Techmeme: LinkedIn Today gets Facebook-esque commenting, liking and trending features (Drew Olanoff/The Next Web)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

July 13, 2012, 9:20 PM

Top News

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple's in-app purchasing process circumvented by Russian hacker — Today we received some disturbing tips that a Russian developer has published a method of obtaining in-app purchases from iOS apps for free. First noticed by Russian blog i-ekb.ru, the “in-app proxy"method does not require a jailbreak …

The Next Web:

How a flaw in Apple's in-app purchase process enabled more than 30,000 illegal virtual transactions — Earlier today a method came to light that allows Apple device users to ‘purchase’ any kind of in-app content for free. The content can be obtained without “hacking” the device and cannot …

More: CNET, Macworld, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, ZDNet, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com and MacRumors. Thanks:@m4tt

Dalton Caldwell:

Announcing an audacious proposal — The overwhelmingly positive response to my blogpost, What Twitter could have been has been inspiring. The post has generated 80K pageviews thus far. Without really meaning to, I touched a nerve. The responses to my post largely fell into two camps.

More: TechCrunch and Dustin Curtis. Tweets: @mathewi, @gruber, @semil, @hunterwalk, @daltonc, @jason, @carnage4life and @davewiner

Dan Frommer / SplatF:

This guy wants to build a new, better Twitter

More: GigaOM

Kevin Rose / Google+:

If you haven't heard the news, I'm thrilled to announce that Digg is now in the hands of Betaworks — (makers of bitly, chartbeat, news.me, and other great products). I've been a big fan of John Borthwick ( http://foundation.kr/11/ ) for awhile now and I'm excited to see where his team takes the product!

More: Pulse2 Technology …, The TechBlock, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Tweets: @rossneumann, @scottbeale and @drewcurtis

See also Mediagazer

Spencer E. Ante / Digits:

Kevin Rose: Digg Failed Because ‘Social Media Grew Up’ — In his first interview since the remains of fallen social media Digg star were sold to Betaworks, Digg's founder Kevin Rose said he sold some company shares during the its venture-capital financing rounds but “did not make a lot of money.”

More: blogs.ft.com, Betabeat and Venture Capital Dispatch. See also Mediagazer

Reuters:

Google's Nexus tablet selling fast across retail chains — (Reuters) - Google Inc's “Nexus 7” tablet is off to an encouraging start, with major retailers running out of the gadgets as the Internet company's first entry in an increasingly crowded market showed up in U.S. stores on Friday.

More: BGR, Droid Life, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow and Computerworld

Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

Google begins shipping Nexus 7 — Google announced on Google+ that it has begun shipping units of the Nexus 7. — Google has begun shipping units of its tablet, the Nexus 7. — The company announced the news on its Google Play account on Google+ complete with a picture of a boxed-sealed Nexus 7 in an opened shipping box.

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple contacted U.S. carriers and retailers to demand removal of banned Samsung products — During the last 24 hours there have been various filings with the Federal Circuit in the cases relating to Apple's preliminary injunctions against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone.

More: VentureBeat, AppleInsider, BGR, Redmond Pie, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Phone Fans, CNET, The TechBlock, Pocketnow, Gotta Be Mobile, The Verge and App Advice

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

RIM Is Bleeding Developers — Research In Motion's sad decline is having all manner of ill effects on the company's long-suffering developer community. — Disillusioned with repeated delays to RIM's next generation BlackBerry 10 operating system and the company's ebbing smartphone market share …

Ben Kuchera / Penny Arcade Report:

Ads up, games down: The ugly, profitable details about Xbox Live advertising — Xbox Live is the online platform for the Xbox 360 that allows people to play against each other online, chat across games, and manage their friend list. Xbox Live is also a for-pay service …

More: The Next Web, Kotaku and Slashdot

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Xbox 360 marks 18 months atop U.S. console market

More: WebProNews

Horace Dediu / asymco:

How many Lumia phones were sold in the US? — Nielsen and comScore survey US consumers through different methodologies, however they both try to paint a picture of the smartphone patterns of ownership and consumption. — I regularly report on comScore's data as it's published on a monthly basis.

