Thursday, February 11, 2010

News: February 11

TechCrunch

The Zany 2006 Twitter Video Biz Stone Would Probably Rather Forget
MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta Steps Down
With Subscriptions Off The Table For Now, Apple To Test $1 TV Shows
Brands Wasting No Time With Google Buzz. This Could Get Annoying.
Online Advertising Revenues Ramp Up 10.2 Percent In Fourth Quarter
Topsy Becomes An Even More Powerful Alternative To Twitter’s Offical Search Engine
Gmail Banned By Iran; Is Twitter Next?
comScore Reports Q4 Revenues Of $33.8 Million, Buys 42-Year Old ARSgroup
Facebook Chat Launches XMPP Support
Hulu Could Still Launch On The iPad
Facebook Mobile Hits 100 Million Users, Growing Faster Than On Desktops
Next New Networks Sees 300 Million Views In 2009; Approaches Profitability
Google Plans To Deliver 1Gb/sec Fiber-Optic Broadband Network To More Than 50,000 Homes
New York Times Sees Rebound In Internet Advertising In Fourth Quarter
ST-Ericsson Helps Handset Manufacturers Make Low-Cost Android Smartphones
Is This @EricSchmidt’s Facebook Profile?
Coming Soon, Maybe: Opera Mini for iPhone
A Look At 4INFO, The King Of SMS
What The Wii Did For Console Gaming, Glitch Wants To Do For MMOs. And It Just Might.
AOL Integrates Facebook Chat Into AIM
Meebo Eyes A New Market For Its Chat Bar: Online Retailers
OpenTable Seats 2 Million Diners Via Mobile Apps
Video: Sergey Brin On His Six Months Using Google Buzz, The China Situation, And More
FriendFeed (and Gmail) Founder’s Reaction To Google Buzz: “This Seems Vaguely Familiar”
Baidu Raises Revenue Forecasts In Wake Of Google’s Potential China Exit
Microsoft Seizes 23 Domain Names In One Swoop
TED: Now with More Elitism?
Microsoft Slams Google Buzz
Yahoo Not Pleased With Google Buzz’s Buzz

Mashable

Iranian Government Bans Gmail
MySpace CEO Out After Just 9 Months
Twitter Hires a CFO From Pixar
HOW TO: Create and Distribute Effective Online Coupons
4 Elements of a Successful Business Web Presence
New BBC Director Mandates Journalists Use Social Media
Yahoo Talks Search Strategy and the Microsoft Deal
Shop Etsy in Pictures
Love Stinks: 5 Parodies of Google’s Romantic Super Bowl Ad [VIDEO]
Warner Music Plans to End Support for Free Streaming
Visualizing 6 Years of Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]
Google Getting Into the ISP Business With Ultra High-Speed Network
Google Now Has a Street View Snowmobile
Associated Press Returns to Google News
The Location Implications of Google Buzz
Google Buzz: What It Means for Twitter and Facebook
Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue Delivers Video from Page to Phone
What Google Buzz Means for Mobile
Google Buzz: Competitors and Experts React
5 Ways Airlines and Hotels Can Drive Revenue with Social Media
Google Buzz: The Official Demo [VIDEO]
Google Goes Social with Google Buzz
Facebook Kills Lexicon, Focuses on Analytics for Page Admins
7 Ways to Promote Your Offline Event Using Social Media
WordPress To Posterous Users: Graduate to a Full Blog
World’s Longest-Married Couple to Answer Your Romantic Queries Via Twitter
Aperture 3 Hits the Apple Store
Mashable Launches TED Channel
9 Odd But Awesome Tumblr Blogs
Navigon GPS iPhone App Gets Twitter and Facebook Support
Box.net for iPhone Adds Powerful Features for Business Users
Apple Grabs 25% of the Smartphone Market, Android Doubles Market Share
Apple Store Down, Wild Speculations Abound
Nexus One Gets Live Phone Support, Sort Of
Foursquare Inks Deals With Major Media and Entertainment Brands
Music Ownership Beats Music Subscription in Reader Poll

ReadWriteWeb
AllThingsD

MySpace CEO Van Natta Was Fired by News Corp. Digital Head Miller in Late Afternoon Meeting
Bill Gates on the iPad: Hey, Apple, You’re Doing It Wrong
Google’s Little Fiber Experiment Could Cost Over $1 Billion
Nearly a Month After Debut, Google’s “New” Approach to China Still a Lot Like the Old One
Apple to Get Hefty Margins on iPad
Apple Job Posting Hints at iPad Camera
China Mobile Touts 4G Despite Skeptical Investors
Heads, We Call it “Brinternet”–Tails, “SergeyCom”
Bubble Motion Wants You to Call, Not Tweet 

