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This from the FriendFeed blog: We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle... The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We've always been great admirers of Facebook, and our companies share a common vision. Now we have the opportunity to bring many of the innovations we've developed at FriendFeed to Facebook's 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook's passionate engineers to create even...

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The meteoric rise of Twitter has caused some to wonder if Google’s days are numbered. Some say Twitter search has already surpassed Google in terms of importance.   While I agree that Twitter search is incredibly important, I wouldn’t count Google out anytime soon.   Google has shown itself to be extremely nimble in terms of staying in front of emerging technology trends and putting out new tools and services to take advantage of them.   Therefore it’s no surprise that Google has developed a set of extremely powerful new search options including real-time search.  ...

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  A malicious worm attacked Twitter’s network over the weekend with four separate attacks. The worm was designed to automatically reproduce itself once it’s clicked on....

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According to TechCrunch, Google is in the late stages of negotiations to acquire Twitter. This news comes on the heels of Twitter’s recent rejection of an offer from Facebook. It makes total sense that Google would want to get their hands on Twitter, because of the growing power of Twitter search. Twitter search is well on its way to becoming the most important search engine in the world. Obviously, Google’s mantra of “don’t be evil” is starting to ring a little hollow these days especially if they end up acquiring Twitter. Google is amassing an unprecedented amount of data and power...

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  Can’t afford college in this ugly economic climate? Well, get your learn on anyway with the newly launched YouTube EDU. It’s a new channel from YouTube aggregating thousands of free lectures from over a hundred universities around the country.   (hat tip LifeHacker)...

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