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Matt Stopera / BuzzFeed:
How To Find Out Who Has Unfriended You On The New Facebook Timeline — Culture Buzz It's official: You can use Facebook Timeline to see who has unfriended you. Prepare to be upset. — 1,533 people like this. Be the first of your friends. — If you don't already have Facebook Timeline then you should get it here.
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Tech Shout!, Mashable!, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo, The Next Web and msnbc.com, Thanks:jonsteinberg
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Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook's new features, and nothing will ever be the same, and all I can do is sit here and weep at the beauty and magic that Mark Zuckerberg has brought to this world — I don't mean to overhype this, but frankly …
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Mashable!, @dannysullivan, @pkedrosky, @edzitron, @mathewi, GigaOM and The Social Media …
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launches Music Dashboard That Shows What Friends Are Listening to Across Services
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earbits.com and Music Ally
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
“Read” in Facebook - It's Not a Button, So Be Careful What You Click!
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Gizmodo, App Advice, Bloggers Blog, MediaPost, @dannysullivan, GigaOM, Innovation in College Media, Social Commerce Today and Washington Post
Maura Johnston / naming blogs is easy:
on facebook, privacy, and the hindered development of the self.
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TechCrunch and GigaOM
Ben Werdmuller / Ben Werdmuller von Elgg:
The Facebook Timeline is the nearest thing I've seen to a digital identity (and it's creepy as hell)
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AllThingsD, LAUNCH, NBC Bay Area, CNET News, Tom Anderson and Slate Magazine
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Analysis: Facebook Applies the Dimension of Time to the Social Web
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CNN
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
LEAKED MEMO: Jerry Yang Tells Yahoos The Company Is For Sale — After Yahoo fired CEO Carol Bartz, cofounder Jerry Yang told employees that the company had not begun a sales process. — Since then, reports here and elsewhere have suggested that is a bunch of malarkey and that Yahoo's board …
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Wall Street Journal, DealBook, Neowin.net, CNET News, Search Engine Land, Bits, Between the Lines Blog and @dannysullivan
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Yahoo's Dueling Internal Memos: Board, Followed by CEO, Spam Employees in Race to Explain — Today, Yahoo leaders — all of them in two different memos — took to the keyboards to fill their 14,000 employees in on what's up. — Reading them, Yahoos must now be more confused than ever.
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paidContent, Reuters, Business Insider, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Microsoft Blog and Electronista
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington Launches A New Blog, Uncrunched — TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, who recently left the company he founded over six years ago, is back in action. Or at least, he has proven that he still knows how to set up a WordPress blog.
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Michael Arrington / UNCRUNCHED:
Here I Am
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@arrington, Business Insider, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan, @qthrul, Opinionated!, Geek News Central, Soshable, @calbucci, @niallharbison, @rachelsklar, @aulia, AllThingsD and Simply Zesty
Aaron Lee / DigiTimes:
HP likely to cancel plans to spin off PC unit — Hewlett-Packard (HP) may back off from its previous announcement to spin off its PC business unit if CEO Leo Apotheker is ousted as is being reported, according to notebook makers. HP is expected to ship 37-38 million notebooks in 2011.
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ITProPortal, Softpedia News, Neowin.net and CNET News, Thanks:michaelkroker
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Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:
HP's Whitman Says She'll Keep Strategies Begun by Apotheker
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PhoneArena, Mercury News, ZDNet, DailyTech, PC Pro, @mrinaldesai, Bloomberg and Mashable!
Brad Linder / Liliputing:
Barnes & Noble to launch $349 Android tablet? — The Barnes & Noble NOOK Color is one of the best-selling Android tablets in the US, even though the company positions it as a color eBook Reader first and a tablet second. Now it looks like B&N's 7 inch, $249 tablet may be getting a pricier sibling.
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PC World, The Digital Reader, CNET News, MacNN, 9to5Google and TechCrunch
Greg Finn / Search Engine Land:
Google+ Gains Nearly 10 Million Users In First 2 Days Of Being Open To The Public — A Google+ post by Paul Allen, founder of ancestry.com and a self-proclaimed “unofficial Google+ statistician, shows significant growth of Google's social network since opening to the public.
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eWeek, LAUNCH, Digital Inspiration … and ReelSEO Online Video …
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Google+ for iOS Update: Mobile Hangouts, New Notification Settings, And More — A major update to the official Google+ app for iOS has been released on the App Store, and it adds the features mentioned by Google earlier this week when the service hit official “beta” status (open to everyone) after a limited field-trial period.
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Social Media Examiner, 9to5Mac, PC World India, PhoneArena, TiPb, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, TUAW, The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacNN, Thanks:viticci
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
Comcast Working on iPad TV Streaming Service Called AnyPlay — Comcast, the United States' largest cable and internet provider, is working on a television streaming solution for iPads, to compete with Cablevision and Time Warner. The streaming product was announced earlier this year, but details haven't been released until now.
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TechSpot, VentureBeat, GigaOM, SlashGear, AppleInsider, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Electronista, Business Insider and iClarified
David Downs / Billboard.Biz:
Killers, Snoop Dogg, Jane's Addiction Rock Sean Parker's f8 Conference/Party — To celebrate Thursday's f8 announcement of Facebook and Spotify's partnership, Sean Parker hosted an exclusive “A Celebration of Music” that night in a San Francisco warehouse, inviting the Killers, Snoop Dogg …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Uh-Oh: Groupon Loses New COO, Who's Going Back to Google — In a blog it just posted, Groupon said its recently hired COO, Margo Georgiadis, “has decided to return to Google (her former employer) in a new role as President, Americas.” — She was only hired in April, just months before the company filed to go public.
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Groublogpon, @fromedome, PE Hub Blog, Wall Street Journal, The Tech Trade, TechCrunch, DealBook and Business Insider
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
More: Groupon Amends Its S-1 IPO Filing — Again — Over Accounting Issues and CEO Letter
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paidContent, Business Insider, Deal Journal and DealBook
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Whether Google is a monopoly isn't the point — Much has been made of Google chairman Eric Schmidt's admission on Wednesday that the web giant might be a monopoly, during his testimony before a Senate hearing into Google's market dominance and its effect on consumers and the marketplace.
Paul Carr / Bringing Something To The Party:
What's Next? — So, as promised, here's an update on what I'm doing next. It's pretty exciting. [Update: so exciting, in fact, that while I was writing this post, Henry Blodget scooped me on my own news.] — I'm starting a new company, with financial backing from Tony Hsieh (Zappos …
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SarahLacy.com, John Furrier, VentureBeat and GeekWire
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Dish's Blockbuster Movie Pass: Streaming, mail and on-demand, $10, Oct 1st — Today Dish and Blockbuster announced that it is announcing Blockbuster Movie Pass. This is a service that will offer movie streaming, DVD and Blu-ray discs by mail and on-demand movie channels. The service will launch October 1st.
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DISH Network, CNET News, VentureBeat, SlashGear, GigaOM, TechCrunch and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
Dish Aims To Keep, Gain Subs With ‘Blockbuster Movie Pass’; Thanks, Netflix
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ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD, PC World, Mashable!, MediaFile, NBC Bay Area, BetaNews, Ars Technica, MediaPost, CNET News, DSLreports, dailywireless.org and The Tech Trade