Engadget
Ars Technica

Photon scattering can create lasers in fiber optic cabling
Congress wants an e-book reader for low-income kids
Opera: Mini 5 browser ready for iPhone if Apple will have it
Rise in solar activity all but certain to mess with GPS
Botnets increasingly wielded for ideological uses
Your new ISP? Google launches 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home trial
Virginia puts schools on high-fiber diet with broadband funds
Is the endless data stream eroding our attention spans?
Pluto's demotion is a great opportunity for science
iPhone VoiceServices: Looking under the hood
The Ars Technica Guide to I/O Virtualization
Remarkable third trial coming for RIAA's first P2P defendant
Google launches Buzz to rein in social media overload
Microsoft warns of TLS/SSL flaw in Windows
Variable download pricing correlated with slower music sales
Hands-on: Microsoft launches child-friendly IE8

VentureBeat

Google’s fiber network is attempt to force telcos to change
Weopia makes virtual dating more personal, less awkward
Comcast changes name to Xfinity, customers don’t care
GameFly, the Netflix of games, files for IPO
No, America will not be hit by a massive cyberattack on February 16th
One step closer to 4G: AT&T chooses Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson as suppliers
The future of reading
How to speed up the Internet? Duh, speed up the ads
Game analysts: hardcore players, gesture controls critical to console market
How to tame Twitter via automated websites
Journalists hammer Yahoo on declining marketshare
Google Buzz: Do I really have to learn another social media app?
How to get into Macworld Expo free

GigaOm

Confidence in Free Streaming Models Is Fading — Fast
Universities Threatened Over Streaming of Educational Videos
comScore: Most Online Video Viewing Happens in the Long Tail
Google’s Fiber Network Could Foil ISPs and Fuel Innovation
Gmail to Get Social News Feed: Report
Silicon Valley Has a Woman Problem, But Women Still Have a Baby Problem
Google Buzz and Email: Strength or Weakness?
Farmville Users Send 500M Valentines in 48 Hours
Google Doesn’t Want to Be an ISP — It Wants to Be a Rabble-rouser
Sponsor post: MIT/Stanford Venture Lab Presents “Biofuels 2.0: Sustainable Startups — From Garage to Gargantuan”
What Can You Do With 1 Gigabit?
Identity Theft on the Rise: Survey

Digits

Twitter Buzz Over Iran’s Gmail Ban
Online and Mobile Fraud Rises
Suffering From iWithdrawal?
More Video Coming Wikipedia’s Way
Tech Today: ESPN Plays Up Web for Live Sports, Game Makers Push Beyond Christmas

Bits

Is It Time for Apple to Retire the Cats?
Tech Talk Podcast: Why E-Books Will Cost More
An Annual Report on One Man’s Life
EBay Asks Its Users for Help Building New Search Tools
Mobile Data Traffic Expected to Surge
Foursquare Signs a Deal With Zagat
Available Soon at a Barnes & Noble Near You: The Nook
Job Postings Hint at Amazon’s Plans for the Kindle
Imagining a World of Hardware Mashups
A Search Engine That Relies on Humans

Science Daily

Technology Review

Wi-Fi at the Speed of Light
Efficient Solar Cells from Cheaper Materials
A 50-Watt Cellular Network
Why NASA Needs a Better Plan
Getting a Grip on Online Buzz
U.S. Solar Market to Double in the Next Year
How Legal Wiretaps Could Let Hackers In
The Future of Human Spaceflight
Google Reveals Chinese Espionage Efforts

BusinessWeek
CNet

Yet again, NBC's Olympics strategy is a Web loser
Google Buzz: Privacy nightmare
Yahoo struggles to gain search respect

