- Exclusive: Facebook Blocked API Access to Ping After Failure to Strike Agreement, So Apple Removed Feature After Launch It's not as mysterious as it seems, this mini-controversy about finding friends on Facebook for Apple's new social music network. According to sources familiar …
- Facebook Wants To Be In A Relationship With The Big Boys They Want To Be Just Friends Yesterday, Apple launched iTunes Ping, their new music social network. Part of that launch was a very basic implementation of Facebook Connect, simply to hook in and find out which of your Facebook friends were also using Ping.
- The Evolving Ecosystem Just over four months ago, at Chirp, our Twitter developer conference, I talked about how “Twitter is too hard” and what we're doing to address that. One major area of difficulty I highlighted was getting Twitter on your phone.
- Laptops Look Like Racecars and Not in a Good Way At a meeting with Advanced Micro Devices the other day, representatives talked to me about chip sets and clock speeds, of discrete graphics and die sizes. But in passing, they mentioned an additional company initiative that really perked me up: laptop stickers.
- YouTube Ads Turn Videos Into Revenue SAN BRUNO, Calif. Last month, a YouTube user, TomR35, uploaded a clip from the AMC series “Mad Men” in which Don Draper makes a heartfelt speech about the importance of nostalgia in advertising. Viewers wouldn't notice, but that clip also makes …
- In The Coming HTML5 Browser Wars, The Markup Should Remain The Same On Monday, Google made a big splash with a customized Arcade Fire video page that showed off all the cool things HTML5 can do, from video, animations and 3D rendering to gorgeous fonts and choreographed windows.
- Ev Williams: Twitter Will Actually Help Information Overload At its core, Twitter is a “recipient-driven medium,” said CEO Evan Williams in a public conversation tonight in San Francisco, Calif. What does that mean? Williams, an unusually theoretical CEO, is happy to explain.
- HUGE: Facebook Testing New “Subscribe To” User Feature Facebook is in the process of testing a new feature which lets you subscribe to all the actions of a specific user. In other words, you can receive notifications anytime a specific user takes an action on Facebook.
- Nvidia's new graphics chips will give you laptops with long battery life and 3D Nvidia is announced a new family of laptop graphics chips today that will balance good 3D performance and battery life. The new Nvidia GeForce 400M series of graphics chips will be used in a number …
- Make group video calls with up to 10 people with the new beta version of Skype for Windows Today we've released an update to Skype for Windows. The second beta of Skype 5.0 brings a number of changes both outside and in - most importantly, you can now make group video calls with up to 10 people.
- Wave open source next steps: “Wave in a Box” Since the announcement that we will discontinue development of Google Wave as a standalone product, many people have asked us about the future of the open source code and Wave federation protocol. After spending some time on figuring out our next steps …
- Apple's trouble with TV Apple TV has been a persistent loser from a company that usually only tolerates winners. It's clear that Apple wants to do something “in the living room,” but damned if it can figure out exactly what that is. Yesterday, Apple took another run at this thing, announcing an “all-new” Apple TV.
- Vox is closing September 30, 2010 Vox has been a fun place to explore, create and connect with your friends. But Vox is closing its doors on September 30, 2010. This doesn't mean you have to say goodbye to your blog. We want you to make sure you can keep the great content you've shared on Vox …
- Ping Averts Its Gaze: Apple's New Social Network Doesn't Really Want to Know Much About You Steve Jobs says Ping is supposed to be a “social music discovery” service: You share your musical taste with friends and vice versa. But if you really want to share, you're going to find it harder than you think.
- Facebook Adds Remote Log-Out Security Feature Facebook on Thursday added a remote log-out feature that will allow users who accidentally left themselves logged in on a particular device to end those sessions from another location. “Have you ever borrowed a friend's phone to use Facebook …
- AOL's Armstrong: Why We Went With Google Content Portal's Search Traffic Is Falling, but Still Accounts for 20% of Its Revenue NEW YORK (AdAge.com) In a sign of Google's renewed belief in AOL's future, the search giant has outbid Microsoft to retain AOL's search traffic for another five years.
- Is 4chan Turning Into Internet Good Guys? 4chan, the anarchic Internet messageboard, appears to be experiencing an identity crisis. Whereas terror campaigns against tweens were once planned amid stomach-churning images, a strong streak of do-gooderism has taken hold.
- Ex-Googler Lee Backs China Companies to Foster Startup Culture Founded by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google's China division, business incubator Innovation Works is funding 12 startups amid strong demand for Web technology Kai-Fu Lee, who headed Google Inc.'s (GOOG) …
- Twitter For iPhone Push Notifications Are Being Internally Tested; Rolling Out Soon To many users, Twitter for iPhone (the artist formerly known as Tweetie) is perhaps the perfect Twitter client (though I'd argue that the new Twitter for iPad is right there with it).
- This Spam Infographic About Spam Infographics Makes My Head Hurt Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post of Internet memes, wins the “more meta than thou” award for making “An Infographic Backlash Infographic” inspired by the tragic tale of a guy whose job it was to game Digg back when Digg had enough traffic to make it worth gaming.
- Walkman outsells iPod in Japan for first time TOKYO In a rare victory for Sony over arch-rival Apple, the Walkman portable music player outsold the iPod in Japan in monthly sales for the first time in August, a survey showed Thursday. Sony's share of the Japanese market …
- EFF Asks Court to Protect Craigslist from Defamation Suit San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of public interest groups and law professors have asked a California appeals court to protect craigslist from a lawsuit that could spur websites to be less helpful …
- Yahoo! Search Serves Suggestions Closer to You We're making Search more intuitive by taking user context and applying it to the search experience. Today we are introducing an enhanced Yahoo! Search Assist, providing suggestions geographically closer to you as you type your query.
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