Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook  —  Google and some of the Web’s leading social networks are teaming up to take on the new kid on the block — Facebook.  —  On Thursday, an alliance of companies led by Google plans to begin introducing a common set of standards to allow software developers […]

Mini How-To: Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard, make OS X a little less smug  —  It’s pretty clear that Apple left no stone unturned in Leopard, making changes and fixes throughout the new operating system.  Unfortunately, that also included an upgrade to its crucial smugness subsystem …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Ryan Block
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The Pirate Bay Sees a Future Without BitTorrent  —  Why a new protocol?  Well, the current BitTorrent protocol is developed and maintained by BitTorrent Inc. This company, founded by BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen, recently decided to close the source of some newer additions to the protocol.

Source:   TorrentFreak
Author:   Ernesto
Link:   http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-sees-a-future…

Facebook’s Social Ad Network: What We (Think We) Know So Far  —  Just as Google is preparing to take Facebook head-on with its own social-networking platform, it appears that Facebook is preparing to take on Google with its own social ad network.  The announcement of what people …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/30/facebooks-social…

SORRY PR PEOPLE: YOU’RE BLOCKED  —  I’ve had it.  I get more than 300 emails a day and my problem isn’t spam (Cloudmark Desktop solves that nicely), it’s PR people.  Lazy flacks send press releases to the Editor in Chief of Wired because they can’t be bothered to find out who on my staff …

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PC stripper helps spam to spread  —  A virtual stripper is helping to defeat anti-spam security checks.  —  Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image.  —  The scrambled text images come …

Source:   BBC
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7067962.stm

Not All Is Gloomy in Real Estate: A Blog Network Attracts Capital  —  The residential real estate market may be troubled, but property-focused Web sites are still attracting visitors and investors.  —  Curbed.com, a popular real estate blog network with sites in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles …

Source:   New York Times
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Cookie tracking: How Facebook could be worth $100 billion?  —  When Facebook launches its “SocialAds” advertising product on November 6th, the technology will reportedly rely on cookies — unique identifiers sent to each user’s computer from Facebook, and returned to Facebook when they visit web pages …

Source:   VentureBeat
Author:   Eric Eldon
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Apple Sells Two Million Copies of Mac OS X Leopard in First Weekend  —  Apple® today announced that it sold (or delivered in the case of maintenance agreements) over two million copies of Mac OS® X Leopard since its release on Friday, far outpacing the first-weekend sales of Mac OS X Tiger …

Source:   Apple
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Web Bubble 2.0  —  Well, maybe it is a bubble.  But out in Silicon Valley, they don’t think of that as a bad thing at all.  —  T  —  he Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz is kinda-sorta the West Coast version of New York’s own Steve Rattner.

Source:   New York Magazine
Author:   John Heilemann
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