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TechCrunch

The Switch From iPhone To Android, And Why Your First Impression Is Wrong
San Francisco Earthquakes Get Their Own Geolocated Twitter Account
E-Commerce Platform Shopify Buys Up StoreSync To Shore Up Mobile Strategy
Can the Skiff Save the Magazine Industry?
When To Take On Facebook, American Idol Or Virgin Mobile In An IP Fight
iPhone Beats Droid, Nexus One And Droid Eris In Touchscreen Performance
Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Facebook Takes Best Overall For The Hat Trick
Coming To The Crunchies After-Party? Donate With Square.
Sweet Seeds: Zynga Has Raised Over $1 Million For School Children In Haiti
BlockChalk Is Location-Based Sidewalk Chalk For Your Mobile Device
HootSuite Raises $1.9 Million For Social Media Dashboard
Ning SVP Engineering Lands At Facebook In Mystery Role
CES 2010: Highlights So Far
Foursquare Goes Global, Bringing New iPhone, Pre, BlackBerry, And Web Apps With It
Google’s Free Airport WiFi Is A Nexus One Promo In Disguise
At The Dawn Of The Apocalypse, One Man Battles The Zombies — On Twitter
The FBI Adds New Widgets And Facebook Quizzes To Its Social Media Arsenal
Yet Another App Store. This Time, It’s Intel
Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics or How To Get Under John Borthwick’s Skin
Reframe It Raises $2.3 Million For Web Annotation Product
TC50 Finalist SeatGeek Raises Series A Funding, Revamps Website
Welcome To The HouseOfPalm, Home To Palm webOS Apps
Yahoo BOSS To Survive Microsoft Deal In Some Form; Details Still Hazy
Apple And Verizon: Are Two Star-Crossed Lovers Ready To Consummate?
Anxious Yahoo BOSS Developers To Speak With DOJ About Microsoft Deal
Apple Seizes 16 Domain Names From A Guy In One Fell Swoop
The Crunchies Is Sold Out. But You Can Still Get Into The After-Party
With Nexus One And Quattro, The Knives Are Out Between Apple And Google
Facebook Just Got Its Own VitaminWater Flavor: “Connect”. Seriously.
Nexus One Bursts Onto The Mobile Browsing Scene 
Netflix Stabs Us In The Heart So Hollywood Can Drink Our Blood
Pixelpipe Rolls Out New Version Of Android App 
Boxee Beta Now Available To The Masses 
The Twitter Picture Sites Start Targeting Foursquare. First Up, TweetPhoto. 
Shopaholic: Cisco Kicks Off 2010 With Acquisition Of Network Security Startup Rohati 
Zyxio Announces Winners For “Be A Mind Blower” Contest 
The Other HP Slate Runs On Android
Brightcove Comes To Yahoo Connected TVs, But Web Video Is Still Stuck In Widget Hell
Fandango For Android, Babylon For BlackBerry
Followbase: A Twitter CRM Starter Kit
Google Chrome OS Is Here! Well, Kinda.
Jive Software Acquires Social Media Monitoring Startup Filtrbox
Breaking: Google And On2 Technologies Revise Merger Agreement
Jamendo Runs Out Of Cash, Looks For An Exit
Happy Birthday, Chris Messina, And Enjoy Advocating The Open Web At Google
Let’s Just Skip To The Super-Duper-Phone
Video And Hands On: Lenovo’s Lephone Android 2.0 Smartphone
Oneforty Launching Its Premium Twitter App Store In Alpha Next Week
MG Talks The Nexus One On Attack Of The Show: “It’s A Nice Little Device”
Live from the CES 2010 Keynote with Steve Ballmer
Howard Stern Talks Google Nexus One (NSFW)
Crazy Bob: Square Nabs A Core Android Engineer
Apple’s Pricing Smoke Around The Tablet Fire Grows Thicker
$0 to $20 Million: Ten Hand-to-Hand Sales Tactics
I’m Betting Matilda Tanascov Will Be The First Person In Romania With A Google Nexus One
“Inspired” By Formspring, Tumblr Launches Nearly Identical “Ask Me”

Google’s City Tours No Longer Require You To Walk On Water
LinkedIn Polishes Its iPhone App Into A More Facebook-Like Gem
Did Apple’s Lala Deal Leave A Lump Of Coal In Google’s Music Onebox Stocking?
Songbird Still Airborne, Takes On iTunes With Improved Device Syncing
Digg Takes a Dip In Traffic, Half The Size Of Twitter
TenYears: Single Most Innovative Product Of The Decade
VeVite Taps Into Twitter For Event Invitations
Jingle Networks Rings In The New Year With A $6.75 Million Funding To Go After Geo Ads
Google Is About To Get Caffeinated With A Faster Search Index
Purported Google Chrome OS Netbook Specs Don’t Quite Add Up 

