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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Giving You More Control — The biggest problem in social networking is helping you easily interact with your friends and share information in lots of different contexts. — For example, you might want to share photos from a family vacation with just your family, send a video from a party …
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Kurt / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Facebook Moves Closer to EFF Bill of Privacy Rights
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Computerworld, Center for Democracy …, GMSV and PC World, Thanks:atul
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Facebook Now Allows You To “Download Your Information”
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All Facebook, Gadgetwise, New York Times, Download Squad, MediaPost, Inside Facebook, HubSpot's Inbound … and Black Web 2.0
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Facebook Launches A Dashboard For Your Connected Apps
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Inside Facebook
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Impeccable Timing Of The Verizon iPhone Rumors — The Verizon iPhone rumor is as old as the iPhone itself. So whenever anyone trots it out, you take it with a grain of salt. It's like The Beatles coming to iTunes. It will happen eventually, but who knows when.
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Fortune, Black Web 2.0, Phones Review, Computerworld, MacDailyNews, Engadget, Product Reviews Net, Electronista and Digital Daily
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple Readies Verizon iPhone
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Stan Medvedenko / Sony Insider:
Sizes And Pricing for Sony Google TV Family Leaked — Many of our readers out there are pretty excited about the Sony Google TV. We've written about it nearly a dozen times and it's basically a television with an Intel processor and the ability to fully surf the web (including flash sites).
Michibusch / The Twitter Engineering Blog:
Twitter's New Search Architecture — If we have done a good job then most of you shouldn't have noticed that we launched a new backend for search on twitter.com during the last few weeks! One of our main goals, but also biggest challenges, was a smooth switch from the old architecture to the new one …
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The Next Web, Search Engine Journal, Softpedia News, louisgray.com, Pluggd.in, VatorNews, TechCrunch, Search Engine Roundtable and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:atul
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter Hits 1 Billion Queries Per Day, Announces New Search Tech — If Twitter were like an old-style McDonald's, the sign outside would have changed to “1 Billion Queries Served” today. And to keep serving up those queries to humans and machines alike, Twitter is now using a new underlying search technology.
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Fast Company
Daniel Chai / Facebook Blog:
New Groups: Stay Closer to Groups of People in Your Life — Facebook has always been a great place to share information with your friends and keep up with what they're doing. What hasn't been as easy is sharing information with small groups of people. — My wife and I take tons of pictures …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Lockdown: An Interview With Mark Zuckerberg & Justin Shaffer …
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Silicon Alley Insider, GigaOM and The Huffington Post
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
How Facebook Groups Integrates With Other Core Apps: News Feed, Events, Mobile
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TechCrunch
Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Facebook's Fundamental Flaw, And Why Its New Groups Misses The Mark
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TechCrunch, Velocity, ReadWriteWeb, Scobleizer, The Atlantic Online and WebProNews
Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sorry Facebook, Google Already Had A Patent On Location-Based Social Networks — Facebook created quite a stir yesterday when it emerged that the company has a patent on location-based social networking, a very competitive and crowded field Facebook has just entered.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Granted Patent on Check-ins, Don't Bet on Them Using it
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ZDNet
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Rolling Out New “Accordion” Search & Other Features — Yahoo is launching a number of search enhancements this evening that start to deliver on the UI innovation that the company has been promising since the Microsoft search deal was announced. It's part of Yahoo's bid to remain relevant …
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CNET News, Yahoo! Search Blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, AdAge, BoomTown, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, paidContent and MediaPost, Thanks:atul
Tom Krazit / Crave: The gadget blog:
Google plays coy on Google TV ads, data — SAN FRANCISCO—Two things Google ordinarily loves talking about, ads and data, were not on the agenda during its Google TV launch party. Rishi Chandra, lead product manager for Google TV, deflected questions about whether Google intends to run …
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Mark Zuckerberg's Take on “The Social Network” — Despite previous statements that he had no plans to see The Social Network, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg did, in fact, watch the film on the company's field trip to the movies last Friday. — I just wrapped up an interview …
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
Sony's 16.41MP Sensor Shoots 1080p Video and Will Be in Phones Next Year — Sure, it's not all about the megapixels, but Sony's just trumped Panasonic's Lumix phone with their 16.41MP Exmor R-based CMOS sensor—seen in a phone near you shortly. — Shooting 1080p video at 30fps, it uses back-illumination to reduce visual noise.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Digg Tries To Bring Back Inactive Users From The Dead — It looks like Digg is trying to resurrect inactive users, according to an email sent to us by a reader. Apparently Digg sent out the email to users in hopes of trying to get those who are inactive back to the site. As the email states, “Come Alive On Digg.
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MediaVidea and Product Reviews Net
Jeff / HootSuite blog:
HootSuite Mobile Apps Go Free for iPhone and Android on Oct. 13 — Mobile HootSuite fans will enjoy an added bonus next week - as of noon PST on October 13, the full version of HootSuite for iPhone and HootSuite for Android will be absolutely FREE to download.
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IntoMobile and The Next Web
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
The Good and the Bad of the IPO Market — The third quarter IPO market is like looking at a Rorshach test: You can find data to support that liquidity is getting better or data to support that it's getting worse. — Here's the reality check: There is an increase in deals- a big increase …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
MSNBC.com May Change Its Name — NBC Universal and Microsoft, the parents of msnbc.com, are holding high-level talks about changing its name, an unusual and potentially risky endeavor for the third most popular news Web site in the United States. — The two parents have not yet agreed on what to call the site.
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BlogPost and DailyFinance
Erik Siemers / San Jose Business Journal:
CollegeNET sues Google over ‘Speedbook’ — Google Inc.'s heavily-anticipated tablet PC dubbed the “Speedbook” is being challenged in federal court by Portland-based software firm CollegeNET Inc. — In a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland, Ore., CollegeNET said it already owns …
