Techmeme: Facebook Criticizes Google Verizon Net Neutrality Pact (W. David Gardner/InformationWeek)

10:10 AM ET, August 11, 2010

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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:

Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey (UPDATED) — ANALYSIS — In 2007, when the Android OS was still vaporware, Google made a gutsy $4.6 billion bet on mobile net neutrality. While they never had to pay out the money, that all-in move forced the FCC …

Discussion: Beyond Search, broadstuff, New York Times, FM Blog, BuzzMachine, Guardian, The Atlantic Online, Boing Boing and BoomTown, Thanks:rawmeet

Cindy Cohn / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

A Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal — Efforts to protect net neutrality that involve government regulation have always faced one fundamental obstacle: the substantial danger that the regulators will cause more harm than good for the Internet.

Discussion: DSLreports, GamePolitics News, Technology Liberation Front, Electronista, Computerworld and PC World

W. David Gardner / InformationWeek:

Facebook Criticizes Google Verizon Net Neutrality Pact — FCC Commissioner Copps urges the agency to reassert authority over broadband telecommunications as the social network provider advocates principles of net neutrality for both landline and wireless networks.

Discussion: Tech Eye and MediaPost

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google, Verizon are right to push out the wireless net neutrality talk

Discussion: eWeek and Computerworld

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
How Google & Apple Sold Out The Cell Phone Revolution

Discussion: Silicon Valley Watcher, New York Times, Fortune and The Register

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

Twitter Launching Official Tweet Buttons This Week [EXCLUSIVE] — Twitter is launching an official Tweet Button for sharing articles on websites and counting how many times a URL has been shared, according to documents Mashable has obtained. The Tweet Button could launch as soon as this Thursday.

Discussion: The Blog Herald, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Techie Buzz, Switched, Covering Web, Softpedia News and NewsGrange

Brad McCarty / The Next Web: Twitter introduces the Tweet Button. Is TweetMeme being left in the cold?

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Dell Streak Pricing: $300 With Two-Year AT&T Contract, $550 Without — That's almost twice as much as a good iPod Touch, and if you wait a few weeks to buy the Touch, you'll get one with a Retina Display and dual cameras. If Dell can't make an iPod Touch competitor, who can?

Lionel Menchaca / Direct2Dell:
Official Dell Streak Pricing, Carrier and Order Details for US Customers

Discussion: Computerworld, Boy Genius Report, AndroidGuys, Technologizer, jkOnTheRun, MobileContentToday, Ubergizmo, Liliputing, FierceWireless, PhoneDog.com, Phones Review, SlashGear, dailywireless.org, Phone Scoop and MobileBurn.com

Gmail Blog:

Updates to Contacts and a (slightly) new look for Gmail — We're constantly reviewing user feedback about Gmail, and for a while now the number one request has been for a better contacts experience. You've asked us to generally make Contacts easier to use, as well as for specific improvements …

Leland Rechis / Twitter Blog:

Introducing Fast Follow, and other SMS tips — We've always been big fans of trusty SMS messaging. In fact, sending a text was originally the only way users could tweet. This is why Tweets are 140 characters — they need to fit into a text message. — We value SMS because it's simple, instant and universal.

Discussion: Fast Company, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, MediaPost, V3.co.uk, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, ArabCrunch English, ReadWriteWeb, The Blog Herald, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Erictric and Gizmodo

Softpedia News: Follow Any User via SMS Without a Twitter Account

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Amazon Is Said to Look at Hardware Beyond Kindle — If you look at the job board for Lab 126, the division of Amazon responsible for the Kindle e-reader, you will see a flurry of listings related to electronics hardware, with titles like Supply Chain Project Program Manager, Hardware Engineer and RF Systems Engineer.

