Techmeme: Cuil Failed at Search, Now Fails to Copy Wikipedia (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)

5:20 AM ET, April 13, 2010

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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:

Twitter Unveils Plans to Draw Money From Ads — Twitter will unveil on Tuesday a much-anticipated plan for making money from advertising, finally answering the question of how the company expects to turn its exponential growth into revenue. — The advertising program …

Discussion: Fast Company, Tech Eye, Mashable!, The Social, Search Engine Land, Wall Street Journal, BBC, the Econsultancy blog, Steve Reynolds Blog, Erictric, New York Times, TechCrunch, Jon Burg's Future Visions and PE Hub Blog

Michael Learmonth / AdAge:

Twitter Has a Business Model: ‘Promoted Tweets’ — Search Ads For Twitter That Split Difference Between ‘Earned’ and ‘Paid’ Media — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In the four years since Twitter launched, two questions have hung over the micro-blog service: Can it make money? If so, how?

Discussion: GigaOM, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, MediaMemo, paidContent, Mashable!, Search Engine Land, The Next Web and Search Engine Journal

Biz / Twitter Blog:

Hello World — Although our services extend beyond the Web, Twitter ranks as one of the most popular sites on the Internet. Over the years, we've resisted introducing a traditional Web advertising model because we wanted to optimize for value before profit.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:atul

John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:

Twitter To Roll Out “Promoted Tweets”: Initial Thoughts (Developing) — (image from Ad Age) The NYT has broken news of Twitter's initial version of its native ad platform, which it is calling “Promoted Tweets.” I will acknowledge being briefed on this news prior to its breaking …

Thanks:atul

Opera Press Room:

Approved — Opera Mini App approved for the App Store — Opera today announced its popular mobile browser, Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store. Opera Mini will be available as a free download within 24 hours, depending on market.

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Surprise, Surprise: Opera Mini iPhone App Gets Apple's Stamp Of Approval — Good news for Opera (and its legions of fans around the world): the company has just announced that its mobile browser Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store.

Discussion: MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, AppScout, RCR Wireless News, Computerworld, Electronista, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb and VatorNews

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Cuil Failed at Search, Now Fails to Copy Wikipedia — During the rise of the Beat movement in the 1950s and '60s, avant-garde writer William S. Burroughs developed a process he called the “cut up” technique, in which he would literally cut out sentences and passages from poems, stories and books …

Discussion: Technologizer, One Foot Tsunami, Marco.org, Beyond Search, Yahoo! News and Software Journal, Thanks:taylorbuley

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:

Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two announced: Windows Phone roots with a social slant (updated with video) — It's finally official: Microsoft Pink — the product of Redmond's acquisition of Danger — has just been unveiled as a pair of handsets sourced from Sharp (which made most of Danger's Sidekicks) known as the Kin One and Kin Two.

Microsoft:
Microsoft Ushers in the Next Generation of the Social Phone With KIN …

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Five surprising things about Microsoft's Kin

Discussion: Mashable!, Softpedia News and WMPoweruser.com

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video — Google will soon make its VP8 video codec open source, we've learned from multiple sources. The company is scheduled to officially announce the release at its Google I/O developers conference next month, a source with knowledge of the announcement said.

Discussion: The Open Road, Webmonkey and Daring Fireball, Thanks:jank0

Jonathan Rochelle / Docs Blog:

A new Google Docs — They say a house is only as good as its foundation, and we believe the same holds true for web applications like Google Docs. With our old foundation, we could continue delivering most features you wanted quickly, but over time it became clear that some just weren't possible.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Docs Gets More Realtime; Adds Google Drawings To The Mix

Discussion: Softpedia News, Datamation, Bits, Relevant Results, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Mashable!, The Next Web, eWeek, Ars Technica, Don Dodge on The Next …, Google Operating System, Boy Genius Report, internetnews.com, Electronista and ReadWriteWeb

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Steve Jobs Replies to Mail, Apple Is Dropping Support for the iPhone 2G — He did it again, and with his usual style we've gotten used to. Steve Jobs has replied to a customer mail regarding the future support for the iPhone 2G (do you even remember it?) and clearly said:

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac: Steve Jobs: Apple owns the trademark on ‘Pad’

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Flip Slide HD officially official, on sale now — After a week of essentially non-stop leaks from Best Buy, Cisco's finally coming clean with the Flip Slide HD, the newest member of its Flip family. Obviously the big feature here is that pop-up three-inch screen — when folded down and in record mode …

Discussion: BoomTown, NewTeeVee, Mashable! and Gizmodo

Kimbal Musk / OneRiot Blog:

Monetizing the Realtime Web - Insights and Challenges after 6 Months — People love to interact in realtime. Last year saw the burst of Twitter into the mainstream and the phenomenal growth of Facebook. People love to interact in realtime, whether it is with each other or with content.

Discussion: Beyond Search, Thanks:chrismessina

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Google CEO Disses Blogging — Eric Schmidt runs the biggest single blog network in the world, which makes it all the more bizarre that the Google CEO was insulting bloggers at a newspaper conference today. Was it something we said, Eric? Here's what Schmidt told the American Society …

Discussion: The Register, Nieman Journalism Lab, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web, Podcasting News and Search Engine Journal

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

Eric Schmidt on Google's “mobile first” attitude, weaknesses — Google chief executive Eric Schmidt talked on-stage about the company's future this evening at Google's Atmosphere conference for chief information officers. In addition to fielding some general questions about Google's plans …

Discussion: Relevant Results, Digits, TechCrunch and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Mary Meeker: Mobile Internet Will Soon Overtake Fixed Internet — Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley isn't just any Internet analyst. She was covering the sector when the brokerage firm was the lead underwriter for Netscape Communications' initial public offering in 1995, was dubbed the …

Discussion: VentureBeat and dailywireless.org

Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:

South Korea Imposes Midnight Gaming Curfew — Video game addiction is a serious problem in Korea, where kids are prone to staying up all night long to play. So the government is disabling internet connections for six hours per night for underage gamers. — The ban won't affect most internet uses …

Discussion: KoreaHerald, Technically Incorrect, CrunchGear, Joystiq, Erictric, Massively and GamePolitics News

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Malware Extorts Cash From BitTorrent Users — ICCP Foundation claims to be an international company operating out of Switzerland. They say they are “committed to promoting the cultural and economic benefits of copyright” while assisting their partners to fight “copyright theft around the world”.

Discussion: Threat Level, Download Squad, F-Secure Antivirus … and SC Magazine US

Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:

Week two: Apple stores still finding it tough to keep iPad in stock — Consumers looking for one of Apple's more affordable iPad models may still have trouble finding one at the company's nation retail chain, where the device continues to sell out during its second full week of availability.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Facebook May Be About To Jump Into The Virtual Currency Offers Game — We're hearing that Facebook is going to start rolling out its own version of offers, which let users earn virtual currency credits in return for signing up for services like Netflix or filling out a survey.

Mark / PlinkArt Blog:

Plink is joining Google! — We have some very exciting news - Plink has just been acquired by Google. — We started Plink to bring the power of visual search to everyone, and we're delighted to be taking a big step towards that goal today. Google has already shown that it's serious …

Discussion: Google Operating System, WebProNews, The Register, eWeek, Engadget, internetnews.com, Android Phone Fans, AndroidGuys, Agence France Presse, Erictric, CNET News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Financial Times, paidContent, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Electronista

Mark Long / NEWSFACTOR:
iPhone Visual Search App Dies as Google Acquires Plink

Discussion: NEWSFACTOR

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