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Careful, Twitter — remember what happened to MySpace and Digg — Twitter sent some shock waves through the technology community with a blog post on Friday that talked about its plans for the future, and suggested that those plans don't necessarily involve third-party services and apps.
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| Jackie Dove / Macworld: |
MobileMe rides into the sunset by Sunday — The sun is setting on the MobileMe era. By the time Sunday rolls around—on June 30 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time to be precise—the cloud storage and syncing service that Apple debuted in 2008 will fade away. Apple's iCloud service … | Nick Wingfield / Bits: |
The Well, a Pioneering Online Community, Is for Sale Again — Before Facebook, Twitter, Google — heck, even before the Web — there was The Well, an online discussion community founded in Northern California in 1985 that became home to the early denizens of what used to be called cyberspace.
| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
Mobile Is Where The Growth Is — If you look at any of the top web properties on comScore, Quantcast, Alexa or any other third party reporting service you will see that they all have been fairly flat over the first half of the year. You might think that all these big web services are flatlining.
| Kathleen De Vere / Inside Mobile Apps: |
The state of the Android platform: from monetization to China to the Nexus 7 — As Google's annual developer conference I/O winds down today, it's clear Google is trying to evolve Android — not only as a platform, but as an experience for both users and developers.
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| Spencer Ackerman / Wired: |
It Only Took the Army 16 Years and 2 Wars to Deploy This Network — In October, the Army will do something it's wanted to do for more than a decade: send a pair of combat brigades to a warzone equipped with a new data network, and the hardware to operate it.
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Replying to App Store reviews — In the wake of the recent announcement that Google Play will allow developers to respond to user reviews of apps (Google Play being the Android version of Apple's iOS App Store, iBookstore and iTunes Store combined), there's been a resurgence of sentiment amongst iOS …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
waywire, Cory Booker's Personalized News Startup, Uses Video To Give Youth A Voice — “There's an oligarchy in the media and that needs to be broken up” Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker tells me. So he's building #waywire, a news site that features original and syndicated video content … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Could Instagram And Other Sites Avoid Going Down With Amazon's Ship? — When we heard about Instagram (and other sites) going down when Amazon Web Services' North Virginia hub was hit by a storm — not the first time AWS has gone down (April 2011 was another notable outage) we couldn't help but wonder: could it have been avoided?
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Takes Its Google+ Platform Mobile With Android, iOS SDKs & Social Plugins For The Mobile Web — Google+ is obviously a major focus for Google these days, but until now, the company hasn't really focused on extending the Google platform beyond its own services and its +1 buttons.
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| Megan Geuss / Ars Technica: |
ITC defers ruling on Motorola's Xbox ban — The International Trade Commission's six-member deciding panel deferred judgment today on a patent dispute between Google's Motorola Mobility and Microsoft, pushing the possibility of a ban on the Xbox 360 out of likelihood this year.
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| Megha Rajagopalan / ProPublica: |
Cellphone Companies Will Share Your Location Data - Just Not With You — Cellphone companies hold onto your location information for years and routinely provide it to police and, in anonymized form, to outside companies. As they note in their privacy policies, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T …
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