Hell hath no fury like Steve Jobs really, really pissed off at you.
From a post earlier today, we’ve learned that not only has Gizmodo not been granted press credentials for Monday’s Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (and rumored iPhone 4 announcement), Apple never even responded to their request. Ouch.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened up about the backlash he’s faced in recent weeks since due to Facebook’s ever-changing privacy settings while at the D8 conference Wednesday.
(More on Techland: Live Blogging Facebook’s New Privacy Changes)
Answering to The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Zuckerberg pretty …
You may or may not have heard the latest Facebook ruckus – yeah, we try to tune it out, too – but former President George W. Bush is now on Facebook. That’s right, ol’ W has his very own Facebook page, which means he can now “Like” your post about that thing your cat did yesterday or write a nice birthday message or your wall. He …
Nine-year-old Makenzie Melton from El Dorado Springs, Missouri, was chosen as the national winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest, which of course, means her winning doodle is now featured on Google.com.
(More on Techland: It’s Google Doodle Time: Our Geeky Favorites)
Melton’s doodle beat out more than 33,000 submissions …
Facebook is all set to roll out its “simpler” privacy changes after this month’s backlash over the amount of user data that is available through the site. I’ll be live blogging the press conference here, set to begin at 10:30 a.m. PST (1:30 p.m. ET). Hit refresh to update.
(More on Time.com: Facebook Gives The Scoop On More Privacy …
It seems like a Facebook change is more of a weekly event than a grand, once-in-a-while update. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt, Facebook’s VP of Product Chris Cox announced that the site would roll out changes to its privacy settings once again, this time bringing a settings system that is “drastically simplified.” Right now, users …
If and when you see sponsored tweets show up in your Twitter stream, they’ll be coming from Twitter itself. CEO Dick Costolo today announced that Twitter “will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API.”
The post, titled “The Twitter Platform,” could have just
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Friday, we got word that Justin Long would Mac no more after Apple officially pulled the plug on the clever Mac vs. PC ad series. In tribute, the guys over at One More Thing Podcast have put together a montage of Apple’s Get A Mac commercials’ best moments. It makes me want to put on an American Apparel tee, nondescript hoodie and buy …
The Pennsylvania attorney general Tom Corbett has subpoenaed Twitter for the identity of two of its users who tweeted critical stuff about him. So far, Twitter’s reps say they will protect the personal information of its users. Do you think Twitter should give the information up or tell Corbett where he can stick his subpoena in 140 …
The Internet is coming to a TV near you.
Google unveiled a new platform today called Google TV at their developer conference in San Francisco that it says “will change the future of television.” Google’s move into the living room should come as no surprise given the amount of time we all spend consuming video through our …
Google just unveiled its new Web-integrated TV platform Google TV, said to be available by fall, 2010. From what we saw during Google’s presentation, the TV will sync directly with all Android devices to allow mobile app access via your TV screen, Internet streaming/browsing and a pretty swanky search function that will scan your TV …
We’re following along as Google unveils Google TV. Refresh to update.
Google hopes to change your TV watching experience in the following ways.
(More on Techland: Google Brings the Web to TV with Google TV)
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So Google TV seems …