Flurry: App Store Sees Record Breaking Christmas, 50% Growth From November To December
Privacy Theater: Why Social Networks Only Pretend To Protect You
Diggnation’s Alex Albrecht launches an iPhone app: Duel
Relax, You Can Still Buy An iPhone In New York City. Just Not Online. 
Can Jolicloud Win In A Chrome OS Netbook World?
Game Rush: Mobclix And PlayHaven Predict Record iPhone Game Downloads During The Holidays
The Best iPhone Apps Of 2009 (Appvee Edition)
370 Passwords You Shouldn’t (And Can’t) Use On Twitter
Pedal Brain’s Gadget Turns Your iPhone Into A Powerful Cycling Computer
NSFW: The Physical Impossibility of The Future in the Mind of Someone Trapped In Chicago
Apple Expanding iWork In The Cloud?
TSA To Save Print Media? No Electronics On International Flights? What A Joke.
Location-Based Mobile Advertising Platform AdLocal Enters America, Wants To Win With Japan Know-How
Should You See Avatar? About 75 Percent Of People Who Tweet About It Think You Should
Tap Tap Revenge 3 Downloaded 300,000 Times First 24 Hours After Going Free
This Week On TechCrunch: Zuckerberg eaten by zebras, Al Qaeda invests in Twitter, Spotify profitable and more
The Wonder Of Apple’s Tablet
GROU.PS DIY Social Network Platform Reaches 2 Million Users, Becomes More Customizable
Apple’s New Tablet To Be Baptized iSlate? Let’s Dig A Little Deeper
Flixup Brings Its Movie Tweet Aggregator To The Web For The Holiday Movie Season
Polyvore’s Virtual Styling Tool Aims To Be More Social With Facebook Connect
SCVNGR Raises $4 Million From Google Ventures
Google Voice Is Coming Back To The iPhone Via The Browser, Thanks To VoiceCentral
The Top Ten IPO Candidates For 2010
Indiagames To Launch New Cricket Gaming iPhone App
Skout Studies What Happens When Dating Goes Mobile
The Great Location Land Rush Of 2010
WePay’s Group Payments Get Some Big-Name Backers, Including Max Levchin
Chegg Founder Raises Another $7.5 Million For Stealth Startup Kakai
Introducing… The 27-inch iLemon
23AndMe Completes $27.8 Million Series B Round
Twitter Acquires Mixer Labs To Step Up Geo-Location
ChaCha Raises Another $7 Million
Barnes & Noble Will Ship Around 60,000 Nooks This Year
Blippy Already Showing Off $1 Million Worth Of Your Credit Card Purchases (More Invites)
AOL’s Deteriorating Fundamentals Not A Hit With Analysts
Confirmed: Jajah Sold For $207 Million
More People Around The World Get Their News Online From Google News Than CNN
Qik Live Recording Finally Makes It To The iPhone (Legally)
CauseWorld Launches: Do Good Deeds Simply By Walking Into A Store
Play And Share Your Music Collection In The Cloud With tunesBag
Buzzd Brings Its Social City Guide To Android
Canadian Communication Services Provider Mitel Files For $230 Million IPO
Cc:Betty Launches iPhone App To Make Sense Of Your Email
The Rumors Are True: We Spend More And More Time Online
Story Something Quietly Opens Up, Turns Your Kids Into Heroes
Curse Raises $6 Million As It Looks To Become The Ultimate Gaming Resource
