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Scobleizer Twitter’s COO, Dick Costolo, today, at the TechCrunch Real Time Crunchup (live video of the conference is live now on building43, there will be lots of news all day long from this event), told the audience that Twitter is, indeed, going to turn on an advertising model.This is a huge shift in what Twitter is saying publicly. (Read More)

3 hours ago

Scobleizer Today InfoWorld’s Randall Kennedy says that Google’s Chrome OS will fail.What he is missing is he’s looking at the wrong field.Google is playing a different game. Google Chrome OS is NOT about killing Microsoft or Apple.What is it about? Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.See, what happens if the wor (Read More)

2 hours ago

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: The party’s in full swing today on Google Chrome OS bashing – it seems that the blogosphere took cues from Steven Hodson yesterday, and multiple bloggers are attempting to advance the theory that Chrome OS is going to fail, and fail hard.Randall Kennedy has a long screed on why Google Chrome OS will fail at Infoworld. Not (Read More)

3 hours ago

TechCrunch Today, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp, Seesmic’s Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isn’t giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, that’s a good question now that Twitter has starting giving third parties access to its Lists feature via an API. Normally, you’d expect a (Read More)

2 hours ago

TechCrunch Last year, we saw the launch of identi.ca, the open-sourced alternative to Twitter. At the time, we wrote that the company was never going to rival Twitter. As it turns out, that’s not the goal of parent company StatusNet. Instead, the startup is looking to become something akin to a ‘WordPress for microblogs’. That is (Read More)

6 hours ago

Mashable! It’s almost time for Thanksgiving, and that means family traditions. But what if your family doesn’t really have any, or you simply want to start your own new ones? This might be the year where it’s your turn to up the heat and put together a Thanksgiving feast. With social media and the web, we’re lucky to have everything (Read More)

5 hours ago

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6 hours ago

PreCentral.net  The Google Mobile team has announced a completely new Google News offering for the webOS, Android, and iPhone platforms that matches the experience that has been available to Blackbery, Windows Mobile and S60 users for some time now.  The new version "displays more stories, sources, and images while keeping a familiar look (Read More)

7 hours ago

TechCrunch Brizzly was first unveiled in private beta at our first CrunchUp event in July, so it’s only appropriate that today, the day of our next CrunchUp, it’s being opened to the public. Now, to be clear, the product is still technically in beta, but that’s only so the team at Thing Labs can keep experimenting with new ways to mak (Read More)

7 hours ago

Submitted by Jeffisageek from blog: What do you get when you mix two of my favorite things in Mario and Pulp Fiction?  You get this little gem!  Check it out its good stuff……. (Read More)

8 hours ago

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14 hours ago

Submitted by Mahendra from Google Reader: I’m following the stories of the Google Chrome OS release today and am a bit concerned about some of the claims that are being made.  Mashable even goes to the extent of predicting Google is going to “destroy the desktop” with it.  Google is banking on the fact that many users use their computers solely for accessing Twitte (Read More)

1 day ago

Mashable! For some unbeknownst reason Google has offered Google News in a mobile-friendly version to BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and S60 devices, but has failed to provide the same experience to iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre device owners.Today, however, all that has changed, as Google News for mobile is now optimized for iPhone, Andr (Read More)

1 day ago

Mashable! While Facebook’s userbase has been consistently growing for years, its monetary value has been less than consistent. Facebook stunned the world in October 2007 when a Microsoft investment valued the company at $15 Billion. The recession hit Facebook’s value hard though, dropping it all the way to $3.7 Billion in February o (Read More)

18 hours ago

Submitted by Jeffisageek from blog: Shared New Flip Video Cameras to Have Wi-Fi. Shared Twitter’s New Retweets Work Via SMS Too. Shared Gmail Users Better-Connected, More Likely to Tweet than Members of other Webmail Services. Shared Cassette Rainbow. [...]. (Read More)

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