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9:00 AM ET, May 25, 2010

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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter's Free Love Era Comes to an End: Time for Developers and Publishers to Pay Up  —  Twitter isn't just booting other ad networks out of its stream.  It now plans to tax some start-ups and publishers that are making money from the service.  —  That's a pretty significant change for the company …
Discussion: Twitter Developers
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Dick Costolo / Twitter Blog:
The Twitter Platform  —  Enduring Value  —  When we discuss the future of Twitter, we focus on the mechanisms through which we can build a platform of enduring value.  The three mechanisms most important to building such a platform are architecting for extensibility, providing a robust API …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
FAQ: Twitter's New Rules On Third-Party Ads
Discussion: eWeek, The Next Web, Mashable! and TweetUp Blog, Thanks:atul
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Demands A Cut Of All Ads Sold Around Twitter API
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Confirmed: Apple's next iPhone will have video chat, feature to be shown in ads directed by Sam Mendes  —  Well this can't be tremendously surprising.  Apparently American Beauty director Sam Mendes is in the process of putting together a series of commercials for Apple's next iPhone …
Chavon Sutton / CNNMoney.com:
Wal-Mart slashes iPhone price to $97  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, plans to slash the price of Apple's 16GB 3GS iPhone to $97 beginning Tuesday.  —  Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) is widely expected to unveil a brand-new iPhone next month …
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Boy Genius Report:
Apple discontinuing Apple iPhone 3G 8GB?  —  A move that is sure to surprise few, we suppose.  We've heard that Apple has stopped shipping iPhone 3G 8GB units to AT&T stores and orders are not being placed for the device.  Could this mean we might see the iPhone 3GS drop to $99 and make way for a new model?
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Dell Streak official: exclusive to O2 UK in early June  —  Let's all feign surprise now, as Dell has just gone official with its worst kept, though perhaps sexiest, secret ever.  The former Mini 5 has been christened the Streak and is launching at the beginning of next month.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Carol Bartz To Michael Arrington: “F*ck Off!”  —  Well, that just happened.  —  Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz took the stage for a fireside chat with our own Michael Arrington.  It took about 15 minutes, but Mike got her to tell him to “f**k off.”
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Yahoo's New Core Competency Seems to Be Outsourcing to Others
Discussion: Daily Patricia, Thanks:mathewi
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Bartz: “Google Is 90% Search, That's A Fact” - Except It's Not
Discussion: TechCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
To Top Off A Busy Day, Yahoo Acquires Foursquare — Well, The Asian Foursquare  —  Yahoo has had a busy day.  Not only did they announce a new cross-branding deal with Nokia, and struck a partnership with Match.com, and had their CEO spar onstage with Mike, but they apparently made an acquisition too.
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Aza Raskin / Aza on Design:
A New Type of Phishing Attack  —  The web is a generative and wild place.  Sometimes I think I missed my calling; being devious is so much fun.  Too bad my parents brought me up with scruples.  —  Most phishing attacks depend on an original deception.  If you detect that you are at the wrong URL …
Tony Wright / RescueTime Blog:
The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man - 4.82 million hours  —  When Google launched its Pac-Man logo on Friday, we immediately heard amused groans in our tweet-streams.  “Well, so much for my morning,” said one.  “Google's Pac Man logo just ruined millions of dollars in productivity today, nationwide,” said another.
Tim Bradshaw / blogs.ft.com:
Behind the Times' new paywall  —  ‘, Assanka.  $(this).parents(’.falconpostactions'), “, ‘Share’, 530)”>Share  —  The time is near for putting to the test Rupert Murdoch's rhetoric about the value of digital journalism and the evils of Google.  —  The Times and the Sunday Times will unveil their new …
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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Will the New York Times' Pay Wall Chase Away Bloggers?
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Android Has Won — Time for Chrome OS to Move Along?  —  Google with its annual developer conference, Google I/O, dominated the technology conversation last week.  Whether it was taking jabs at Apple, launching a competitor to H.264 video technology or simply offering its own version of Amazon S3 …
Discussion: GottaBeMobile and ReadWriteWeb
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Hulu on Android Foreshadows Google TV War  —  Hulu videos can be viewed on any Android phone with Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1, Absolutely Android reported this weekend.  Hulu blocks mobile phones for licensing reasons, but the trick to get them to play on Android handsets is actually pretty simple …
Discussion: Lifehacker, Engadget, Mashable! and eWeek
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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Boxee CEO: Google TV is ‘a Great Opportunity’
Discussion: eHomeUpgrade
Matt Jones / Facebook:
Protecting Privacy with Referrers  —  Late last week, we quickly fixed an issue after being contacted by a Wall Street Journal reporter regarding an unintentional oversight in the data shared with our advertisers by your browser when you click some ads on Facebook.
Discussion: The Next Web
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Shaking Up Entertainment Group In Attempt To Catch Apple And Google  —  Microsoft's XBox is holding its own, but otherwise the company is just falling farther and farther behind Apple and Google (mostly Apple) in the battle for mobile gadgets and devices and consumers' hearts and minds.
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Google offered Viacom $592 million for content  —  Not long after Google acquired YouTube, the search engine offered $500 million in guaranteed revenue if Viacom, parent company of MTV Networks, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures, licensed its TV shows and films to YouTube, records show.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Fake BP Twitter Account Draws Followers With Oil-Spill Satire  —  A Twitter user with an account dubbed BPGlobalPR is posting satirical entries about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and already has more than twice as many followers as BP America's actual account.
Discussion: Velocity
Steve Gottwals / Adobe Reader Blog:
Introducing Adobe Reader for Android  —  On the heels of some cool Adobe news last week at Google I/O (The Engineering Behind Flash Player 10.1, Available Now: Developer Prerelease of AIR for Android and Flash Player 10.1 on Google TV), I am very pleased to announce that Adobe Reader for Android is available today in the Android Market.
Bloomberg:
Via Says $100 Android-Powered Tablets Will Challenge the IPad This Year  —  Via Technologies Inc., the Taiwanese computer-processor company, expects $100 tablet devices containing its chips to reach the U.S. in the second half of 2010, offering a cheaper alternative to the iPad.
Discussion: TechSpot
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
China's Flood of iPad Flankers
Discussion: CoolTechZone.com
 
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The new Hotmail gives Gmail a run for its money.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony teams up with HBO to release TV shows for PlayStation Network
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School's Laptop Spying Software Exploitable from Anywhere
Scott Karp / Publish2 Blog:
The New Associated Press for the 21st Century
Discussion: TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Ustream Lauches Pro Live Streaming Division
Discussion: The Ustream.TV Blog and Beet.TV
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
With Bandwidth Demand Booming, a New Kind of Optical Network Is Born
 Earlier Items: 
W.J. Hennigan / Los Angeles Times:
GPS is getting an $8-billion upgrade
Discussion: Switched, Gizmodo, The Praized Blog and GottaBeMobile, Thanks:atul
Kathryn Koegel / AdAge:
Memo to Steve Jobs: the IAd Is No Miracle Worker
Discussion: eWeek, Phones Review and FM Blog
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Open Sources ‘Improved’ BitTorrent Protocol
Discussion: Softpedia News
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteStart:
New Type of Database Gets High-Profile Funding
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The List Of Startups Launching At TechCrunch Disrupt
Discussion: FluidDB and NYConvergence
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why can Soluto do what Microsoft can't? …
Discussion: ZDNet, TechCrunch and building43
 

 
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