Whrrl, Still Trying To Find Its Way In Location, Focuses On “Footstreams”
Zynga Starts Testing SMS Notifications As It Tries To Kick Its Facebook Dependence
Mozzler Comes Full Circle And Turns Its Realtime News Stream Into A Reader (Private Beta Invites)
Background Checks For All With BeenVerified’s iPhone App
Sphere Team Raises Money From Aol Ventures, True Ventures And Others For New Stealth Startup
A Peek At ReachLocal’s $100 Million IPO Filing: It’s All About Building A Local Ad Sales Army
Cc:Betty Raises $500K For Email Organization Assistant
Google, Rome, and Empire
The Twitter/FriendFeed Connection Goes Realtime Once Again
iSpy, With My Little Eye, A Children’s Game Re-Imagined For The iPhone
BitGravity Co-Founder Announces 3Crowd, Funded By Jay Adelson And Kevin Rose
The World Is Flat For Twitter, As In Global Growth Has Stalled  
iPhone Now The Most Popular Phone In The US
Bump Shares Its Phone Tapping, Data Swapping Technology With A New API
Lessons From 10 Disappointing Euro Tech Stories Of 2009
Online Holiday Sales Boosted By East Coast Snowstorms
Open Your Credit Card Data To All! We Have Blippy Invites.
OneRiot Monetizes What’s Hot On The Web With Realtime Trending Ads
For Google, The Meaning Of Open Is When It’s Convenient For Them
Chesspark And Chess.com Put Their Pawns Together
Chorus Reveals Its Most Socially-Recommended iPhone Apps In November
Video: A Decade Of Tech Highs And Business Lows
In 2009, Netbook Shipments Grew 103%, Revenues Up 72% Year Over Year
gWallet Reveals Secret Weapon For Virtual Currency Platform: gLTV
Apple Not Liable For Plagued iMac Screens, Updates Firmware Anyway
Opera Reports Massive Growth For Mobile Web Usage, Particularly In Asia And Africa
Raptr Loses Director Of Product Strategy To Twitter
Livemocha Bags Another $8 Million From August Capital, Maveron
The App Store Forgets It’s Not The Android Market, Temporarily Sells NES Emulator
Voice May Join Google’s Enterprise Lineup
Ron Conway & Sean Parker Raise More Than $70,000 For UCSF And Malaria No More
Apple May Be On The Verge Of Kneecapping The Cable Industry. Finally.
YouTube Gets Its Own Short URLs. Except They’re Still Pretty Long.
MySpace Reaches Out To Upset Imeem Users: Your Playlists Will Soon Be Resurrected
Backed By Google Ventures, EnglishCentral Raises $3.5 Million For Video Language Learning
Twitter Captures A Nexus One Unboxing And Another Video
Facebook Uses FriendFeed As A Testing Ground For The Next Generation Of OAuth
Facebook Says “FML,” “Twitter” Is A Top Status Trend In 2009
As Etsy Turns A Profit, Founder Rob Kalin Takes Over Again As CEO
Facebook Also Opts To Give To Charity In Lieu Of A Holiday Party
Swoon: Flocking.me Allows You To Search Just Your Friend’s Tweets
Most Recent Facebook Common Stock Sale Values Company At $11 Billion
Justin.tv Unifies Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, And Their Own Chat
Google’s 2009 Holiday Gift To Ad Partners: $20 Million To Charity
Are Startups Getting Crazy, Or Just IPO Crazy?
Hulu Labs Cooks Up Captions Search

