Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
12:25 PM ET, August 17, 2008

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its ‘Last Stand’  —  Pandora, Other Webcasters Struggle Under High Song Fees  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — Pandora is one of the nation's most popular Web radio services, with about 1 million listeners daily.  Its Music Genome Project allows customers to create stations tailored to their own tastes.
RELATED:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Perhaps Pandora Must Be Our Sacrificial Lamb  —  Pandora made a bold political statement today, saying they'd likely shut down rather than continue to pay exorbitant fees to play music to listeners of its massively popular service.  —  Radio stations pay different rates depending on how they broadcast music.
Fred Wilson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Learning To Live With Less: Constraints, Rules And Web Startups  —  I believe web services benefit from doing less, not more.  I believe that allowing the users to stitch web apps together to get increased functionality is better than a web service trying to do everything for everyone.
Discussion: Tom Hume
Longofest / MacRumors:
iPhone 2.1 Beta 4 Seeded, Removes Push Notification Service  —  Apple has seeded iPhone Firmware 2.1 Beta 4 to developers.  As usual, Apple describes the content of the update as “bug fixes.”  —  Interestingly, Apple has pulled the push notification service in this release “for further development.”
Discussion: Infinite Loop, Gizmodo and I4U News
RELATED:
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Fourth iPhone 2.1 beta takes out push notification feature  —  A new test version of Apple's next iPhone firmware update has disabled a key service that will allow background data for native apps, with no clear sign of when it will return.  —  While beta 4 of the iPhone 2.1 update comes …
Discussion: Engadget
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Bolt Of Lightning Doesn't Fall Anywhere Near NBCOlympics.com  —  Michael Phelps who?  In what is probably the greatest moment in this Olympics, Usain Bolt of Jamaica won gold 100m dash in 9.69 seconds, a new world record...and he didn't even have to try after the first half of the race.
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
The Platform is the Message  —  For years people have been saying that they will watch things in HD, that they would never ordinarily watch.  In the 12 years I have been involved in Internet Video in one form or another, I have yet to have anyone ever tell me they will watch something just because its on the internet.
Henry Work / TechCrunch:
The State of WordPress 2008: Awesome Growth  —  Today at WordCamp, a User and Developer 1-day conference for the WordPress blogging platform, Founder Matt Mullenweg announced impressive growth figures and reaffirmed Automattic's focus on fixing some of WordPress's biggest weaknesses.
RELATED:
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Android And The Internet Of Things  —  As the world waits for the first Android phone to appear in the wild (from T-Mobile), questions are being raised again about whether Google's Android ambitions will stop at cell phones.  In a speculative, but well-thought-out piece, VentureBeat's Eric Eldon reports:
Discussion: CrunchGear
Alex Williams / New York Times:
I Was There.  Just Ask Photoshop.  —  REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester.  But removing him from a dozen years of vacation photographs took only hours, with some deft mouse work …
Corvida / ReadWriteWeb:
4 Great iPhone App Review Sites  —  The iTunes App Store is a bit of a big deal these days.  Several new applications pop up in the iTunes store every day.  With hundreds of apps to download from it can be time consuming to sort through them all.  Unfortunately, there is no try before you buy option for any of the iTunes apps.
G. Pascal Zachary / New York Times:
Digital Designers Rediscover Their Hands  —  GEVER TULLEY has only one qualification for training software designers how to become more creative.  He teaches children how to build objects like gravity-powered wooden roller coasters with their hands, at his Tinkering School in Montara, Calif., south of San Francisco.
Discussion: Imaging Insider
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 12:25 PM ET, August 17, 2008.

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:
All new Zoho Workerly 2024  —  Staffing businesses around the world face a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing their temporary workforce.  With a constantly shifting job market and changing staffing needs …
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: 
Stephanie Condon / The Iconoclast:
New magazine-sharing site escapes copyright laws abroad
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
LA Times Names Former DirecTV Head Hartenstein As Publisher …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
Elgan: While Windows sleeps
Discussion: InfoWorld, The Raw Feed and Digg
Kris Keilhack / PalmInfocenter:
Additional Treo Pro Software and Hardware Details
Discussion: Engadget and PalmAddicts
John Dowdell / jd/adobe:
NBCOlympics.com aftereffects
Claire Bates / Daily Mail:
Meet Ivy Bean - the world's oldest Facebooker aged 102
 Earlier Items: 
Malatesta / WMExperts:
AT&T Getting ready to launch the “HTC Fuze” aka Touch Pro?
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
8Tracks: A Free, Legal Music Service We Love
Tnkgrl / tnkgrl Mobile:
Modding the Acer Aspire One - hard drive
Discussion: Hack a Day, Engadget and jkOnTheRun
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Google Privacy Practices Worse Than ISP Snooping, AT&T Charges
Discussion: Beyond Search
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
U2 Tracks Leak After Bono Plays Stereo Too Loudly
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
The Bearhug  —  Dave Winer used the bearhug to wrap …
Discussion: Scripting News