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Written by Phil Glockner / March 31, 2009 6:11 PM / 6 Comments

Sprout, developer of a unique drag-and-drop widget creation service, announced today that its development platform now supports the Facebook Platform, Facebook Connect, and OpenSocial. According to the press release, this Continue reading »

Lunch Launches a Personal Recommendation Network (+Invites)

Written by Sarah Perez / March 31, 2009 2:49 PM / 8 Comments

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A new online community site called Lunch.com has just launched into private beta here at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The site, essentially a recommendation network, aims to Continue reading »

Talis Takes on Amazon With Pot of Structured Data in the Sky

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 31, 2009 2:02 PM / 13 Comments

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By making available databases of human genomic data, US census records and other data of public interest, the Amazon Public Data Sets are an incredible resource. They're like a 21st Continue reading »

Tinker Builds Microblog Communities Around Topics

Written by Phil Glockner / March 31, 2009 1:43 PM / 5 Comments

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Tinker, a new service that aggregates Twitter conversations around topics, came out of private beta today. Unlike services that merely attempt to track Twitter hashtag trends or attempt to describe Continue reading »

MySpace Goes Local: Announces Partnership with Citysearch

Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 31, 2009 10:18 AM / 1 Comments

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MySpace today announced a partnership with Citysearch that will bring Citysearch's database of local businesses to the social network's new MySpace Local service. Users on MySpace can now review, rate, Continue reading »

What's Wrong with Facebook? When Strategy Fails to Meet Execution

Written by Ravit Lichtenberg from Ustrategy.com / March 31, 2009 10:00 AM / 18 Comments

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Over the last few weeks, Facebook has been rolling out its latest redesign. Within days of the first changes, a polling application on Facebook showed that 94% of the 634,484 Continue reading »

Why You Have to Use the Standalone Google Contacts Page

Written by Sarah Perez / March 31, 2009 8:30 AM / 13 Comments

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Over the weekend, you may have heard the news about how Google finally assigned their standalone Gmail Contacts page a proper URL. Although the independent site has been available since Continue reading »

What Can Voice Do For You? Ribbit Announces Winners of KillerApps Challenge

Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 31, 2009 7:00 AM / 7 Comments

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Ribbit, the VOIP platform that was bought by British Telecom last year, announced the winners of its $100,000 KillerApps challenge today. The contest was obviously meant to stimulate interest in Continue reading »

Banner Exchanges Come to the iPhone: AdMob Launches Download Exchange

Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 31, 2009 5:00 AM / 9 Comments

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AdMob, one of the world's largest mobile advertising networks, released its Download Exchange today. In return for running ads for other apps, developers can now promote their own apps across Continue reading »

Skype for iPhone: It's Real and It's Spectacular

Written by Phil Glockner / March 30, 2009 10:30 PM / 38 Comments

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I had about 3 story options on my plate to write about tonight. But I found myself constantly returning to the iTunes store and searching for Skype, over and over Continue reading »

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