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7:35 PM ET, November 1, 2007

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Checkmate?  MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed)  —  Google may have just come out of nowhere and checkmated Facebook in the social networking power struggle.  —  MySpace and Six Apart will announce that they are joining Google's OpenSocial initiative.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
MySpace Joining Google's OpenSocial  —  We hear Google is planning to announce yet another partner to its anti-Facebook coalition today — News Corp.'s MySpace.  [Haven't confirmed].  Look for an announcement by the end of the day.  This makes a lot of sense for both sides …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Your Move  —  Not so fast, Mike.  The anti-Facebook coalition piling onto Google's OpenSocial platform does not constitute checkmate for Google just quite yet.  These are developer announcements.  No actual consumers have changed their social networking habits because of OpenSocial.
Brad Stone / Bits:
MySpace Joins the Google OpenSocial Team  —  Breaking now: MySpace, the Web's largest social network with more than 110 million members, has joined Google's OpenSocial platform.  The New York Times wrote about the effort, designed to counter Facebook, on Tuesday.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google's OpenSocial Is Not a Facebook Killer
Discussion: Insider Chatter, blognation and p2pnet
Reuters:
MySpace Joins Google
Discussion: Neowin.net
Brad Stone / Bits:
The Great Facebook Team-Up?
Discussion: Between the Lines
Dylan Tweney / Wired News:
Google Aims to Break Open the Closed World of Social Networking
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Confirmed: MySpace joins Google's OpenSocial movement
Discussion: InfoWorld and Epicenter
Lev Grossman / Time:
Invention Of the Year: The iPhone  —  Stop.  I mean, don't stop reading this, but stop thinking what you're about to think.  Or, O.K., I'll think it for you:
François Bancilhon / Mandriva Blog:
An open letter to Steve Ballmer  —  Hi, this is François, from Mandriva.  —  I'm sure we're way too small for you to know me.  You know, we're one of these tiny Linux company working hard for our place on the market.  We produce a Linux Distro, Mandriva Linux.
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Mandriva bigwig (nearly) accuses Ballmer of b-word
Discussion: TechSpot News and Gadget Lab
Chris Soghoian / CNET News.com:
A dangerous conflict of interest between Firefox and Google  —  The Firefox browser may not be as independent as previously thought.  Mozilla essentially owns Firefox, and it proved so whenit flexed its muscles last year in forcing Debian to rename its browser IceWeasel.
Discussion: WebProNews and Between the Lines
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Updates MacBooks to Santa Rosa, GMA X3100; 2.6GHz MacBook Pro  —  As rumored, Apple has quietly updated the MacBook tonight to the Santa Rosa architecture with mild speed bumps and the GMA X3100 integrated video.  —  White 13.3"  —  $1099.00 2.0GHz/1GB RAM/80GB/Combo/GMA X3100
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro quietly updated
Discussion: Computerworld, Switched and 9 to 5 Mac
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player: $100, this Friday, Wal-Mart  —  Still waiting to jump into the high def disc game?  Or just wanted another weaker, cheaper player for the last-gen TV you phased out to your rumpus room?  Well, whatever your reasons, some (not all!)
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Matthew Moskovciak / Crave:
HD DVD players hit $99 at Wal-Mart, Best Buy
John Biggs / New York Times:
A Computer That Works With Google, Not Microsoft  —  Advocates of Linux, the free open-source operating system, like to say that buying a standard-issue computer involves a Microsoft Tax, because you have no choice but to pay for Windows.  New versions of Linux and inexpensive hardware …
Kevin / CNET News.com:
DigiHunter  —  About Kevin (Kilmo) Kang  —  Kevin (Kilmo) Kang is a self-professed IT-savvy guy who's been having the time of his life making tech deals with new business partners in the Asia-Pacific areas.  Like every Korean, he's gadget-crazy and is glad he lives in a country …
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Wibrain's B1 UMPC gets redesigned, retargeted
Elsa Wenzel / CNET News.com:
Microsoft upgrades its Office for Mac upgrade offer  —  Correction 2:10 p.m. PDT: This blog initially misstated the savings for buyers of Office 2004 for Mac Student and Teacher edition if they choose to upgrade to the 2008 Special Media Edition.  The savings would be $350.
Discussion: WinBeta
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Mac BU sweetens Office 2008 upgrade deal (Updated)
Jon Swift:
Facebook Declares War on the Blogosphere  —  Just as in earlier times a man was only as good as his family name, today we are defined by the social networks we belong to.  So imagine my horror when I learned that I have become a virtual bastard.  Earlier this week I logged into Facebook …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
PurpleYogi, the 1999 personalization company, finally hits pay dirt  —  PurpleYogi, one of the earliest Silicon Valley companies to focus on "extreme personalization of the Internet," has finally been sold for $158 million after a dramatic series of twists in business strategy.
Verizon:
Verizon Plans Fivefold Increase in HD Channels on FiOS TV in 2008 Part of a Major Expansion of High-Definition and Standard-Definition Programming on Verizon's Video Network  —  More Sports and Multicultural Content on the Way  —  NEW YORK - Verizon FiOS TV customers will get even more of …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The New York Times' Blogrunner—A Techmeme Killer?  —  Last night, the New York Times quietly launched Blogrunner on the technology section of its main site.  Blogrunner was one of many techmeme copycat sites, until the New York Times bought it last year.  Like Techmeme, Blogrunner is a service …
Discussion: Read/WriteWeb and WebProNews
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
The Ad Network Spending Spree  —  Big Internet companies have been snapping up ad networks to boost ad revenue.  Now Specific Media plans to join the M&A frenzy  —  The wave of dealmaking engulfing the online advertising sector isn't over yet.  The most recent evidence came Nov. 1 …
 
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Update: Earnings: Napster Revenues Increase 24 Percent in Q2 …
Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips:
Reasons to Have a Vanity Folder in Your News Aggregator
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Eee PC review roundup
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
DARPA selects 11 robotic grunts to take driver's license test
Discussion: Computerworld
Schneier on Security:
The War on the Unexpected  —  We've opened up a new front on the war on terror.
Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
Living the Life on the New York City 'Scene'
Reuters:
Carphone sees 10,000 iPhones sold 1st day
Discussion: Macsimum News
 Earlier Items: 
Sean Ammirati / Read/WriteWeb:
New Release: Tumblr 3.0 & Interview with Founder on Read/WriteTalk
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Audio glitching - Common under Vista, not so bad under other OSes
Discussion: Computerworld
Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
IMAP access now available for all users
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Advocacy group to FCC: Comcast's traffic blocking defense is bogus
Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Internal Tool to Check Search Results?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
$5 million More For 5Min, Following A Painful Angel Round
Discussion: NewTeeVee and WebProNews
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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