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Twitter Gets A Tune-Up, Turbo-Boost, and TV-Screen Polish

Twitter's dev team and its app community must be working overtime at the moment--there seems to be a flurry of news about improvements, whole new features and various spit-and-polish activity. We've rounded it up for you. U.K.'s ...READ»

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Open Graph: Now Every Web Page Can Get Some Facebook Love

Facebook, in its ceaseless quest to attract traffic to its site and sew up as much of the social Web as it possibly can, is soon to release a new tool that lets you embed elements of a Facebook page into any normal Web page. The ...READ»

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Amazon's Working on Kindle Reader Software for Mac, Too

Microsoft announced at its Windows 7 launch that Amazon is releasing a Kindle reader for Windows. An Amazon spokesperson told me late Thursday: "Yes, we are working on a Kindle app for Mac." With so many conduits for Kindle reading, ...READ»

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What's Wrong With Facebook Prototypes?

Facebook has created its own Google Labs equivalent, dubbed "Facebook Prototypes," according to Mashable. The division released its first product last week, a desktop notifier for Mac OS X. The company has two more little apps ...READ»

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Can the iPhone Be an Enterprise Tool?

Apple's phone is a terrific gizmo with one major short-coming: It's a silo when it comes to big files. But lots of businesses rely on their ability to share to complete projects, services such as drop.io, SharePoint, and Box are ...READ»

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Layar Opens API to Developers: What Augmented Reality Apps Do You Want?

tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; Layar is the first viable augmented reality app for smartphones. Now it's just released its API to developers, which should pave the way for an armload of augmented reality apps.Layar's API isn't ...READ»

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Five Reasons to Be Terrified of Google Wave

Google Wave, announced today at Google's I/O Developer conference in San Francisco, is a hybridized email system that will fundamentally change the way we think about electronic messaging. This is foreboding ...READ»

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One Possible Future For Twitter: a Vehicle for Charity Micro-Payments

There's a rumor that the majority of first posts from newbies on Twitter goes something like "Just trying to work out what Twitter is for!" It's undoubtedly a successful invention, yet sometimes it feels like a solution in ...READ»

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Apple Makes Seemingly Boring, Important iPhone Software Move

Part of the renewed appeal of Apple's [NASDAQ:AAPL] iPhone is the multitude of applications being written for its operating system. But like any hegemony, Apple hasn't given their developers free reign to write what they want. ...READ»

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Using APIs to Spice Up Your Web Interactivity

For front-end developers and Web designers, now is the time to no longer to feel initimidated by server-side scripting languages. Since the early 2000s when big Web companies began opening their stores of data to developers via ...READ»

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