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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Counterstrike: Murdoch, DeWolfe Announce MySpace Platform and New Privacy Controls — Rupert Murdoch and MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe announced some of their plans around the MySpace Platform (rumored since last week) this evening at the Web 2.0 conference during a Q&A with John Battelle.
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Matt / Gravatar Blog:
Automattic Acquires Gravatar — The best ideas are often the simplest. (At least in hindsight.) The idea of globally-recognized avatar, or Gravatar, struck me from the first time I heard it. Of course I should be able to have my avatar wherever I go! Of course email is a great way to key it!
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CenterNetworks, TechCrunch, Forever Geek, The Marketing Technology Blog, Read/WriteWeb and Mashable!
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Startups Should Team Up to Grow — Earlier this week, MeeVee, an online television guide, decided to acquire Top Ten Sources, a Boston-based social news and information site. Last night, Next New Networks bought BarelyPolitical.com, the production company responsible for Obama Girl, for an undisclosed amount of money.
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Did the web fail the iPhone? — Ian might be right, but not because of Steve's announcement today about opening up the iPhone. — Indeed, my reaction so far has been one of quasi-resignation and disappointment. — A voice inside me whimpers, "Don't give up on the web, Steve! Not yet!"
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Nik Fletcher / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple: "we plan to have an iPhone SDK in developers' hands in February" — That's right folks. You read it correctly. Cats & dogs are living together, and in other news Steve Jobs has, via Apple's 'Hot News' page, announced that Apple will, FINALLY, support third-party development of native applications for the iPhone.
Paul Miller / Engadget:Apple planning iPhone SDK for February!
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Michael Gartenberg, eWEEK.com, Valleywag, Epicenter, 9 to 5 Mac, The Register, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Computerworld, Los Angeles Times, Gadgetell, John Carroll, Digital Daily, last100 and Digg
Tom Yager / InfoWorld:
Apple OS X Leopard: A beautiful upgrade — Finally, a PC Unix that everyone can love. OS X Leopard is a triumph of customer-focused engineering — Apple's announcement of the impending delivery of OS X Leopard (release 10.5 of Mac and Xserve operating systems) marks the public debut …
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Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:How to get Mac OS X Leopard for as low as $40
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Ryan Naraine's Zero Day, GigaOM, GottaBeMobile.com, Tom Raftery's Social Media and Valleywag
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg opens the Web 2.0 conference in Q&A with John Batelle — John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly opened the Web 2.0 asking a question, "Is this a bubble?" Few folks raised their hands in the ballroom of the Palace Hotel. But this is the land of the faithful.
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Tech Trader Daily, eWEEK.com, The Technology Chronicles, Bits, FORTUNE, Digital Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat and All Facebook
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Screenshots Out for Microsoft Office Live Workspace — Microsoft has been sharing with bloggers today some screenshots of the forthcoming Microsoft Office Live Workspace. The company made its most recent major announcement about the online collaboration suite that integrates with Office at the end of last month.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Google, Apple and the future of personal computing — I confess: My last post, about the Zonbu, was frivolous. The Zonbu will be lucky to be a footnote in the history of 21st century computing. Yes, it has the right model, more or less. What it doesn't have is the muscle.
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AMAZON ONE-CLICK PATENT REJECTED BY THE US PATENT OFFICE AS A RESULT OF MY REQUEST — In a recent office action, the USPTO has rejected the claims of the Amazon.com one-click patent following the re-examination request that I filed on 16 February 2006. — My review resulted in the broadest claims of the patent being ruled invalid.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Maps Goes Social — Another piece from Google's social project has been released: Google Maps becomes social with the addition of user profiles. Until now, users could create personalized maps and write reviews for local businesses, but they didn't have an identity.
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InsideGoogle, Google LatLong, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Screenwerk, mathewingram.com/work, ParisLemon and Mashable!
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple's U.S. Mac market share rises to 8.1 percent in Q3 — Apple Inc.'s share of the U.S. personal computer market for the third calendar quarter of 2007 was 8.1 percent, up from 6.2 percent during the same period one year ago, according to preliminary results released from Gartner on Wednesday.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Even Free Can't Compete With Music Piracy — There's been a lot of speculation over the future of the music industry and the conversation has begun to shift from "Can they sell DRMed music" to "Can they sell music at all". Last week Radiohead ran one of the biggest tests of legally distributed free music …
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Be careful what you wish for — The bad news for the newspaper business is good news for publishers whose shareholders a year ago would have been demanding their assets be sold to the highest bidder. — With circulation, ad revenue and profits in freefall - and no bottom in sight …
