Techmeme: Are You Ready for the New Peer-to-Peer Economy? (Om Malik/GigaOM)

11:45 AM ET, March 12, 2011

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iPad 2 Wi-Fi Teardown — We got our hands on Apple's newest tablet, the iPad 2 on March 11, 2011. Follow us on Twitter to get all the latest updates. Finally!!! The iPad has come back to iFixit! And this time, it has a 2 in front of its name, hence the iPad 2!

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPad 2 Teardown: A5, ‘Neat and Tidy’ Interior, Massive But Thin Battery

Discussion: IntoMobile, PC Magazine and CrunchGear

Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:

Twitter to Devs: Don't Make Twitter Clients... Or Else — Pure play Twitter clients — apps like Echofon, Twidroyd and UberTwitter — got a sharp slap on the wrist today from Twitter platform chief Ryan Sarver. — In an API announcement post, Sarver finally made clear what third-party developers …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Twitter Drops The Ecosystem Hammer: Don't Try To Compete With Us On Clients, Focus On Data And Verticals — For much of the past year, the Twitter ecosystem has been in a state of flux. Ever since Twitter bought Tweetie and turned it into their own native iPhone app, third-party developers …

Discussion: Ars Technica, Taptivate, The Next Web, Regular Geek, Softpedia News, Techie Buzz, Engadget, Stowe Boyd, WPCentral.com, BetaNews, Pocket-lint, @carnage4life, ReadWriteWeb, @twitterapi, @dracos, paidContent, Joel Housman, Oaggle, @fredericl, @jason and Pulse2

Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Twitter is Finally Doing the Right Thing

Discussion: TechnoBuffalo, Thanks:jesse

Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Twitter's new developer roadmap

Discussion: MacStories, internetnews.com, GigaOM, @m242, @timbray and Threat Level

Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Kleiner Perkins Already Selling Its Twitter Stock — Kleiner Perkins is already selling some of the stock it bought in Twitter just last December, Henry Blodget reports. — We heard from a source that Kleiner has already unloaded some of its stock on private markets, quickly making a profit as Twitter's valuation has skyrocketed.

Henry Blodget / SAI:

NO CONFLICT, NO INTEREST: John Doerr, Twitter, And The Rise Of Secondary Private Markets — Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr is said to have once described his investment philosophy as “no conflict, no interest.” — In other words, when Doerr and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins …

Discussion: Softpedia News

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Apple facing iPad 2 shortages, poor retail launch planning — Apple has been hyping up today's iPad 2 launch since its announcement last week with its numerous newsletters, video guided tours, etc. Now it's launch day and it could be fairly said that Apple disappointed a few.

Discussion: Engadget, CNET News, TUAW, App Advice, IntoMobile, Bloomberg, Mashable!, PalmAddicts and AppleInsider, Thanks:markgurman

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Impressive lines suggest first day iPad 2 sales could hit 500k, analyst says

Discussion: Electronista, VentureBeat, Macworld and Bloomberg

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Are You Ready for the New Peer-to-Peer Economy? — Unless you really don't give two hoots about the world of technology, it's highly unlikely you would have missed the big brouhaha between San Francisco-based startup Square and VeriFone, a payment processing services provider.

Jason Kottke / kottke.org:

Introducing Stellar — For the past several months, I've been working on a new web app/site called Stellar. Stellar helps you discover and keep track of your favorite things online. If you like playing around on Twitter or Flickr, you'll probably enjoy Stellar.

Discussion: NetworkEffect, The Sly Oyster, The Atlantic Online and Switched

Michael Joggins / AndroidSPIN:

Exclusive: Pics of Verizon HTC Incredible 2 — Well look what we managed to get our hands on today...pictures of the HTC Incredible 2. It is quite the device I must say. Rocking Android 2.3 with Sense, this is one smoking hot phone. Although we haven't gotten the chance to play …

Discussion: Ubergizmo, BlogsDNA, Softpedia News and Phones Review

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Motorola Xoom sales tepid; Production cuts next? — With Apple launching the iPad 2 Friday, Motorola Mobility may be forced to scramble to bolster sales of the Xoom tablet. — Jefferies analyst Peter Misek on Friday argued that earnings estimates for Motorola Mobility are too high …

Discussion: Geek.com, GottaBeMobile, CrunchGear, DisplayBlog, Teching It Easy, Gearlog and GigaOM

Arn / MacRumors:

iPhone 5 Design Images with Larger Edge-to-Edge Screen? — iDealsChina claims to have engineering diagrams of the new iPhone 5. The images look pretty much like an iPhone 4 with the exception of a larger screen which seems to take up a larger portion of the front face.

Discussion: App Advice, Examiner, ITProPortal, Gadget Lab, The Atlantic Online, Techland, Electronista, Pocket-lint, Geek.com, SAI, GottaBeMobile, TiPb, CNET News, Pulse2, Fonehome, Apple Bitch, MacStories, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, 9 to 5 Mac, thinq_, everythingiCafe, Ubergizmo, Phones Review, Fast Company, PhoneArena, Edible Apple, Gadgets DNA, MacHackPC and TUAW

Bloomberg:

Bloomberg Game Changers: Twitter — “Bloomberg Game Changers” profiles Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone. This program features interviews with Twitter Chairman Jack Dorsey; Mike Maples, founder and managing partner of venture capital firm Floodgate; Tim O'Reilly …

Discussion: Soshable, Epicenter and GigaOM

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Sean Parker, Music Mogul? Facebook Billionaire Mulling Warner Music Bid — Sean Parker helped create Napster, which kicked off the long and steep decline of the big music labels. Soon he might own part of one. — The digital entrepreneur is considering putting his money into a consortium bidding …

Discussion: VentureBeat and SAI

Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:

Japan quake could hit semiconductor production, prices — Lesser earthquakes have in the past affected manufacturing — Computerworld - Because Japan produces more than 40% of the world's NAND flash memory chips — and 15% of its DRAM — the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that hit today …

Discussion: NBC Bay Area, IEEE Spectrum Online, Electronista, Tech Trader Daily, Softpedia News and Between the Lines Blog

Tim Hornyak / CNET News:
Twitter, Facebook vital as Japan cell networks jam

Discussion: iGeneration Blog, iSuppli, Computerworld, internetnews.com, The Register, All Facebook, GeekWire, Bloomberg, @r, Boing Boing, NBC Bay Area and Computerworld

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