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Biz / Twitter Blog:
@anywhere — When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn't require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter launches “At Anywhere” platform, integrates tweets, profiles across the web — Twitter CEO Ev Williams demonstrated a new platform that will spread the microblogging network's profiles, tweets and possibly advertising across the web. It's taking the hovercards it launched …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Lackluster Twitter CEO keynote leads many to bail
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, Gawker, NBC Bay Area and The Huffington Post
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Netflix prototyped for Windows Phone 7 Series — We just got a quick at Netflix for Windows Phone 7 Series, one of the third-party apps Microsoft's showing off here at MIX10, and it looks... well, very Netflixy — it's red to the bone. Unlike other mobile Netflix apps …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Confirmed: Marketplace will be the only way to get apps on Windows Phone 7 Series — We just got out of a meeting with Microsoft's Todd Biggs, who dropped a little bombshell on us: the only official way to get apps on a Windows Phone 7 Series device will be to download them from the just-detailed Windows Phone Marketplace.
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InformationWeek, Phone Arena, PhoneNews.com, GottaBeMobile.com, Phone Scoop, IntoMobile and pocketnow.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Microsoft announces Windows Phone 7 Series dev partners and details apps: Sling, Pandora, Foursquare and Xbox gaming (video!) — Microsoft just dropped its first press release of MIX 10 on us, and in addition to detailing the Sliverlight and XNA-based Windows Phone 7 Series development situation …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple iPad orders drop sharply — A rough three-day estimate, based on an analysis of order numbers: 152,000 units — After the initial burst of excitement on Friday that saw iPad pre-orders coming in at the rate of 25,000 per hour, there was a dramatic fall-off over the weekend.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job — Tim Bray—co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger, and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee—has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone. — The move puts a personal face on the cultural …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
A very personal Google Android vs. Apple iPhone war just got some more personality
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Seth Weintraub / Computerworld:
Apple hires ‘Senior Prototype Engineer’ for work on wearable computing — Richard DeVaul's Linkedin status changed last month from Founder & President at AWare Technologies to Senior Prototype Engineer at Apple computer. This is a significant hire for Apple and one that shows the company …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hitwise says Facebook Most Popular U.S. Site — New data released from analytics service Hitwise today names Facebook the largest website in the U.S. with 7.07% of all U.S. visits. Google is second at 7.03%. Yahoo Mail is third with 3.8% and Yahoo is fourth at 3.67% …
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VentureBeat, Hitwise Intelligence, Search Engine Land, Erictric, RyanSpoon.com and The Next Web, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ning CEO Gina Bianchini to Step Down-Becomes an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz — Gina Bianchini, the high-profile CEO of social networking platform Ning, is stepping down and will become an Executive in Residence at the Andreessen Horowitz venture firm. — Bianchini (pictured here) …
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
MOG launches mobile apps with unlimited downloads to your phone — Music streaming service MOG unveiled its mobile strategy today, laying out Android and iPhone apps that will let users get unlimited song downloads to their phones for $10 a month. — Subscribers will be able to get on-demand streams …
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DigiTimes:
HTC shipping CDMA-version Nexus One to Verizon, says paper — HTC (High Tech Computer) has started shipping CDMA-version of the Nexus One Google phones to Verizon Wireless, which will begin to market the smartphones this month or in April at the earliest, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report.
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Android Phone Fans, Android Central, Android Community, Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Fone Arena, Erictric, I4U News, The Toybox and SlashGear
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Fandango Begins Rolling Out Mobile Tickets That Let Moviegoers Go Paperless — Waiting in line for movie tickets is still the worst part of going to the movies (unless you are going to see The Bounty Hunter). With so many mobile phone movie apps, it's easy to find what's playing …
Lucas Mearian / Macworld:
A trend? Intel releases $125 ‘affordable’ SSD — Editor's Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld's Macintosh Knowledge Center. — On the heels of OCZ Technology Group's release of its first sub-$100 solid-state drive (SSD) …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo's Top Ad Money-Maker Bradford Leaving for New Job at Demand Media — According to several sources, Yahoo's SVP of U.S. Revenue and Market Development Joanne Bradford (pictured here) is planning on leaving the Internet giant to take a new position as Chief Revenue Officer of online content upstart Demand Media.
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Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, ClickZ, Between the Lines, paidContent and Gawker, Thanks:atul
Gillian Reagan / Silicon Alley Insider:
PEW: 82% Of Users Will Abandon Their Favorite News Site If They Put Up A Paywall — Project for Excellence in Journalism's annual state of the news industry study has a few depressing stats for the news sites looking to charge online. — Out of six in 10 Americans who say they get at least some news online during a typical day:
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
40% of Blackberry users willing to trade in for an iPhone — BlackBerry users may be ready to move on to other smartphone platforms, suggesting that RIM isn't keeping up with consumer demand in its efforts to combat growing encroachment from the likes of iPhone and Android.
Neil Vidyarthi / SocialTimes.com:
ICQ Is Back And It Uses Facebook and Twitter — Do you remember ICQ ("I Seek You")? It was one of the first desktop download chat applications and was sold to AOL for $400 million in 1998. Strangely, it fell off the map after the acquisition, but has since resurfaced as a type …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Apps, iPhone Bigger Than Facebook Platform — When it comes to apps, the iPhone platform is now bigger than the Facebook platform, according to a report by Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile analytics company. Flurry said today that Apple's iTunes App Store has over 140,000 applications compared …
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Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source — Most any journalism professor, upon mention of Wikipedia, will immediately launch into a rant about how the massively collaborative online encyclopedia can't be trusted. It can, you see, be edited and altered by absolutely anyone at any moment.
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
‘Enriched’ e-books: Will they fly? — Amazon.com early on made a habit of pricing digital versions of new release books at $9.99, well below hardcover list price. That irked publishers, who thought the $9.99 standard would devalue books in the minds of consumers.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Director Of Project Management RJ Pittman Defects To Apple — The battle between Google and Apple continues. RJ Pittman, a prominent Director of Product Management at Google, has left the company to join Apple. We've been tipped off to a tweet he sent out two days ago that said “My last day at Google.
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AppleInsider, The Register, Google Watch, Macsimum News, Fast Company and Silicon Alley Insider
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Justin.TV Turns To Law Professor Eric Goldman As It Battles Live Video Piracy — Before livestreaming video networks like Justin.TV can become attractive to advertisers, they need to deal with their piracy issues. It's the same thing YouTube had to go through, except with live video streams.
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Digg overhaul expected to lessen coveted traffic spikes to publishers — Say goodbye to the “Digg effect”? — Digg Chief Executive Jay Adelson announced a vastly revised version of its social news website at an event Saturday during the South by Southwest Interactive conference.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Groupon Directors Establish $100 Million Fund To Invest In The Midwest — Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, two of Chicago's best-known tech entrepreneurs, plan to invest as much as $10 million annually in early-stage technology companies through a new fund dubbed Lightbank.
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