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New. That was the word of the week. Along with hype. There was the odd deal that had the search engine boys in a Twitter, but when all was said and done, even Facebook jumped on the bandwagon after the facelift.

Windows 7 (finally)
It was Microsoft's party this week and nobody, not even Apple (with not one, not two, but three Windows 7 bashing adverts), could rain on the big Windows 7 launch:

• Ars Technica has an overview of the Windows 7 product offering
• Gizmodo took a look at the Wild and Crazy Launch Parties
• Apple's three new Windows 7 bashing commercials

 Microsoft goes brick and mortar

Microsoft strikes back with the (wait for it) Microsoft Store - it's like an Apple store with more colours

Michelle Armstrong, a 20-year-old in pajama pants who slept outside the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall to be among the first in the store, said she was a bit disappointed in the gift bags, which included a $25 gift certificate, chapstick, mints, a bottle of water and tickets to an Ashley Tisdale concert at the store later in the day.

So then apple had to update their inventory

But of course! Since Microsoft had a new store, Apple had to roll out new products, in a big way!

• New Macbook, new IMac, new Mac Mini: Apple gears up for Christmas
• Apple declares war on the entire PC industry

Other Apple news
From the just plain weird department - Apple plans to embed ads in operating system
From the cool department - A desktop wallpaper of the innards of a new iMac

Searching for something to write
This week Twitter announced new search engine partnerships with Bing and Google. This is interesting because Twitter is making their data stream available to the search engines who will turn around and use their powerful technology to create 'Real-time Search'.

• Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You
• RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my!

Facebook gets a facelift
I'm wondering if this is the result of Facebook's Friendfeed purchase:

• News Feed
  When you log into Facebook, you'll see the most interesting things that happened in the last day in the "News Feed" view. News Feed picks stories that we think you'll enjoy based on a variety of factors including how many friends have liked and commented on it and how likely you are to interact with that story.
• Live Feed
  Once you've caught up on what you missed, you can click through to "Live Feed" to see what's happening right now. As long as you remain logged into Facebook, you'll continue to see posts and activity from your friends in real-time. You can edit what appears in this view by clicking "Edit Options" at the bottom of the home page.

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Your Turn
So, did I miss anything? What online story really got you going this week? Link to it in the comments!

Message Edited by bgrier on 10-24-2009 11:56 PM

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Hey, you missed the Windows 7 Whopper.

And people have actually tried to eat it.

[#3]

True, I did miss that -- thanks, um, I think. it's pretty disgusting.