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Twitter Acquires Tweetie

Twitter has just announced that it acquired Tweetie, the very popular and highly polished Twitter application for the iPhone . The application will now be called “Twitter for iPhone” and will drop from $2.99 to free, with developer Loren Brichter (who makes up the one-man startup Atebits) joining the Twitter mobile team. Twitter [...]

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Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Facebook To Launch Meebo Bar Clone On Its Quest To Take Over The Web

In the last few days, we’ve uncovered some major new features that Facebook is going to announce at its f8 developer conference, including its plan to offer a Like button for the entire Internet and a creepy auto-Connect feature that will share your data with sites you never signed up for. Now we’ve heard [...]

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Sun, March 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Facebook Foreshadows New Features With Privacy Policy Tweaks

Facebook introduced some changes to its privacy policy today in advance of new features which will be rolling out soon, perhaps during its f8 developer conference next month. Some of the changes foreshadow new features dealing with location, taking advantage of the expanded “Everyone” settings, syncing contacts on your mobile phone with your Facebook [...]

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Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Facebook To Release A “Like” Button For the Whole Darn Internet

There will be lots of news leaking about Facebook’s product announcements at their upcoming F8 Developer Conference in April. That’s because they’re already starting to test out a lot of the new stuff with third party developers, and once two people know a secret, it isn’t really a secret any more.
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Thu, March 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

PayPal, Venrock Incubate BillFloat To Develop Innovative Payment Services

We got a tip recently about a startup called BillFloat, which sports a rather limited website with nothing but a logo and a call for fresh engineers. The intriguing thing about BillFloat, however, was this sentence on the placeholder website: “We are a PayPal and Venrock backed startup re-defining a $100 billion market and are [...]

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Sat, February 13 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments