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Mixing It Up at 795 Folsom St – Twitter acquires MixerLabs to pimp their GeoAPI. (23.12.2009)

The meaning of open – Google comes up with its own universal theory of openness. (21.12.2009)

Socializing your feed with Twitter – Google rolls out its own Twitterfeed. (14.12.2009)

Netvibes Wasabi Introduces a Whole New Way to Manage the Real-Time Web – Netvibes releases its Wasabi edition, which is worth a look. (14.12.2009)

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances – And Now How Much Would You Pay? – AWS provide a kind of marketplace for EC2 instances. (14.12.2009)

An Android dogfood diet for the holidays – Google gently hints towards its very own phone. (12.12.2009)

Google Chrome for the holidays: Mac, Linux and extensions in beta – Google Chrome finally comes to Linus and Macs. (08.12.2009)

Exploring a new, more dynamic way of reading news with Living Stories – Google introduces living stories, a cool aggregator for news. (08.12.2009)

Relevance meets the real-time web – Google introduces the Twitter intgration. Has room for improvement. (07.12.2009)

Five Years of Digg…and counting – digg turned five. (04.12.2009)

Introducing Google Public DNS – Google introduces a public DNS. (03.12.2009)

Introducing Feather: A Lighter Way to Browse Videos – YouTube provides a lightweight interface. (03.12.2009)

LinkedIn Platform: Open for Business – LinkedIn launches a platform. (23.11.2009)

Soup TV: Endless scrolling for videos – soup.io launches soup.tv. (21.11.2009)

What's Happening? – omg, Twitter changes its tagline to What’s Happening? (19.11.2009)

Burda Media new primary shareholder of XING AG – Burde acquires 25% shares of Xing. (18.11.2009)

Announcing TypePad Micro – TypePad launches a free Microblogging tool. (17.11.2009)

Evernote raises $10 million investment – Evernote gets a nice cash infusion. (16.11.2009)

The Wolfram|Alpha API Has Arrived – Wolfram|Alpha has released an API. (15.10.2009)

Aardvark launches Social Search on the Web – Aardvark has launched publicly. (14.10.2009)

Birthday #4 – Remember turns four. (13.10.2009)

Waving hello! – The hello world posting of Google Wave. (12.10.2009)

4,000,000,000 – Wow, flickr now has 4 billion photos. (12.10.2009)

Typekit is live – Typekit has launched. (10.11.2009)

Bing maps is Looking Good – bing improves its maps. (10.11.2009)

Transparency, choice and control – now complete with a Dashboard – Google provides a dashboard, which lists all data known about a user. (05.11.2009)

Create and Share custom News sections – Google News gets a bunch of features for personalization. (04.11.2009)

The App Garden – Flickr has launched a playground for apps. (03.11.2009)

Bookmark sync and more speed in the latest beta release – Google Chrome now lets you sync bookmarks between computers. (02.11.2009)

There's a List for That – Twitter launches the Twitter-Lists. (30.10.2009)

First 5,000 Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud – The New York Times teams up with freebase. (29.10.2009)

Introducing Google Social Search – Google launches a poorly implemented Social Search. (26.10.2009)

Introducing Raindrop – Mozilla introduces Raindrop, a project to filter input-streams. (22.10.2009)

Flickr! It’s made of people! – Flickr introduces People Tagging. (21.10.2009)

Tweets and updates and search, oh my! – Google hooks up with Twitter too. (21.10.2009)

Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You – Bing hooks up with Twitter. (21.10.2009)

Introducing Ning Virtual Gifts! – Ning introduces gifts as virtual currency. (20.10.2009)

Delicious is now about Y!ou too – Delicious starts to switch to Yahoo-Logins. (19.10.2009)

Welcome To The New Technorati – Technorati relaunches and completeley loses its contact with the blogosphere. (08.10.2009)

Publicize: Twitter – Wordpress lets you automagically tweet new posts. (08.10.2009)

It’s here: Brightkite 2.0 – Brightkite relaunches as Brightkite 2.0. (06.10.2009)

What is a browser? – And Googles tries to explain the concept of a browser. (06.10.2009)

Choosing a smart password – Google provides some tips for choosing a smart password. (06.10.2009)

Announcing Custom Times Feeds – The New York Times launches Custom Times Feeds. (05.10.2009)

Introducing free Geistesblitz app for iPhone – MindMeister launches Geistesblitz for the iPhone. (05.10.2009)

nice, the various APIs of the NYT can be accessed via YQL now.

interesting: Ident Engine – a JavaScript library which builds lifestreams (via)

yay, google barcode doodle.

Social Mention: API monitoring for social sentiment and alerts – Apigee launches an API for tracking social sentiments. (02.10.2009)

Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free – Actually I forgot: You can keep up to 1 gigabyte of data in SimpleDB without paying any storage fees. (02.10.2009)

YUI 3.0.0: First GA Release of YUI’s Next-Generation Codeline – Yahoo finally has officially released the YUI 3.0.0. (29.09.2009)

New in Labs: Hide read labels – Useful Gmail Labs feature which only displays labels with unread messages inside. (25.09.2009)

New Twitter Funding – Twitter confirms the $100 mio round of funding. (25.09.2009)

Shared Snapshots for EC2's Elastic Block Store Volumes – Amazon launches shared snapshots for EBS, which can be shared betweens various EC2s. (24.09.2009)

PostRank launches the first Publisher Engagement Analytics service – PostRank launches an analytics service tracking social engagement. (24.09.2009)

Posterous Tip: Turn Posterous tags into autoposted Twitter #hashtags – Posterous added a new feature that turns tags on Posterous into #hashtags when you autopost to Twitter. (24.09.2009)

Help and learn from others as you browse the web: Google Sidewiki – Google launches Google Sidewiki, Google’s layer to comment the web. (23.09.2009)

MySpace Gets Twitterized – Twitter and MySpace now can sync their status updates. (23.09.2009)

Product Ideas for Custom Search – Google Custom Search gets its very own Product Ideas Page. (22.09.2009)

The holy tech flame wars – Pingdom has compiled a short history of flame wars. (22.09.2009)

Calling All Ideas – Google Reader gets its very own Product Ideas Page. (22.09.2009)

I’ve been using Readtwit for a couple of days and it seems to be a keeper. In a nutshell it builds a feed from the links twittered by your friends. Whenever possible the content of the linked article is injected too. You even can train it to ignore users or hashtags.

Yahoo! OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use – Yahoo now supports the OpenID Hybrid Protocol. (18.09.2009)

Log In with Your Facebook Username – Wow, beginning today, you also will be able to log in to your Facebook account with your username. (17.09.2009)

Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA – Google acquires reCAPTCHA and crowdsources the web to digitze the books. (16.09.2009)

Posterous Theming: It's here, it's live, and it's time to make your site yours! – Posterous adds theming. Not sure if this is a good idea, most people will love it tho. (16.09.2009)

Testing 1-2-3: Announcing Facebook Prototypes – Facebook gets Google Labs like Prototypes. (15.09.2009)

Read news fast with Google Fast Flip – Google launches Fast Flip, a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. (14.09.2009)

Visual Search – Why type when you can see it? – Bing introduces Visual Search. (14.09.2009)

Making Your TypePad Blog Real Time – TypePad adds support for PubSubHubbub. (14.09.2009)