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ReadWriteWeb It's the morning after the big Chrome OS event where Google executives and engineers revealed a myriad of details about the company's first attempt at creating their own operating system. The highly anticipated news conference was tracked all over the web, liveblogged by technology sites, and Twittered so much that it's sti (Read More)

1 day ago

Techmeme Randall C. Kennedy / InfoWorld: Why Chrome OS will fail — big time  —  A lack of flexibility will doom Google's latest ego trip to the dustbin of history  —  The Chrome OS is here — sort of.  This week, Google was kind of enough to give the world a sneak peek at its nascent desktop operating system. (Read More)

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louisgray-com Why do some social sites thrive while others fail? Why do you find some networks have you dedicating hours every day to participate, while others couldn't get you to raise an eyebrow? And why don't your friends see with you eye to eye on what the best services are, even after you've told them about your favorites time and a (Read More)

2 days ago

TechCrunch Back when Twitter Lists first started to roll out to everyone, there was quite a bit of hype over how lists would have a major impact on the way people use the service. The extent of that change remains to be seen (many Twitter clients still haven’t integrated Lists so plenty of people probably haven’t even been exposed to (Read More)

2 days ago

TechCrunch First of all, yes, everyone on Twitter now should have access to the new Retweet functionality. Currently, only Twitter.com and a handful of clients support the new mechanism. But did you know that you can also trigger the new Retweets via SMS?As the Twitter mobile account noted earlier tonight, if you simply send “RT USERN (Read More)

2 days ago

TechCrunch In a couple of hours, Google is going to share more details about its upcoming operating system Chrome OS at an event in Mountain View that will most likely be covered from start to finish by TechCrunch writers (and then some) as well as a slew of other media outlets. Jolicloud, that other OS for netbooks that is completely (Read More)

1 day ago

Inside Facebook Facebook is the largest photo sharing service in the world, with over 2 billion photos uploaded by users each month. So when the company is testing a brand new way for users to get most of those photos onto the site, it’s a big change.Although the current photo uploading tools are obviously working well enough to support th (Read More)

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Scripting News I sort of understand why people don't like the new retweet, but I like it very much, and probably for many of the reasons they don't like it. If you follow me on Twitter you know that a lot of my tweets are links to stories on the web. I would probably forward other people's links more if there were a way to give them credi (Read More)

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Chromium Blog Today we announced the Chromium OS project on the Official Google Blog. This release of Chromium OS includes:Source codeDesign docsUser interface experimentsHow to build and contributeShort overview videoWe are doing this early, almost a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage wi (Read More)

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Geeking with Greg E. Michael Maximilien has a post, "Extreme Agility at Facebook", on blog@CACM. The post reports on a talk at OOPSLA by Robert Johnson (Director of Engineering at Facebook) titled "Moving Fast at Scale".Here is an interesting excerpt on very frequent deployment of software and how it reduces downtime:Facebook developers are (Read More)

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mashable Earlier today, Google revealed new details about Google Chrome OS, the search giant’s attempt to redefine the operating system and push society and technology even farther onto the web. We’re here live at the Google Chrome OS press conference, and from what we’re hearing and seeing, this thing is different than any other o (Read More)

2 days ago

TechCrunch Yesterday we wrote about the soon to launch Google Phone, a Google branded Android phone that we believe will hit the market in early 2010. Lots of people are saying there’s no way Google will enter the phone market directly and compete with all these handset manufacturers who have bet on Android. Daring Fireball, PC World (Read More)

3 days ago

Thailand Voice Things you would hesitate before making up for fear of being accused of gross exaggeration: Today, Thailand’s reputation (genuine reputation, that is) slid again as it was announced as having declined to 84 th in the league tables of corrupt nations – it has been sliding since the disastrous 2006 military coup. Also … Read (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Jungleg from Google Reader: The other day, I wrote the popular 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9. As usual, most people are very excited about the new release which is now in beta and available for testing. In the article, I made a few fundamental errors which I have since corrected.Notably, I mentioned that WordPress 3.0 would be going t (Read More)

2 days ago

Consumerist If you bought or rented the new Fight Club blu-ray and brought it back to the store convinced you rented a faulty disc, you've been Punk'd by director David Fincher. When the disc boots up it displays the menu for Never Been Kissed for a few seconds before showing its true Fight Club colors. Unfortunately, this isn't the ca (Read More)

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