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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
An Open Facebook API vs Google OpenSocial — Probably about 5 months ago I had a conversation with someone at Facebook about licensing their API. — The beauty of Facebook, as opposed to Myspace and other social networks is that the people on there are for the most part who they say they are …
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Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Google's OpenSocial looks more like hype than substance — Having been on holiday, I missed the excitement over Google's OpenSocial, but at least I'm in time to observe the inevitable backlash. Having read the news reports, three things are moderately suprising.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Launches Kickstart, A New Social Network Around College Students And Alumni — Yahoo's advanced products group, led by Scott Gatz, is launching a new service this evening called Kickstart. — While immediate analogies will be drawn to Facebook, the service is actually much more like LinkedIn …
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Elinor Mills / Webware.com:
YAHOO KICKSTARTS A SOCIAL SERVICE AIMED AT COLLEGE GRADS — Yahoo is set to launch Kickstart on Monday, a social network aimed at college students, alumni, and recruiters. — Yahoo already is experimenting with a general-purpose social network, Mash. But whereas Mash will be for socializing …
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Windows Live Calendar first impressions: We do some "testing" of our own — While it isn't out "officially" yet, Windows Live Calendar popped up for the first time on Friday evening and it's been up steadily here ever since (but only on some accounts). Some of our readers haven't been able …
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Carnegie Mellon wins the robotic Urban Challenge — Carnegie Mellon University has redeemed itself by winning the $2m first place prize in the DARPA Urban Challenge. Stanford University took second and $1m, while Virginia Tech took $500k for third. — Six vehicles of the 11 vehicles finished …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
SNL's Take On The iPhone Ads — Remember the new iPhone ads that left us puzzled? Saturday Night Live has a funny spoof on them that, frankly, tells a much more believable story. No man purses in this ad. — Sphere It -
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft delivers first test build of its online-offline sync platform — Microsoft posted for download on November 4 a first test build of what it's calling the Microsoft Sync Framework, technology that will allow developers to take their Web services and databases offline.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Windows Home Server launches hardware blitz for holidays — Microsoft's Windows Home Server is saying balls to its dicey launch year and rallying the troops for a holiday hardware blitz. Its original hardware launch partner HP's on-sale-again-off-sale-again MediaSmart Home Server is officially …
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Steven Levy / Newsweek.com:
Google Goes Globe-Trotting — To train a new generation of leaders, the search giant sends young brainiacs on a worldwide mission. — Photos for Newsweek (from left): Z. Koren / Polaris; J. Silberberg / Panos; P. Blakely — Summer Abroad: (Left to Right) Baum at the Western Wall …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Salesforce Lets Loose Digg-For-Ideas — Just when you thought Digg cloning was dead, Salesforce has thrown its hat into the ring. The company best known for their SaaS CRM is unleashing their Digg-for-ideas, "Salesforce Ideas", into the wild. Although announced back in October, they are now releasing the product publicly.
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Navisite Suffers Massive Failure, 1,000s of Sites Down — Applications services and managed hosting provider Navisite is in the midst of a massive outage as the publicly traded company attempts to consolidate its data centers. Unfortunately, my sites (not this blog) and email …
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Mozilla Labs Blog:
Prism Prototype Now Available on Mac and Linux — We're happy to announce the Prism prototype is now available for Mac and Linux! We're also releasing an updated version for Windows that resolves some of the issues users have encountered. — Download the Prism prototype for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
Dick / Burning Questions:
Saturday Subscriber Count Drop? — If you saw your subscriber count drop precipitously in your Saturday, November 3rd summary from FeedBurner, the reason is that specific subscriber stats from Google Feedfetcher were offline because this service was apparently out late with friends on Friday night …
