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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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* Every week I recap the web and social media news for The Next Web. Below is my recap from Sunday, January 31, 2010. Please share this post from The Next Web. 

This week's news was dominated by Apple's iPad announcement this past Wednesday. Steve Job's unveiling of the iPad was well received by some and left others disappointed. Below I recap the speculation at the beginning of the week, a run down of the specs that were announced on Wednesday as well as the reactions to all the news.

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