• ‘Apple Has Destroyed the Music Business’–Not That We Didn’t Try Our Best | Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD
  NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker said Apple “destroyed the music business in terms of pricing” and will invariably do the same to the online video business.
  (tags: Apple iTunes Music NBC Business media)
• Facebook Rumors: Making Friends with More investors
  “Two hedge funds from New York have apparently jumped into the Facebook deal.We’ve got our ear to the ground to figure out who it is but each put in about $250 million–for $500 million total–at the same valuation as Microsoft Corp.”
  (tags: facebook Microsoft Business finance)
• Google Open Social
  Nothing here yet, but looks like it will be where Google puts the open social API docs
  (tags: google opensocial socialsoftware socialnetworking facebook API socialmedia development documentation)
• blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web
  n a nutshell, Open Social is an open web API that can be supported by two kinds of developers: “Containers” — social networking systems like Ning, Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, and Friendster, and… “Apps” — applications that want to be embedded within contain
  (tags: Google opensocial API socialmedia socialsoftware platform applications facebook)
• Checkmate? MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed)
  “Will Facebook now be forced to join OpenSocial? Google says they are talking to “everyone.” This is a major strategic decision for Facebook, and they may have little choice but to join this coalition.”
  (tags: Google facebook API opensocial socialnetworking socialmedia socialsoftware platform widgets)
• Absolutely Del.icio.us Tools Collection
  An updated list of tools for Del.icio.us
  (tags: delicious tools directory aggregator bookmarks Collaboration tagging tags Folksonomy)

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