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This Used To Be My Playground
techcrunch.com - 10/18/2009
This Used To Be My Playground
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Maybe you’ve read some of the stories this past week about how FriendFeed’s traffic is way down following their sale to Facebook . The stats don’t look good, as the site’s traffic may have plummeted as much as 30% following its peak just prior to the sale . But to anyone ...
bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 10/21/2009
Hot on Heels of Google, Facebook to Take First Step into Music
— bits.blogs.nytimes.com — Both Google and Facebook are primed to introduce new online music services in the week ahead.... (more) Hot on Heels of Google, Facebook to Take First Step into ...

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LEAKED: Details of the Facebook Home Page Redesign [Screenshots]
mashable.com - 10/19/2009
LEAKED: Details of the Facebook Home Page Redesign [Screenshots]
— mashable.com — A few weeks ago, we caught wind that Facebook was testing a new homepage design . Screenshots... revealed a few interesting changes, such as a decrease in size for the Facebook Publisher box and a new, Friendfeed-like “Top News” filter for ... (more) LEAKED: Details of the Facebook Home Page Redesign ...

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Facebook 3.1 With Notifications May Highlight The iPhone Push Problem
techcrunch.com - 10/19/2009
Facebook 3.1 With Notifications May Highlight The iPhone Push Problem
— techcrunch.com — Sometime soon, Facebook 3.03 for the iPhone will be available in the App Store. It should be... a small update with some bug fixes. The bigger news is what will be coming soon after it: Facebook 3.1 for the iPhone, complete with Push Notifications.  ... (more) Facebook 3.1 With Notifications May Highlight The iPhone ...

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Shiny Shiny:  Jitters on FriendFeed

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Linkpost | 10.18.2009
TechBlog — ... buggy Firefox plugin - The .NET plug-in is disabled, even though Microsoft patched it on Tuesday. Not everyone has the patch, of course. • Broadband Now! So Why Don't Some Use It? - An FCC study shows most of the nation has access to high-speed Internet, but a third don't opt to have it. Why? • Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's Squirrel project revealed... as the Square iPhone Payment System - He's apparently working on a way to use an iPhone as a credit card. • This Used To Be My Playground and The Second Life of FriendFeed? - The fickle geeks who ...

Jitters on FriendFeed
Shiny Shiny — Oo, everyone's getting a bit jittery on Friendfeed. Traffic's been down in recent months (by 30% Techcrunch speculates) and it seems that even the titans of the service: Robert Scoble and Louis Gray are starting to spend less time on it. Friendfeed is a "ghost town" is the rather more extreme verdict of MG Siegler, who claims that conversations on the site, FriendFeed's trump feature, have slowed or died. The service is popular among technocrati who use it as a more sophisticated Twitter. Bought by Facebook several months ago, it seems that ...

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Friendfeed Traffic Drops Post-Acquisition And The First Employee Departs — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 10/18/2009
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Amazon, Facebook, and Google back FCC on Net neutrality — CNET News.com 10/19/2009
Some of the biggest names on the Internet are throwing their support behind the FCC's plan to form new Internet openness regulation.