Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:10 PM ET, October 30, 2010

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Files Lawsuit against Motorola to Defend Multi-Touch  —  The inevitable: When Motorola preemptively launched their declaration judgment action against Apple earlier this month, we knew that Apple was likely to launch multiple patent infringement lawsuits against Motorola once …
RELATED:
AppleInsider:
Apple countersues Motorola over multi-touch iPhone patents
Discussion: Engadget
Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Twitter Investor Defends New ‘Tweet’ Usage Rules  —  Twitter is taking heat in the tech blogosphere (here and here) over its new guidelines about how others can use the words “Twitter” and “Tweet.”  Now some well-known technology investors are also saying “Hey, Twitter, enough of this.”
RELATED:
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Hey, Twitter, Enough Of This Crap About “Here's How You Can Use The Word Tweet”  —  Twitter has issued new rules about how the rest of us can use the words “Twitter” and “Tweet,” MG Siegler of TechCrunch tells us.  —  And the rules are right out of a handbook on how to take yourself way too seriously.
Glenn Kelman / Redfin Corporate Blog:
One in Five Facebook Employees Has No Imagination Whatsoever  —  Whoa!  Shocking news, guys.  An engineer left Google for Facebook.  The great Lars Rasmussen, creator of Google Maps and Google Wave, quit Google Thursday to join Facebook.  This has, admittedly, happened before.
RELATED:
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Will Facebook have an IPO bounce?  Has 409A changed the game?  —  The conventional wisdom is that you join a hot startup pre-IPO to get the low priced stock options.  Techcrunch reports that some people are joining Facebook now to get in on pre-IPO shares.
Thanks:dondodge
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Why Twitter's C.E.O. Demoted Himself  —  AT the annual South by Southwest gathering of techies in Austin, Tex., in March, conference organizers had chosen a hangar-size room to accommodate their star speaker: Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, the messaging and social networking site that had become a digital phenomenon.
Aram Bartholl:
“Dead Drops” preview  —  I am pleased to preview ‘Dead Drops’ a new project which I started off as part of my ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC the last couple weeks.  ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space.  I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Will HP, Dell, Sony answer 11-inch MacBook Air?  —  Neither Dell nor Hewlett-Packard nor Sony have laptops that compete directly with the 2.3-pound, 11.6-inch MacBook Air.  Is this a new market segment that those three laptop leaders and others will have to address?
Discussion: WinBeta and Crave
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
VLC for iOS May Soon Be Gone From the App Store Due To Videolan's Complaint  —  VLC, the popular media player for Windows, Mac and Linux that landed on the iPad in September and on the iPhone last week, may soon be gone from the App Store.  Rémi Denis-Courmont, one of the primary developers of VLC …
Bernard Moon / VentureBeat:
Are Q&A startups a threat to Google?  —  The classic movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail includes a scene in which King Arthur and his men ignore warnings about a killer rabbit with huge fangs.  Only after one of the knights is ferociously attacked do they finally believe …
Discussion: Silicon Moon
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Motorola DROID 2 Global launches soon in black and white; T-Mobile Comet to cost $149.99  —  A fresh new Verizon Wireless rebate sheet emerged yesterday and brought with it some confusion.  On the sheet, the upcoming Motorola DROID 2 Global had two associated SKUs.
Fred / A VC:
The Creative Phase  —  The digital technology revolution was, from the day the transistor was invented in the late 40s until the early part of last decade, largely about engineering.  It is still very much about engineering but I've been thinking for a while now that as this revolution matures …
Discussion: Financial Times
Tim Anderson's ITWriting:
Microsoft's Silverlight dream is over  —  Remember “WPF Everywhere”?  Microsoft's strategy was to create a small cross-platform runtime that would run .NET applications on every popular platform, as well as forming a powerful multimedia player.  Initially just a browser plug-in …
RELATED:
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Why is Microsoft suddenly so hot for HTML5?
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 10:10 PM ET, October 30, 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: 
Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends:
India to have BlackBerry Messenger interception by end January
Manan Kakkar / India IT Blog:
Indian government plans to introduce SIM cards with digital certificates
Discussion: Times of India
Alexandra Hudson / Reuters:
Turkey lifts its ban on YouTube: agency
Discussion: Agence France Presse
 Earlier Items: 
Dennis Fisher / threatpost:
Inside Google's Anti-Malware Operation
Patrick Goss / Tech Radar:
Geocities to be released as a torrent