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Dave Morin / Facebook Developers:
Announcing Facebook Connect — At Facebook, we're committed to enabling people to communicate and stay connected wherever they go. — In August 2006, we introduced the first version of the Facebook API, enabling users to share their information with the third party websites and applications they choose.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect — Facebook will announce later today Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday. The actual product won't be released for at least a few weeks, so the timing on this …
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Inquisitor Joins the Yahoo! Search Team — Last year, Yahoo! Search launched Search Assist to help users find what they're looking for quickly and easily by providing query suggestions and related concepts in real-time. Today, Yahoo! Search is embracing the Mac community …
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Search Engine Journal, TechCrunch, The Inquisitr, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Search Engine Land and WebProNews
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit — Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week. — There are stories around why the limitation exists at all. The official reason is that Facebook wants …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
AT&T's Wi-Fi Tease for iPhone Users — Maybe it's because I work as a reporter, but it seems to me that secrets are overrated. I suspect that so often the cost of keeping secrets is greater than whatever benefit they bring. — You may disagree. But there's one thing that should be clear …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Confirms Plans To Put Display Ads On Google.com — The most pressing question for Google (GOOG) shareholders is what product will drive the company's next growth boom as the search product cycle ends. Most likely candidate? Not sexy mobile or video. Just boring old display ads.
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Mashable!, Bloomberg, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, ClickZ News Blog, MediaFile and WebGuild
Bloomberg:
Apple to provide refunds for power adapters — Apple Inc. agreed to pay refunds of $25 to $79 to as many as 2.3 million Macintosh computer owners to resolve claims that some of its power adapters were prone to spark. — Customers who bought certain replacement adapters for PowerBook …
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Apple 2.0, Gizmodo, Crave, InformationWeek, CrunchGear, MacUser, Infinite Loop, TechSpot, The Apple Blog, MacRumors, The Mac Observer and canada.com
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Spam Is Migrating to the Cellphone — If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself for round two: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. — Cellphones have become consumers' most personal technological devices. That is why some industry executives …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs Travel Update: Private Jet Grounded This Winter — Back in late February, Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty cited Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs' plane travel as a reason to be excited about Apple and its stock. — How does Huberty know Apple is working on lots of new toys? ...
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Matthaus Krzykowski / VentureBeat:
Analysis: MySpace and Facebook challenge mobile-only social networks — Mobile life is blooming. Some 47 mobile social network companies have emerged globally, to help cater to our need to message and communicate while on the go. — But what about the huge incumbents, like MySpace or Facebook?
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Note to startups: Turn off “track changes” — Some of you may have seen this already, since it has been passed around on Twitter, but I just had to point to Rick Segal's hilarious blog post about a startup that did everything right in its business plan — right up until it sent …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
The 5 Stages of a Consumer Web Startup — In my years covering technology, I've gotten more than my fair share of pitches related to the latest consumer Internet startup. Thanks to this I've been able to witness what amounts to be a near-familiar life cycle for these companies.
Jesper / Jesper's Blog:
Does your AMD-based computer boot after installing XP SP3? — Updated May 8 to add information on a second issue. — Updated May 9 to add information on possible additional issues as well as instructions for using the recovery console. — Last night WSUS deployed XP Service Pack 3 …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone graphic: Apple's new map of the world — Like many Apple (AAPL) watchers, the investors at IMO's Apple Finance Forum have been closely following this week's flurry of announcements of iPhone deals with carriers around the world. One of the contributors to the forum …
Elizabeth Montalbano / IDG News Service:
Microsoft to Appeal $1.3 Billion EU Fine — Microsoft is appealing the $1.3 billion (€899 million) fine imposed on it by the European Union for failing to honor a 2004 antitrust agreement, the company said Friday. — Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said via e-mail Friday that the company …
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Chris Laker / Daily Mail:
Pictured: The moment award-winning garden is destroyed after hundreds respond to Facebook water fight — More than 300 people ran riot and destroyed an award-winning garden after they responded to a campaign for a mass water fight on social networking website Facebook.
