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5:20 PM ET, May 24, 2010

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Dick Costolo / Twitter Blog:

The Twitter Platform — Enduring Value — When we discuss the future of Twitter, we focus on the mechanisms through which we can build a platform of enduring value. The three mechanisms most important to building such a platform are architecting for extensibility, providing a robust API …

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter To Prohibit Any Third Party To Advertise In-Stream

Discussion: Inc.com

Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post:

From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings — Six years ago, we built Facebook around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. If we give people control over what they share, they will want to share more.

Jenna Wortham / New York Times: Rivals Seize on Troubles of Facebook

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Facebook's Zuckerberg admits mistakes, promises privacy fixes

Discussion: Computerworld, VentureBeat and Gawker

Neal Mohan / Inside AdSense:

The AdSense revenue share — Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we're sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — AdSense for content and AdSense for search. — As you may already know, AdSense is comprised of several products.

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine: Google finally reveals AdSense cut: 68% on content

John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
68% of 85% is really 57.8% — Google today announced …

Discussion: Domain Name Wire and Techie Buzz

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Carol Bartz To Michael Arrington: “F*ck Off!” — Well, that just happened. — Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz took the stage for a fireside chat with our own Michael Arrington. It took about 15 minutes, but Mike got her to tell him to “f**k off.”

Discussion: Tech Eye, ZDNet, Gawker, NBC Bay Area, Webmetricsguru and The Huffington Post

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Bartz: “Google Is 90% Search, That's A Fact” - Except It's Not — Mike Arrington just had a no-holds barred interview with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz at TechCrunch Disrupt. Bartz gave back as good as she got, at least in sound bites. As usual, I didn't find many of her statements convincing.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Yahoo's New Core Competency Seems to Be Outsourcing to Others

Thanks:mathewi

Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:

Video: Android 2.2 (Froyo) Web Browser Speed Test and Comparison — According to Google, the web browser in Froyo beats every other mobile browser available right now. That's a lofty claim, and in this video, we put Froyo up against Safari on the iPhone and Opera Mobile 10 on the HD2. The results?

Discussion: IntoMobile, Mashable!, EverythingiCafe, Obsessable, Gadgetell, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, MobileTechWorld, MobileCrunch and Android Phone Fans

Sean Hollister / Engadget:

Flash 10.1 on Froyo goes tete-a-tete with Flash Lite 4 on Eclair: butter vs. stutter (video) — Believe it or not, your newly-upgraded Nexus One isn't the first Android smartphone to have Adobe Flash video capability, nor even the first to play said content on a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, eWeek, Electronista, AndroidGuys, Android Community, Android Phone Fans, Fast Company, MobileContentToday, Softpedia News and ZDNet

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Web Browsing Performance on Android 2.2 Hampered by Flash Compatibility [Updated]

Discussion: pocketnow.com, Daring Fireball and 9 to 5 Mac, Thanks:marcusschuler

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

17 Percent of Verizon Customers Would Upgrade to iPhone — AT&T's iPhone-exclusivity deal hasn't yet expired; nor has Apple announced plans to sell the device through a second U.S. carrier. But that's not stopping analysts from speculating about what might happen when it does.

Discussion: Fortune, AppleInsider, Erictric, Gadget Lab, FierceWireless, Electronista, PE Hub News, EverythingiCafe, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, Internet2Go and MacStories

David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:

Pandigital, B&N partner on $200 color e-reader — If you know of Pandigital, you probably know it for its photo frames. However, the company is moving into the hot e-book reader market with a device that a lot of people have been waiting for: an affordable color screen e-book reader with ties to a major bookseller.

Discussion: Gearlog, Technologizer, Engadget, PC World, Business Wire, Obsessable, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, ZDNet, AndroidGuys, Techland, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans, Electronista and TeleRead

Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:

Google: The Next 6 Months of Android Will “Blow Your Mind” — Android 2.2 is out, and it's pretty nice! But what's next for Android? A better keyboard? More sexy? And how exactly does Google decide what goes into each version of Android anyway? Let's ask Lead Android Andy Rubin.

Discussion: Android Phone Fans

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Why can Soluto do what Microsoft can't? They get rid of Windows frustrations (exclusive first look) — This video is reposted from Rackspace's building43 site. — When we visited Israel a few weeks ago we kept running into people who would ask “have you seen Soluto yet?”

Discussion: TechCrunch and building43

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Yahoo, Nokia To Launch Co-Branded Services Around The World — While we already knew the subject of this news, Yahoo's CEO Carol Bartz officially announced Project Nike, a distribution partnership with Nokia this morning. Nokia will build Yahoo email, search, and other applications into their devices.

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Yahoo-Nokia Alliance Is Too Late for Mobile Market

Discussion: Search Engine Land and Silicon Alley Insider

Steve Gottwals / Adobe Reader Blog:

Introducing Adobe Reader for Android — On the heels of some cool Adobe news last week at Google I/O (The Engineering Behind Flash Player 10.1, Available Now: Developer Prerelease of AIR for Android and Flash Player 10.1 on Google TV), I am very pleased to announce that Adobe Reader for Android is available today in the Android Market.

Discussion: Technologizer, Android Phone Fans, mobiputing and AndroidGuys, Thanks:aniket_ray

Apple:

Steve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 with Keynote Address on Monday, June 7 — Apple® will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address by CEO Steve Jobs on Monday, June 7 at 10:00 a.m. This year's WWDC sold out in a record eight days to over 5,000 developers.

Kathryn Koegel / AdAge:

Memo to Steve Jobs: the IAd Is No Miracle Worker — Why Apple Should Rethink Its Strategy in Deploying Mobile Ads Into the Marketplace — A veil of silence hangs over the advertising industry, as thick and unattractive as Scarlett O'Hara's post-war recycled drape dress.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

The List Of Startups Launching At TechCrunch Disrupt — We are only a few hours away from kicking off the first ever TechCrunch Disrupt conference and we are thrilled to announce the 20 startups that were chosen out of hundreds to present their applications over the next few days.

Discussion: FluidDB and NYConvergence

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

TweetUp Launches “AdSense For Twitter” Product At #TCDisrupt — TweetUp, the Twitter-focused search and advertising startup that was incubated by idealab - the original Overture founders - is launching today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City.

Discussion: TweetUp Blog, VentureBeat and MediaPost Raw

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteStart:

New Type of Database Gets High-Profile Funding — There is a thing and there are ways to describe a thing. But why stop there? — FluidInfo is a startup company that has built a new information architecture that positions databases as an open-ended way to describe the world …

Discussion: TechCrunch, FluidDB and Silicon Alley Insider

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