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8:10 AM ET, May 26, 2009

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Mike / Nokia Conversations:
Ovi Store goes live  —  GLOBAL - Today is one of those monolithic milestones for Nokia and the advancement of mobiles, as Ovi Store has officially gone live.  It's a moment that many believe (including all of us here on Conversations) is set to spark a rapid evolution in the way we all use …
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Nokia:
Ovi Store opens for business  —  Espoo, Finland - Today, Ovi Store by Nokia is available globally to an estimated 50 million Nokia device owners across more than 50 Nokia devices including the forthcoming flagship device, the Nokia N97.  Customers can visit store.ovi.com through …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Nokia Ovi Store Launch Is A Complete Disaster  —  This was supposed to be a glorious day for mobile phone giant Nokia.  The Finnish company got out-innovated by Apple a couple of years ago with the introduction and subsequent success of the iPhone and the iTunes App Store …
Biz / Twitter Blog:
Twitter Goes Hollywood?  —  The web is abuzz today with talk of a “Twitter TV show.”  I'm even getting folks asking me if they can audition.  Indeed, there are a lot of interesting developments happening in the television space—MTV, G4, CNN, E! and various independent production companies …
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Gene Marks / Business Week:
Beware Social Media Marketing Myths  —  MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook are all the rage, but for most business owners there are better ways to stay close to customers  —  Comedian Jim Gaffigan has a suggestion for preparing a Hot Pockets frozen entrée: “Take out of package.  Place directly in toilet.”
Discussion: Latest Open Salon Blog and Bizzia
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Room for Debate:
One Tweet Over the Line  —  There seems no part of public …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The App Store Hype Gets A Dose Of Reality  —  Yesterday developer Rick Strom wrote a blog posted titled “The Incredible App Store Hype”, in which he detailed some of the revenue stats he was seeing from the iPhone applications that he had released (some of which rank on the App Store's top apps lists) …
Discussion: Reuters, Thanks:omfut
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Stromdotcom / Stromcode:
The Incredible App Store Hype
Discussion: www.pocketgamer.biz
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter's Biz Stone: Thoughts On Repositioning Twitter, Search Ads, The Twitter Ecosystem & More  —  Earlier this week, I talked with Twitter cofounder Biz Stone on a variety of issues about Twitter but especially focused around search.  In the interview, he discussed: how Twitter may redesign …
Discussion: Twitterrati
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Jon Swartz / USA Today:
Twitter has millions tweeting in public communication service
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
ongoing:
The Web vs. the Fallacies  —  Here at Sun, the Fallacies of Distributed Computing have long been a much-revered lesson.  Furthermore, I personally think they're pretty much spot-on.  But these days, you don't often find them coming up in conversations about building big networked systems.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
On the Web, Growth Costs Real Money
Discussion: broadstuff
SmoothSpan Blog:
10 Things You Don't Need to Do In the Clouds  —  Sometimes a breakthrough paradigm shift eliminates the need for all kinds of things.  Word processors and laser printers killed a lot of other things that were once thriving including typewriters, liquid paper, and Linotype machines.  So it is with the Cloud.
Discussion: Between the Lines, Thanks:atul
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
How Long Did It Take for the World to Identify Google as an AltaVista Killer?  —  Earlier this week, I mused about the fact that folks keep identifying new Web services as Google killers, and keep being dead wrong.  Which got me to wondering: How quickly did the world realize that Google …
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Video parodies Microsoft's vision of the future  —  You're working today?  Kick back with IGN's saracastic re-narration of a Microsoft blue-sky video we blogged a while back.  My favorite aspect of this utopia is it runs two and a half minutes without a layoff.
Discussion: CloudAve
Joe Sharkey / New York Times:
In-Flight Entertainment That Begins With Wi-Fi  —  BY the end of this year, about 1,000 airplanes flying domestic routes will have Wi-Fi service, according to Aircell, the company that has done nearly all of the Wi-Fi installations so far.  By the end of next year, 2,000 planes will have the service, Aircell says.
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Shawn Oliver / HotHardware.com News:
Survey: Airport Wi-Fi More Important Than Food
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
AmpliFeeder: FriendFeed's Much Hotter Sister  —  There are a slew of social media aggregation sites willing, waiting, and wanting to pull your updates, videos, photos, links, music, “shares,” “likes,” and other content from all around the web.  A few of them work well, some have really cool features, and others have critical mass.
Discussion: louisgray.com
 
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GamesIndustry.biz:
Epic founder expects photo realism in 10-15 years
Discussion: Gamasutra and Slashdot
Julie Jacobson / CE Pro:
Has Home Automation Standard Finally Arrived?  ZigBee Pro with Control4 as ‘Anchor’
Discussion: Slashdot
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Defense Department Joins Forces With Industry Against Cybercrime
Dwight / blogs.chron.com:
Can you trust that new PC to be malware-free?
Discussion: digg.com
CellPassion:
Nokia Rover is an N97 killer Internet tablet
Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Real users caught in Facebook fake-name purge
 Earlier Items: 
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Farkie Lets You Download YouTube Videos, MySpace Playlists And Much More
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Ad Revenue on the Web? No Sure Bet
Thanks:atul
Brian Solis / TechCrunch:
This is Not a Sponsored Post: Paid Conversations, Credibility & The FTC
Discussion: Andy Beard, Thanks:atul
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Leaked AT&T slide deck reveals Android, webOS, BlackBerry OS …
 

 
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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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