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The best of the last 2 days’ online marketing and social media stories from around the web, Powered by OneSpot.

Three’s Company Or Three’s A Crowd? Google To Launch “Friend Connect” On Monday

Posted 1 day ago on TechCrunch

Don’t they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile informati

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Facebook to open the gates with 'Facebook Connect'

Posted about 20 hours ago on CNET News.com - Media

Hot off the heels of rival MySpace's announcement that it would be connecting its profile content with other social-networking sites, Facebook revealed its own plan for exporting data to other Web sites.

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Three Reasons To Use Disqus

Posted 1 day ago on A VC : Venture Capital and Technology

First, I'd like to be perfectly clear that our firm, Union Square Ventures, is an investor in Disqus. So I am clearly biased about what I am about to say. Second, I'd like to point out that the reason we...

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Is News Coverage On The Web Becoming Like Consumer Packaged Goods?

Posted 1 day ago on Publishing 2.0

The more I think about the issue of redundant news coverage on the web, the more I'm both perplexed and fascinated. Read the following on Facebook's announcement of Facebook Connect -- seriously, read it all: Can Facebook Build a Better Passport It

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The power of the interface

Posted 1 day ago on Seth's Blog

Here's what happens when you rearrange YouTube to make it work. Architecture matters.

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Will Web-Craving Consumers Bite Big For Premium 3G iPhone Service?

Posted about 9 hours ago on Mashable!

How would you like your emails, tweets, and Web searches delivered? Slowly? Really slowly? If the latest sign of the next-generation iPhone is to be believed, you’ll have a choice. According to a discovery by Chronic Productions, published earlier th

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Security flaw turns Gmail into open-relay server

Posted 1 day ago on Ars Technica

A newfound flaw in Google's Gmail allows would-be spammers to treat the service as an open-relay server. Compounding the issue is the fact that services such as Hotmail and Yahoo "trust" Gmail. This may facilitate e-mail delivery, but it also makes i

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Why Filtering is the Next Step for Social Media

Posted 1 day ago on ReadWriteWeb

If there's one thing to be learned from social media tools, it's that these services were not made to interact with one another. Complaints are rolling in and heated discussions are taking place about the noise levels within social media platforms. H

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Facebook Raises Another $100 Million

Posted 1 day ago on TechCrunch

Facebook is raising $100 million in debt, reports VentureBeat and Business Week. bringing their total capital raised to nearly half a billion dollars. This most recent round will be used to scale the service via another 50,000 or so servers. Facebook

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Powerset’s Dilemma: Go For It, Or Sell

Posted 1 day ago on TechCrunch

San Francisco based search startup Powerset will be launching shortly. For now, Powerset will query only Wikipedia and Freebase. But as I said when the product was demo’d to me a few weeks ago, it is compelling nonetheless: “When I tested the service

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Microsoft's XP for low-cost PCs defines some boundaries

Posted 1 day ago on Onaswarm

Filed under: Laptops Tags: windowsxp · linux · microsoft · ulpc · windows xp · xp · host:engadget.com

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Stolen Laptop Helps Turn Tables on Suspects

Posted 1 day ago on John's Tech News

WHITE PLAINS — The thieves were voracious, filching flat-screen televisions and computer games, purloining iPods and DVDs, even making off with a box of liquor and a set of car rims in a burglary two weeks ago at an apartment three young people share

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Facebook’s CTO D’Angelo to Leave

Posted about 3 hours ago on BoomTown

Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo will leave the company. BoomTown called Facebook PR last week about the rumor of D'Angelo's departure, but did not get a response. The company confirmed the departure by D'Angelo tonight. The 23-year-old D'Angelo, the top

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Will Google Join the Crowd With A "Friend Connect" Platform?

Posted 1 day ago on ReadWriteWeb

Giant social networks Myspace and Facebook have plans to expand beyond their walls. Myspace announced on Thursday its Data Availability platform and Facebook countered quickly with Facebook Connect. Now it seems that Google's OpenSocial platform will

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The Evolution of the Press Release

Posted about 14 hours ago on TechCrunch

Editor’s note: The press release is the least loved document in the media universe. We get way too many here at TechCrunch, and some bloggers equate them to spam. But they do have their uses. In this guest post, Brian Solis explains how the press

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