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Prying Open the Social Graph
via GigaOM by Stacey Higginbotham on May 13, 2008
Technology buzzwords come and go…virtualization, green, SaaS…and after sitting through the Google Friend Connect announcement, reading about Facebook’s Connect service and writing about last week’s MySpace Data Availability launch, “open” appears to be just the latest. But open is one of those words whose definition can be spun into a variety of meanings.While Facebook isn’t yet...
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RSSMeme ‘OverHauled’, Releases API
via Mashable! by Paul Glazowski on May 11, 2008
... in seeking links to stories whose contextual languages they can understand and which are aggregated as shared items in Google Reader. And today we hear from the creator of RSSmeme, Benjamin Golub, that the service has received yet more backend attention in the past few days.According to Golub, the framework of RSSmeme has been “completely overhauled,” a process which has resulted in the...
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Sprout Raises $5 Million for Flash Widget Creation
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on May 13, 2008
I’m not the only one who was impressed by Sprout, a browser-based tool for creating interactive widgets in Flash that debuted in February. The Honolulu and San Francisco-based startup has collected $5 million in venture funding to fuel its operations. Polaris Venture Partners led the round, with previous investors Global Venture Capital and Mitch Kapor participating. Mike Hirshland of Polaris...
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Metrics: Fun Facts About iPhone
via GigaOM by Om Malik on May 13, 2008
Love it or hate it, one has to admit that Apple’s iPhone has been quite a game changer forcing the wireless industry to get off its duff and start innovating. I think a lot of people forget that iPhone is not just a pretty face and sleek curves. Instead it is a device that is changing behavior and expectations we have of mobile devices. While most observations about iPhone have been personal...
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Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere.
via Official Google Reader Blog by (author unknown) on May 06, 2008
... there's all sorts of information "out there" just waiting to be streamed, shared and otherwise consumed by you and your friends. Now you can finally show all of your Reader friends that awesome talking cat video you found, your favorite grilled trout recipe, or reviews of the best brunch place in your neighborhood -- all without a subscription.Here are a few new ways you can add and share ...
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And Now a Blackberry Fund
via GigaOM by Om Malik on May 11, 2008
What used to be the purview of corporate and business development departments is now being replaced by venture capital. A fund to foster Facebook apps, the iFund to jump start the iPhone app revolution or the rumored $150 million fund to give Blackberry apps a boost - the increasing number of platform funds doesn’t ensure success. Remember the Java Fund, or the RSS Fund. The news of the...
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Just Like High School: Your Blogging Clique Will Move
via louisgray.com by louisgray on May 11, 2008
Most bloggers who have spent a good amount of time building their site and community end up with a small group of peers who share the same interests, discuss the same topics, and more often than not, frequently link to one another's blogs, or feature links to friends' sites in their blog roll. This cliquish behavior can result in something of a larger echo chamber where friends talk to...
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Facebook Raises Another $100 Million
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 10, 2008
Facebook is raising $100 million in debt, reports VentureBeat and Business Week. bringing their total capital raised to nearly half a billion dollars.This most recent round will be used to scale the service via another 50,000 or so servers. Facebook now has over 70 million active users and around 109 milliion monthly visitors, and the site is at times very slow. Compare that to Google, which...
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How tech wars end
via Scripting News by (author unknown) on May 10, 2008
The tech industry is organized around the concept of wars. In recent memory, the browser wars, the Java wars, before that there were wars over email APIs, desktops, GUIs, networking standards, you name it, if there's money to be made in controlling users, there's been a war to lock those users in. It's been that way since the dawn of time, and it will always be that way. It's in...
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When Obama wins...
via Scripting News by (author unknown) on May 10, 2008
There's a game being played on Twitter that goes like this. "When Obama wins..." The game is to fill in the blank creatively. .Here are some examples. Here's my entry.
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