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Apple approved the first update to the Facebook app on the iPhone in almost a year yesterday and it was a huge hit. The app was built by Joe Hewitt, whose previous work includes co-creation of Firefox. With 12 million downloads, Facebook's app was the 2nd most popular free app on the iPhone platform in 2008 behind Pandora. (Read More)
The Next Web
You may have noticed that we haven’t had retweet buttons on today’s posts here at The Next Web. Why? They haven’t been working. Tweetmeme, the company behind our retweet buttons, took the service down for maintenance this morning with no warning and it’s still down now.There’s good reason though, Tweetmeme Version 2 is laun (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
This week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revealed a patent filed by Apple for "Transitional Data Sets" - a technology that would update an iPhone's home screen based on your current physical location. Of course, as with all patents filed by major technology companies, a patent won't necessarily translate to an actual (Read More)
Submitted by Ron Hagenhoff:
BORN IN THE USA?
Obama's 'birth certificate' not acceptable in Hawaii?
Even state requires long-form document for some eligibility, identification issues. (Read More)