbc.com, WinRumors and Lifehacker
John Paul Titlow / ReadWriteWeb:
Deep Spotify Integration Brings Free Music to Facebook — On-demand music streaming service Spotify will be deeply integrated into Facebook, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced at the f8 developer conference today. — The new integration will allow Facebook users to stream Spotify tracks directly …
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VatorNews, TechCrunch, Guardian, Digital Trends, Music Ally, LAPTOP Magazine, Guardian, Spotify, VentureBeat and The Next Web
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announces integration with Facebook in 44 countries, but NOT the US — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings today announced that Netflix would be integrating tightly with Facebook much in the way that it is working with music, but that due to laws in the US, it would not be available there yet.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo News Teams Up With Facebook To Curate Content From Your Friends — Yahoo News, one of the most popular news portals on the web, is deepening its integration with Facebook. Yahoo has formed integrations with the social network in the past with its products, but we're told this is one of the most in-depth implementations to date.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Zuckerberg: As Many As 500 Million People Have Been On Facebook In A Single Day
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Bret Taylor / Facebook Developers:
f8: A New Class of Apps
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GigaOM, Inside Facebook, This is my next, ReadWriteWeb and Appsfire Blog
Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Facebook Introduces Open Graph, Lets You Share Music, Movies, And More
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Megan / LAUNCH:
Andy Samberg Impersonates Zuckerberg at F8
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@facebook, The Next Web and The Atlantic Wire, Thanks:jason
HP:
HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer — Ray Lane appointed executive chairman; Léo Apotheker steps down as president, chief executive officer and director — HP today announced that its board of directors has appointed Meg Whitman as president and chief executive officer.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
It's Official: Meg Whitman Named HP CEO; Apotheker Out; Lane Is Exec Chairman — Done. Now what? — Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO, is the new CEO and President of Hewlett-Packard. The move, which AllThingsD previously reported would happen today after the markets closed …
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Verizon goes to bat for AT&T, defends T-Mobile merger — Verizon Communications chief executive Lowell McAdam has gone on record in suggesting that the company's biggest rival, AT&T, should be allowed to complete its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA.
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
New HTC users to get 5GB free Dropbox service — Microsoft has Skydrive, Apple has iCloud, and now HTC has Dropbox following a new partnership between the phone maker and popular cloud storage service. — HTC has confirmed to Pocket-lint that users of its latest Android handsets …
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Adrianne Jeffries / Betabeat:
ZocDoc CEO, Upon Raising $25 M. from Goldman Sachs: 'We're Not Planning an IPO Soon-We Don't Need To' — ZocDoc just announced a surprise extra $25 million on top of the $50 million the startup recently raised from Yuri Milner and DST, and the money came from high places-Goldman Sachs is investing directly in ZocDoc.
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Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:
Goldman Sachs Invests $25 Million in ZocDoc
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Business Insider and The ZocDoc Blog
Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers — DEVELOPING: The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix, FoxNews.com has learned. — Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey …
Phil Milford / Bloomberg:
Apple Sued by Via Technologies Over Microprocessor Patents — Apple Inc., the world's biggest technology company by value, was sued by Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc. (2388) for allegedly infringing three U.S. patents for microprocessors used in mobile phones and tablet computers.
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AppleInsider, DailyTech, SlashGear, The Next Web, 9to5Mac and GigaOM
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Mozilla proposes not-so-rapid-release Firefox — Under the Mozilla proposal, a new Extended Support Release version of Firefox would arrive every 30 weeks. — Mozilla, faced with business users' stiff resistance to its new rapid update schedule for Firefox, has proposed a slower-moving version of the browser.
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Computerworld, SiliconFilter, Hardware 2.0 Blog and Softpedia News
Josh Williams / Gowalla:
A New Gowalla — Nearly three years ago I sat on a beach at Lake Tahoe and watched as a large low-flying cloud hung above the lake, creating the backdrop for a beautiful weekend of solitude. As much as I enjoyed the time alone to clear my thoughts, I was overwhelmed with the desire to share this experience with someone.
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Jennifer Valentino-Devries / Wall Street Journal:
‘Stingray’ Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash — For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.” Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest.
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Next Oracle-Google settlement talks possibly without the Larrys — damages claims may be higher than ever — Following the second court-ordered mediation conference between Oracle and Google, which took place on Wednesday, the magistrate judge moderating this settlement effort entered an order …
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AppleInsider, Storage Bits Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld, Open Source Blog, Electronista and Bloomberg
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Netflix split to set up Amazon streaming merger? — Summary: Netflix's move to separate its DVD-by-mail service may pave the way for Amazon to buy the company, argues an analyst. — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings may have a trick up his sleeve as he separates the streaming and DVD-by-mail businesses: A sale to Amazon.
