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Facebook's news-feed patent could mean lawsuits - CNN.com - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html 2010 facebook patent social networking
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  • Amber Westcott-baker on 26 Feb 10
     
    Facebook has a patent on "news-feed" style social networking. Uh oh.
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DMCA Exemption Unlikely for iPad Jailbreak | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...on-unlikely-for-ipad-jailbreak 2010 DMCA apple ipad iphone jailbreak
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  • Amber Westcott-baker on 23 Feb 10
     
    If an exemption to the DMCA is granted for jailbreaking iPhones, it likely won't apply to the iPad.
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Google Will Ask Buzz's Early Adopters to Confirm Privacy Choices | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...google-buzz-confirm buzz social networking privacy google 2010
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  • Amber Westcott-baker on 23 Feb 10
     
    Google will have users who have already started Buzz confirm their privacy options in wake of the privacy kerfuffle.
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Official Gmail Blog: Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback - 2 views

gmailblog.blogspot.com/...zz-users-and-improvements.html 2010 google social networking buzz
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  • Amber Westcott-baker on 12 Feb 10
     
    Google responds to privacy concerns with new social-networking tool Buzz.
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Why Google Buzz will be a hit - CNN.com - 0 views

www.cnn.com/...index.html 2010 social networking google buzz network effects
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  • Amber Westcott-baker on 12 Feb 10
     
    Good technology has value, but leading social networks require "network effects." Facebook is infinitely more valuable because all your friends are on it. Facebook has leveraged this "critical mass" of users to stay ahead of new rivals, too. Why visit Twitter, you may ask, when Facebook has continually extended its feature set to keep up with its less popular competitor? The story of social networks is in fact a story about network effects: How can a service reach a point at which there are enough users and content to be useful?
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Google Poaches Social Search Service Aardvark | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...social-search-service-aardvark 2010 social networking Google merger Aardvark
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    Epicenter The Business of Tech Google Poaches Social Search Service Aardvark * By Ryan Singel Email Author * February 11, 2010 | * 3:49 pm | * Categories: Search * aardvark-answer1The coolest search engine you've never used got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million. Aardvark, a company that lets you use IM, Twitter and e-mail to ask full-text questions and then get answers from people in or close to your social network, confirmed it signed a deal with Google. TechCrunch, which first reported the news, put the figure at $50 million, but Wired.com could not confirm the purchase price.
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Facebook Denies 'All Wrongdoing' in 'Beacon' Data Breach | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...ongdoing-in-beacon-data-breach social networking 2010 facebook privacy beacon
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    Facebook is denying it illegally breached the privacy of its users in a proposed $9.5 million settlement to a class action challenging its program that monitored and published what users of the social-networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations.
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Technology News: Communication Systems: Google's Enterprise and Mobile Plans: Killer Bu... - 0 views

www.technewsworld.com/...er-Buzz-or-Buzzkill-69315.html 2010 internet google social networking
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  • Amber Westcott-baker on 11 Feb 10
     
    While the technosphere was busy Tuesday pitting Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) new Buzz service against Facebook and Twitter in some kind of social media steel-cage deathmatch, the search giant's executives were hinting at what they see as the real winning uses for Buzz -- within the enterprise and out and about in the mobile arena.
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