Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:00 PM ET, October 16, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Apple:
Apple to Ship Mac OS X Leopard on October 26  —  Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X Leopard will go on sale Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders.
RELATED:
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Leopard: final features and further upgrade details  —  We got a chance this morning to pose a few queries to Brian Croll, Senior Director of Mac OS X Product Marketing, about today's Leopard release announcement.  Here's some of what he had to say, as well as some of the new features we're looking forward to in the next release.
Discussion: Crave, Macworld and Gadget Lab
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Leopard release: October 26th  —  If you're one of the many speculating the release date for Apple's next version of OS X, Leopard, you can tick the other 10 of the remaining 11 business days left on the October calendar because it's finally official: Mac OS 10.5 launches Friday …
Alden DeSoto / Google Analytics Blog:
Exciting Announcements at eMetrics Today  —  Today at the eMetrics Summit in Washington, D.C. Brett Crosby announced several Google Analytics features that will be rolled out over the coming weeks.  Here's a rundown.  —  First, you'll be able to use Google Analytics to track site search activity.
RELATED:
Heather Havenstein / Computerworld:
Google updates Analytics service, unveils Urchin beta
Discussion: WebProNews
Business Week:
Will Apple Open the iPhone?  —  An official software-development kit may finally be announced at January's Macworld.  Why the wait?  It may have something to do with Leopard  —  William Hurley loves his iPhone.  But he'd love it even more if he could write software for it.  —  He's not alone.
RELATED:
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Apple says iPhone complies with eco standards  —  The iPhone meets the restrictions placed on hazardous substances, Apple said in the wake of a Greenpeace report published on Monday.  —  "Like all Apple products worldwide, iPhone complies with RoHS [Restriction of Hazardous Substances] …
RELATED:
Rafe Blandford / All About Symbian:
S60 Touch Interface Launched  —  Today at the Symbian Smartphone Show Nokia showed S60 running with a touch interface.  The touch interface will support both finger and stylus input, has full multi lingual support, has support for tactile feedback (haptics) and is backwardly compatible with the existing S60 platform.
Cameron Olthuis / Search Engine Land:
The Social Media Marketing KISS  —  We all know what the KISS acronym stands for: keep it simple, stupid.  In this article I want to talk about how this applies to creating content for social media marketing, namely linkbait.  —  You see, users from social news sites have very short attention spans while browsing these sites.
Discussion: Alt Search Engines
RELATED:
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
SMX Social Media: Hi, Linkbait Chum
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
VIDEO-SHARING WEB SITE GOES HIGH-DEF  —  User-generated videos are going high-def.  —  Vimeo, a nascent video-sharing Web site owned by Barry Diller's IAC, is expected to announce this week that it will begin distributing videos with a resolution of 1280 pixels by 720 pixels, the standard for high-definition.
RELATED:
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:   Vimeo Adds HD Video Offering - Is this a Monetization Angle?
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Stop the Presses: News Corp. Protects Its Interests... The Horror!  —  I was going to sit this one out, but I just can't.  —  Why is this news: Dow Jones Drops CNBC Ads From Web Sites in Favor of Fox Links, from NY Times (competitor of WSJ, by the way).  —  As you probably know …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
RELATED:
BBC:
BBC 'must offer iPlayer for all'  —  The BBC must deliver an online TV catch-up service that lets users of all computers download programmes, the corporation's regulators have said.  —  It comes after the BBC said a download service for Mac and Linux users was not 100% definite and would depend on cost.
RELATED:
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:   BBC iPlayer goes cross-platform with Flash, downloading still limited to Windows
Natalie Kerris / Apple:
Apple Chooses Orange as Exclusive Carrier for iPhone in France  —  Apple® and Orange today announced that Orange, the leading wireless carrier in France, will be the exclusive French carrier partner for the revolutionary iPhone™ when it makes its debut in France on Thursday …
RELATED:
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
The Techmeme pile-on — good or bad?  —  Tim O'Reilly has a great post up on O'Reilly Radar, in which he talks about what might be called (although he doesn't use the term) the "stupidity of crowds."  Using the meltdown in quantitative hedge funds, Facebook apps and Techmeme.com as examples …
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar and Chuqui 3.0
RELATED:
Josh Quittner / Fortune:
Facebook's got Google running scared  —  Why Google is spooked by Facebook and would dearly love to squash it, says Fortune's Josh Quittner.  —  (Fortune Magazine) — Google is the elephant in nearly every corner of the Internet, from search and advertising to web-based e-mail, online mapping, and home-brewed video.
Discussion: Business Technology
ir.idearc.com:
Superpages.com Moves Full Throttle with National Video Product Launch  —  Following a successful beta trial in select markets, Superpages.com(R), a service of Idearc Media Corp., today launched its Superpages Video advertising product nationally.  Superpages Video advertising allows local small …
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Yahoo: Bringing Geeky Back  —  Under CEO Jerry Yang's direction, the Web portal is trying to return to its tech roots and shift away from being a media catch-all  —  From the outside, it might not look like much has changed at Yahoo! (YHOO) since Jerry Yang took the reins as chief executive in June.
Discussion: BloggingStocks and Matt McAlister
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
On tap: Another Microsoft Communications launch  —  In San Francisco this morning, Microsoft is launching its latest foray into the market for "unified communications" — back-end server and desktop PC programs that let businesses combine phone, instant messaging, and e-mail functions with …
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 3:00 PM ET, October 16, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Tribe AI:
Is AI just hype?  —  Find out how top enterprises use Tribe to get real business results.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Zoho:
Authy killed their desktop apps.  Time to switch to a reliable authenticator.  Time to switch to Zoho OneAuth.  —  Twilio's Authy recently announced end of life (EOL) for their desktop apps on March 19, 2024—five months ahead of schedule.
Comprehensive.io:
Browse salary data from 3,000 startups for free  —  Click for FREE, immediate access to real-time compensation benchmarking data.  Paid version helps HR automate comp reviews and communicate total compensation to employees.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Ubuntu Plans Eye Candy for Desktop Computers and Beyond
Discussion: Download Squad
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
AdReady Lets You Create Tacky Home Loan Ads Too
Reuters:
Facebook settles New York child safety probe
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Treo 500v sports a revamped Windows Mobile interface
Discussion: PalmAddicts
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Microsoft Added To Goldman's "Conviction Buy List"
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
AT&T Moves Ahead on DISH Deal
Alexis Morgenstern / Gaming Bits:
US Playstation 3 40GB Shows Up In Target Store Scan
 Earlier Items: 
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Are all 'open' Web platforms created equal?
Reuters:
AT&T changes fee policy for customer contracts
Discussion: Gizmodo
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Tries to Fix Broken Links
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
BBC:
YouTube rolls out filtering tools
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
50x Faster Than BitTorrent: I Want
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page