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Digg Adds Editorial Module to Surface Breaking News

It may be at odds with Digg’s strictly user-driven news approach, but as of today the site sports a breaking news module curated by its community team. This editorial layer will be able to display relevant and breaking news that hasn’t been surfaced by the voting process yet, and may help the beleaguered site in its drive to attract a more mainstream audience.

The D8 Site Is Now Live

The conference site for the eighth D: All Things Digital is now up. There are posts related to D8, and we will be adding more in the next two weeks, ahead of the June 1 start of the conference. And when the conference kicks in, these pages will also be populated with up-to-the-minute posts, photos and videos.

The D8 Site Is Now Live

The conference site for the eighth D: All Things Digital is now up. There are posts related to D8, and we will be adding more in the next two weeks, ahead of the June 1 start of the conference. And when the conference kicks in, these pages will also be populated with up-to-the-minute posts, photos and videos.

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Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

Google Inc. is set to unveil a new feature to Gmail designed to make it easier and faster for users to share media and status updates with friends, according to people familiar with the matter. These people said Google could launch the new feature, which aims to make its Gmail email application more social, as soon as this week.

Clutter-Free, Twittified, Binged (and Also Apple-icious): The New MSN Homepage Debuts (Plus Screenshots and the Press Release)

The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct in thinking the recipe Microsoft has cooked up to inform its design ethos–white, clean and hiply modern–has definite echoes of a certain longtime tech rival. That would be Apple, of course, with a big dollop of Twitter and Facebook tossed in, and finished off with a generous sprinkling of Microsoft’s new Bing search service. For those who care: The MSN butterfly logo remains, although it appears to have lost a lot of weight.
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Huffington Post and Facebook Go "Social News," With Connect on Steroids

In an unusually robust collaboration using Facebook Connect, the Huffington Post is launching a feature on Monday called “HuffPost Social News,” which lets readers create a personalized social networking-like news page on the Huffington Post itself. While the Huffington Post had already been using Facebook Connect since January–which allows readers of the site to log in using their Facebook identity to interact, which is mostly used to leave comments–this essentially takes Facebook Connect and puts it on steroids. While the use of “social news” will be seen by some as simply a clever PR term, it is an interesting development for both the popular online news site and for the social networking giant.
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Yahoo Renovates Its Home Page

Katherine Boehret reviews Yahoo’s made-over home page, which features less clutter and new “apps.”
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Using Mac OS X On a PC

Walt answers questions about using Mac OS X on a PC, and how to use a Boot Camp setup as a virtual machine with VMWare Fusion.

Sony and Roku Try To Join TV to Web, But No Merger Yet

Two set-top boxes have been launched to try to marry the Internet and the TV. Both adapters, from Sony and Roku, worked well in tests, but each has limitations.
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