Top Items:
Arn / MacRumors:
Multi-Touch Swipe Gestures for iPhone Keyboard — Despite the Christmas holiday, the U.S. Patent Office continues to be churning away and has revealed this interesting new patent application from Apple called Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards. The patent application is authored by Wayne Westerman.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
My 10 favorite iPhone games of 2008 — Yesterday, I wrote up my 10 favorite iPhone apps of 2008 with a note that I wasn't including any games on the list because there were far too many good ones and they should probably get their own list. Today, I bring you that list.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Googlers Call Friend Connect “FriendSense” — It's always fun to hear what Google employees call various projects when they think no one is listening. In 2007 they called the upstart Hulu joint venture Clown Co. as a private joke about the messy start to that unlikely company …
Discussion:
Search Engine Land
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
2009: Year of the Hacker — In thinking about what an economically bleak 2009 will mean for the Internet, I kept coming back to something Chris Anderson wrote a few months ago, back before the tech world awoke to the full impact of the credit crunch. — Anderson (disclosure: he edits Wired …
Fred / A VC:
Bits Of Destruction — The news is full of stories this year end about the impending bankruptcies of retailers, newspapers, auto manufacturers, banks, and a host of other businesses that have been the mainstay of corporate america for the past 100 years or more.
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Sony's Netbook “fits in a pocket”, Might Not Fit Netbook Category — Actually, Sony has this “P-series” VAIO on their notebook section in the SonyStyle store, so maybe netbook isn't the right term. Just ask Psion, if you don't believe me. Eagle-eye reader Jose was browsing Sony's online storefront …
Discussion:
Boy Genius Report, CrunchGear, 9 to 5 Mac, VentureBeat, Boing Boing Gadgets, Sony Insider, DisplayBlog, SlashGear, Electronista, Engadget, Liliputing and Gizmodo
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Predictions for Google's 2009 — 1. 10% market share for Google Chrome. — 2. Google's search engine will lose a significant amount of market share as Live Search's position will consolidate. — 3. Google's Q&A service, used to implement Google help forums, will become a part of Google Apps.
Discussion:
Beyond Search
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Sign Of The Times: NameMedia and Eyeblaster Withdraw IPOs — Two of the rare digital media IPOs planned have done something not that rare these days: withdrawing their IPOs. NameMedia, the domain name media company formed by Kelly Conlin, previously CEO of Primedia and IDG respectively …
Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
A less electrifying electronics expo — Sony promoted televisions with organic LED screens at 2008's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Fewer people will attend the upcoming event, and some firms are finding alternative venues. — Amid the recession, the Consumer Electronics Show …
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Print news is fading, but the content lives on — It's been about 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web on the back of the Internet. For more than a billion people on the planet, the Web today is an alternate, digital universe that is gradually overtaking the analog …
Elias Bizannes / Liako.Biz:
The makings of a media mogul: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch — After recognising in my previous post that Michael Arrington has successfully captured the dynamic of the mass media to pioneer new media, my mind asked how did this guy do it. With some time on my hands …
Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
The Grinch pays a visit to eBay — The holiday season hasn't brought its usual good tidings to auction-based marketplace eBay this year, reports the Wall Street Journal. Site traffic for November and December fell off 16 percent from last year; transaction revenue has slipped 28 percent to $1.44 billion …
Discussion:
Technology Live
