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25 Jul 2009 Comments:
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In the last few days we’ve gotten multiple tips about a seemingly new phenomenon on Facebook:people are receiving status updates from people they’ve attempted to add as friends, but who have not yet accepted their friend request. In effect, they’re seeing these users’ status updates without being able to see their profiles something that hasn’t previously happened on Facebook, at least not until very recently. So has Facebook finally turned on the Twitter-like ‘follow’ feature it promised months ago, which would allow users to start receiving status updates from people they aren’t friends with?
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25 Jul 2009 Comments:
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A couple of weeks ago IAC Chairman and CEO Barry Diller was telling the elite crowd at the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference that he was “pessimistic about Twitters prospects for making money.” A couple of weeks later and he’s singing the same tune, this time to the elite crowd at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Pasadena.
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24 Jul 2009 Comments:
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You may recall back in December, we first reported the news about Apple gearing up for the launch of a large form iPod touch. While there had been no shortage of rumors over the years about some sort of Apple tablet, our sources indicated the device would be akin to Apple’s current mobile devices, the iPhone and iPod touch, which are both seeing booming sales. A new report from AppleInsider seems to confirm this news, and gives some new details.
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Date:
24 Jul 2009 Comments:
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Los Angeles
- News Corp.’s (NYSE:NWS) MySpace online social network plans to double down on video
games as it seeks to become more of an entertainment site, Reuters reported.
"MySpace is and will be more in the future a gaming platform, a space for
people to meet and play games," Jonathan Miller, News Corp.’s head of
digital, said at Fortune magazine’s Brainstorm conference this week. Read the rest of this entry »
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23 Jul 2009 Comments:
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Twitter Search is great. Unfortunately, unlike FriendFeed’s search, it doesn’t update live in real-time. Sure, for some searches, that would be annoying. But it’d be nice to at least have the option to watch a stream of incoming tweets without having to hit the refresh button. And Twitter has just unveiled a way to do that, with a new widget.
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23 Jul 2009 Comments:
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Los Angeles
- Disney (NYSE:DIS) is working on a new subscription-based website that is expected to
offer the company’s movies, TV shows, games and other content, Variety
reported. "People are willing to pay for what they perceive to be value,"
CEO Bob Iger told attendees of Fortune magazine’s Brainstorm conference on
Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry »
