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This week saw a couple of big announcements relating to the real time web including WordPress' support for the PubSubHubbub protocol as well as Twitter's opening of the firehose to a new group of companies. The official iPad release date was also announced as well as rumors of an upcoming Google Tablet. Some big news also came out of the US this week relating to startups and keeping their founders in the US with the proposed Startup Visa.

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This week tech pundits had a field day predicting how Facebook's mega patent of "the news feed" will effect the web and the social media sites we all use everyday. This week also saw Twitter reach a statistical milestone and close a major deal with Yahoo.

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This week Microsoft unveiled its long awaited mobile operating system called "Windows Phone 7 Series". The mobile landscape also changed this week as Google Android picked up AIR and Flash support. However, Steve Jobs remains adamant about not supporting Flash on the iPhone as well as the upcoming iPad. Also this week came a silly but important site that serves as a reminder about the risks of using geolocation services.

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Every Sunday I recap the web news of the past week. Here is my summary from February 14th, 2010. Please share this post from The Next Web.

This week's news was dominated by Google Buzz. Google's latest product offering aggregates your activity across your social networks and brings the stream of activity inside Gmail.

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This is my Weekly Recap for The Next Web that was originally published on February 7, 2010.  

This week saw a couple of big deals involving Monster and Yahoo as well as UStream. It also saw the battle over mobile heat up. Android's platform is gaining features and more phones. The big question mark in the space, Microsoft, appears to be poised to release a mobile phone soon. This week also saw Facebook turn 6 and get an improved UI. Meanwhile, Twitter added a key new feature to their web interface.

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