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It's all about Amazon's new range of Kindles, what the Silk browser brings to the browser wars, and what the Fire would mean for the media business.

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John Lim, Niki Cheong, and David Wang talk about the major changes in Facebook, giving our likes or dislikes for it, the banning of the Undilah video from Malaysian television, and Shah Rukh Khan coming onto Google Plus.

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The full LOL crew is back! After a good month and a half, David Lian rejoins the crew to talk about the "enhancements" seen on Facebook, Twitter launching its own analytics, Yahoo's Carol Bartz getting the boot and the puzzling #tweetdrive campaign on FlyFM

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The panel this week on: Google killing its many sideprojects (many of which we didn't even know about); The Financial Times pulling out of the App Store; Twitter automating its feed into Facebook; Zite being bought by CNN; How the PetKnode rescue was helped on by social media channels.

Bonus rant: Niki gets freaked out by computers.

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This week, the Lollers rant about Facebook's recent moves to pull back features like Facebook Deals, Places and the Ticker, and rave about Steve Jobs's legacy with Apple. (And we drink the Kool-Aid later.)

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This week's show talks about social media's role in the riots in England, Big Brother monitoring on Social Networks, readers paying for the New York Times, and Groupon's precarious position.

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John Lim, Niki Cheong and David Wang get together to talk more on Google Plus, The Malaysian government censoring The Economist, and more.

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Note: Due to some unavoidable issues, TechBeat is now put on hold until I find some practical solutions of getting the show running again. It may be awhile until then, but in the meantime, here's a feed of another show I've been doing on web and the social media space. Hope you guys enjoy it.

This week's discussion has John Lim, David Wang and David Lian discuss:

1) MySpace being sold for USD35 million to Specific Media

2) Google + and what it means to the Facebook Generation.

3) The social media coverage during the Kuala Lumpur Bersih rally.

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This week on TechBeat, John Lim is joined by A Umapagan, producer and host of BFM's Evening Edition, and Daniel CerVentus from Entrepreneurs.my and The Grey Attic accelerator.

Together, we discuss:

1) Security hacks in Malaysia carried out by Anonymous on government websites, and how Lulzsec is teaming up with the hacktivists to go up against governments that seek to limit citizens' access to the Web.

2) Echelon 2011 arrives in Singapore to showcase the emerging mobile/web startups in the SEA region. Also: we preview what Friendster has in store.

3) The Nokia N9 receives rave reviews from journalists who've seen it at CommunicAsia. The only issue: It runs the going-to-be-defunct MeeGo OS.

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On this week's TechBeat with guest panelists, Lowyat.net editor Chan Wern Shen and Text 100's social media lead in Asia Pacific, we discuss:

1) Apple announcements, including iOS 5, iMessage, over-the-air updates and OSX Lion

2) The MCMC directs Malaysian ISPs to block out 10 file-sharing sites.

3) E3 announcements: 3D Gaming from Sony, and The Wii U

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