When Digg’s Lead Architect Joe Stump took the stage at the Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco earlier today, something in one of his screen shots caught...
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Digg To (Finally) Integrate OpenID, If This Picture Is To Be Believed
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Mass Reorg at Microsoft Platforms & Services Division
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Microsoft has just announced a major reorganization of its Platforms & Services Division. It will now be split into two groups (Windows/Windows Live and Online...
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Apple Seeing Red For iPhone Holiday Sales
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Rumors have been propagating through several popular Mac blogs that Apple will be releasing a red iPhone 3G model for the holiday season. The release will be...
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Facebook Launches Preferred App Program, Translation Services
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Facebook just issued the press release for today’s F8 conference. The release is below, with the most important points bolded.: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Facebook...
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Facebook Connect Coming To iPhone This Fall
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Today at the f8 conference Benjamin Ling revealed that Facebook will be releasing a Cocoa framework for the iPhone that will allow application developers to integrate...
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Episodic Makes Flash Videos iPhone-Friendly
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One of the most frustrating things about the iPhone is that it can’t handle Flash, which has become the standard for streaming video on the web. YouTube managed...
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Trouble in Online Travel: American Airlines Ditches Kayak (Maybe Orbitz Too)
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After years of ceding the upper hand in online travel to booking sites like Kayak and Orbitz, American Airlines is about to fight back. According to the CEO of a...
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Glam Media Snags A Google Exec To Head Up Corporate Development
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Glam Media has hired Michael Adair, most recently Google’s head of North American sales finance, as their new VP Corporate Development and Finance. Prior to Google...
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Sugar Inc Breaks Up With NBC, Brings Ad Sales In House
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Fast growing women-focused blog network Sugar Inc announced that they’ve terminated their year-old ad sales relationship with NBC. All ad sales will now be via an...
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TicketLeap Gets $2 Million For Modest-Sized Event Ticketing
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TicketLeap, a service that helps promoters sell tickets to their events though a self-serve platform, has raised $2 million in a Series A funding round led by MentorTech...
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Zynga Raises $29 Million B Round (Led By Kleiner Perkins) and Buys Virtual-World Facebook App YoVille
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Social gaming network Zynga just got some serious funding. It raised $29 million in a B round led by Kleiner Perkins. (IVP and prior investors Union Square Ventures,...
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MySpace Confirms OpenID Support, Launches Data Availability On Flixster and Eventful
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MySpace is rolling out a couple of announcements this morning a day ahead of Facebook’s F8 developer conference. The first is confirmation of our story that they...
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Ok, We Have Our First DNA-Based Dating Service: GenePartner
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It was only a matter of time before someone launched a dating site that looks for potential matches based on DNA compatibility. That time is apparently today with the...
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Opposing Views Launches As A Debate Site Where Experts Go Head-To-Head
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Getting average know-nothings to create content for your site is easy enough and well understood by now. But how do you get experts to create in-depth topic pages about...
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Slydial Lets You Avoid Awkard Calls, Go Straight To Voicemail
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It’s Friday night, you’ve got a blind date in an hour, and the last thing you want to do is make small talk with a stranger. You’d like nothing more...
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Minted Launches Competitive Stationary Store
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Mariam Naficy, co-founder of failed beauty startup Eve.com (which went belly up when the bubble burst in 2000), has launched her latest venture: Minted, an online...
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Icahn Backs Down From Yahoo Proxy Fight In Return For Three Yahoo Board Seats
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Carl Icahn and Yahoo have come to a settlement over control of Yahoo’s board. In return for three board seats, Icahn has agreed to withdraw his alternative slate of...
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Ex-GameSpotters Launch GiantBomb, The Gaming Encyclopedia
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Last winter GameSpot, one of the web’s largest video game sites, was embroiled in a scandal that led to the loss of a number of veteran employees and, as far as...
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GitHub unites Version Control with the Pastie
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GitHub, the popular service for hosting Git repositories, has taken a step outside the box and improved upon the classic pastie service (place for coders to post code...
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OpenDNS Makes $20k/day Filtering Phishing And Porn Sites
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OpenDNS, a San Francisco based startup founded by Minor Ventures and David Ulevitch, first launched in mid-2006 as a free tool to speed up web surfing and protect users...