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The MTV video music awards are on tonight, but as the tired joke goes, when was the last time MTV really played a music video? When it comes to the spreading of music in video form, it’s all about the web these days. A couple of […] Read more »

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AppleInsider’s Kasper Jade today reports that Apple has new plans for its workhorse laptop, the MacBook. This will be the first time since the product’s launch in 2006 that the company’s entry-level Mac has received a complete design update. The MacBook is the best-selling computer in […] Read more »

Kevin Marks, one of the leading voices on Google-backed OpenSocial and Friend Connect, has left the Mountain View, Calif.-based search engine, he announced on his blog. With his exit, Google might have lost one of its most visible evangelists. Kevin, who in the past worked at […] Read more »

Now that Facebook has launched its Facebook Connect and Google countered with Friend Connect, surprise surprise, MySpace is launching its own effort, MySpaceID. (It was, until recently, labeled Data Availability.)  MySpaceID consists of two core components: Open Standards (“The Open Stack” including OpenSocial, OAuth, and OpenID) […] Read more »

Taking another move from the Facebook playbook, LinkedIn has started their own application platform they’re calling “InApps.” Don’t worry…no movie quizzes, Scrabble games or pokes in the bunch. Instead, Linked in has partnered with well-known companies with business-ready productivity applications to provide apps that users can […] Read more »

Updated: Now that Facebook has announced its redesign, which features a new improved news feed, what will Mark Zuckerberg, the enigmatic and somewhat shy CEO of Facebook, announce when he gets on stage at the f8 conference in San Francisco tomorrow, on July23rd? No, I don’t […] Read more »

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