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Facebook Goes Real Time on Any Site with Live Stream Box

Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 24, 2009 12:26 PM / 23 Comments

Today, Facebook is launching a new feature for webmasters to post a stream of relevant Facebook updates in real time. The new feature, called a Live Stream Box, can run Continue reading »

FriendFeed Now Allows File Sharing, Including MP3s

Written by Jolie O'Dell / June 24, 2009 12:16 PM / 10 Comments

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Everyone's Robert Scoble's favorite real-time microblogging service, FriendFeed, is now allowing users to post and download many kinds of files through their site. Sadly, video files are not on the Continue reading »

The Day Facebook Changed Forever: Messages to Become Public By Default (UPDATED)

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 24, 2009 12:13 PM / 72 Comments

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One of the most anticipated days in the history of social networking site Facebook has finally come: the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and Continue reading »

iPhone 3.0 JavaScript Performance is Even Better Than Apple Claims

Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 24, 2009 12:00 PM / 7 Comments

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Apple has always had a tendency to hype up its statements about the speed of its devices by using just the right benchmarks and just the right products to compare Continue reading »

Apple Granted Patent for Sports Sensors

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 24, 2009 10:50 AM / 14 Comments

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Think Major League Baseball's stats and live video iPhone app is cool? Imagine what Apple could do with technology it was granted a patent for this week: a network of Continue reading »

Twitter Drives a Lot of Traffic to Media Sites, but Doesn't Bring a Lot of Customers to Online Retailers

Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 24, 2009 10:23 AM / 6 Comments

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According to the latest data from Hitwise about Twitter users in the UK, Twitter has become an important source of traffic for entertainment sites, other social networks, and news and Continue reading »

Cable Companies Want to Control Online TV: Now This Sounds Like a Bad Idea

Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 24, 2009 9:01 AM / 9 Comments

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Enjoy the online TV party while it lasts, because if it is up to your favorite cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner, access to TV shows might soon go Continue reading »

Firefox's Ubiquity Starts Thinking for Itself

Written by Sarah Perez / June 24, 2009 7:46 AM / 9 Comments

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Ubiquity, the experimental Firefox add-on that lets you tell your browser what to do by typing in natural language commands, has just been updated to version 0.5. This preview release Continue reading »

Read It Later Launches New iPhone App (But if You Don't Like It, You Can Build Your Own!)

Written by Sarah Perez / June 24, 2009 6:13 AM / 6 Comments

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Read It Later, a cross-platform browser extension for saving online articles for later reading, has just debuted their newly updated iPhone application. This latest version introduces a number of useful Continue reading »

Hohm: Microsoft Gets Into the Energy Business

Written by Frederic Lardinois / June 23, 2009 10:53 PM / 6 Comments

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A few days ago, a group of enterprising bloggers discovered that Microsoft had just trademarked the name 'Hohm.' Today, we can finally reveal what Hohm is really about. At its Continue reading »

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