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In a post on the company’s developer blog on Friday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced some changes to the management of its third-party developer projects. This encompasses both the Facebook platform, which opened up the social network to third-party applications and took off like wildfire when it launched in 2007, and the newer Facebook Connect, which brings Facebook log-in credentials to participating outside sites….
No employees have departed the company or were laid off in the process, a Facebook spokesman told CNET News in an e-mail.
The new head of platform and Facebook Connect engineering is

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With Thursday’s news that Google is discontinuing development on its Notebook service, it may leave a few people looking for a viable replacement. The good news is that there are a handful of really solid products that do the same thing, and in some cases–do it better. Here’s a list of seven of our favorites, in no particular order.
1. Evernote
Evernote has a few big things going for it, the main one being its cross-platform architecture which lets you access and add to your Evernotes from multiple devices. It also has optical character recognition…, which means

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Correction, 12:10 p.m. PST: This story misspelled the name of one of the private investors in Snooth. His name is Kevin Fortuna.
Apple… announced Friday that over 500 million apps have been downloaded from its App Store. Amazingly, the company only reached 300 million downloads on December 5, meaning its App Store has enjoyed accelerating growth since the holiday season. The announcement, which was made in the form of an advertisement on Apple’s home page, also claims that the App Store now features more than 15,000 apps.
A new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project says

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What makes a social network work? Is it the design of the site? The advertising on it? The logo? It’s none of these things, of course.
It’s the people.
MySpace proves that you don’t need pretty design, and Facebook shows that if you start by identifying an audience (college students) and give them a better way to do something they’re already doing (getting to know each other), it is enough to get a social project off the ground.
Fuego Nation…, a new social network launching into private beta Friday, runs counter to just about everything I know about

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In another expansion of its Profiles site, Google has enabled people to share their contact information with selected contacts, a move that offers modest convenience for users of the service and valuable data to Google.
The feature shows as a “Contact info” tab; clicking on it shows whatever contact information you’ve entered and the note, “You are not sharing your contact information with anyone. Edit your profile to add contact info, and then choose who to share it with so that they always have the most up-to-date information.”
Google Profiles… is hardly a Facebook crusher or a LinkedIn slayer,

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