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Ruchi Sanghvi / blog.facebook.com:
Facebook Gets a Facelift — You've probably noticed that Facebook looks different today. We've added two cool features: News Feed, which appears on your homepage, and Mini-Feed, which appears in each person's profile. — News Feed highlights what's happening in your social circles on Facebook.
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ScottKidder.com, Unit Structures, It's Rishi, VentureBeat, Valleywag, The Bb Gun, Guardian Unlimited, The Blogging Times, PaulStamatiou.com, Elliott Back and digg
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Mark Zuckerberg / blog.facebook.com:
Calm down. Breathe. We hear you. — We've been getting a lot of feedback about Mini-Feed and News Feed. We think they are great products, but we know that many of you are not immediate fans, and have found them overwhelming and cluttered. Other people are concerned that non-friends can see too much about them.
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GigaOM, Download Squad, Blogspotting, Digital Micro-Markets, michaelzimmer.org, The Bb Gun and Web Strategy
Frank Gruber / Somewhat Frank:FACEBOOK REDESIGN ANGERS STUDENTS OVER INVADED PRIVACY
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Unit Structures, Mashable!, Download Squad, Screenwerk, Blogging Stocks, CyberNet Technology News and ShoutBlog
John Markoff / New York Times:
Google to Offer Print-Archives Searches — Google plans to announce on Wednesday that it is offering a service that will permit Internet users to search through the archives of newspapers, magazines and other publications and uncover material that in some cases dates back more than 200 years.
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search — News and history junkies take heart: Google's new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously available via the search engine.
BBC:
Google opens up 200 years of news — Web giant Google is further expanding its online empire with the launch of the Google News Archive Search. — The web-based tool allows users to explore existing digitised newspaper articles and more recent online content, spanning the last 200 years.
The Smoking Gun:
Hewlett-Packard Targeted Board In Leak Probe — Resigned director says company fraudulently obtained phone records — In a remarkable bit of corporate cloak and dagger, Hewlett-Packard launched a probe of its own board of directors in a bid to determine who was responsible for a media leak earlier …
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David A. Kaplan / Newsweek:
Intrigue in High Places — To catch a leaker, Hewlett-Packard's chairwoman spied on the home phone records of its board of directors — Paul Sakuma / AP (left); Eric Risberg / AP — The confrontation at Hewlett-Packard started innocently enough. Last January, the online technology …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Silicon Valley to Receive Free Wi-Fi — A consortium of technology companies, including I.B.M. and Cisco Systems, announced plans Tuesday for a vast wireless network that would provide free Internet access to big portions of Silicon Valley and the surrounding region as early as next year.
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IP Democracy, GigaOM, jkOnTheRun, dailywireless.org, Perceptric Forum, broadbandreports.com and Screenwerk
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Six Apart acquires Rojo Networks — Software/Feed aggregators- Software/Weblog platforms/Six Apart — Blogging company Six Apart has acquired online feed aggregator Rojo Networks. Rojo will be integrated with the Vox blogging tool allowing users to browse updated content and create more blog posts.
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Kevin Burton's Feed Blog
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Associated Press:
European sales of Sony's PlayStation 3 delayed until March — TOKYO Sony's upgrade video-game console PlayStation 3 will be delayed until March in Europe, but will go on sale in November as planned in the U.S. and Japan, the executive in charge of the project said Wednesday.
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Jim Hugunin / Jim Hugunin's Thinking Dynamic:
IronPython 1.0 released today! — I'm extremely happy to announce that we have released IronPython 1.0 today! — I started work on IronPython almost 3 years ago. My initial motivation for the project was to understand all of the reports that I read on the web claiming that the Common Language Runtime …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
This Web TV Is for You, Especially if You're a Male Aged 21 to 34 — IF Anheuser-Busch has its way, it may not be long before consumers start insisting "I want my BTV." — That's "BTV" as in Bud TV, an online entertainment network that Anheuser-Busch, the nation's biggest brewer …
Inside Google Desktop:
Results of the Google Desktop Gadget Contest! — We received a number of creative submissions for the Google Desktop Gadget Contest. In fact, because there were so many great gadgets to choose from, we've decided to recognize a few additional standouts. — Honorable Mention:
Aaron Radelet / Sprint:
Sprint is First to Offer Full-Length "Pay Per View" Movies on Mobile Phones in U.S. — Many recent and classic titles available from Buena Vista VOD, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures through mSpot Partnership — Media Contact: — 703-433-8246
Skeptic / Dead2.0:
YouTube's Destiny: IPO, Acquisition, Lawsuit, or Other? — There are days when I love watching the blog rumor mill and rampact speculations go nuts. When someone throws out some neat idea, like YouTube IPOing (Paul Kedrosky seems to get honors for 'first'), it spreads across blogland …
comScore:
Online Classifieds Increase in Popularity; Category Visitation Surges 47 Percent in the Past Year Craigslist.org Leads Category; Sees Traffic Double to More than 13 Million U.S. Visitors — comScore Media Metrix, the leader in digital media measurement, today released an analysis of consumer activity at the top online classified sites.
Charles C. Mann / Wired News:
Spam + Blogs = Trouble — I am aware that spending a lot of time Googling yourself is kind of narcissistic, OK? But there are situations, I would argue, when it is efficiently - even forgivably - narcissistic. When I published a book last year, I wanted to know what, if anything, people were saying about it.
