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11:10 PM ET, April 11, 2010

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Innerdaemon / Sharing the truth one thread at a time:
Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself  —  In 1996 when Apple was seemingly on the ropes, Adobe made a crucial business decision and one that is coming back to bite them in the ass.  They declared that their primary development platform would be Windows; subsequently, every new application …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive Video: Adobe CTO Lynch Smacks Back at Apple's “Protectionist Strategy,” Calling it “Bad for Consumers” (But He'll Swing Chickens If Forced!)  —  Yesterday, BoomTown helmed the ATD motorboat through the torrential rain to Adobe Systems' San Francisco HQ for yet another sitdown …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Has Steve Jobs gone mad?  —  Or is he trying to ensure that Apple apps continue to “just work?”  A guide to the latest flap  —  Photo: gdgt  —  The hottest topic in tech these days — and the lead item all weekend in Techmeme — is an obscure clause in Apple's (AAPL) …
Discussion: eSarcasm and TechCrunch
Greg Slepak / Tao Effect Blog:
Steve Jobs' response on Section 3.3.1
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Tensions Rise for Twitter and the Outside Developers Tapping In  —  SAN FRANCISCO — It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship.  —  Twitter made it easy for programmers outside the company to build 70,000 applications that made the microblogging service more usable.
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Zee / The Next Web:
Twitter Officially Responds To Developers.  Tries To Calm Fears.  —  Full message at the bottom of this post.  —  In Twitter's development talk Google group, API lead Ryan Sarver took some time to try and calm developers fears regarding Twitter's recent moves to acquire certain apps and effectively wipe out others.
Discussion: Mashable!, Communications … and louisgray.com, Thanks:zee
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter's Developer Conference Starts Early, With A Group Therapy Session  —  Twitter was supposed to be assembling its far-flung network of developers in San Francisco this week for a pep rally and a peek at the company's future.  —  Instead, it's trying to prevent a mass freak-out …
Discussion: Geekosystem
Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:
Twitter's Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Is 2011 like 1994 for Apple, Twitter, Facebook, and the Web?  —  Fact: In 1994 I thought Apple was going to own it all.  By 1999 most magazines thought it was dead.  —  Fact: In 1992 Pointcast shipped.  By 1999 it was dead.  —  Fact: In 1994 Microsoft was beta testing a system called “Blackbird.”
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Flash CS5 will export to HTML5 Canvas  —  In a previous post, I'd wondered why Adobe didn't spend their time building HTML5 Authoring tools rather than putting so much time/energy/money into their Flash->iPhone Apps exporter tool for Flash CS5.  —  As it turns out, Adobe does have some …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Michael Gartenberg / Engadget:
Entelligence: What can Courier teach the market?  —  Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech.  In these articles …
Andrew Jacobs / New York Times:
I Was Hacked in Beijing  —  BEIJING — The reality — and my fears — dawned only slowly.  —  For weeks, friends and colleagues complained I had not answered their e-mail messages.  I swore I had not received them.  —  My e-mail program began crashing almost daily.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Square Motorola Android slider leaks out, causes consternation  —  We swear we've seen a Motorola phone that looks like this odd square thing before, but it's also possible we're crazy.  Either way, it looks like Moto's working on a new Blur set running Android 2.1, and if you thought screen size …
Chris O'Brien / Mercury News:
Google's commitment to the Open Web  —  As Google, arguably the most powerful company in the Internet industry, needs to find ways to continue growing, it inevitably faces a temptation: Does it keep developing features that work with those of other companies, even competitors …
 
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Teaching About the Web Includes Troublesome Parts
Discussion: Switched and Silicon Alley Insider
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Innovation, by Order of the Kremlin
Susan Crawford / New York Times:
An Internet for Everybody  —  LAST week, a federal appeals court …
Discussion: Reuters
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
WaTunes Signs Warner Music, Opens Store Inside Facebook Walls
Discussion: WaTunes
Cade Metz / The Register:
Wikifounder reports Wikiparent to FBI over ‘child porn’
Discussion: Geekosystem
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
UW study: Microsoft accounts for 13.6% of Wash. economy
 Earlier Items: 
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
The NewTeeVee Guide to Video Apps on the iPad
Thanks:om
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Bad Publicity Forces Lawyers Out of Anti File-Sharing Cases
Arn / MacRumors:
MacBook Pro Updates Imminent (Really), Part Numbers Appear