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Last week, we wrote about LinkedIn's recent issues with its Groups - as part of a new platform rollout, a number of management features were apparently buggy, while others had been removed entirely.


Tonight sees the release of a number of new features on the platform that should quell some of these concerns.  Among the new features are a centralized hub page for every group, where group members can come together and converse with each other in one place.  The release also introduces enhanced group and user management features, including a searchable roster.]]></description>
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Scribd, the popular document sharing hub, has finally rolled out a much-needed redesign.  The site has long been hampered by a messy homepage that wasn't attractive for first-time visitors, displaying a list of its top features in lieu of a YouTube-esque stream of featured documents.  The old design made it clear that Scribd worked well as a utility, but didn't make it attractive as a destination site.  Now, the new site highlights a sampling of its top documents and includes a number of UX changes that Scribd hopes will remedy this issue.
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<title>The Best of Android: Final Challenge Winners Announced</title>
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Last May, Google announced the first set of winners in its two-part contest called Android Challenge, which is meant to kick-start the creation of 3rd-party applications for its nascent mobile platform by enticing developers with a total of $10 million in awards.

Today, Google is releasing the names of its second set of winners, 10 of which receive $275,000 and 10 of which receive $100,000.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch50 is just a week and a half away. The list of presenting companies is kept strictly confidential until the day of the event to ensure maximum audience  attention. But we're making one exception this year. Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg's Katalyst Media will be launching Blah Girls, one of his new interactive online video products, at TechCrunch50.

Ashton recorded an intro video for Blah Girls letting us know how excited he is about all of the confidentiality and rehearsal requirements around the event.
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<description><![CDATA[In an email to users today, Yahoo announced that its year old social network Yahoo Mash will be shutting down on September 29. This was Yahoo's fourth serious attempt at getting a foothold in social networking after Yahoo 360 and failed acquisition attempts of Facebook and Bebo.]]></description>
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<title>Can We Predict The Outcome of The Presidential Election With Each Candidate&#x2019;s Traffic Data?</title>
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Can traffic to a Presidential Candidate's homepage be used to gauge who will win this year's election?  Hitwise has published recent data on the traffic both American presidential candidates have seen in the last month (ending 8/23), and while the results don't seem to shed much light on the forthcoming election's outcome, they reveal a few interesting trends.


Hitwise has ranked each state by two criteria: its contribution to each site's total traffic, and the the overall likelihood that a user in the state will visit the candidate's site (called the Representation index).  If either metric is applicable to the election, it will be Representation Index, which indicates the candidate's popularity on a per-state basis and isn't affected by the state's population.]]></description>
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<title>Jaiku Uncaps Invites, Migrates to Google Infrastructure</title>
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Things have been quiet over at Jaiku since its acquisition by Google last Fall. People worried that Google may have ruined Twitter's most formidable competitor by requiring the Finnish startup to labor away for months integrating its service into Google's technology stack instead of rolling out new features. All the while, new signups have been disabled and invitations limited, which has cut the service off from a healthy stream of new users.

But now we're seeing some signs of life. Jaiku has moved its software over to a Google data center and has given its existing users an unlimited number of invites to send their friends. ]]></description>
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The Android Blog is reporting that Google has officially announced the Android Market, an App Store like solution that allows publishers to upload programs and sell them online. 

Developers will be able to make their content available on an open service hosted by Google that features a feedback and rating system similar to YouTube. We chose the term "market" rather than "store" because we feel that developers should have an open and unobstructed environment to make their content available. Similar to YouTube, content can debut in the marketplace after only three simple steps: register as a merchant, upload and describe your content and publish it. We also intend to provide developers with a useful dashboard and analytics to help drive their business and ultimately improve their offerings.]]></description>
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According to Silicon Alley Insider, YouTube is about to focus even more intently on leveraging its homepage for profit by selling large format ads that expand to fill the whole page. The ad unit, expected to come in the following weeks, will start at a price of about $200,000 per day with rates increasing in the Fall.
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<description><![CDATA[Why is it that both political campaigns feel the need to have their own social networks.  Barack Obama has my.barackobama.com and John McCain has McCainSpace, which just relaunched with a new design from KickApps after failing massively on its own.  The new McCainSpace design itself is functional enough, giving McCain supporters a central place to discuss election issues via blogs, forums, videos, and photos.  But I'm not sure who the site is supposed to appeal to other than lonely Young Republicans who don't have any friends on Facebook.

