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Apple Rumor

Apple Rumored to Buy Twitter

The latest pre-WWDC rumors don’t involve the iPhone, the Mac, or even Snow Leopard. The buzz making it’s way around the bloggosphere is that Apple has it’s eye on the social, micro-blogging service Twitter. The site TechCrunch has posted a report on the growing rumor of an Twitter buy-out: Today, though, rumors popped up that […]

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Mac Software

Adium beta Includes Twitter Connectivity

The Adium folks have been hard at work and one of the new features slated for version 1.4 is accessing Twitter accounts. That should come as no surprise considering the explosion of Twitter popularity and the development of software to access the service. As Zack West of the Adium blog put it: “For well over […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: 10th Anniversary of Blogging? Try 12th…

The Wall Street Journal published a story this weekend about how blogging just turned 10 years old in which they give credit to Jorn Barger for starting the first blog in 1997. WSJ also mentions David Winer, father of Dave’s Scripting News, and Cameron Barrett, who started CamWorld saying “by widespread consensus, 1997 is a […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: What can we learn from Microsoft’s Mac BU blog?

So it’s official. Everyone’s doing it. Blogging, that is. That’s right, pretty much everyone these days has a blog, including a freshy from the good folks at Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit (Mac BU). Their blog, affectionately titled Mac Mojo (kudos on the name guys!) is part of Redmond’s strategy to try to be warm and […]