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TechCrunch: Tonight, Google launched its Google Apps Marketplace, an online storefront for Apps products and services. Here are our notes from the announcement. And of course, the marketplace is launching with a number of pilot partners (50 to be exact). One of those partners happens to be recently launched Socialwok, a product that ads a social layer to Gmail and other Google products. At last year’s TechCrunch50 conference, Socialwok made a big splash, winning the award for best demopit startup and launching its ent... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Marketplace:APPS/ APPS:Google_Apps%401268177432686
Mashable!: We had a chance to step into MySpace HQ for a chat with new Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones, who preside over the News Corp.-owned social network from a shared desk in Beverly Hills. The joint office speaks to how closely Hirschhorn and Jones are working together to create a unified vision of the future for the lately struggling MySpace, whose former CEO Owen Van Natta exited the company after only 9 months in the hot seat. Hirschhorn describes MySpace as a site that “lacked focus” as h... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/MySpace:Hirschhorn/ MySpace:Hirschhorn%401268206522850
ReadWriteWeb: It never ceases to amaze me how many high-tech industry elites get ensnared in every Twitter phishing attack. (See our November story 7 High-Tech Twitter Users Who Fell for Phishing Scams ) This evening Twitter announced that a new program will intercept links sent out by Direct Message and through email , checking to make sure they are safe. Phishing prevention is no small matter. Twitter's is a good move but a lot more is needed all over the web. If we want a transactional developer ecosystem of distributed id... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Phishing:Twitter/ Phishing:Security%401268183933612
VentureBeat: Cisco unveils super-router — Cisco Systems today launched a new large-scale core router with enough bandwidth to allow every Chinese citizen to place a video call over the internet at the same time, according to PC World’s Tech Inciter . FourSquare introduces tools for businesses — Popular Silicon Valley check-in service is debuting a dashboard for business owners showing them data on who frequents their locations and when. They are intended to give businesses more information about their custo... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Cisco_Systems%2C_Inc.:Router/ Cisco_Systems%2C_Inc.:Internet%401268166774062
Mashable!: Hulu struck a deal to host content from The NFL Network in January, including eight shows and highlights from every team in the National Football League. The network has been adding new content to the site ever since, and this week Hulu has posted an impressive 400 hours of NFL-related videos. Fierce Online Video reports that Hulu plans to add 600 more hours before the next football season starts. Sports enthusiasts are seeing a big boom in web video coverage; the NCAA college basketball league just launched a w... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/NFL:Verizon_Communications/ Verizon_Communications:Television_advertisement%401268173078774
Mashable!: The Super Bowl may be long over, but Brand Battle 2010 continues to rage on, as yet another commercial is bit by the controversy bug — this time one of those adorable spots from E-Trade featuring a talking baby named “Lindsay.” According to the New York Post , actress Lindsay Lohan is suing the investment site on the grounds that the man-eating, substance-abusing baby in the commercial is based on her. Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, is asking that the commercial be taken off the air an... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Lindsay_Lohan:Trade_paperback/ Lindsay:James_Boyce%401268155218765
Mashable!: 3D is set to be big this year, and Samsung is hoping to tempt early adopters with a promotional offer that attempts to combat one of 3D TV’s main problems — lack of content — by bundling in a 3D movie with certain sales. The promotion takes the form of a new “Starter Kit” that offers U.S. consumers the chance to enjoy 3D movies in their own living rooms, rather than having to head to nearest cinema to check out the eye-popping action. In 2010, Samsung will offer a range of 3D-capabl... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Samsung_Electronics:SONY/ Glasses:Industry%401268180650136
TechCrunch: Earlier today, Google chief economist gave a presentation to an FTC workshop on the changing economics of the newspaper industry. We all know that newspaper ad revenues have been falling off a cliff for years. Many media companies blame Google and are trying to put the genie back in the bottle with partial metered models for online news. Google is understandably on the defensive, trotting out Varian to paint an unemotional picture with as much data as he can muster. But the picture he paints is a dour one for pr... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Newspapers:Google/ Newspapers:Experiment%401268160257160
Mashable!: We’ve seen many, many iterations of the popular tower defense games over the years, but this one has a special meaning for all you Twitter fans out there. Based on a tried and true concept, Tweet Defense is an iPhone game that lets you fight zombies with various tower defense units, but with a social twist: it grabs your various Twitter stats – number of followers, friends and tweets – and calculates bonuses to your defense based on them. It’s like an infinite time sink which connects two... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Tweet:Twitter/ Status:Facebook%401268183911944 Search Engine Land: Microsoft is formally launching its much improved MSN portal today. I wrote about the preview version and the wide range of improvements when it first came out in November. There are lots of  interesting elements to the site, including the “local edition,” which is basically a collection of persistent Bing search queries presented in a [...] *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above or, in Facebook, by clicking on the "View Original Post" link below. *** go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/MSN:Microsoft/ MSN:Microsoft%401268160256677