The site is aimed at "Generation08," presumably the young'uns that the campaign is having a hard time reaching.   The logo and default photo image remind me of something out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (remember that scene with the alien light coming through the doorway?)  And then there's the welcome video of McCain on the homepage (embedded below), saying "Greetings my friends."  Greetings, gramps.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we announced that Jason Calacanis would be interviewing serial entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire Mark Cuban at TechCrunch50. The comments were mixed, and Cuban was clearly reading. And in one case, responding. When video blogger Loren Feldman wrote &#8220;Mark Cuban is not a tech visionary. He is a lucky bastard. Broadcast.com was a [...]]]></description>
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<title>YouTube Adds Closed Captioning</title>
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YouTube has turned on the ability to add full closed captions to videos.  This will not only allow videos to appeal more directly to foreign audiences, but will give YouTube excellent data for searching videos and targeting ads to them.  After all, a complete set of subtitles is the same as a transcript of the video.  And you can upload subtitles for as many languages as you want.  It's excellent data. From the YouTube blog:]]></description>
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<title>Mozilla Extends Lucrative Deal With Google For 3 Years</title>
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Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, has extended its search deal with Google for another three years.  In return for setting Google as the default search engine on Firefox, Google pays Mozilla a substantial sum - in 2006 the total amounted to around $57 million, or 85% of the company's total revenue.  The deal was originally going to expire in 2006, but was later extended to 2008 and will now run through 2011.

The deal will ensure that the non-profit Mozilla foundation will be able to continue with the development of Firefox, its mail client Thunderbird, and a number of other applications. From Mozilla CEO John Lilly:
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<title>iPhone Reception Problems are All Your Fault</title>
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According to an AT&#038;T source, net effect problems in the iPhone firmware are causing poor reception and calls dropped for iPhone 3G carriers. It's all your fault.]]></description>
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<title>Microsoft&#x2019;s Live Search Cashback Scheme Fails To Move The Market Share Needle</title>
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When it comes to search, Microsoft is trying everything it can to become a serious player. It tried to acquire Yahoo, its latest version of Internet Explorer attempts to steer Web surfers away from Google, and then there is straight-out payola to search advertisers.  I am talking, of course, of Microsoft's Live Search Cashback promotion, which lets advertisers offer rebates to consumers who make a purchase after doing a Microsoft search.

After Live Cashback launched in May, Microsoft saw an initial one-month boost in its share of the U.S. search market (from 8.5 percent in May to 9.2 percent in June).  But in July, its share slipped again down to 8.9 percent, according to comScore.  Although we only have two months of full data (June and July) since launch to evaluate, it doesn't look like Cashback is having any effect.]]></description>
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<title>JamLegend Takes On Guitar Hero On The Web (1,000 Invites)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the most promising startups to come out of the LaunchBox incubator is JamLegend, a music site with mass appeal.  JamLegend takes the familiar anyone-can-be-a-rockstar model made popular by videogames like Guitar Hero and Rock Band and puts it on the Web.  The site is in private beta, but we have 1,000 invites for the first people to sign up at the site with the invite code "TechCrunch."

Once you sign up, you pick a song from a variety of genres (although right now there are only songs in rock, alternative, and acoustic) and a difficulty level. Once the song starts playing, notes come down as dots on a guitar fret, and you have to press the right buttons on your keyboard and "enter" as they pass by.  You can play "Jam Style," holding your keyboard like an air guitar, or "chill style" (see illustration.).  I'd recommend chill style—you never know who might walk into the room and catch you geek rocking with your keyboard.  The game will will also support game guitars plugged into our computer for serious faux fretters. ]]></description>
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<title>SpeedDate Scores $6 Million For Matchmaking In A Hurry</title>
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Online dating site SpeedDate has raised $6 million in a Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures.  SpeedDate offers users a series of 3 minute mini-dates, during which they can converse through video, audio, and a chat box.  If both partners decide they were a good match when prompted at the end of the date, they can continue communicating through the site until they make the jump to real life.

