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The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by SharonG ahahahaha!!! this stuff is hilarious!Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesn’t involve openness or portability of data, it seems. Today they wrote a long 7 paragraph blog post to get a single point across: Facebook has banned Google’s Friend Connect access to the Facebook API:Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a...
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Dash Opens Up APIs For Its GPS Device to Developers
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 14, 2008
Dash Navigation is opening up its in-car GPS device to outside developers through an API program. The Dash already lets consumers create Yahoo map mashups on teh Web which theycan then send to their car. (Read my earlier review). Now, companies that want to create specific applications for the device, which includes a two-way data channel through GPRS as well as WiFi, can join the API...
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Dude, William Shatner Totally Loves TechCrunch
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 15, 2008
Autograph sports and celebrity memorabilia is a $1 billion/year business in the U.S. alone. The problem is, up to 90% of it is counterfeit.Enter Los Angeles based LiveAutographs, a site that sells celebrity autographs that are guaranteed to be authentic - because they take a video of the celebrity writing the autograph and message and post it on their website. I am a huge William Shatner fan (who...
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Dear Yahoo: You’re Fired
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by Amish Mark Cuban on the board at Yahoo?!As expected, Carl Icahn presented an alternate slate of directors for the upcoming Yahoo shareholder meeting. The letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock says it all: Carl C. Icahn ICAHN CAPITAL LP 767 Fifth Avenue, 47th Floor New York,...
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Ok, Wired, Let’s Do This.
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 14, 2008
A week ago Wired Magazine voiced its displeasure over our syndication partnership with the Washington Post. Wired’s Betsy Schiffman wrote “We’ve got nothing against TechCrunch, but it seems crazy-crazy to us that the Washington Post, a paper known for the sort of reporting that can take down U.S. presidents, is publishing content written by a dude who invests in the companies he writes...
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Gillmor Gang Digests Comcast/Plaxo Deal
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 15, 2008
A subset of the Gillmor Gang met via telephone this afternoon to debate the $150 - $170 million Comcast acquisition of Plaxo. Listen to Steve Gillmor, Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis and me talk about whether this was a smart move for Comcast, or a sucker’s purchase of a company no one in Silicon Valley would touch.Listen here.Crunch Network: MobileCrunchMobile Gadgets and...
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Strands Absorbs Another Personal Finance Company
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on May 15, 2008
Strands has made a second recruitment in its effort to develop a Mint competitor called moneyStrands that leverages the same recommendation engine behind its video and music products. Just over two weeks ago Strands acquired Expensr, and now the company is announcing its acquisition of NetworthIQ. Both are personal finance applications that Strands wanted mostly for their human capital, but also...
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Metacafe Founder’s New Startup: Clear Applications
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on May 15, 2008
Israeli paper The Marker is reporting (in Hebrew) that one of the Metacafe founders who recently cashed out and left has turned his attention to business recruitment technology.Arik Czerniak is now working on Clear Applications, a company that he co-founded seven months ago with two other Metacafe ex-employees, Oren Blatt and Gil Solomon. The startup is developing analytics tools that will help...
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Use iGoogle and Google Reader in the Sidebar
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 14, 2008
A simple use for Google's iPhone interfaces is to add them as sidebars in Firefox or Opera. I mentioned last year some Google gadgets for Google Notebook, Google Talk, Google Docs, that could be displayed in a permanently-visible sidebar. Here are two interfaces optimized for iPhone that have permalinks:iGoogle - all of the gadgets are displayed in a single column and you can switch between...
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Google Confirms Friend Connect
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 12, 2008
As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s...
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