More: AppleInsider, The TechBlock, PhoneArena, Daring Fireball, Business Insider, Pocketnow and CNET

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple reverses course: Apple products go back on EPEAT, letter from SVP Bob Mansfield — Following complaints, Apple has reversed its decision to pull its elgible products from the EPEAT standard. Apple's SVP of Engineering has issued a letter:

More: Mashable!, Apple, Business Insider, TUAW, Engadget, MacRumors, BuzzFeed, Geek Beat Technology News, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, CNET, AllThingsD, LAPTOP Magazine, ZDNet, MacDailyNews, Daring Fireball, The Next Web, Macworld, GigaOM, The Verge and BGR. Tweets: @mayoredlee

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Facebook Starts Automating Home-Page Ad Buying — Premium Ads Now Available Through Third-Party Sellers — Two months after announcing it would automate the buying of premium ads that appear on user home pages and in their news feeds, Facebook has opened the floodgates.

More: Ad Exchanger

Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:

Korean company's tiny quad-core ARM Linux computer packs a punch at $129 — Hardkernel's little Linux computer, with a quad-core Samsung Exynos CPU — Little Linux computers have attracted a lot of interest from hobbyists this year. The $35 Raspberry Pi ARM board, which met with huge demand …

More: Mobile Magazine, Gizmodo, SlashGear and Liliputing

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Amazing Alex Shoots to No. 1 on First Day — Rovio doesn't need birds to fly it to the top of the app charts. Its new non-Angry Birds game, Amazing Alex, is already No. 1 in many regions, just a day after it was released, with particular strength on iOS. — The iPhone version of Amazing Alex …

More: BGR, VatorNews, SlashGear and VentureBeat

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft may scrap full retail edition of Windows 8, offer OEM and upgrade only — Microsoft is reportedly planning to kill its retail full edition of Windows 8, offering simplified upgrade and System Builder options for home users. The software maker has typically sold upgrade, full …

More: digitaltrends.com, TWiT.TV, Windows Phone, Microsoft News, PC World, BetaNews, CNET, SlashGear, VentureBeat, The TechBlock, ITProPortal, ZDNet, TechSpot, Liliputing, gHacks Technology News and Neowin

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Retina MacBook Pro Shipping Estimates Improving for the First Time — For the first time since its launch just over one month ago, Apple's Retina MacBook Pro has begun to see improvements in shipping estimates for new orders placed through the company's online store.

More: Apple Bitch, 9to5Mac, Los Angeles Times, BGR, TUAW, Macgasm, AppleInsider, MacNN and Computerworld

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Facebook for Android update lets you use the front-facing camera — Facebook version 1.97 for Android is here, and it comes with the usual array of minor interface tweaks and bug fixes. One feature of note, however, is that you're now able to take and upload photos using your device's front-facing camera.

More: CNET, 9to5Google, Electricpig.co.uk and fiercemobilecontent.com

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

LinkedIn Today gets Facebook-esque commenting, liking and trending features — Now that LinkedIn has gotten rid of all of the Twitter spam from its service, the company is now focusing on bubbling up great content via its “Today” product. — Today, the company announced some new social features for Today …

More: CNET, AllThingsD and LinkedIn Blog. Thanks:@thatdrew

Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:

Spotify helps Swedish music sales rise 30.1% in first half of 2012 — Streaming music now accounts for 89% of digital music sales in Sweden, according to figures released by GLF, the local arm of music industry body the IFPI. In fact, the entire music market in Sweden is buoyant.

More: The Next Web, Mobile Entertainment and Techdirt. Thanks:@eamonn_forde

Nicole Perlroth / Bits:

Skout Reopens Social App for Teenagers — Just one month ago, Skout, a mobile app, was forced to close down its social network for 13- to 17-year-olds when three adults were arrested after using the app to prey on minors and, authorities said, sexually assault them.

More: VentureBeat

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:

Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.

Cape:

Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.

Zoho:

Announcing Zoho POS for South Africa—expanding our commitment to the MEA — We're happy to announce that Zoho POS is now available for South African retail businesses, supporting the region's VAT requirements.

IDrive:

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:

How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn

The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.

Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.

Channels with Peter Kafka:

Oliver Darcy on Status, Bari Weiss, and Why Media Reporters Are Too Soft

Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.

Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.

Training Data:

Chai Discovery's Bitter Lesson: Drug Design Is Another Scaling Problem

Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.

Subscribe to Training Data.

Invest Like the Best:

Gavin Baker - AI Market Jitters

The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.

Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.

Lenny's Podcast:

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.

Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:

Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin

Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.

Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:20 PM ET, July 13, 2012.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.