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Tweet Preservation — The Library of Congress is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States and it is the largest library in the world. The Library's primary mission is research and it receives copies of every book, pamphlet, map, print, and piece of music registered in the United States.
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Dylan Casey / The Official Google Blog:
Replay it: Google search across the Twitter archive — Since we first introduced real-time search last December, we've added content from MySpace, Facebook and Buzz, expanded to 40 languages and added a top links feature to help you find the most relevant content shared on updates services like Twitter.
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Matt Raymond / Library of Congress Blog:
How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive — Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress. — That's right. Every public tweet, ever …
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Apple Media Advisory — Apple today released the following statement: — Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple: US iPad Sales Are Booming, So Everyone Else Has to Wait Another Month — Live outside the U.S and want to get your hands on an iPad? You're going to have to wait an extra month, says Apple (AAPL). — Release:
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter Does 19 Billion Searches Per Month, Beating Yahoo & Bing (Sort Of) — How many searches does Twitter handle per month? We've finally got a figure: 19 billion. That has Twitter doing over nearly five times the queries that Bing handles and about 20% of those that mega search star Google processes.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Twitter has 105,779,710 Registered Users, Adding 300K A Day — Twitter's Biz Stone just reeled off some key, and very long awaited stats at Chirp. The stats: — Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users. — It gets 300,000 new users a day. — It receives 180 Million Unique visitors a month.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter's 100,000 apps and annotations: Huge potential, or a huge mess?
Biz / Twitter Blog:
It's Alive! — Last month we previewed an incredibly simple set of web tools which enable partner websites to easily integrate Twitter functionality into their site experience called @anywhere. The idea is that web users will be able to engage with existing Twitter features from all of their favorite sites.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Twitter COO Dick Costolo Spills The Beans On The @anywhere Platform
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Twitter Launches Places, Annotations, User Streams for Developers — Twitter will soon give developers access to streams of user activity on its system, and allow them to create their own annotations to send along with tweets, Twitter's director of platform Ryan Sarver said at the company's Chirp conference in San Francisco today.
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Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Backs Yahoo! to Protect User from Warrantless Email Search — Denver - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) along with Google and numerous other public interest organizations and Internet industry associations joined with Yahoo! in asking a federal court Tuesday to block a government attempt …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Twitter's One Real Problem. No, Not Developers! — Photo of Twitter co-founder & CEO Ev Williams by Randy Stewart via Flickr. — A few days back, I stopped by at the brand-new Palo Alto, Calif. offices of Facebook. It is a gigantic open space, with desks lined up next to each other as far as the eye could see.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Seesmic Squeeze: how a company responds to market changes in Twitter's ecosystem — Take a pile of carbon and apply enough heat and pressure and you'll get diamonds. Of course you might just not get it right and will end up with a pile of ash. — If you talk with Loic Le Meur …
Aaron Wise / The Official Google Blog:
Google Follow Finder: Find some sweet tweeps — This morning we announced a replay feature in real-time search that helps you search the public archive of updates from Twitter. Now, we have more Twitter news from today's Chirp Conference. We've just released a new experimental service …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Eric Schmidt: Today's Most Interesting Engineering Problems Are Around Sharing — Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat for a Q&A at the company's Atmosphere event yesterday pitching its Apps platform to the enterprise. A couple of his remarks stuck with me today and I wanted to share them as well as a video …
MacDailyNews:
RUMOR: Apple to unveil next-gen iPhone on June 22 — “Although no confirmations have yet come from Apple (naturally), there is speculation that the big [next-gen iPhone] reveal could take place on June 22nd,” Messany reports for ModMyi. — “For this particular occasion …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Joost Video Network Stuns With Big Reach: 67 Million Viewers Per Month — Straight out of left field, the Joost Video Network has assumed the number 2 spot in comScore's Video Metrix “Top 100 Properties”, second only to Google. — The Joost network, which is now operated by Adconion …
Joab Jackson / PC World:
Google exec worries over ‘rudderless’ Java — The chief Google Java architect calls on Oracle to put Java back on track — As if Oracle did not have enough work convincing MySQL users of its good intentions, the company also should set its sites on getting the Java platform back on track, contends a Google chief architect.
Niels Provos / Google Online Security Blog:
The Rise of Fake Anti-Virus — For years, we have detected malicious content on the web and helped protect users from it. Vulnerabilities in web browsers and popular plugins have resulted in an increased number of users whose systems can be compromised by attacks known as drive-by downloads.
Simon Chester / MobileCrunch:
HTC Incredible Revealed on Verizon Staging Site, To Be Called “Droid Incredible” — This is about as firm a leak as you can get: the HTC Incredible has been revealed on a Verizon staging site. — Sadly, no further specs or pricing was revealed, but the April 29th launch date that we talked …
