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3:30 PM ET, September 16, 2010

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Yahoo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Looking Ahead: The Future of Yahoo! Products  —  A few months ago, when I first yodeled my way into Yahoo!, I told folks that I was stoked for the opportunity to join up with some of the smartest and best-in-class talent in the world to deliver the future products vision for a company with such a rich history.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Previews Fancy New Products  —  Today, Yahoo hosted a “an update on Yahoo!'s product strategy and direction and a preview of the fall product line-up.”  —  It's called the event “Yahoo! Product Runway.”  Chief Product Officer Blake Irving and Chief Technology Officer Raymie Stata talked.
Discussion: paidContent, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo and Gearlog
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Yahoo unveils three-year plan to become cool again
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Alex Payne / Online Writing:
The Very Last Thing I'll Write About Twitter  —  I have an odd mental relationship with my former employer.  Clearly, I wouldn't have worked there for three and a half years if I didn't care about the product and the community.  But then, I wouldn't have left if I really wanted to see that commitment through.
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Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
The Next “Facebook Platform” for the Modern Web, and Why Twitter's Running the Wrong Way  —  I've talked previously about “the web with no login button”, a vision of the Building Block Web that follows the user where they go, knowing who they are and adapting as they move.
Discussion: Victus Spiritus, Thanks:jesse
Join Diaspora Blog:
Developer Release  —  Today we are releasing the source code for Diaspora.  This is now a community project and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control.  From now on we will be working closely …
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Tamlin Magee / TechEye:
Why the snooping ex Google engineer is in trouble  —  Remember that 27 year old ex Google engineer, David Barksdale, who's allegedly been hassling minors, not miners, with cyber-stalking and snooping?  The great and mighty 'Ogle fired him, but here's exactly how he's in trouble according to federal law in the US.
Discussion: PogoWasRight.org
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Glenn Kelman / Redfin Corporate Blog:
Groupon's Success Disaster  —  There's a fascinating essay on Facebook just now from the owner of the lovely Posie's Cafe in Portland, about how Groupon nearly bankrupted her business.  —  The coffeeshop proprietor, Jessie Burke, was shocked at how much money the daily deals site charged to run the promotion.
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Jessie Burke / Posies Cafe:   Groupon in Retrospect
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
‘Halo: Reach’: $200M in 24 hours, biggest game in Microsoft history  —  “Halo: Reach,” the new installment in the blockbuster Xbox 360 series, topped $200 million in sales in the U.S. and Europe in its first 24 hours, according to data released by Microsoft tonight.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Android vs. iPhone: Wait just a minute!  —  Sure Google is gaining on Apple, but not as fast as comScore's latest data suggest  —  I don't want to get into what Ben Bradley, the Watergate-era editor of the Washington Post, used to call a “defensive crouch,” but I've got a bone to pick …
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Apple Continued To Lose U.S. Marketshare Despite Spike From iPhone 4 Sales
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Microsoft demoes Twitter and Netflix apps for Windows Phone 7, releases final dev tools  —  Coming this holiday season to a Windows Phone 7 phone near you: Twitter, Netflix, Flixster, OpenTable, and Travelocity apps.  The adroit coders behind those slices of software have managed …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Meet Seesmic For Windows Phone 7
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Justin.tv's Newest App Now Broadcasts Live Video From Your iPhone  —  Time spent watching live video is up 650 percent in the U.S. over the past year, thanks to the proliferation of a number of live video publishers including Justin.tv, Ustream, Qik and Livestream.
Matt Gross / New York Times:
A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme  —  SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site.  They were the kind of photos that every parent takes, but one in particular stood out …
Discussion: Gawker
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The real Facebook burglaries story  —  I did a little reporting to get the real story behind the reports of a Facebook burglary spree that supposedly used the service — right after its launch of Places — to find victims who were away on vacation.  I emailed Nashua, NH detective Dan Archambault …
Discussion: ProgrammableWeb and Computerworld
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft: IE9 will never run on Windows XP  —  Chrome and Firefox always an option  —  Microsoft has ruled out putting Internet Explorer 9 on Windows XP, leaving millions of PCs open to Mozilla and Google browsers providing hardware-accelerated rich-internet.
Richard Tom / Hulu Blog:
Hello Seattle  —  Perhaps when you think of Seattle your taste buds prepare themselves for a freshly brewed espresso or a not-so-simple soy-decaf-single-shot-one-pump- vanilla-iced-latte.  Or perhaps Seattle conjures images of the halls of Seattle Grace Hospital, where lives are saved and relationships flatline.
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Nokia Is the McDonald's of Phones  —  Didn't you notice?  It was just Nokia World!  But with sales plummeting and executives fleeing—both at alarming rates—maybe it should be a reckoning instead.  —  Let's not confuse things: Nokia still sells more phones than anybody on the planet.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon Wireless adds Good to Android lineup; Bad news for RIM  —  As if Research in Motion didn't have enough to worry about, Verizon Wireless has teamed up with Good Technology to equip all of its Android devices with better enterprise-grade security and management.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's ambitious AirPlay, AirPrint plans detailed in patent applications  —  As Apple prepares to unleash its new AirPlay and AirPrint wireless standards this fall, details on the technology and what functionality it might gain in the future were detailed in a plethora of patent applications revealed this week.
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Oh Goody!  Microsoft is working on iPad Apps  —  According to a heavily retweeted tweet by Microsoft Blogger Paul Thurrott, Microsoft is working on iPad Apps.  They are probably similar to their iPhone apps (which all work on iPad)...except bigger!
Discussion: App Advice and MacRumors Page 2
Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Look YouTube, No Hands!  Looxcie Introduces Wearable Camcorder  —  Just when you thought our digital culture was bumping against the limits of oversharing, Looxcie steps in with a device that makes it even easier for oversharers to document every mundane moment of their lives.
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Schmidt: We'll pull Facebook's data by hook or by crook  —  Google wants the data in Facebook and CEO Eric Schmidt isn't afraid to say that they'll find a way to get it.  Facebook isn't just winning the battle for web users' time (comScore says Facebook passed Google this month), they are also pulling some of Google's star engineers.
Chris Ramsdale / Google Web Toolkit Blog:
Google Relaunches Instantiations Developer Tools - Now Available for Free  —  In early August, Google acquired Instantiations, a company known for its focus on Eclipse Java developer tools, including GWT Designer.  We're happy to announce today that we're relaunching the following former …
Discussion: TechCrunch
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Look Out Dropbox, Here Comes Verizon's Mobile Cloud  —  V CAST Media Manager, a Verizon Wireless (z vz) subscription service to offload media and documents from mobile phones on to Verizon's servers, is available for Android and BlackBerry smartphones.  The service initially launched last year …
Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Bullish on Kinect  —  TOKYO—Microsoft Corp. is targeting global sales of more than three million units of its new Kinect motion-sensor gaming accessory for its Xbox 360 console in the first two months after the Nov. 4 launch in the U.S., providing a much needed holiday sales boost …
 
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Extreme Netflix Some Users Have Rated 50,000 Movies
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
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Mike Champion / oneforty devblog:
Twitter Permissions & Security
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and PogoWasRight.org
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Understanding the HDCP Master Key Leak
Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
Sony Taps MySpace to Market Facebook Movie
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Nokia Developing 3D Rival to Google's Street View
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Stuart Dredge / Recombu:
Russian 4G Android smartphone appears to have front-and-back screens
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: MySpace and Google Zero in on Renewing “Realistic” Search Deal
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
LinkedIn's CEO on the perks to keeping profiles fresh
Discussion: VentureBeat
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Finding the Best Way to Read Books on an iPad
 

 
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