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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Path: The Social App That's Not Viral (By Design) — Silicon Valley is in the midst of a mini photo-sharing app boomlet. We have Instagram (which started adding 100,000 users per week as soon as it launched last month), Picplz (which beat out Instagram to get a Series A round with their shared investors …
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GigaOM, Ben Metcalfe Blog, SFGate, Epicenter, Continuations, ReadWriteWeb, parislemon and TechCrunch
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Dave Morin / Path:
Introducing The Personal Network — Today we are proud to launch The Personal Network. Practically all of us carry a camera phone, and our photos tell the stories of our lives. Starting today, we hope that Path is the place you will always feel comfortable being yourself and sharing …
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ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, Los Angeles Times, Social Medium, Mashable!, Xconomy and Gizmodo
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Path: the social system that will piss social mavens off — I didn't read any of Path's hype before trying it myself. I wasn't part of the beta. I don't owe Dave Morin lunch (he's the founder of this new thing called Path that's getting a deep amount of hype tonight. The photo is of him at the TED conference).
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New York Times, The Social, The Next Web and PhoneArena, Thanks:thekenyeung
Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook Passes EBay in Value, Becoming No. 3 U.S. Web Company — Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc.'s estimated worth is now bigger than EBay Inc.'s valuation, making it the third- largest U.S. Internet business and underscoring the growing allure of social media for investors.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Raid The MiniBar: Meebo Gets Into The Site Check-In Game. But Don't Call It A Game. — With the rise of Foursquare, the “check-in” has become fairly commonplace. With the launch of Places, Facebook will only make it more so. It shouldn't be surprising that we're seeing dozens …
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ReadWriteWeb, Scobleizer, GigaOM, Softpedia News, NetworkEffect and VentureBeat
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
More Kinect Craziness: Mind-Blowing 3D Video Effect — The Kinect may be divisive as a gaming peripheral, but I think we can all agree that a $150 off-the-shelf depth-aware camera system is a good thing. And just in the week since the device launched, people have already come up with some crazy applications for it.
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Pulse, Popular App, Moves to Attract More Users — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Publishers' offices at print newspapers and magazines are tension-filled places these days, as executives watch readers and advertisers flock to the Web and cellphone screens. — Contrast that to the atmosphere …
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Marco.org and The Next Web
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Did Tumblr Just Reverse Take Down 4Chan? — Today was supposed to be the day that 4Chan took down Tumblr. Instead, it looks like 4Chan itself is down. Could Tumblr be behind it? — As you can see, 4Chan is down for everyone, not just me. And it has been that way for at least the past 15 minutes.
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Urlesque, Pulse2 and Techie Buzz
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
4chan vs. Tumblr: Whoever Wins, We All Lose
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Jon Evans / TechCrunch:
Dear Foursquare, Gowalla: Please Let's Stop Pretending This Is Fun — It's a bad month to be Foursquare or Gowalla. Ten days ago, 900-pound gorilla Facebook announced Facebook Deals for Facebook Places (i,e., location-based coupons) and check-ins for third-party apps.
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All About Symbian and Appolicious Advisor
Voltier Creative:
A Look at the Kind Heart of One of the Most Influential Communities on the Internet — Reddit.com, the popular news aggregator and social media site owned by Condé Nast Digital, has become quite a powerhouse of social and cultural clout in recent years.
Financial Times:
Apple to bring iPhone ads to Europe — By Tim Bradshaw in London and Joseph Menn in San Francisco — Apple will announce the first brands to use iAds in Europe this week, after a mixed reception to its new mobile advertising service in the US. — Agencies gave Apple's entry …
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AppleInsider, paidContent and PhoneArena
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Ebooks Winners & Losers — Let's come back to the ebook with more questions. There is no doubt: the digital book will find its place under the sun; its prospects look much better than those of the online press. In the first place, there isn't an ingrained, now decade-old, habit of reading news for free on the internet.
Wei Luo / Google LatLong:
New panoramic photos in Google Earth — Viewing photos in Google Earth has long been a popular activity for avid virtual globe-trotters. It's one of the best ways to “visit” places all over the world without paying for a plane ticket or getting jet lag. Today, the Google Earth photo viewing experience …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The technology inside the Google self-driving cars — You've probably heard that Google has these cool cars that can drive themselves. Above is a video of one of them driving down Freeway 280 that I shot almost a year ago (I had no idea I was driving next to a car that was capable of driving itself.
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Just Announced Updates To AOL Mail — AOL just put out a press release announcing updates to AOL Mail. — Weird timing, since it's 12 pm eastern on a Sunday, which is not exactly the prime time for news. — Maybe it is just trying to get the jump on Facebook which is expected to announce its email product on Monday.
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Mashable!, Softpedia News, PC Magazine, Bits, Pulse2, Between the Lines Blog, Business Wire, Associated Press, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Examiner and Skype Journal
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JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
‘Project Phoenix’: Aol tries to raise email from ashes
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The Social and Erictric
