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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Friendfeedization Of Facebook — As Facebook continues to roll out the full version of its new user profiles, it's becoming clear that their primary goal isn't, as they said in May, to simply create a cleaner user experience and allow developers to have more meaningful engagement points with users.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook Releases New Design — Facebook has been testing out the new profile design for the past five months but for the first time ever, they have released the new full site design (pictured below). You can access the new site by visiting www.new.facebook.com. — New Homepage
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Redesign Launches - Tour & First Impressions of New Home Page — The Facebook redesign is officially launching tonight, though it's not exactly clear to exactly how many users yet. You can try accessing the new home page at www.new.facebook.com. So far, users from several networks have been able to access it.
Reuters:
Yahoo activist calls for board battle compromise — SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dissident shareholder will on Monday call on Yahoo Inc to compromise and accept a mixed board of directors drawn from among company nominees and a rival slate backed by Carl Icahn.
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Announces Settlement with Carl Icahn — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company's 2008 annual meeting of stockholders.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
As Yahoo Proxy Vote Looms, Questions About Board Composition And Management's Future — The neverending MicroHoo drama has provided virtual reams of blog posts and endless fodder for speculation. The latest installment involves the question of whether Carl Icahn's proxy battle for control of Yahoo's board will see any success.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Smaller PCs Cause Worry for Industry — SAN FRANCISCO — The personal computer industry is poised to sell tens of millions of small, energy-efficient Internet-centric devices. Curiously, some of the biggest companies in the business consider this bad news.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Amazon's S3 Storage Outage Busts Web Sites, Crashes iPhone Apps — Neat trick: Amazon just made one of my iPhone apps crash — Twinkle, the Twitter app by Tapulous. Not on purpose, of course. But still, a reminder to companies that relying on third-party “cloud” hosting services …
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
To Prevent Upskirts, Japanese iPhone 3G Always Alerts When Taking Photos — An upskirt warning poster in a subway station outside Tokyo. Photo by Jeff Epp. — The iPhone 3G in Japan has a special feature unique to that country: The camera always makes a conspicuous “shutter” …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Universal: “Fair use” is still infringing — Stephanie Lenz's YouTube video of her tot dancing to an old Prince song was pulled down at the request of Universal last year after the music label said that the clip infringed on its copyright. Not content with simply having Universal retract its claim …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Fallon Will Start ‘Late Night’ on the Web — LOS ANGELES — With a new round of shake-ups in late-night television set to begin next year, Lorne Michaels has decided to try to get a jump on things by starting NBC's next edition of “Late Night,” with its new host Jimmy Fallon, as a nightly entry on the Internet.
BBC:
Google 'UK's top consumer brand' — Internet search engine Google has become the UK's top brand for the first time, according to a consumer survey. — It moved up two places from last year's poll, beating Microsoft into second place and Mercedes Benz into third.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: In Egypt, a Thirst for Technology and Progress — ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — EGYPT is not a land unused to exaggeration, so take it with a grain of salt, or many grains of sand, when the young volunteers say that every one of the 60 or 70 people helping to put on Wikipedia's annual convention here …
Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
Apple May Say IPod, Mac Boosted Profit; IPhone Sales Deferred — Forget the iPhone. Even with its hottest product excluded from results, Apple Inc. probably will report an increase in earnings today on rising sales of Macintosh computers and iPod media players.
Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Exclusive: Twhirl gets pushy with Identi.ca — The next update of Twhirl will get support for yet another nanoblogging service, Identi.ca, and on that platform Twhirl will feature a communication method that Twitter users have been asking for: push updates. — Read to end of story for the download link and instructions.
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BBC:
Oyster card hack to be published — Details of how to copy the Oyster cards used on London's transport network can be published, a Dutch judge has ruled. — The ruling overturns an injunction to suppress the information won by NXP - makers of the travel smartcards used in London and many other cities.
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Uber-Hacker Kevin Mitnick Signs Tell-All Book Deal — Kevin Mitnick is going to tell his side of the story. And he's going to get paid for it. — Speaking to an adoring crowd of 800 at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference, Mitnick, once described as the “most wanted computer hacker in the world …
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