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MySpace Embraces Data Portability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And Twitter
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 08, 2008
MySpace is announcing a broad ranging embrace of data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary. The new project is being called MySpace “Data Availability” and is an example, MySpace says, of their dedication to playing nice with the rest of the Internet.A mockup of how the data sharing will look in action...
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Where do you comment?
via The Wantrepreneur by aseever on May 13, 2008
Twitter, FriendFeed, and RSS sharing are swiftly ensconsing themselves as the primary modes of communicating interesting information among friends on the web. Though each has a unique role, there is a significant amount (>50%?) of redundancy between them when a user identifies an interesting piece of information. Currently we have great tools for what I believe are emerging as a distinct set of...
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Microsoft (MSFT) Rides The Apple (AAPL) Wave: Office For Mac Sales Booming
via Silicon Alley Insider by Dan Frommer on May 13, 2008
As Apple's (AAPL) Mac computers chip away tiny bits of market share from Windows-based PCs, it's not a total loss for Microsoft (MSFT). For instance: Microsoft says today that its most recent version of Office for Mac is selling "faster than any previous version of Office for Mac in the past 19 years" -- almost three times faster than Office 2004, the last edition.All this means, of...
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Are social news sites like Digg useful anymore?
via Online Media Cultist by Eric Berlin on May 13, 2008
Sure, I understand that “useful” is a general and sometimes useless term. It’s relative and subjective; what’s useful to someone may not be to someone else. But I pose the question nonetheless about social news sites, Digg being the grand daddy of the lot: are they useful anymore? To be sure, Digg continues to be popular, clocking in at a stellar 113 in Alexa’s ranking system these...
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What bloggers challenge you
via TechWag by admin on May 12, 2008
... agree with you (not very satisfying unless you have low self esteem), or you just really want someone to challenge your assumptions. In that light, there are some great bloggers out there that either challenge my assumptions like Louis, Dave Winer, Read Write Web, and others on my Friend Feed list, and those that just simply crack me up (like Robert Scoble) and I find an affinity with them ...
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How valuable are you on Twitter?
via Webware.com by Daniel Terdiman on May 13, 2008
When blogger Robert Scoble began to post updates on Twitter about the China earthquake, the information spread quickly to other users. Statistically, Scoble is one of the most 'listened to' users of the service.(Credit: Twitter)At around 11:50 p.m. Pacific time Sunday night, uber-blogger Robert Scoble posted a short note to Twitter: "@dtan just reported an earthquake in Beijing. Wonder...
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What's happening on socialmedian?
via socialmedian by Jason Goldberg on May 13, 2008
Well, for starters, our alpha users are creating a ton of News Networks. News Networks enable people with mutual interests to easily discover and share news from any number of sources.Wiki-like, you can create a News Network on any topic. Our 2573 users have already created 617 News Networks.[Every Tuesday we post a new alpha invite code on Twitter if you want to get involved in the early...
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RSSmeme Launches API, Provides Filtering Tools Galore
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 12, 2008
Benjamin Golub has been busy. He runs the site RSSmeme, an RSS aggregator that displays the top Shared Items items from Google Reader users. For a brief time, RSSmeme was the only Google Reader aggregator in town after ReadBurner closed up shop. But not too much later, ReadBurner was purchased and relaunched (our coverage), putting the two sites in competition once again. However, it looks like...
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Setting your brand free
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on May 12, 2008
There is no denying that the Internet is an incredible self propagating creation that has become an integral part of our society. Through it and all the services that live within it our lives have in one fashion or another been changed and continue to be changed. No more so has this change been seen that in the way ideas, information and news spread with sometimes brush fire speed.At the...
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A Business In Biting Chumps? In-Depth Interview with Blake Commagere, Creator of Monsters Apps
via Inside Facebook by Justin Smith on May 13, 2008
Since the Facebook Platform’s launch one year ago, Blake Commagere has come to be loved and hated by millions of Facebook users. As the creator of Zombies, one of the earliest social games on Facebook, as well as the entire suite of “Monsters” apps (Vampires, WereWolves, and Slayers), Commagere has pioneered merging concepts of social network virality and traditional game design. I sat down...
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