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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Released
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on May 13, 2008
Microsoft has released its highly anticipated Worldwide Telescope software, which can be used by astronomers and non-astronomers alike to explore the heavens with a desktop client akin to Google Earth. We’ll have a detailed review up shortly. Until then, head over the site and download your copy for free (Windows only).See our previous coverage here and here.Crunch Network: CrunchBoardbecause...
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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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freshAIRapps.com - Adobe AIR Application Showcase, Tutorials and Resources
via freshairapps.com by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
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Photosynth Solves The Case
via Microsoft Live Labs by (author unknown) on May 01, 2008
Photosynth made the jump from the lab to the small screen as detectives on the CBS crime drama CSI:NY called upon Microsoft Live Labs™ Photosynth™ to help solve a grisly murder at a high school dance. The TV detectives needed to reconstruct events from hundreds of images taken by student cameras and mobile phones. They turned to Photosynth to help them build and explore the scene...
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Apartment Therapy "Small is Cool" Contest 2008
via www.apartmenttherapy.com by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
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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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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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In praise of dual-class stock structures for public companies
via blog.pmarca.com by Marc Andreessen on May 06, 2008
A dual-class stock structure means that a company has two different classes of common stock. Each class of stock has the same economic ownership of the company, yet different voting rights. In a typical scenario, Class A shares have a single vote per share, whereas Class B shares have 10 votes per share, for any shareholder vote. Using this mechanism, for example, the Class B shareholders...
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Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 09, 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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Redeye VC: How to "Ask for the Order"
via redeye.firstround.com by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
A view of the startup ecosystem from a coastally challenged VC.
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