Discussion: Crave, Inquirer, TG Daily, Pocket-lint, TeleRead, Kindle Review, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Electronista, WebProNews and Engadget, more at Mediagazer »

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Phones? Set-Top Boxes? Tablets? …

Thanks:bobcaswell

Caroline McCarthy / The Social:

Facebook's Foursquare competitor is imminent — The long-rumored geolocation “check-in” feature at Facebook is slated to debut within weeks, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNET. — It's going to take the form of an application program interface (API) for third-party companies …

Discussion: VatorNews, Mashable!, Search Engine Watch, TechCrunch Europe, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, The Next Web, GeekSugar, Lost Remote, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch and The Huffington Post, more at Mediagazer »

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Had Offered Foursquare $120 Million, Foursquare Asked …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Mark Hurd Had The Lowest Employee Approval Rating (34%) Of Any Major Tech CEO — Softcore-porn-actress-turned- marketing-consultant Jodie Fisher wasn't the only person who failed to be enamored by HP CEO Mark Hurd, who was forced to resign as a result of an investigation into his relationship with Ms. Fisher.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, HP Phenomenon, Techie Buzz, Gawker, TG Daily, Geek.com and Fortune, Thanks:rawmeet

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

You've got friends: Facebook, AOL quietly talking online ad hookup — Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong are quietly discussing a strategic alliance aimed at boosting their online ad businesses, The Post has learned. — The two companies have been talking …

Discussion: Reuters

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Confirmed: HOPA Dry Erase Girl Is A Hoax, Identity Revealed — “Girl quits her job on dry erase board, emails entire office (33 Photos)” is indeed a hoax, say its creators John and Leo Resig. — I'd love to pull out some well-worn meta-media analysis about how memes are increasingly …

Discussion: theCHIVE, Gawker, CNET News, Switched, Boing Boing, Gizmodo, MediaMemo and PE Hub Blog, more at Mediagazer »

Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:

What Happened To Demand Media's Traffic? — Take a look at the Quantcast traffic data for Demand Media, the VC-backed online content creator that on Friday filed for a $125 million IPO: — The massive drop-off occured a few days prior to the IPO filing, and has stayed consistent over the past two days of Quantcast reports.

Discussion: GigaOM, Skeptic Geek, Slate, Bronte Media and Andy Beard

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

What New Features Will Google Reveal at Mobile Event Thursday? Some Think It Should Be Integrated Video Calling. — Today, Google sent out a notice that it would be holding a press event Thursday morning at its San Francisco offices, where the search giant would be “unveiling a couple of cool new mobile features.”

Discussion: Gizmodo, Electronista, Softpedia News, Fortune, AndroidSPIN, VentureBeat, Googling Google Blog, Android Phone Fans, Technologizer, Neowin.net and Ubergizmo

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors — The tire pressure monitors built into modern cars have been shown to be insecure by researchers from Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina. The wireless sensors, compulsory in new automobiles in the US since 2008 …

Thibault Imbert / ByteArray.org:

H.264 GPU Decoding in Flash Player on Mac OS X is live — We just pushed a few minutes ago a new version of the Flash Player 10.1.82.76 containing a nice feature that was in beta until now called “Gala”. Yes, H.264 GPU decoding in Mac OSX is now officially enabled in the Flash Player.

Discussion: AppleInsider, Inquirer, MacRumors, TUAW, O'Grady's PowerPage, 9 to 5 Mac, InsideRIA, John Nack on Adobe, Ryan Stewart, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and MacStories

Theodoric Meyer / The Dalles Chronicle:

On Google's Terms — The Dalles' Internet giant calls the shots on information despite government rules — Two data centers present a study in contrasts — PRINEVILLE, Ore.— High on a plateau above this struggling city's downtown, Facebook is busy building its first data center.

Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge: Google & Facebook: A Tale of Two Data Centers

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

HP tells employees webOS tablet coming Q1 2011 — We've been trying to find out when HP would launch a webOS tablet since the company first bought Palm, and we're now hearing from several trusted sources that it'll be calendar Q1 2011. We're told Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley mentioned …

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