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Gary Vaynerchuk visits Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters to host a wine tasting and discuss his website tv.winelibrary.com . This event took place on April 3, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series. In 2006, Gary Vaynerchuk launched Wine Library TV (WLTV), a free daily video blog in which he tastes and reviews wines. He quickly built a reputation from his energetic and unpretentious reviews. Gary made television appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and The Ellen Degeneres Show, and he has garnered widespread media recognition including features by the LA Times and Washington Post. In 2008,…

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Want some big exposure on Facebook? Just pull off a water landing in a fully loaded passenger jet.
For Chesley B. Sullenberger, who successfully landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson river Thursday, that happening appeared to have given him a cult-like following on the popular social network.
So far users have created nearly a dozen fan pages for Sullenberger, the most active of which… is pulling in more than 100 new fans a minute and totals more than 51,000 members at the time of this posting. While it’s nowhere near the millions attained by some celebrities and

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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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As expected, MySpace has announced that it will launch its developer platform on Tuesday morning.
MySpace, which is owned by News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media, is one of the most high-profile social media companies to be working with Google’s new OpenSocial standard…. All applications for the MySpace Developer Platform will be OpenSocial-compatible with MySpace-specific extensions.
A look at MySpace’s developer site.
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Developers will have access to all public profile data (interests, region, friends’ list) and will be able to use JavaScript and HTML as well as ActionScript, which powers Flash applications. Most of the

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