Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:30 AM ET, October 22, 2010

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Networks Block Web Programs From Being Viewed on Google TV  —  ABC, CBS and NBC are blocking TV programming on their websites from being viewable on Google Inc.'s new Web-TV service, exposing the rift that remains between the technology giant and some of the media companies it wants to supply content for its new products.
RELATED:
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Google in talks to unblock access to TV websites  —  (Reuters) - Google Inc is actively negotiating with three television networks that have blocked access to their websites on Google TV, a source familiar with the matter said.  —  Three of the biggest U.S. television broadcasters have blocked …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
A Tour Of How Networks Have Blocked Google TV  —  After less than a week since its release, three of America's largest television networks have started blocking Google TV.  Sort of.  While ABC and CBS keep Google TV viewers out, as does Hulu, NBC actually still seems to let them in.
Discussion: WatchingTV Online
iFixit:
MacBook Air 11" Model A1370 Teardown  —  Join us as we take a peek inside the 11.6" version of the all-new MacBook Air!
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
HP Slate 500 finally (finally!) official, rings up at $799  —  Nope, you're not dreaming, but feel free to pinch yourself, rub your eyes or take a cold shower!  You've read right — the HP Slate is finally official, and after all the teasing, back and forth, and (very recent) leaks …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Pincus: In Five Years, Connections Will Be To Each Other, Not The Web; We'll Be Dial Tones  —  Today at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, CA, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins unveiled a new $250 million fund for investing in social applications, called “sFund”.
RELATED:
KPCB:
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Launches $250 Million sFund …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Stealth Social Startup Cafebots Scores The First Money From Kleiner …
Sandra Gonzales / Mercury News:
President Obama meets with Apple's Steve Jobs, heads to Palo Alto fundraisers  —  On a West Coast swing to help embattled Democrats, President Barack Obama on Thursday stopped in the Bay Area for the one thing this high-powered region can provide: money.  —  Reports indicate the visit scored big …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu Plus, Take Two: How's $4.95 a Month?  —  Hulu is considering cutting the price on Hulu Plus, the subscription service it began testing in June, sources tell me.  I'm told the video site is talking about slashing its $9.95 per month fee in half, to $4.95.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Rapleaf's Web: How You Are Profiled On The Web  —  Earlier, I posted about San Francisco-based Internet information aggregator Rapleaf, a service that collects, sorts and repackages data about many of us who spend an inordinate amount of time on the Internet.
Discussion: cdixon.org
RELATED:
Greg / Rapleaf Engineering Blog:   Anonymouse  —  Privacy is an incredibly important issue to us …
David Carnoy / CNET News:
Source: New Nook is Android-based, full-color  —  This is just a crude mock-up—and not the real deal—but our source says Nook Color is coming.  —  Is the upcoming Nook a color e-reader?  Barnes & Noble doesn't comment on rumors, but CNET has been in communication with a source …
Arn / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs Comments on Apple's Java Discontinuation  —  Apple's announcement that they would be ceasing future development of their version of Java for the Mac has generated concern amongst Java developers.  Apple posted developer documentation Thursday stating that they would not be supporting Java for Mac OS X in the future:
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Official Twitter app for Windows Phone 7 goes live (update: hands-on)  —  Surprise of surprises!  On the day that Europeans finally got to dig into the Windows Phone 7 cake in earnest, Twitter's official app for the hot new platform has also gone live.  We've downloaded it to our own WP7 device …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Life With Google TV: My First Day Review & Impressions  —  Google TV has finally arrived, not just for pre-order but as an actual device you can get in a retail store.  And so I did, hitting Best Buy yesterday and walking out with a Sony Blu-ray player that is Google TV-capable.
Marcio Galli / Mozilla Labs:
Chromeless: Build your own Browser UI using HTML, CSS and JS  —  The “Chromeless” project experiments with the idea of removing the current browser user interface and replacing it with a flexible platform which allows for the creation of new browser UI using standard Web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Discussion: Mashable!
