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)
GigaOM
You’ve gotta hand it to Google: The company is never shy about throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see if it will stick. Over the years, it’s introduced countless projects that have gone through long beta cycles only to fail miserably — or achieve a degree of success far below what was expected. Google Doc (Read More)
Submitted by Mahendra
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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)
ReadWriteWeb
Writing a book will never be easy, but FastPencil's mission is to make things easier for authors by bringing this process online and to collaborate with others. FastPencil takes writers from idea to published book. The service offers features for collaboration, editing and design, as well as professional consulting services (Read More)
eWeek - RSS Feeds
Twitter Nov. 19 released its geotagging API to programmers, but users won't yet be able to access location-based services from the Twitter.com Web site. The feature, which allows users to selectively annotate their tweets with their exact location and provide more context to users about their surroundings, has been implemen (Read More)
Submitted by Sarahintampa
from Google Reader:
Google unveiled Chrome OS in an event yesterday where they demonstrated the upcoming cloud-based OS for the first time in public. Source code of Chrome OS was also released which folks over at gdgt have compiled in a ready-to-install .vmdk file. All you need now is a system running Windows, Linux or OS X with any of the vir (Read More)
Submitted by Sarahintampa
from Twitter:
I hope I'm allowed to have an opinion on Chrome OS even tho I freelance for MSFT's Ch 10. Let's all read my disclosure: http://bit.ly/6sX8b7. (Read More)
Submitted by Sarahintampa
from Twitter:
@BenParr true too, but I don't think mainstream consumers will be messing around w/the free version on their own all that much, too geeky. (Read More)
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Submitted by Sarahintampa
from Twitter:
@BenParr I see your point...but unlike goog's web projects that go nowhere, what will consumers think when os fails to sell well? bad image?. (Read More)
Submitted by Sarahintampa
from Twitter:
@BenParr I guess what you're saying is that they don't care if it's financially successful at launch?. (Read More)
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