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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
More On Seesmic's Vision of Programmable Twitter clients — I announced during Ray Ozzie's keynote at the Microsoft PDC that Seesmic is building a programmable Twitter client so I am glad that Dave Winer likes this idea too and might be interested in building the first features.
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rssCloud Blog:
We need: A programmable Twitter client — Unix had a shell language. DOS had a batch language. Lotus 1-2-3 had its macro language. Emacs is a programming tool as much as it is a text editor. We have gotten out of the habit of making programmable end-user products …
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple to Take iPhone's Maps App to ‘the Next Level’ — MacRumors has found a new Apple job listing seeking an iPhone Software Engineer to join the iPhone and iPod Touch Maps team with the goal of taking the iPhone's built-in Maps App to “the next level”:
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EverythingiCafe, AppleInsider, App Advice, Electronista, Fone Arena, ithinkdifferent, Edible Apple, 9 to 5 Mac, The iPhone Blog, Ubergizmo and LOOPRumors
comScore, Inc.:
Black Friday Boasts $595 Million in U.S. Online Holiday Spending, Up 11 Percent Versus Year Ago — Strong Lead-Up to Black Friday Boosts Holiday Spending Growth to 3 Percent for the First 27 Days of the Season — comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
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Wall Street Journal, mocoNews, VentureBeat, MediaMemo, TechFlash, Lockergnome Blog Network, ReveNews and Orbitcast
Simone Weichselbaum / NY Daily News:
Gangs in New York talk Twitter: Use tweets to trash-talk rivals, plan fights — The city's street gangs are becoming tweet gangs. — Manhattan's young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned. — It's old-school crime meets …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Only 8 Bugs Stand In The Way Of Chrome For Mac Beta — We know that a beta version of Chrome for Mac is due at least by the end of December, but today brings more confirmation that it may be even closer than that. Mike Pinkerton, the guy leading the Chrome for Mac team …
David Carr / New York Times:
The Fall and Rise of Media — Historically, young women and men who sought to thrive in publishing made their way to Manhattan. Once there, they were told, they would work in marginal jobs for indifferent bosses doing mundane tasks and then one day, if they did all of that without whimper or complaint …
Chris Saad / Paying Attention:
Calling for open — Steve Gillmor often writes fantastic (and fantastically long) editorials on the landscape of the real-time web, but they are often very dense and sometimes fail to cover some key points. I thought I would take the liberty of translating and correcting his latest post with my own contributions.
Bing / Search Blog:
Top Bing Searches in 2009 — Cue Music. Awwww, 2009. It was a year of UFO shaped dirigibles, mom jeans on pop stars, real housewives, a new president, and a new decision engine. Oh and there may have been something about Vampires too, we weren't really paying attention.
Alexandria Sage / Reuters:
Barnes & Noble delays Nook shipments to stores — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS.N) said on Sunday it would delay shipments of its newly launched Nook electronic reader to stores as the company strives to deliver preordered devices to consumers before the holidays.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
AOL's Armstrong Orders Up News That's Automated And Advertorial — AOL's emphasis on expanding its content offerings predates CEO Tim Armstrong's arrival last spring. But as the company prepares for its Dec. 9 spinoff, Armstrong has told the WSJ of his plans to Google-ize AOL's news …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Tweetie 2.1 Hits The App Store With Lists, Retweets, Geolocation And More — Earlier this month we did a preview of Tweetie 2.1, the latest version of the popular iPhone Twitter client. Today, it has just hit the App Store as a free download for Tweetie 2 owners.
