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Confirmed: Facebook Apps Are Useless
via Silicon Alley Insider by Vasanth Sridharan on May 01, 2008
Everyone knows that most Facebook apps are time-wasters, at best. But here's statistical proof: A breakdown of the service's 23,160 applications, via Facebook's self-selected categories.We keep hearing promises that there are developers, somwhere, working on geniunely useful apps for the site, but even if they never materialize, that's not a catastrophe for Facebook (or...
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Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Shared by Eunice Finally!Facebook will announce later today Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday.It is essentially a new version of their API for third party websites, which was first launched in August 2006. It will allow users to “connect” their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any website. Third party websites...
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Google’s Eric Chu Sheds Light on Android
via Android Phone Fans by phandroid.com on May 26, 2008
Eric Chu - Google’s Mobile Platform Program Manager and head honcho for the Android Developers Challenge - spent some time with us to discuss Android, shedding some interesting light along the way.First on the menu was the composition of the ADCs Top 50 Apps. The undeniable majority of apps, if you had to categorize them, fell into the “Social Networking” department. This seems like...
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Live From Google I/O
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on May 27, 2008
We’re here at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for Google I/O. VP of engineering Vic Gundotra is kicking things off with a keynote, which we will be streaming and live blogging below. Also see our gallery of photos below from an Android demonstration given during the keynote.See our expectations for the event here.Crunch Network: CrunchBoardbecause it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0
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The Empire Strikes Back: Our Analysis Of Microsoft Live Search Cashback
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 21, 2008
Everyone has an opinion on today’s move by Microsoft to shake things up in the search space with their new Live Search Cashback product that shifts search advertising from cost-per-click (CPC) to cost-per-action (CPA) and give a lot of the revenue back to users. Most are negative. Some excessively so. After hearing Bill Gates give the pitch and trying the service myself to make a couple of...
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Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out
via A VC by Fred on May 27, 2008
I know that this has been discussed in great detail already. And I have a vested interest in this debate with our firm's investments in the disqus third party comment system and also twitter which is part of the problem. But today I saw something on FriendFeed that really got me thinking. Here's a picture of it:My brother, known as Jackson to the blog world, wrote a wonderful post on the...
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Security interrupts Amtrak spokesman who says photos are OK in D.C.'s union station
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on June 01, 2008
A BB reader says: "A local news crew was interviewing an Amtrak spokesman at D.C.'s union station who told the reporter that photography is allowed in the station. During the interview, a security guard interrupted them to say that photography/video was not allowed. Brilliant video, and hat tip to DCist who posted the link."Link
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Free AT&T WiFi now at Starbucks
via Engadget by Thomas Ricker on June 02, 2008
It all looks legit and final. AT&T and Starbucks have finally rolled out their free WiFi plan to Starbucks Card users registered with AT&T. In exchange for letting AT&T send you up to 4 emails per year, you get a single WiFi session of up to 2-hours per day at any of Starbucks' 7,000 or so US-based stores. Now get out of here, and don't forget your MacBook for some conspicuous posing and...
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Battered Yahoo Admits It Overplayed Hand; Open To New Microsoft Talks
via Silicon Alley Insider by Henry Blodget on May 05, 2008
Less than 48 hours after Microsoft pulled the plug on its Yahoo offer, Yahoo has already admitted publicly that, despite its statements to the contrary, it would have been willing to do a deal below $37. It has also already said that it would be happy to reopen talks with Microsoft.Why the backtrack?Because employees and shareholders are dismayed. Because, as Chairman Roy Bostock made clear in a...
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Twitter Has Jumped The Shark
via The Inquisitr by Duncan Riley on June 07, 2008
Notice something about Twitter lately besides the constant downtime? It’s gotten quiet. Not deadly quiet, but when it is up every day there seems to be less and less being said. In my case gone are the days where I could use Twitter to track the latest breaking story or the days I had dozens of conversations. It’s not just me, Dave Winer and Rafe Needleman have both noticed as well, and...
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