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The Don Dodge “Ambassador From Microsoft” Exit Interview

Last week Microsoft's "Ambassador to Startups" Don Dodge was laid off from Microsoft as part of a broad reduction in staff.We, along with countless others, lamented the decision. Dodge was the face of Microsoft for many, many people. And the comments to our post and other blog coverage ...

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Like Words? You’ll Love These 2 APIs

Desktop word processing software, such as Microsoft Word, features powerful spelling and grammar tools that help writers catch mistakes. Thanks to standards-based web services, online word processing tools are starting to catch up to the desktop competition. Two APIs, Wordnik and After the Deadli...

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Bot Herders Used Google Apps To Spread Malware

Google has confirmed news today that bot herders gained control of Google Apps to feed commands to networks of infected computers. According to Arbor Networks, the bot herd was discovered over the weekend. After being notified of the attack, Google quickly shut down the infected app engine.Also o...

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Original... Web 2.0 — 8 hours ago

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Twitter and LinkedIn Status Updates Are Now Synced

Twitter’s spree of partnerships isn’t stopping anytime soon. Late last month, Microsoft and Twitter struck a search deal to integrate Twitter within Bing. Mere hours later, Google struck back with its own search deal with Twitter. Now there’s a new Twitter partnership launchin...

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Social Networks Continue To Rally Around Twitter As LinkedIn Goes Tweet Crazy Too

Professional social network LinkedIn has long had a feature that lets users update their status on their profile. But it's plainly obvious that LinkedIn users don't nearly use the status feature for mass communication as frequently as they use Twitter or Facebook for the same purpose. In fact, I...

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Twitter Extends Global Reach: SMS in Indonesia

Twitter’s international push has been rapidly accelerating. In the last month alone, the company has brought tweeting via SMS to India, launched Twitter Mobile in Japan, and opened up Twitter to Spanish speakers across the world.Now Twitter has made inroads into Indonesia, the world’...

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