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Microsoft puts PC game downloads in the browser  —  Microsoft wants to let PC gamers know it's still serious about delivering game software and is putting that idea to the test with a new system that places fewer roadblocks in the way of getting gamers connected to digital game downloads.
Jvarese / Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog:
Adobe announces the HTML5 Video Player widget  —  HTML5 has received a tremendous amount of buzz, much of it driven by the potential for plugin-free video.  However, the limited browser support for the HTML5 <video> tag has forced web designers to scramble for a solution that would work across platforms as well as browsers.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google's Piracy-Fighting Music Search Engine For Indian Users Now Live  —  Yesterday, the WSJ reported that Google was planning to launch a music service in India to help users search for legal online streams and downloads and fight digital piracy, which reportedly runs rampant in the nation.
James Kelly / The Official Google Blog:
Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes  —  Earlier this year we announced our plans to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a small number of American communities.  Since then, a team of Google engineers has been hard at work experimenting with new fiber optic technologies.
Michael T. Jones / Google LatLong:
History in the Unmaking  —  Few events in human history have the scale of World War II.  It's spatial breadth and temporal extent make it difficult to comprehend by those of us too young to have lived it.  There are history books, movies, and photographs, but they portray isolated places and events more than the connected whole.
Jesse Drucker / Business Week:
The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions  —  Google uses a complicated structure to send most of its overseas profits to tax havens, keeping its corporate rate at a super-low 2.4 percent  —  The heart of Google's (GOOG) international operations is a silvery glass office building in central Dublin …
Google Mobile Blog:
Voice Search in Russian, Polish, Czech and Turkish  —  Over the past few weeks we have launched Voice Search in four new languages: Russian, Polish, Czech and Turkish.  Try speaking queries like “ ” (tour dates for Yulia Svicheva), “przepis na pierogi” (recipes for pierogi), “obrázky Hradan” …
Victor Agreda, Jr / TUAW:
iMovie '11 Trailers feature won't let you spoof Universal trailers  —  Loyal tipster Tarik sent word that the iMovie '11 Trailers theme using a globe (very similar to the Universal Studios opener) won't allow you to use the word “Universal” in the title.  —  He's currently testing other themes …
Discussion: SlashGear, Gizmodo and Gear Live
Robert Frank / The Wealth Report:
Millionaires Have No Time for Facebook  —  A new poll suggests that a majority of millionaires have signed up for social media sites.  There is just one problem: They don't have time to actually use them.  —  The poll from SEI Wealth Network, a wealth-advisory firm, showed that 70% …
Discussion: Hillicon Valley
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Square Starts Shipping New iPhone 4-Compatible Credit Card Reader  —  There was a lot of hoopla yesterday about the fact that the old version of Square's little plastic credit card reader doesn't work with Apple's newest iPhone, the iPhone 4.  That's because the metal fitting …
Discussion: SlashGear, Ubergizmo, App Advice and iPodNN
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 7:30 AM ET, October 22, 2010.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Tribe AI:
Is AI just hype?  —  Find out how top enterprises use Tribe to get real business results.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Zoho:
All new Zoho Workerly 2024  —  Staffing businesses around the world face a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing their temporary workforce.  With a constantly shifting job market and changing staffing needs …
Comprehensive.io:
Browse salary data from 3,000 startups for free  —  Click for FREE, immediate access to real-time compensation benchmarking data.  Paid version helps HR automate comp reviews and communicate total compensation to employees.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Identity and The Independent Web
Mimi Turner / Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp.'s Project Alesia Shelved for Now
Wang Qian / Asiaone:
China launches own online map service
Discussion: Bloomberg
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Why Google Can't Count Results Properly
Discussion: SAI
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
ATD Gets Social With Liz Gannes (In Other Words, We Hired Her)
Discussion: omis.me
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Tech Companies See Dearth of Mobile-Software Developers
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple's “Back to the Mac” Event by the Numbers
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Amazon Q3 Tops Street Ests, But Margins Fall, And Shares Drop
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Amazon Introduces New ‘Free Usage Tier’ For AWS
Winamp Blog:
Winamp for Android: Now in Beta