Mashable

Email Faceoff: Gmail vs. Outlook
5 Essential Sites for Professional Photographers
Bump Brings Digital Contact Exchange to the Masses
Facebook Guide Book: Mashable Launches Hub for Facebook Resources
AT&T Reverses Course: iPhone Available Again in New York City
5 New Year’s Resolutions for SMBs
iPhone and Android Users Spend More Than Half Their Time in Apps [STUDY]
Google’s AdMob Acquisition Meets Opposition from Consumer Groups
HOW TO: Implement a Social Media Business Strategy
New Versions of Firefox Coming Later Than Anticipated
Muziic Brings Tons of Music to your Facebook Profile
There are 15,740 Social Media Experts on Twitter
Android 2.0 Coming to T-Mobile G1 [RUMOR]
Mashable
5 Big Real-Time Web Trends of 2009
What Twitter and Facebook’s 2009 Trends Tell Us About Ourselves
2009 As Seen Through Twitter Hashtags
New Security Rules Could Limit In-Flight Laptop Time
Digital Revolution? Kindle Ebooks Outsell Real Books on Christmas
64% Prefer Old Twitter Retweets to New Style
Drunk Drivers in Texas to Be Named on Twitter
5 Predictions for the Music Industry in 2010
Kid Goes Crazy Over Xbox 360 Present [VIDEO]
How Twitter Conquered the World in 2009
Foursquare vs. Gowalla: Location-Based Throwdown
Apple Tablet to be Named iSlate? [RUMOR]
The 12 Graphs of Christmas
Pope Knocked Down at Mass [YOUTUBE VIDEO]
Foursquare Rolls Out BlackBerry Beta App
Mozilla Design Challenge: Put Your Mark on Firefox 4
Apple Tablet to Offer Dynamic Tactile Keyboard [RUMOR]
8 Spectacular Christmas Light Shows on YouTube [VIDEOS]
Share Video and Photos in Real Time With Pegshot
FCC Critical of Verizon’s $350 Early Termination Fee
10 News Media Content Trends to Watch in 2010
Qik Live: Now Streaming From Any iPhone
DDoS Attack Takes Down Amazon, Wal-Mart
Twitter Buys Mixer Labs to Boost Location Features
3 Powerful Social Good Trends in 2010
FTC Inquiry Hinders Google’s Acquisition of AdMob
Digg’s Top 10 Most Popular Stories of 2009
Marketing in 2010: It’s All About the Data
Mall of America Tweets Holiday Parking Updates
2010: A Year of Digital Distraction?
Facebook’s COO to Join Disney’s Board of Directors
REVEALED: Full Specs of Google Nexus One
Safe Sexting? There’s an App for That, Too
8 News Media Business Trends for 2010
Victoria’s Secret + Michael Bay = Droves of Drooling Web Fans [VIDEO]
Pepsi to Skip Super Bowl Ads in Favor of $20M Social Media Campaign
Track Santa With Google This Christmas Eve
Apple Tablet With 7″ Screen Coming in January [RUMOR]
Creators of “HP Computers Are Racist” Video Speak
Your Head Explodes: iPhone in an iPhone [VIDEO]
OLPC Comes Up With a Beautiful, Thin Tablet Concept
Top 10 Mobile Social Apps Judged by Mashable Readers
NPR News App Comes to Android
BlackBerry Outage Affecting North America
Nexus One and Android 2.1 Walkthrough Surfaces [VIDEO]
Twitter Goes Down Under With SMS Support for Australia
Facebook Is Destroying the Sanctity of Marriage [REPORT]
Warner Music Videos Coming to Hulu
Microsoft Modifies Word to Keep it in Stores
4 Social Good Trends of 2009
Firefox Plugin Finds Related News, Tweets and Videos While You Browse
Social Media Experts Make Their Predictions for Trends in 2010
iPhone OS 4.0: Already in the Wild?
The Top 2009 Social Media Trends for Moms
Steve Jobs, Best CEO in the World?
Digsby to Add In-Stream Ads Based on Twitter Trending Topics [IMAGES]
CBS and Disney to Join Apple’s TV Subscription Plan?
Firefox 4.0: New Design Changes Revealed [IMAGES]
iPhone Is the Most Popular Phone in the U.S. [STATS]
YouTube Is the Top Social Media Innovation of the Decade
New Facebook Clickjacking Attack Is on the Loose [WARNING]
Yahoo Ends Tough Year on a Cost-Cutting Note
Youtu.be: Because YouTube Needs Its Own URL Shortener Too
5 Ways Social Media Changed Fashion in 2009
Facebook Unveils Most-Mentioned Topics of 2009
HP’s Facial Tracking Software Fails to Recognize African American [VIDEO]
Sherlock Holmes Turns to TweetDeck for Film Promotion
Augmented Reality Advertising Is Here
10 Must-Read eBooks for Social Media Lovers
Turn Your Car into a Wireless Hotspot with Ford SYNC [VIDEO]
Twitter Is Already Profitable!
Tapulous Sells Nearly $1 Million in iPhone Games Each Month
Avatar Opens With $232 Million Worldwide
Firefox 3.5: The World’s Most Popular Browser

ReadWriteWeb

Ribbit Mobile nominated as one of the Best Pro...Image by Ribbit Voice via Flickr

2009 in Review: The Year in Web Technology
2010 Tech Predictions
Buy Now: The Real-Time Web And Its Future
Augmented Reality: Passive Consumers versus Creative Contributors 
Wibiya Gives Your Blog a Twitter, Facebook and Video Chat Makeover 


ArsTechnica

Microsoft: Google's Nexus One will hurt Android
The e-book wars of 2010: displays and hardware 
Why Microsoft killed upgrade versions for Office 2010
768-bit RSA cracked, 1024-bit safe (for now)
LED flash, better graphics, multitasking: 4G iPhone rumors
Apple: pixels as touch sensors for brighter, thinner screens
Week in Microsoft: Ballmer kicks off CES 2010
Cell launches "Article of the Future" format
Digital albums, vinyl made a comeback in '09 while CDs slide
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Contents 2010

