Exclusive: Facebook Blocked API Access to Ping After Failure to Strike Agreement, So Apple Removed Feature After Launch#
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It’s not as mysterious as it seems, this mini-controversy about find friends on Facebook for Apple’s new social music network called According to sources familiar...
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Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, as he strolled through the demo...
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In a surprisingly quick and even stealthy move, AOL has renewed and expanded its search agreement with Google, even though many had expected there to...
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Craiglist CEO Jim Buckmaster let one fly yesterday at CNN reporter Amber Lyon, for a report on child sex trafficking she did focusing on the...
Here is a cool chart from the Web 2.0 Summit–what the O’Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb conference is calling “visual representation” of its theme of...
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SCVNGR, the mobile-social game seems to be one of the first of the many third-party social games to integrate with Facebook’s new Places location feature.
In yet another major departure from Yahoo in recent days, Yahoo VP for Social Platforms Neal Sample has left the company for eBay (EBAY), where...
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Former Google international exec Adam Freed (pictured here) has taken a job as COO of Etsy, the crafts e-commerce site, which just raised another $20...
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We all want to be something else, don’t we? And so it is with Google (GOOG), the robotic, algorithmic, black-box search behemoth girding the globe...
According to sources close to the situation, one of AOL’s top and longtime media execs, Marty Moe (pictured here), is leaving the company.
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Apparently, the review is in–only one review, so far–but it’s a corker.
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You’d think someone–like BoomTown!–would have noticed the big I’m-going-to-Facebook post former Palm exec Katie Mitic (pictured here) had put on her Wall on the social...
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Later today, as BoomTown previously reported, Facebook is likely to show off what it has been working on for a while now in the geo-location...
Liveblogging the Geo-Location Announcement: Oh, the Facebook "Places" That You'll Go (Perhaps Also Starring Foursquare's Dennis Crowley?)#
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BoomTown motored on down the lovely Highway 280 to Facebook to hear execs talk about a new geo-location feature the powerful social networking site is...
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In an interesting move for online content, sources said that Hollywood’s BermanBraun has signed an advertising deal with Starcom MediaVest Group, the media agency unit...
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Apple is likely introducing a family of new iPods (and maybe a revamped Apple TV) today at its annual music event in San Francisco.
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People are increasingly sharing different types of information on Twitter. For example, Tweets point to web pages, photos, videos, hashtags, people, check-ins, and more.
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Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, as he strolled through the demo...
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The new iTunes social network Ping will let you connect directly with your favorite artists, but Apple's promotional image for the new feature conveniently omits...
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The Financial Times is reporting that Google is in talks with major Hollywood studios to bring streaming movie rentals from their catalogs to YouTube by...
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Microsoft has announced the launch of its first Bing for Mobile Android app for Verizon customers.
After nearly a decade, iTunes is getting a new icon with the release of version 10 today.
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Posted by Doug Aberdeen, Software Engineer People tell us all that time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it...
After a problem-plagued relaunch of the link-sharing site last week, some Digg users seem to have taken matters into their own hands, and have been...
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Today, Apple introduced its next generation Apple TV that focuses on streaming media and HD content.
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