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11:55 PM ET, August 14, 2007

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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Facebook *is* opening up  —  And it's starting to happen right now, today in fact.  —  I reported earlier on a new feed in Facebook, allowing notifications to be visible outside the wall.  —  It's getting reallll interesting — I've found some more RSS feeds in Facebook's UI.  —  1. Friends Status Updates.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Opens Up Their Data Feeds  —  Dave Winer is tracking some new features being released by Facebook that debunk the theories that the company is focused on building a completely closed silo of user data and news.  —  Facebook's news feeds, launched last year to a lot of controversy, has proven to be a brilliant move.
Market Wire:
Lime Wire to Enter Music Download Market With New Digital Store and Inks Deals With Music Companies  —  Lime Wire LLC, maker of the popular LimeWire file-sharing software, announced today that it will open a digital music store.  —  Initially the store will be a stand-alone website …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
New Study Shows that Online Creativity and E-learning Popular with Kids  —  A new study released today by the National School Boards Association shows that 96 percent of students with online access use social networking technologies - defined as as chatting, text messaging, blogging …
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Barbara M. Hunter / NSBA:
New Study Explores the Online Behaviors of U.S. Teens and 'Tweens
Discussion: Andrew Lark
Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Microsoft issues 6 'critical' patches  —  SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. issued fixes for nine security flaws, including four meant to keep hackers from breaking into computers through Web pages, during a regularly scheduled update Tuesday.  —  Microsoft gave the four Web browsing-related patches its most severe "critical" rating.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
VMware: EMC Has No Plans To Sell More; Did They Price Too Low?
Discussion: alarm:clock and 24/7 Wall St.
Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
EIF: Home abusers can be turned off and banned, warns Sony  —  Home boss discusses bannings and branding for mature users  —  Peter Edward, director of the Home platform for Sony, has told an audience at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival that users who consistently abuse …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Adding a Google Map to your blog  —  Google will be releasing a new feature next week that will enable people to easily embed a Google Map into their Web site or blog, just like you can do with a YouTube video.  No coding or programming required; just copying and pasting a snippet of HTML, a Google spokeswoman says.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Battle over attorneys fees' brewing between RIAA, ex-defendant  —  The RIAA and a former file-sharing defendant have filed briefs in an Oklahoma federal court as they battle over whether the RIAA will be forced to pay attorneys' fees for both parties.  The case in question involves Tallie Stubbs …
Marshall Kirkpatrick:
Introducing good bloggers and companies to hire them  —  I've been getting so many inquiries lately from companies looking to hire bloggers, and so many responses to messages I send out about them over twitter, that I'm losing track.  I really like helping bring these two groups together.
Jessie Scanlon / Business Week:
Getting Serious About Gaming  —  Everyone knows video gaming is a growth industry.  What's less well known is how Web 2.0 and big business are contributing to that growth  —  Like happening upon a gnome in the online fantasy game World of Warcraft or breaking the speed limit in Grand Theft Auto …
Discussion: Valleywag, Susan Wu and Slashdot
Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
Adobe mulling a move into the Office market?  —  Wired is suggesting that Adobe Systems may launch a competitor to Microsoft Office.  Not only would this not be surprising (though I see little evidence in the article pointing to the presumption), but if anyone were to do it well, it would be Adobe.
MrJolly / MCV:
Nod given to HDD-only 360 titles  —  GAMEFEST: MMO developers permitted to require Xbox hard drive for future titles  —  Owners of Microsoft's basic Core Xbox 360 may soon find themselves unable to play the latest titles following Microsoft's announcement that developers of online MMO games …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
PSP download store held up by DRM  —  Fans of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) media device must continue to wait for a download store, a feature that experts have said is a must if the player is ever to launch a significant challenge to the iPod.  —  Sony representatives …
Discussion: Technovia
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Buggy ATI Driver Leaves Vista Open to Attack  —  Microsoft and AMD are fixing a bug in an ATI driver that leaves the Vista kernel open to attack.  —  Microsoft is working with AMD to fix a bug in an ATI driver that ships preinstalled on millions of laptops and which leaves the Vista kernel open …
 
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-048 - Important
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google Goes After Microsoft Again
Discussion: eWEEK.com
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
STUNNING: Facebook on the iPhone
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Report: Net neutrality could kill 'e-health' plans
Adario Strange / Epicenter:
Web 2.0 Spawns New 'Money Honey' With Wallstrip
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
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Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
MP3 cooler is a tailgater's best friend
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Old Media Buying Model Insufficient to Spawn New Media Success
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Something Simpler Acquires PubSub Assets
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Netflix Quietly Rolls Out Social Networking Features
Karl / dslreports.com:
Time Warner Redefines the DVR - For better or worse...
Discussion: Techdirt and NewTeeVee
Dave Rosenberg / InfoWorld:
Q&A: MuleSource adopting CPAL
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National World, run by ex-Mirror boss David Montgomery, acquires Midland News Association, taking its title of the UK's largest independent regional publisher

 
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