My Gmail Prayers Heard: Multiple Inboxes
FoodSpotting Is The Next FourSquare
Mike Arrington Is A Sexist Pig: Say PeeeeG!
Finally TechCrunch "Gets" Disqus
Real Time Search: Where Google Can "Get" Social
Paying For Phone Calls Was Always Ridiculous
I Was In Chicago? Facebook Places Messing Up
Dennis Crowley, Facebook, And The Location Ecosystem
Esther Dyson On The Future Of Search
The Web Not Yet Ready For The Video Format
The Web Lifestyle And Company Cultures
A Ridiculously Good Blog Search Engine
Facebook Doing Location Is Like Google Doing Social, Almost
Hulu Still Struggling With Business Model
China Is The Reason Google Did Verizon
Google Does Not Need Social Envy
Whatever Happened To Google Wave?
Amazon's Amazing Cloud
Post Wintel
Social, Gaming, Email
YouTube: 15 Minutes Are Much Better
Digital Dumbo 18: The Dumbo Loft
Disney's Playdom Purchase
Zoho
News: July 27
This Blog's Design Inspired By Google, Craig's List
The Art Of Reading Headlines
The Economy: Uncharted Waters
News: July 26
Seth Godin On Failure
Zynga: The Google Of Games?
News: July 25
$35 PC
Chrome OS: Round The Corner?
Ghajini: Tu Meri Adhuri Pyas
iGuide.travel (Ad)
News: July 20
I Am Big In Canada
Go Outside: Cults
News: July 17 (2)
News: July 17
Reclaiming My Twitter Account
A 4 AM Traffic Peak, Mostly From Canada
Google's Metaweb Acquisition
Tech, Women, Diversity
Darren Rowse's Seven Links Challenge
Traffic: Canada Top Country, 2 AM Peak
Is The iPhone 4 In Trouble?
News: July 14
Shopping Around For Iran
Seed Money
What Just Happened? 3,000 Page Hits
Slow Motion: Panda Bear
You Can Create An Android App Too, Anyone Can
To Iran, With Love (3)
My Tumblr Style
World Cup: Spain Deserved To Win
Andy Grove On Creating Jobs
Right On: The Roots And Joanna Newsome
North To Alaska
To Iran, With Love (2)
Droid X Vs. iPhone 4
Parenting
The Social Network: The Movie
To Iran, With Love (1)
Larry Ellison's Personal Life
Spain: The Octopus Was Right, I Was Wrong
A NY Tech MeetUp For Sindre Aarsaether
Brad Feld
Rome - Phoenix W/ Devendra Banhart
To: Brad Feld, Subject: Iran And Me (Digital Ninja/Commando)
The Germans Called Me Robin Hood
Happy July 4 Fred Wilson, Brad Feld
An Offer To FourSquare
Argentina Was Not A Team
Soraya Darabi
Blogger Stats
Brazil: The Overconfidence Of A Soccer Superpower
FourSquare: $20 Million At $95 Million Valuation
Soccer And Latin America
Brazil
July 1 Digital Dumbo: Do Not Miss
Walking On The Moon
The Al Qaeda, Internet, Globalization
Lionel Messi (2)
News June 26
Lionel Messi
Young Folks
Walk In The Park
My Secret Sauce
Rich People's Kids
Swype: Type On Your Smartphone At Laptop Speed
Freehand Exercise: 1,000 Push-Ups, 1,000 Squats, 1,000 Crunches
Saavn's Great Business Model For Movies
Brazil And Argentina: My Choices And Those Of My Favorite Actor
Towards Threaded Conversations On Twitter
How To Monetize Tumblr?
Twitter: The Obvious Missing Features
Indian Railways
OpenVBX: To Manage Your Office Phones
The Eyes Of Truth
Verdict: The iPhone Is Not Open, Flash Is Not Cutting Edge
Fred Wilson: An Unassuming Kind Of Guy
"Where Was This Google All This Time?"
Hey Now, Hey Now
Employment Authorization Card: It's Here
Tomorrow
Firing Founders: Mostly A Bad Idea
Venmo Me For My Charm
Randi For Reshma
Buzzd Party Thursday
Finally Google Has Figured Out A Way To Keep Up With My Blog
Scott Contrarian Heiferman Does It Again
The Highlight Of My Internet Week
Not MeetUp
Women In Tech-Media Event At JP Morgan: Internet Week
Paul Graham, Brad Feld, Me, BBC
Zuckerberg Has Stature
Meeting Fred Wilson In Person
Naveen Selvadurai, Vin Vacanti
Slow Gmail: Short Term Help
Slow Gmail
After Entry Level Jobs, An Internship
Internet Week: Going To Three Events So Far
Lady Liberty Whispers
This Is Not Happening: King Dennis
How To Date An Indian: Andrea Miller
Sree In A Candy Shop
The Mashable Success Story
Reshma 2010, Square, And Pro.Act.Ly
Top Web Properties
Larry Ellison's 1995 Network Computer Vision
The Biggest NY Tech MeetUp Ever?
Buzzd
Immigration Status
One Programming Language
India Broadband Spectrum Bids
Google's Advertising Business
Redesigning My Blog
Paul English Writes Back
Kayak, Paul English, Africa, Free Wireless Internet
Kayak, Paul English, Africa, Free Wireless Internet
The Dumbo Loft Digital Dumbo
Indaba Music: NY Tech Talks MeetUp
Entry Level Jobs
Apple: Remarkable
TechCrunch Disrupt
Ann Curry Commencement
Job Search
ChatVille Is Live Now: "What ChatRoulette Should Have Been
The Far Future Of Databases At The Dropio Offices
Google New York
Google Is Having A TechCrunch Day
Chrome Operating System
Chatfe: Audio, Interest Based Random Connections On Skype?
Has Google Been Able To Scale Well?
TED Talks
Seth Godin, Jack Dorsey, Marc Andreessen
Me @ BBC
Patent Absurdity
A Time Warner Vacation
Venmo Could Make Moves
Adam Smith And The Inbox Space
Paul Carr's Frank Talk On Race
Direct Messages From Ann Curry, Steve Case, Robert Scoble
Who Is Chetan Bhagat? 2010 Time 100
A Day In The Life Of New York City
Jon Stewart: Appholes
Venmo And Frictionless Payments
Could 2011 Be Venmo's Year?
Reimagining The Inbox The Simple Way
Dropio's Indian Cofounder Darshan
The FourSquare Appeal For Me
What Are You Doing Monday? Come Meet Al Wenger
FourSquare Must Cut A Deal With Yahoo
Manhattan?
Digital Dumbo: Here I Come
The Jack Dorsey Story
FourSquare Office, Dropio Technology
4:16 PM @ FourSquare
I Have Been Quoted In Fast Company
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One Gig Per Sec: This Is What I Am Talking About

