Techmeme: DailyBooth So Excited About iPad 2 Camera That They Close A $6 Million Venture Round (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

1:55 AM ET, March 9, 2011

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Chris Chang / M.I.C. Gadget:

Exclusive: 64GB iPhone 4 Hands-on & Video! — The next iPhone? We are not sure, but we've just got our hands on an engineered prototype of iPhone 4, with 64 GB storage capacity. We tested it, and it is the real thing, no jokes here. On the back of the device, it has “XXGB” marking …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, Gadgets DNA, TiPb, Shoutpedia, Edible Apple, MacStories, GeekSmack, Digital Trends, MobileCrunch, PhoneArena, Electronista, MacRumors and Redmond Pie

Arn / MacRumors:
64GB iPhone 4 Prototype Leaked from FoxConn

Discussion: MacHackPC and M.I.C. Gadget

Tim Steele / Google Chrome Blog:

Speedier, simpler and safer: Chrome's basics get even better — Just three weeks ago, we kicked off the Year of the Rabbit with a speedy Chrome beta. Today, we're excited to bring these speed improvements and more to everyone using Chrome. With today's stable release …

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:

What's New in Chrome 10? — Google Chrome 10 is ready for primetime and it comes with a surprising number of new features. Here are some of them: — 1. The Options dialog is now a web page that opens in a new tab. Chrome has one less modal dialog and the new Options page is better suited for netbooks.

Discussion: PC World

JR Raphael / Computerworld:

Android now more profitable than iOS for well-known game developer — Lately, there's been a lot of talk about how Google's Android Market compares with Apple's App Store in terms of developer potential — specifically, the ability for app developers to make money on the platform.

Discussion: Electronista, Fortune, Android Tapp, Android Phone Fans and Know Your Cell

Joel Spolsky / Stack Overflow:

A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending) — It's been a while since we've done something arbitrary, complicated, and confusing, so today I'm happy to announce that the name of the company has been changed, effective immediately, to Stack Exchange Inc!

Discussion: TechCrunch

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Twitter Succumbs To Backlash, #Dickbar No Longer Covers Tweets — Oh poor #Dickbar, we've spent about five days bemoaning how terrible a UI you were and now you've been pinned down, unable to roam freely over tweets like the days of yore. — Kowtowing to user and blogger feedback …

Discussion: Gizmodo, NBC Bay Area and everythingiCafe

Todd Brix / The Windows Blog:

An Update on Windows Phone Marketplace; new tips, policies and regional access program — As we enter the final month of a very busy first quarter of 2011, I thought I'd take this opportunity to update developers on the status of the Windows Phone Marketplace and share some news.

Discussion: Computerworld, pocketnow.com, MobileBurn.com, SlashGear, The Register, CNET News, Electronista, eWeek, The Next Web, ThinkMobile, PC Magazine, WMPoweruser.com, WinRumors, Many Niches, WPCentral.com and Port 25

Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:

Facebook Is AOLifying the Internet—and That Sucks — When an entire generation of computer users first poked our doe-eyed faces onto a young internet, many of us were greeted with a single, encompassing, monolithic face peering back: the AOL Home Screen. To call it a young internet isn't even fair—it was a mature, thriving AOL.

Om Malik / GigaOM:

What Is Twitter's Problem? No, It's Not the Product — With increasing regularity, Twitter — the San Francisco-based micro-messaging company — finds itself in conflict with its ecosystem. Last year, its decision to buy Twitter clients only resulted in fraying its bonds with its ecosystem.

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Maciej Ceglowski / Pinboard Blog:

Anatomy of a Crushing — A number of people asked about the technical aspects of the great Delicious exodus of 2010, and I've finally had some time to write it up. Note that times on all the graphs are UTC. On December 16th Yahoo held an all-hands meeting to rally the troops after a big round of layoffs.

Discussion: SAI, @pinboard and Marco.org, Thanks:taylorbuley

Sean Michael Kerner / LinuxPlanet:

Are Mobile Apps Violating Open Source Licenses? — Rampant Violations — There are a lot of mobile apps that use open source software, but how many of them are in compliance with open source licensing rules? As it turns out, not very many. — A new study from open source services …

Discussion: internetnews.com and Slashdot

Ted Samson / InfoWorld:
Study: 70 percent of iPhone and Android open source apps violate licenses

Discussion: BetaNews and TechCrunch

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

DailyBooth So Excited About iPad 2 Camera That They Close A $6 Million Venture Round — DailyBooth, a site where (mostly) teens have conversations via text and photos of themselves, has closed its first big round of funding - $6 million - in a round led by Ignition Partners.

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Yes, Facebook Could Compete With Netflix. And Everyone Else, Too. — Dear mythical investor: — I'm confused. — Yesterday you owned Netflix shares. Today you sold them, prompted by the news that Hollywood had begun renting movies on Facebook, using the social network's payment platform.

