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9:20 AM ET, September 11, 2009

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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Lite Goes Live to Capitalize on International Growth — and Simplicity  —  Facebook has just launched a new version of the site, called Lite, to give users a simplified, faster-loading experience than the traditional www.facebook.com.  It's intended to help new users …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Kickin' It Old School: Facebook Lite Launches In The U.S. And India  —  Well here it is.  Just as we first discovered a few weeks ago, Facebook Lite has just been released for U.S. users to test out.  Simply put, the site is SO much cleaner than Facebook regular, and much, much nicer to look at.
Biz / Twitter Blog:
Twitter's New Terms of Service  —  At the start, critics often said, “Twitter is fun, but it's not useful.”  At one point @ev responded dryly with, “Neither is ice cream.”  Things have come a long way in a short time.  We recognized potential early but users and platform developers would demonstrate how much more Twitter could be.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:   Twitter Gives Spam Apps a Thumbs Down, Ads a “Maybe”
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk'd Us  —  So we've had our fun with Facebook over the years (Why We're Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages, Republican PR Director Calls Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg “totally full of sh*t”, Randi Threatens a Bar Bouncer).
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Rule No. 1: Hide the iPhone from Ballmer at the Microsoft meeting  —  By all accounts, Microsoft's private company meeting at Seattle's Safeco Field today was a hit — with a preview of a “Bing 2.0” overhaul, executives demonstrating Project Natal, the unveiling of the first Windows 7 television commercial …
Apple:
About the Mac OS X v10.6.1 Update  —  Mac OS X v10.6.1 Update  —  This update is recommended for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard users and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac.  —  For detailed information about the security content …
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Gregg Keizer / InfoWorld:
Apple fixes Flash snafu in Snow Leopard and 33 bugs in Leopard
Discussion: eWeek, Softpedia News and Zero Day
Tom Occhino / Facebook Blog:
Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts  —  One of the most popular features on Facebook is tagging, which gives you the ability to identify and reference people in photos, videos and notes.  Today, we are adding a new way to tag people and other things you're connected to on Facebook …
Gordon Brown / Number10.gov.uk:
Treatment of Alan Turing was “appalling” - PM  —  The Prime Minister has released a statement on the Second World War code-breaker, Alan Turing, recognising the “appalling” way he was treated for being gay.  —  Alan Turing, a mathematician most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes …
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
It's official: no plans to sell Zune HD outside the US  —  Microsoft has confirmed that it currently has no plans to bring the Zune HD outside of the US.  —  Recent whispers across the blogosphere that Microsoft currently has no plans to launch the Zune HD in France prompted us to prod Redmond impatiently for more information.
Aron Trimble / TUAW:
iPhone OS 3.1 now enforces Exchange encryption policy, may block pre-3GS iPhones  —  The Apple Support forums are a'buzz with reports of several users upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1 and discovering a new “feature” which was not available previously.  As mentioned in our comments, after upgrading to 3.1 …
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Motorola Media Center:
T-Mobile USA Unveils the Motorola CLIQ With MOTOBLUR  —  First Android™-Powered Device from Motorola Puts Social Networking Center Stage  —  T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of the Motorola CLIQ™ with MOTOBLUR™, the first Android-powered device from Motorola …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Third-party Google Voice client hits the webOS App Catalog  —  It looks like it isn't just bluster from Palm when it comes to thinking differently about its app approval policy.  Besides taking a pretty healthy stance on applications that deviate from its current standards …
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Brad Feld / Feld Thoughts:
The Founders Visa Movement  —  In April, Paul Graham wrote an inspired post titled The Founder Visa.  In it he proposed the idea of creating a US Visa for founders of startup companies - 10,000 / year for founders of companies that are started in the US.  There was some chatter around this at the time …
Thanks:billshander
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft's Bing 2.0: Coming this fall (maybe even next week)  —  If the Tweets coming out of Microsoft's annual company meeting are on point, the 2.0 release of Microsoft's Bing search engine is coming this fall, and possibly as soon as next week.  —  Today, September 10 …
David Recordon / Facebook Developers:
Tornado: Facebook's Real-Time Web Framework for Python  —  Real-time updates have become an important aspect of the social Web that make it easier to share with friends.  In March, we introduced a real-time News Feed to make the stream as relevant and engaging as possible for users.
Discussion: WebProNews, ITworld.com and All Facebook, Thanks:turoczy
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Run a Free BitTorrent Tracker on Google  —  In their defense, operators of BitTorrent sites often argue that they do nothing more than Google does.  They offer a search platform for people to find content on the web, specifically torrent files.  To a certain extent they are right …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Bartz: You Better Believe I Would Have Taken Microsoft's $33  —  If Carol Bartz were Yahoo's CEO when Microsoft was offering $33-$34 per share for the company last year, would she have taken the deal that Jerry Yang shot down?  —  “Well, sure.  You think I'm stupid?
Will Smith / Maxium PC:
Six Monitors, One Video Card.  Hands-On with AMD's Eyefinity  —  Today's graphics cards can barely handle one 30-inch monitor in gaming.  Pushing around 2560x1600 pixels is a challenge for current-generation GPUs.  While it's true that each new generation of graphics cards can push performance …
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Spotify Might Look Different When It Arrives Stateside  —  Spotify, the digital-music start-up that some call Europe's hottest of the year, is starting to register among Americans after Apple approved its iPhone app.  But the U.S. version of the service, scheduled to launch at the end of the year …
iFixit:
iPod nano 5th Generation Teardown  —  We've got our hands on the new iPod nano 5G, now with a video camera!  Thanks to FedEx, we got our nano early on the morning of September 10, 2009.  — Step 1 — Teardown — Apple's got a routine going with the nano.  Never fail, come September, we get a new one.
Dana Oshiro / ReadWriteWeb:
IBM's New Image Recognition-Based Search  —  We've all seen photos of ourselves in locations we can't quite remember.  Often they're from exotic travels or from days long past.  Regardless of the reason for your memory loss, IBM is working on a tool that can help.
Discussion: InfoWorld and eWeek
Business Week:
Oracle Has Customers Over a Barrel  —  As CEO Ellison tries to extend the company's reach into hardware, more corporate clients fret about its high prices and tough tactics  —  Over the past four years, Oracle (ORCL) Chief Executive Lawrence J. Ellison has been on an acquisition binge …
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Lets You Filter Friends By City  —  Facebook has quietly introduced a way for you to find friends in particular cities.  It's a new version of a feature it had removed when it deprecated the “networks” part of user profiles a few months ago.  —  Within the Friends page on the site …
Discussion: All Facebook
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Job Boards Are So Over.  TalentSeekr Targets And Recruits Through Ads Instead.  —  Even though unemployment is at the highest levels in a decade, companies are still finding it difficult to find the best qualified candidates to fill the positions that are available.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Console video game sales fall for sixth straight month  —  Dragged down by the recession and free games, the U.S. console video game industry saw its sales fall for the sixth consecutive month in August, according to market researcher NPD Group.  —  Sales were $908 million in August in the U.S. …
 
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Directions on Microsoft:
5 Reasons Why Microsoft Licensing Is Hard (and Likely to Remain that Way)
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog and eWeek
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Last.fm To Take Over CBS HD Broadcast Stations In Four Markets
Discussion: Music Ally
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Lots of Fee Ideas for Media Online
Drew / blog.return7.com:
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
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Rory Maher / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Planned Payment Service Will Flop
Discussion: WebProNews, TeleRead and eWeek
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Amazon Scoffs at Google's Offer to Share Book Search Sales
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
iPod touch with camera remains in Apple's pipeline
 

 
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