TechCrunch: Yahoo is backing a cycling team . I don’t know why — but they’re doing it. And today their passion got a little boost: from Google. Google is announcing tomorrow at the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC that Google Maps will now include biking directions in the U.S. Apparently, this was the most-requested feature for the service, as some 57 million Americans ride bikes. Thousands of miles of bike trails have been added to the maps. And there is also step-by-step directions, much like you c... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Google:Yahoo%21/ Yahoo%21:Google%401268180640359
Mashable!: John Gruber of Daring Fireball has an interesting story about the absence of certain iPhone apps – Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather, Voice Memos – on the iPad. It seems that these apps, when scaled up to iPad’s bigger screen, simply didn’t look good enough to Steve Jobs, so he decided to scrap them. Writes Gruber: “Ends up that just blowing up iPhone apps to fill the iPad screen looks and feels weird, even if you use higher-resolution graphics so that nothing looks pixelated. So t... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/APPS:iPhone/ APPS:App_Store%401268177413761
ReadWriteWeb: Online retailer Amazon has ended all Colorado-based affiliate accounts after a new law passed by the state's legislature would have forced them to collect and pay state sales taxes. The law, HB 10-1193 , states that any affiliate marketer making more than $10,000 for a retailer is declared a legal agent, and a state presence, of that company. Rather than be forced to pay the state taxes, Amazon has instead side-stepped the law by closing its doors to all affiliates based in Colorado. Sponsor Residents of the sta... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Amazon.com:Colorado/ Colorado:Amazon.com%401268150950355
Mashable!: Ask any Kindle owner about browsing the web on the device, and you’ll get the same answer: Well, you can do it, but… And then you’ll hear how abysmal the browsing experience really is. Having tried it myself, it made me want to whip out my iPhone and its Safari at each turn. Now, the folks at Webmonkey have noticed that Amazon has posted a job listing (the listing has been online for quite a while, but has only now been noticed), looking for a software development engineer to “design and... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Amazon_Kindle:Web_browser/ Amazon_Kindle:Web_browser%401268202020705
TechCrunch: While Loren Brichter may be hard at work on Tweetie Two for the Mac , he hasn’t given on his baby: Tweetie 2 for the iPhone. While the app hasn’t been updated since late November, a new build is due shortly with one big addition: native Foursquare support. What this means is that anytime someone in your tweet stream sends out a tweet from Foursquare (which, to the annoyance of some users, happens automatically at times), that Foursquare link (shown as a 4sq.com URL) will be able to be opened in Tweet... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Foursquare:MySpace/ Foursquare:Software%401268173078737
VentureBeat: Hoover’s , a well-known service that provides business data to salespeople and marketers, just released its first iPhone app . If you’re a salesperson who spends a lot of time on the road, the Hoover’s Near Here app may help you find potential sales. Basically, the app is a location-based directory of sales leads. So if a salesperson is on a business trip and suddenly finds that they have some time to kill, they don’t have to just sit around — the app can help them figure out where ... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Sales:iPhone/ Sales:Apple%401268177433366
TechCrunch: When I wrote that location would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW , I also meant that Twitter’s geolocation would be this year’s Twitter at SXSW. The service has just turned on geolocation on its website today for the first time. While Twitter’s geolocation feature has been live through its API since last November , there was no sign of integration into the main twitter.com site until now. As you can see in the screenshot above, for tweets tagged with location, right next to the source of t... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Twitter:Time/ Doctors:US%24%401268180665761
VentureBeat: If you thought your TV would be safe from Google’s search empire, think again. Google is currently testing a service on Dish Network that will allow users to search through TV listings and web video (including Youtube) on their televisions. As reported by the Wall Street Journal (via Silicon Alley Insider ), the service is driven by new set-top boxes that replace the standard Dish Network box. Intriguingly, the new boxes are running “elements” of Google’s Android mobile operating system &... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Google:Android/ Dish_Network:DISH%401268180640392
ReadWriteWeb: Soon, you will be able to share your location with your Facebook friends. According to the New York Times' Nick Bilton, Facebook plans to reveal this new feature during its f8 developer conference at the end of April. As Bilton notes, Facebook updated its privacy policy last year to incorporate language about location sharing. Facebook, according to this report, has been working on this feature for over a year. The company will offer location-based services through its own mobile applications and developers will... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Facebook:Location/ Service:Windows_7%401268150959414
ReadWriteWeb: Social media gurus: We all know one. If you're lucky, you know only one. They are the attendees of tech parties, the "Twitter consultants," the armchair generals of the Internet, and their numbers grow by the day. Yet most of them couldn't distinguish a line of code from a badly punctuated haiku. What's to be done with the social media experts? Accept that their blathering may contain some wisdom? Or require technical exams for all Twitter users with more than 1,000 followers. You decide! And make the ... go to the article ]]> http://www.buzzbox.com/rfonti/MyBuzzBox/2010-03-10/Social_Media:Advertising/ Sxswi_2010:Chevrolet%401268206524800