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Sebastian Kanthak / Official Google Data APIs Blog:
3. 2. 1. Contact. The API has landed — Have you ever been on a web-site that asked you for your Google username and password so that it can import your Gmail contact list? Did you think twice before giving out that information, hoping the web-site would not use it to access …
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Releases an API for Contacts — Google wants to make everyone happy today. After releasing a calendar sync tool, Google makes it possible to sync other valuable data: your contacts. The new Contacts Data API “allows client applications to view and update Contacts content in the form of Google Data API feeds.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived — Microsoft's next-generation web browser, Internet Explorer 8, has arrived. In a surprising move, after the demo of IE8 and its new features at today's session of the MIX08 conference, the startling announcement was made: “It's available for download now”.
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Shirin Oskooi / Official Google Blog:
Google Calendar Sync — I've suffered major headaches trying to sync all my calendars. I used the Microsoft Outlook calendar on my desktop computer at home, but since I wanted to be able to access my schedule from anywhere, I also kept a copy of it on Google Calendar.
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Matt Cutts, Download Squad, GottaBeMobile, Pulse 2.0, Tech Bytes at Use Bytes and Scobleizer
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Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Gates dethroned as world's richest man — You knew this was going to happen eventually—Bill Gates prepares to step away from full-time work at Microsoft and suddenly he is on the slippery slope to the poor house. — Well, maybe not the poor house, but he has lost his position as the world's richest man …
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Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Allegations swirl around Wikipedia's Wales — Jimmy Wales, the Internet whiz famous for creating the online, user-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia, is facing allegations on two fronts that he abused the trust of the community he helped build. — Former Wikipedia employee Danny Wool is alleging …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Analytics Data Sharing — Site stats program Google Analytics offers a new opt-in data sharing setting. Log-in and you'll see a message dialog, and somewhere below it a link reading “Edit Account and Data Sharing Settings”. That link takes you to the settings page (see screenshot) …
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TechCrunch, Google Analytics Blog, Search Engine Journal, Unofficial Google … and Mashable!
Brad Stone / Bits:
New Patentable Idea: A Way to Invalidate Vague Patents — There's not much love in legal circles for the so-called “business method” patent, an exclusive intellectual property right over a novel way of doing business. Critics of such patents - think Amazon “One Click” or Priceline's …
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Tech Bytes / Tech Bytes at Use Bytes:
Microsoft Blews : A Blogrunner or a Memeorandum or a Sphere ? — The BLEWS website at Microsoft research says - “While typical news-aggregation sites do a good job of clustering news stories according to topic, they leave the reader without information about which stories figure prominently in political discourse.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is Steve Jobs lying about Flash not working on iPhone? — RUMOR ALERT — I have not substantiated this with anyone at either Adobe or Apple, so might turn out to be totally false: — Today I got a note from someone I know who works closely with Adobe and Apple.
Felix Salmon / Portfolio.com:
Blogonomics: Exit Through Acquisition — Breakingviews, one of the least web-savvy websites in the world, ran a column by Jeff Segal on Monday about blog valuations. And given that breakingviews tries to disable copying and for all intents and purposes bans hyperlinks …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Ziff Davis Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection — Ziff Davis, the troubled trade media company which sold off its enterprise division last year, is now close to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, we have learned.
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Associated Press, CNET News.com, Ziff Davis Media, Valleywag, Epicenter, Money Out Blog, Blue's News and Mashable!
Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Web 2.0 VC to start-ups: Your income is “noise” — Maybe two years ago, I hosted a panel discussion on the emerging Web 2.0 economy, and I asked my panelists if we were in a bubble. Because it's clear to me that we are. Not that it's a bad thing, mind you.
Business Week:
Zuckerberg on Facebook's Future — In a conversation with BusinessWeek.com, the social networking site's CEO holds forth on recent hires and going public — As Facebook tries to sustain its supercharged growth, it's bringing in adult supervision. — The social networking site hired Sheryl Sandberg …
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Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Facebook viral marketing: When and why do apps “jump the shark?” — Excel spreadsheet download — For those of you who are interested in the gory details, please download the following spreadsheet here: — Viral and Retention Excel Model (Click to download) — Math warning!
