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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Facebook *is* opening up — And it's starting to happen right now, today in fact. — I reported earlier on a new feed in Facebook, allowing notifications to be visible outside the wall. — It's getting reallll interesting — I've found some more RSS feeds in Facebook's UI. — 1. Friends Status Updates.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Opens Up Their Data Feeds — Dave Winer is tracking some new features being released by Facebook that debunk the theories that the company is focused on building a completely closed silo of user data and news. — Facebook's news feeds, launched last year to a lot of controversy, has proven to be a brilliant move.
Gillian Wee / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Cable to Expand Video-on-Demand This Year — Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) — Time Warner Cable Inc., the second- largest U.S. cable company, plans to expand a service that lets viewers watch shows when they want as long as they sit through the commercials.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Time Warner Cable To Try No-Fee, No Ad-Skip Time Shifting — Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) will trial a service that offers viewers the chance to catch shows they may have missed without paying a monthly DVR fee or if they didn't set the recorder. Two catches, according to the NYT …
Barbara M. Hunter / NSBA:
New Study Explores the Online Behaviors of U.S. Teens and 'Tweens — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — More Teens and 'Tweens Are Creating Content and Connecting Online — for Educational Benefits, Offering Schools New Opportunities to Use Technology — Reports New National School Boards Association Study
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb: New Study Shows that Online Creativity and E-learning Popular with Kids
Market Wire:
Lime Wire to Enter Music Download Market With New Digital Store and Inks Deals With Music Companies — Lime Wire LLC, maker of the popular LimeWire file-sharing software, announced today that it will open a digital music store. — Initially the store will be a stand-alone website …
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Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Microsoft issues 6 'critical' patches — SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. issued fixes for nine security flaws, including four meant to keep hackers from breaking into computers through Web pages, during a regularly scheduled update Tuesday. — Microsoft gave the four Web browsing-related patches its most severe "critical" rating.
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Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
EIF: Home abusers can be turned off and banned, warns Sony — Home boss discusses bannings and branding for mature users — Peter Edward, director of the Home platform for Sony, has told an audience at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival that users who consistently abuse …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Adding a Google Map to your blog — Google will be releasing a new feature next week that will enable people to easily embed a Google Map into their Web site or blog, just like you can do with a YouTube video. No coding or programming required; just copying and pasting a snippet of HTML, a Google spokeswoman says.
Marshall Kirkpatrick:
Introducing good bloggers and companies to hire them — I've been getting so many inquiries lately from companies looking to hire bloggers, and so many responses to messages I send out about them over twitter, that I'm losing track. I really like helping bring these two groups together.
Marguerite Reardon / ZDNet:
Community Wi-Fi comes to San Francisco — While EarthLink and Google are still hammering out details of their citywide Wi-Fi contract with San Francisco officials, a company called Meraki plans on blanketing the city with free Wi-Fi using volunteers who will deploy and manage the equipment themselves.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Report: Cable companies facing big bandwidth crunch — If you're starting to become frustrated with the download speed of your cable ISP or the relatively low number of HD channels available, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Your local cable provider will soon be faced with a serious bandwidth crunch …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Movable Type's Version 4.0 Final Release — Movable Type is releasing the final version of their 4.0 platform tonight. We covered the beta, their turn towards open source, and new feature set previously. The new release, no doubt, comes under pressure from the success Wordpress has had as an open source platform.
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Jessie Scanlon / Business Week:
Getting Serious About Gaming — Everyone knows video gaming is a growth industry. What's less well known is how Web 2.0 and big business are contributing to that growth — Like happening upon a gnome in the online fantasy game World of Warcraft or breaking the speed limit in Grand Theft Auto …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Battle over attorneys fees' brewing between RIAA, ex-defendant — The RIAA and a former file-sharing defendant have filed briefs in an Oklahoma federal court as they battle over whether the RIAA will be forced to pay attorneys' fees for both parties. The case in question involves Tallie Stubbs …
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
They've Just Got to Get a Message to You — As a teenage rock fan, all Dennis Vorreyer really expected of the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago two weekends ago was the chance to see his favorite bands perform live. — But he and his father, Jeffrey, who accompanied him to the festival …
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