When we first wrote about SpeedDate, the site had a small userbase, which made it difficult to conduct a series of dates (there simply weren't enough potential matches).  Since then the site has grown substantially (claiming 100,000 dates daily), so you can hop on and hope to find a reasonable match within a few minutes.]]></description>
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<title>What The Veoh Decision Means For YouTube And Others</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Attorneys representing online video sites around the country are salivating today over the Veoh summary judgment decision (I know this because I've spoken to a few of them). In a nutshell, here's what we learned today: If you take reasonable precautions against copyrighted materials on your service, you may be ok. And oh yeah, if you are going to get sued, try to get sued in federal court in northern California, because the judges there are a lot more Internet-friendly than some other federal judges we've seen.

Specifically, the court said that online video sites are protected under the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA if they:]]></description>
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<title>Bungee Labs In A Freefall</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bungee Labs, a well funded Utah based startup that left private beta only six months ago, laid off 15 employees today to give themselves more runway on their cash burn rate. The last we checked they had 38 employees, so this is nearly 40% of their total headcount.]]></description>
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<title>FYI, None Of Us Can Go To The Google/Vanity Fair Party Tonight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From: Vanity Fair / Google
Date: August 27, 2008 9:06:32 PM PDT
To: Michael Arrington
Subject: IMPT: Google/Vanity Party Status
Reply-To: demconventionparty@google.com
Thank you for your interest in the Vanity Fair / Google Party.
We have reached full capacity for this event and are unable to accommodate additional guests.
If you have NOT received a Confirmation email&#8211;separate from the automated RSVP response&#8211; [...]]]></description>
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<title>Transcoding Is Not A Crime, Says Court In Veoh Porn Case</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Finally, a judge who may have actually visited the Internet once or twice before deciding a case. Judge Howard Lloyd, a judge on the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, threw out adult entertainment company IO Group's 2006 copyright infringement case against Veoh today. At the time Veoh had some user-uploaded porn on its service that belonged to IO Group. Despite quick takedowns from DMCA notices, IO Group sued anyway.]]></description>
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<title>We Need To Kill The Business Card Once And For All</title>
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The business card needs to die, and everyone knows it.  They're clumsy, easy to lose and virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally (they kill trees, too).  The cell phone market could easily put business cards out of their misery, but instead of conforming to a single standard for contact exchange, handset manufacturers offer proprietary solutions or none at all.


FriendBook, an iPhone application from Tapulous, looked like it might hold the answer.  The app uses a physical "handshake" to swap information - users simply put their iPhones next to each other and shake them.  Granted, this would only work on iPhones, but it could have paved the way for similar apps on other phones.  But as of yesterday the fate of FriendBook is now in jeopardy due to the departure of its lead developer (and Tapulous cofounder) Mike Lee.  So is all hope lost?
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<title>BackType, A Twitter For Comments</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BackType is the newest YCombinator startup to launch from their summer program. They're a blog-comment focused startup - founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Think Twitter for all comments on the web.]]></description>
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FriendFeed, the social activity aggregator, has released a set of customizable widgets that will allow bloggers to make sure their readers can follow all of their activities across the web.  While the site has provided some widgets in the past, this set includes some new widgets to facilitate story sharing and allows for more tweaking than was offered before.