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This Google talk of an experimental broadband by Google of one gigabit per second is more exciting than all the buzz around Google Buzz (Buzz Takes Gmail To A New Level) and all the buzz around the Apple iPad. (iPad) Innovation is a basic property of the human mind. There will always be innovation. But some territories are more fertile grounds for innovation than others. And between hardware - example: iPad - software - example: Buzz - and connectivity - example: a one gig per second broadband - I have to argue there is much more room for innovation in the connectivity sector. Universal high speed internet is a lofty goal. I don't know what universal means to you, but for me that means global.


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Buzz Takes Gmail To A New Level

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Earlier today I was fooling around with Buzz. Even before that from just reading about it in the news, I never thought of Buzz as a Twitter or Facebook killer. My suspicions have now been confirmed. Buzz is a Gmail enhancer. Otherwise my Gmail experience was starting to get a little staid.

Google reinvented email with Gmail. I don't think it has reinvented social, updates and geo with Buzz. But it sure could not have afforded to be left behind. Social is not Facebook, updates are not Twitter, geo is geo. These are elements of the web experience, and they will seep through to everywhere or most places. The leading dot com could not have skipped the cacophony.

Two names popped up during my first experience: Adam Carson, and Vin Vacanti. I never connected with Adam on Facebook like I now do on Buzz. The guy got me on the Reader bandwagon long back, but once I got strong on Twitter, I shifted over to Twitter. My Twitter page is my newsfeed. I skim through the headlines in the morning on my Twitter page. Vin I got introduced to over email last year. I met him in person a few days back. And now I am part of conversations with his friends. And Buzz does not cut into my allowed Gmail space. That is important to me.

Right now my Buzz box is sexier than my Gmail Inbox, and only one click away. I am liking the experience.

One Buzz thread had the founder of Gmail and FriendFeed saying Buzz looks "familiar." How did Google find out I might be interested in that particular Buzz thread? They got it right. I don't know how they did it, but all I got to say is keep tweaking those algorithms.  

Introducing Bzz
Introducing Google Buzz For Mobile
Readers: Get Your Buzz On
New York Times: Bits: Google Gets More Social With Buzz



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