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Todd Jackson / The Official Google Blog:
Introducing Google Buzz — We've blogged before about our thoughts on the social web, steps we've taken to add social features to our products, and efforts like OpenSocial that propose common tools for building social apps. With more and more communication happening online …
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Gmail Blog:
Google Buzz in Gmail — Posted by Edward Ho, Tech Lead, Google Buzz — Five years ago, Gmail was just email. Later we added chat and then video chat, both built right in, so people had choices about how to communicate from a single browser window. Today, communication on the web …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present — See our live notes from today's Google Buzz event here. — Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they've never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social.
Zengestrom:
The Buzz is out — This morning Google switched on real time conversations on Gmail, mobile, and Google Profiles. The product got the name Google Buzz. — As the former product manager and someone who made the decision to sell a startup and move his family halfway around the world to build said product …
Kevin Rose:
Changes/Feature Requests for Google Buzz — Google announced Buzz today, a photo/videos/link/status sharing service. The big news here isn't really the functionality of Pownce Buzz, but that Google is boldly integrating this directly into their Gmail product - essentially taking the product …
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Opera Press Room:
Opera Mini for iPhone sneak peek — Exclusive press and partner preview at MWC 2010 — Opera Software, maker of the world's most popular mobile Web browser, plans to reveal Opera Mini for iPhone in an exclusive press and partner preview during the 2010 Mobile World Congress (MWC).
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Slams Google Buzz — “Busy people don't want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation. We've done that. Hotmail customers have benefitted from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and 75 other partners since 2008.” - Microsoft statement on Google Buzz.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC Legend makes an encore appearance, this time with specs — The race is on to see how many angles of HTC's upcoming Legend can be snapped before the phone's official debut, so here's our next submission. As you can see, the hard-edged aluminum theme continues to wrap its way around …
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Matt Rosoff / Digital Noise:
Microsoft on iTunes in 2003: ‘We were smoked’ — There has been a lot of commentary following last week's New York Times op-ed by Dick Brass, a former Microsoft executive who claims that the company is bogged down by process and infighting, and has hence lost its ability to innovate.
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Debuts XHP: More PHP Enhancement — Last week, we were chasing our tails in giddiness over HipHop, a newly open-sourced PHP runtime developed in house at Facebook. — Today, amid the rabid excitement over Google Buzz, Facebook quietly pumped some more code into the world.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple seen extending exclusive iPhone deal with AT&T — Two new analysts said Tuesday that the iPad-AT&T deal suggests Apple may extend its exclusive iPhone agreement through 2011, leaving the wireless provider as the sole carrier of the handset in the U.S. this year.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google makes biggest gain in smartphone market share — US mobile users are increasingly getting into text messaging, Internet browsing, and social networks as they continue to shift to more capable devices. Additionally, Apple's and Google's share of the smartphone market is inching …
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Simon Walker / AndroidSPIN:
HTC Scorpion Leaked. Maybe 1.5Ghz Processor. Android 2.2. Is it real? — Is the HTC / Google Nexus one the king of the crop anymore? — Not if the following rumor has any validity. — More and more rumors appear everyday about new devices coming from HTC and this latest leaked build file looks …
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Scott Duke Harris / Mercury News:
Facebook, AOL enter partnership — On a day that Google augmented Gmail with a social networking feature, Facebook and AOL announced a partnership that will allow millions of their users to add friends and chat across the Web environments. — Tuesday's dueling announcements underscore …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Disney's Iger Takes Big Swig Of iPad Kool-Aid — Bob Iger wasn't on stage for the iPad launch last month, but the Disney CEO just gave a demo spiel Steve Jobs, the company's largest shareholder, would applaud about a “really compelling” device that could be a game changer.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Yes, there's a Google Street View Snowmobile now — Iterating off the Street View car and the Street View “tricycle”, Google has built another contraption to record the physical world for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. — They'll be driving a Street View Snowmobile around the Games for maps.
Dave Caolo / TUAW:
iPad pre-orders overwhelm Norwegian stores — Who's got low expectations for the iPad? Not the Norwegians, as one local store can't keep up with pre-orders. — Late last week, retailer Eplehuset (Apple House) suspended pre-orders all together when they sold out.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
January Search Results In! Bing Keeps Gaining Share, Everyone Else Loses (GOOG, YHOO, MSFT) — The January search share numbers are in. — The big story is that Microsoft's Bing continues to gain share, jumping another half-point to 11.3%. We think Bing is buying these share gains …
Nick Bilton / Bits:
An Annual Report on One Man's Life — At the end of 2005, Nicholas Felton decided to publish a report that would chronicle his life over the previous year. He looked through his music archives to see how many songs he had listened to. He checked his airline ticket stubs to see how many miles he had flown.
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Channel 10:
5 Bing Map Apps for the Winter Olympics — The Microsoft Canada Development Centre recently ran a contest that challenged developers to create Bing Map applications for the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics, taking place in Vancouver, Canada. The resulting apps are designed for use …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
YouTube Will Kill Flat-rate Mobile Broadband Pricing Forever — Video is driving the projected increase in both mobile and wired broadband — but it's not the proliferation of video that's the problem for mobile operators so much as the relative ease with which consumers can now access it.
Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Yahoo Launches SQL Interface to Twitter — Every time I switch to jQuery, Yahoo's YUI libraries seem to keep luring me back. Just yesterday, Yahoo added one more tool to its arsenal of YQL libraries that actually makes the Twitter API intuitive, giving me another reason yet to switch back to yui …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Book Publishers Beware! At iTunes, Expensive Music Equals Slower Sales. — After years of complaints, last year the music labels finally got what they wanted from Apple-the ability to raise prices on their songs. Last April, iTunes introduced a “variable pricing” scheme …
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