Among the widgets offered are a new profile badge, a list of the most recent items in your feed, and a "Share on FriendFeed" chiclet that allows users to add an item to FriendFeed without leaving your site.  You can grab the widgets here.
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<title>Mark Cuban Joins TechCrunch50 for a One-On-One Interview with Jason Calacanis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark Cuban will be joining the TechCrunch50 program on Tuesday, September 9 for a one-on-one interview with Jason Calacanis from the main stage.  You probably know Mark as both the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Broadcast.com with Todd Wagner.  They then sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in July of 1999 for $5.04 billion.  Before Broadcast.com, Mark co-founded MicroSolutions, a leading National Systems Integrator, in 1983, and later sold it to CompuServe.]]></description>
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<title>Mobile Apps Now Arriving Before New Devices</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While Bold isn't here yet new messaging software is up for grabs.
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<title>Dell&#x27;s Expansion Eats Into Earnings</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/HGdxg9omWt0/3768431</link>
<description><![CDATA[Global expansion has its price, and for Dell it showed up on the bottom line.
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<title>Dell Disappoints</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dell's warning that weakness is spreading could endanger the stock market's recovery.
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<title>Confirmed: Facebook Movie a Go</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/-AInYdEkNro/3768406</link>
<description><![CDATA[It's no hoax: famed Hollywood writer to pen movie about meteoric rise and controversial history of Facebook.
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<title>Microsoft Issues Warnings on IE 8 Beta 2</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/myamILXOVMM/3768401</link>
<description><![CDATA[It may be a Microsoft creation but it doesn't play well with other Microsoft products.
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<title>Enterprises Looking to the Clouds, Dell Says</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/qwDO1mAmD9Q/3768351</link>
<description><![CDATA[System provider Dell pushing hardware, infrastructure help to oil giants, Facebook, Goldman Sachs and others.
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<title>IDC: Q2 Server Sales Have Their Own Price</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/4sAUV1eefks/3768341</link>
<description><![CDATA[Servers are getting cheaper to buy, especially x86 servers.
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<title>LexisNexis: No Liberal Tilt For Obama</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/KOoh_9vj168/3768336</link>
<description><![CDATA[New analysis from LexisNexis challenges notion of media fawning over Obama; Nielsen study confirms the Democrat is still the darling of the Web.
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<title>iPhone Security Hole Could Expose Data</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/rBI8mAR3M8c/3768316</link>
<description><![CDATA[A tech blog says all it takes is three taps to tap in.
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<title>Weak Economy Could Sap Handset Growth</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/oKBDGdwHlEk/3768301</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gartner's latest research shows some weakness in growth rates.
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<title>How a Mystery iPhone Worker Became a Star</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/Hfntn54FLzA/3768291</link>
<description><![CDATA[The picture is telling a lot of stories on Apple sites.
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<title>Psystar Mac Cloner Ready to Countersue Apple?</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/mq-tyoLOsoc/3768276</link>
<description><![CDATA[Antitrust is at the heart of company's counteroffensive towards Apple.
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<title>Password Stealing Worm Catches NASA Napping</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/kO84bjtcdq4/3768196</link>
<description><![CDATA[Houston, we have a virus.
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<title>Microsoft&#x27;s IE8 Beta Sports New UI Features</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/1Sajj_kPGMA/3768201</link>
<description><![CDATA[This release emphasizes the user experience, with new UI features, improved security and changes to the address bar and search function.
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<title>FCC Concedes to Testing on Free Internet Plan</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/WxCCZjQuQKY/3768191</link>
<description><![CDATA[Amid pressure from T-Mobile and other carriers, commission agrees to conduct interference testing ahead of new spectrum auction.
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<title>Mozilla&#x27;s Ubquity Mashup: For The Masses?</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/WyhfWAmzo-A/3768181</link>
<description><![CDATA[It wants to help you paste actual content instead of links into an e-mail or Web page.
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<title>Technical Analysis: Stocks Wind Up</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/cIpWIRN3568/3768171</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Dow and S&P are getting wound up for a big break. Which way will it be?
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<title>Stocks Rise Ahead of Dell&#x27;s Results</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/LTLBqaDsq4g/3768166</link>
<description><![CDATA[Investors will be watching Dell's quarterly results closely to see if the company can continue its turnaround.
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<title>How a Global Internet Policy Might Look</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/MWFSrCnLjwE/3768156</link>
<description><![CDATA[Global survey of Internet activists hears calls for online bill of rights, questions about American hegemony.
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<title>MySpace Tops in Display Ads</title>
<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InternetnewsRealtimeNewsForItManagers/~3/MUvDsXKJoCs/3768086</link>
<description><![CDATA[New figures from comScore are the latest sign that ad business is heating up at social networking giant.
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