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iTunes To Integrate Facebook Connect

We’re hearing that iTunes will be implementing Facebook Connect support in the near future, allowing users to share some of their recent purchases with their friends on Facebook. We’re still gathering more details, but it sounds like this could happen quite soon.
It certainly adds up. Over the last few weeks, iTunes has been [...]

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Tue, April 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

MySpace Planning To Roll Out Facebook Connect ASAP (Or Not)

MySpace is preparing to add Facebook Connect features to its main service, we’ve confirmed from a source within MySpace. This will be the first time MySpace will publicly conceded defeat to Facebook over ownership of the social graph, and it’s more than a touchy subject internally.
So touchy, in fact, that my source tells me that [...]

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Tue, April 6 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.
One of the new features [...]

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Thu, March 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Foursquare Just Made Your Location History A Lot More Interesting

As has been made abundantly clear to me over the past two weeks, just about every location-based service is planning big things for the SXSW festival, which starts later this week in Austin, Texas. A few of the players have already started rolling out small changes, such as aesthetic upgrades. But a new, subtle update [...]

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Mon, March 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Yahoo Contacts Gets Facebook Connect

Last December, Yahoo announced that it would be rolling out a deep integration of its products with Facebook Connect, essentially outsourcing all things social to the world’s most popular social network. Today marks one of the initial demonstrations of this partnership, with Yahoo Contacts now connected to Facebook.
Now Yahoo allows you to add your [...]

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Thu, March 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Twitter Strikes Deal To Bring Free SMS Tweets To Haiti

Following the disastrous earthquake in Haiti earlier this year, a number of web companies have been setting up special programs to try and do their part to help. Twitter has been one of the most active, as the company has made great use of its social graph to get the word out on how to [...]

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Mon, February 22 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why?

Facebook has acquired its third company, Malaysian startup Octazen Solutions. Facebook says this is largely a talent acquisition, according to GigaOm. Octazen has a slightly different story on their home page, saying Facebook acquired “most of the company’s assets and to employ those assets in a different direction.”
Either way, it’s leaving some people scratching their [...]

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Sat, February 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Twiangulate Who You Share In Common With Other People On Twitter

Here’s a good virtual parlor game. Pick any two or three Twitter users, and Twiangulate which friends or followers they have in common. Twiangulate is a site that shows the overlap between your social graph and any tow other people on Twitter. It shows the resulting names as a list or an [...]

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Mon, February 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Late Last Year, Google Overtook Apple In WebKit Code Commits

Today, the blog Chromium Notes, which is written by a developer who works on the open source project (that Google Chrome is built on top of), posted a very interesting graph: one that shows the number of code commits to WebKit. Notably, it appears that Google has overtaken Apple as the organization that contributes the [...]

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Sun, February 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments