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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Three's Company Or Three's A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday — Don't they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we've heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs …
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Dave Morin / Facebook Developers:
Announcing Facebook Connect — At Facebook, we're committed to enabling people to communicate and stay connected wherever they go. — In August 2006, we introduced the first version of the Facebook API, enabling users to share their information with the third party websites and applications they choose.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect — Facebook will announce later today Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday. The actual product won't be released for at least a few weeks, so the timing on this …
Charlene Li / Groundswell:Facebook Connect - another step to open social networks
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Corvida / ReadWriteWeb:Facebook Answers MySpace Data Availability With Facebook Connect
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Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Facebook: Friends with Money — The social network taps a fresh source of funds for $100 million and will buy more servers to support its growth in users and applications — Facebook is about to stuff more cash into its already full coffers. Having raised $360 million in the span of seven months …
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
Inquisitor Joins the Yahoo! Search Team — Last year, Yahoo! Search launched Search Assist to help users find what they're looking for quickly and easily by providing query suggestions and related concepts in real-time. Today, Yahoo! Search is embracing the Mac community …
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Electronista:
Zune reaches 2m sales; flat versus iPod — As part of its recent Zune update, Microsoft has revealed that it has sold two million of the music players since their launch in November 2006, revealing relatively flat growth for the device lineup. Although the company originally promised …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Spotplex Suffers Identity Crisis, Stumbles Into DeadPool — We introduced Spotplex in February 2007 as a potential Digg killer that served up popular stories by monitoring how many people read them. Somewhere along the way, it also turned into an Alexa-like analytics service.
Paul Stamatiou:
Review: Summize Twitter Search — Summize, a company I am quite familiar with following my review of their review aggregator product, has substantially changed their company direction since I have last been in touch with them. They are now focusing on a Twitter search tool …
Yuvi / The StatBot:
The All Time Techmeme Leaderboard from The Statbot — The Techmeme leaderboard is limited only to the past 30 days. Here's the Top 100 Sites on Techmeme, all time: … http://www.techcrunch.com … http://www.nytimes.com … http://www.engadget.com … http://news.com.com
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Sneak Peak At Android Apps Out of MIT — A class at MIT built some mobile apps for Google's Android operating system and presented them today. CrunchGear's own superblogger Doug Aamoth reports on the seven apps—loco, Flare, GeoLife, Re:public, Locale, Kei, and snap—that he saw.
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Julie Ruvolo / VentureBeat:
Madison Avenue shift: Look who's leaving big firms, moving to digital startups — Executives at major media companies and advertising agencies are defecting to web start-ups in increasing numbers, attracted by some combination of equity and autonomy. Here's a closer look at who's left, and gone where.
Maria Halkias / Dallas Morning News:
Amazon.com may owe Texas millions in uncollected sales taxes — mhalkias@dallasnews.com — Texans who shop Amazon.com to avoid paying sales taxes may not have that luxury for long. — The Texas Comptroller's Office is investigating whether the Internet retail behemoth …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
AT&T's Wi-Fi Tease for iPhone Users — Maybe it's because I work as a reporter, but it seems to me that secrets are overrated. I suspect that so often the cost of keeping secrets is greater than whatever benefit they bring. — You may disagree. But there's one thing that should be clear …
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InfoWorld:
Hackers find a new place to hide rootkits — Security researchers have developed a new type of malicious rootkit software that hides itself in an obscure part of a computer's microprocessor, hidden from current antivirus products. — Called an SSM (System Management Mode) rootkit …
