Submitted by Michaelfidler:
Facebook has partnered with liberal news outlet The Huffington Post in what appears to be an officially-sanctioned implementation of its Facebook Connect product.Called HuffPost Social News, the new site aggregates Huffington Post stories that a given user's Facebook friends have recommended or commented on, and then share (Read More)
mashable
If you receive a Facebook mail today with the subject line “CoooL Video”, don’t click the link. We’re getting reports of a Facebook scam which causes infected users to unknowingly send out Facebook mails to their friends containing that subject line. The links in the mails go to various places, including a blogspot blog ( (Read More)
Webware.com
Opera 10 beta 3 was released Wednesday for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. With a strong European following, the preview version has been able to keep this popular alternative browser competitive by offering page rendering quality comparable to Google Chrome, while offering a robust list of features.Opera 10 beta 3 offers mo (Read More)
: Opera is still slow. The minor user interface improvements do not help a lot. Quote: "In casual testing it [Opera] appeared to be have the slowest JavaScript engine when compared with Chrome and Firefox. Opera notched 3237.4ms in the SunSpider JavaScript test, while Firefox completed the test in 1142.4ms and Chrome was more than twice as fast as that, reaching 508.2ms."
louisgray.com
Last September, when Google's Chrome Web browser was first introduced, I told you how I spent the day on Windows, just to use it. While Google is making headway in bringing their Web browser to the Mac platform, or so I've been told, it just hasn't happened yet. In the interim, Apple introduced Safari 4 Beta with many of Ch (Read More)
Technologizer
Earlier this week, I mused about the fact that folks keep identifying new Web services as Google killers, and keep being dead wrong. Which got me to wondering: How quickly did the world realize that Google would come to dominate Web search in a way that few businesses have ever been dominated? Did anyone know from the get g (Read More)
Justin Korn's Blog
FriendFeed has become more and more integrated into my life lately. Not because they launched real-time, updated their UI, or even because they improved their search capabilities (though this is part of it). It’s because FriendFeed has given me the ability to track any topic I want, on anything, from anywhere and be notif (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
What do you think of FriendFeed's new "real-time" view? Is FriendFeed becoming more like Twitter? Is this the new look of social media? Let's get the mood on this one. (Read More)
Submitted by Scbalazs
from Digg:
By Borys Kit LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In a surprise move, Don Cheadle will replace Terrence Howard as Robert Downey Jr's best friend in ''Iron Man 2,'' the sequel to the superhero saga. In the Marvel Studios summer smash, Howard played Jim... (Read More)
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
The state Personnel Board investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of Walt Monegan has broadened to include other ethics complaints against the governor and examination of actions by other state employees, according to the independent counsel handling the case.The investigator, Tim Petumenos, did not say who else is under (Read More)
Submitted by Bwana
from Google Reader:
It's hard these days to imagine how elections happened before the web grew to popularity. With all the instant-access news, video, data, and social networking available in a few seconds' time, election season is a prime time to dig in and find out where the candidates are getting and spending money, what's being by and abo (Read More)
Submitted by Scbalazs
from Digg:
FTA: We accepted that Hamlet spoke to the ghost of his dead father, and we accept that Demi Moore's life was saved by the ghost of her dead husband. You could watch Lord Of The Rings and understand that it's fantasy. But sometimes, you're like "That would NEVER happen" no matter how much disbelief you're willing to suspend... (Read More)
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TechCrunch
socialmedian, which has come under fire as of late for trying to use Twitter as means of raising $500,000 in venture funding, announced Thursday that it has launched its first major upgrade since the company started and its improvements will finally address some of the concerns its users have had since its inception.First o (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Here at ReadWriteWeb, we've talked about how the hot new trend of lifestreaming has been taking off lately. Now the social news service Socialmedian aims to capitalize on that trend by releasing an upgrade to their service that features something they're calling "news streaming." Like lifestreaming, news streaming lets user (Read More)