Discussion: SocialTimes.com, New York Times, Techie Buzz and SAI

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's music/video services futures: The plot thickens with ‘Ventura’ — Recent questions about the future of the Microsoft Zune music/video service have remained largely unanswered. But my contacts have shared a new, relevant piece of the puzzle. And that piece is codenamed “Ventura.”

Discussion: WMPoweruser.com, CrunchGear, Electronista, Engadget, Gizmodo and SAI

Rod Johnson / SpringSource Team Blog:

Addressing a Big New Audience: VMware Acquires WaveMaker — Today, VMware announces with this blog the acquisition of WaveMaker, a widely used graphical tool that enables non-expert developers to build web applications quickly. While WaveMaker is already part of the Spring ecosystem …

Discussion: The Keene View on Web 2.0 …, PR Newswire, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM and Under the Radar

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

Adobe outs experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool, calls it Wallaby — Ah, if only we could flip a big happy switch and convert all the web's Flash content into (functional) HTML5 code. It's a dream shared by many and, funnily enough, the company pushing to make it a reality is none …

John Paul Titlow / ReadWriteWeb:

Despite Living Online, Teenagers Don't Want to “Like” Your Company on Facebook — Teenagers in the United States are constantly connected to the Internet. About 75% of them go online on a daily basis, and that number increases every year. Whether they're connected via their phones …

University at Buffalo:

Study: Facebook Photo Sharing Reflects Focus on Female Appearance — What affects women's self worth also influences their social networking behavior — BUFFALO, N.Y. — In a new study published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, University at Buffalo researcher Michael …

Discussion: Friending Facebook Blog, CNET News, Digital Trends, The Atlantic Online, NBC Bay Area, Network World and All Facebook

Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg:

Apotheker Seeks to Save HP's ‘Lost Soul’ With Software Growth — Leo Apotheker stood before 4,000 Hewlett-Packard Co. colleagues Jan. 31, shielded from the afternoon Bangalore sun by a vast white tent. — Speaking with the accent that betrays his German roots, Apotheker vowed …

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Apple's iPad 2 launch predicted to have stronger sales but shorter lines — Initial sales of the iPad 2 are expected to surpass the first-generation device, but numerous new points of distribution for Friday's launch are predicted to dilute lines of people.

Discussion: eWeek, IntoMobile, Technologizer, I4U News, Examiner, The Register, blogs.chron.com, PhoneArena, MacNN and MobileBurn.com

Kara Swisher / All Things Digital:

Daily Bubble: Lead Generator HubSpot Grabs $32 Million From Salesforce.com, Sequoia and Google Ventures [BoomTown] — Another day, another honking big funding for another online start-up. — This time it is Cambridge, Mass.-based HubSpot winning Silicon Valley's version of the lottery …

Discussion: Mashable!, HubSpot's Inbound …, ReadWriteWeb, Venture Capital Dispatch, paidContent, VentureBeat, The Social, VatorNews, Between the Lines Blog, PE Hub Blog, SmoothSpan Blog, ReadWriteHack, TechCrunch, SAI, Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land and silicontap.com

Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:

Verizon's Melone: LTE smartphones on track, despite ‘issues’ — Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) is on track to launch its LTE smartphones in the first half of the year, a top Verizon executive said, but the carrier is working through unnamed technology issues related to the device deployment.

Discussion: Droid Life, Erictric, Android and Me, Engadget, Electronista, PhoneDog.com, Softpedia News, PhoneArena and Between the Lines Blog

Riley McDermid / VentureBeat:

LinkedIn, GitHub team up on collaboration tool for programmers — Professional social networking startup LinkedIn has joined forces with well-known open source coding repository GitHub, which will allow others in a user's network to see what projects they and their connections are working on at any given time.

Discussion: ReadWriteHack and The LinkedIn Blog

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Memolane Launches Its Personalized Internet Time Machine To The Public — Back in November we wrote about Memolane, a new startup that lets you import and visually browse through your tweets, Facebook updates, Flickr photos and the rest of your content littered across the web.

Discussion: Bits and Silicon Valley Watcher

Brian Ngo / Google Mobile Blog:

Instant Previews now available on mobile — Instant Previews provides a fast and interactive way to evaluate search results. Starting today, Google Instant Previews is available on mobile for Android (2.2+) and iOS (4.0+) devices across 38 languages. Similar to the desktop version of Instant Previews …

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Fox DMCA Takedowns Order Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns — The Chilling Effects web archive was founded in 2001 as a response to the usually secretive practice of sending so-called ‘takedown notices’ to have content removed from the web. This, according to the activists involved, was having a ‘chilling effect’ on free speech.

Discussion: Techdirt and TechEye

Michelle Nichols / Reuters:

Bill Gates'g philanthropy costs him richest-man title — (Reuters) - Bill Gates didn't lose his title as the world's richest man last year; he gave it away by plowing billions into his charitable foundation, experts say. — Forbes will release its 2011 billionaires list on Wednesday and Gates …

Discussion: Digital Trends, Gearlog, GeekWire and SAI

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