HAPPY WINDOWS 7 DAY!!!
Make sure you get your copy, this week several real time web search plays drop with everyone in a perceived “rush” to get their solutions in place. Lala is at the center of at least 2 music distribution colabs with Google & Facebook. I must admit, Lala gets my money first having a larger collection of obscure music and great price point. In other news, social sites can literally wish you to death as seen with the current Kanye West RIP meme. This has been big news all week.

RIP Kanye West - http://www.whatthetrend.com/trend/RIP+Kanye+West
The popular forum ebaumsworld spread the rumour of a Kanye West death, which caught on Twitter’s trending topics. Since then, contrarians, gullible folks, and “Imma let you finish” jokes have kept the trend afloat…
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BREAKING: Google Announces Social Search - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/breaking-google-launches-social-search/
Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer has just made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo: a new Google Labs feature called Social Search. They just gave a quick demo of the new feature…
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Facebook Adds Digital Music to Gift Store - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/facebook-lala/
Imagine being able to gift a track to a friend on Facebook. Now you can, thanks to today’s Facebook announcement of a revamped gift store that includes a music selection powered by Lala…
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Facebook: 45 Million Status Updates Every Day - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/facebook-sheryl-discussion/
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg took the stage. She sat down for a Q&A with Federated Media’s John Battelle to discuss Facebook’s deal with Bing, its long-term goals, advertising, Facebook Connect, and more…
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BREAKING: Google Announces Search Deal With Twitter - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/google-twitter-search-deal/
While we’re still digesting the news of Bing adding Twitter to its search engine, Google has some news of their own: they’re about to do the same exact thing…
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19% of Internet Users Now Use Status Updates - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/pew-september-data/
The Pew Internet and American Life Project is part of a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that explores trends around the Internet, publishing reports about their findings on a regular basis…
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REVEALED: Details of Bing’s Twitter Search [Screenshots] - http://mashable.com/2009/10/21/bing-tweet-deal/
This morning, big news broke that Microsoft had penned deals with Facebook and Twitter that will integrate status updates from the two popular social media services into the Bing search engine…
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Microsoft’s Online Store Gets A Revamp, Now Sells Windows 7 PCs Too - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/22/microsofts-online-store-gets-a-revamp-now-sells-windows-7-pcs-too/
Coinciding with the worldwide debut of Windows 7 and the launch of physical retail stores throughout the world, Microsoft has revamped its online store as well…
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MySpace Adds Full Music Video Archives, Deep Artist Analytics - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/myspace-adds-full-music-video-archives-deep-artist-analytics/
MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta will make a number of announcements on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this afternoon. Among them are two major changes to MySpace Music. The service will now have a full historical archive of music videos from the major labels and independents. And they are also launching an artist dashboard to give musicians deep analytics into profile views, music streams, and friend information…
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The Web Spends 8 Billion Minutes Online Everyday Using Facebook - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/web-2-0-summit-facebooks-vp-of-engineering-on-scaling-facebook/
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s VP of Engineering talked a bit about the infrastructure of the company…
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Google Music Service: The Screenshots - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/google-music-service-the-screenshots/
None of the companies involved will confirm the new Google Music service – we have “no comments” or absolute silence from Google, LaLa, MySpace and iLike. But the new service is all but confirmed. And we have the screenshots showing how the service, which will be announced on October 28, will look to prove it…