It’s Facebook Day! Say Hello To The Three Tier App System (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
It's Facebook Day! Say Hello To The Three Tier App System — Today is definitely Facebook day as they hold their second annual F8 developers conference in San Francisco. Last year they released their developer platform, which led competitors to hurriedly release their own competing offerings.
Our Newest Portfolio Company: Meetup (Fred/A VC)
Fred / A VC:
Our Newest Portfolio Company: Meetup — My partner Brad starts his post on our newest investment, Meetup, with a rumination on what's causing the introspection that we in web investing land are going through. And he ends his thoughts on that topic with the following:
Nintendo can’t fight off patent metroids, faces injunction (Ben Kuchera/Ars Technica)
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Nintendo can't fight off patent metroids, faces injunction — It seems that gaming controllers are the hot target for patent lawsuits, and patent holders are finding litigation a sound strategy. After Sony lost its case against Immersion and, along with Microsoft, coughed up a hefty sum of money …
Google’s Knol Launches: Like Wikipedia, With Moderation (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's Knol Launches: Like Wikipedia, With Moderation — After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. While Google says Knol is not designed to compete with Wikipedia …
Knol is open to everyone (Cedric Dupont/The Official Google Blog)
Cedric Dupont / The Official Google Blog:
Knol is open to everyone — A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we're making Knol available to everyone.
Meetup - The Original Web Meets World Company (Brad Burnham/Union Square Ventures)
Brad Burnham / Union Square Ventures:
Meetup - The Original Web Meets World Company — Something is changing on the web. We have lost some of the giddy enthusiasm that has surrounded the web since 2004. It was then that Tim O'Reilly defined Web 2.0 as a platform that leveraged collective intelligence.
Phone Giants Fight to Keep Subscribers (Laura M. Holson/New York Times)
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Phone Giants Fight to Keep Subscribers — With millions of people snapping up the iPhone, AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the popular phone, should be quite pleased with the stream of revenue it can expect from customers. — But AT&T, the biggest telecommunications company in the United States …
Shuttleworth: Make Desktop Linux Better than Apple (Darryl K. Taft/eWeek)
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Shuttleworth: Make Desktop Linux Better than Apple — Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, calls on Linux developers to make the presentation layer of desktop Linux applications even more attractive to users than Apple's Mac OS. — PORTLAND, Ore. — Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical …
AT&T Delivers Solid Second-Quarter Results Highlighted by Strong … (Business Wire)
Business Wire:
AT&T Delivers Solid Second-Quarter Results Highlighted by Strong Wireless Growth, Double-Digit Increase in IP Data Revenues, Further Ramp in AT&T U-verse TV Subscribers — $0.63 reported earnings per diluted share, up 34.0 percent versus $0.47 in the year-earlier second quarter
Palm Centro Software Update for Sprint (Palm)
Palm:
Palm Centro Software Update for Sprint — This software update is a tune-up that improves email, IM, and general device usability under certain conditions. — The Sprint Palm® Centro™ software update 1.07 offers the following performance enhancements:
AT&T developing voice-controlled iPhone apps (video) (Aidan Malley/AppleInsider)
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
AT&T developing voice-controlled iPhone apps (video) — AT&T has developed a software trick that will let modern mobile handsets, including Apple Inc's iPhone, recognize voice commands without the need for specialized voice recognition software. — The research project is based on a new version …
Lawyer says client was protecting city’s code (San Francisco Chronicle)
San Francisco Chronicle:
Lawyer says client was protecting city's code — (07-22) 18:02 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco computer engineer accused of withholding access codes to the city's network surrendered the password during an unusual jailhouse visit by Mayor Gavin Newsom, authorities said Tuesday.
Talk of Chief’s Health Weighs on Apple’s Share Price (John Markoff/New York Times)
John Markoff / New York Times:
Talk of Chief's Health Weighs on Apple's Share Price — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Rumors of Steven P. Jobs's ill health have been greatly exaggerated. — That is what Mr. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, has been telling a number of his associates, even as concerns about his health have weighed on the company's stock price.
Is social media becoming a vast wasteland? (Shel/Global Neighbourhoods)
Shel / Global Neighbourhoods:
Is social media becoming a vast wasteland? — Gautam Ghosh, one of my favorite Indian bloggers recently posted how much he and other fans enjoyed talking with popular Indian Ramayana series author Ashok Banker via the author's blog, Twitter and FriendFeed.
Giga Omni Media acquires jkOnTheRun! (James Kendrick/jkOnTheRun)
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Giga Omni Media acquires jkOnTheRun! — jkOnTheRun joins the ranks of GigaOM — Today Kevin and I are incredibly excited to bring you some great news about jkOnTheRun! Our little tech blog has been acquired by the great Giga Omni Media group, home of GigaOm blog among others.
GigaOM Acquires jkOnTheRun (Om Malik/GigaOM)
Om Malik / GigaOM:
GigaOM Acquires jkOnTheRun — In the life of every company, there comes a time when it is faced with the choice of how to extend its reach: Either build a new product or service, or acquire the one that's already established itself as the best in its class.
Some Facebook Apps Are Actually More Equal Than Others (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Some Facebook Apps Are Actually More Equal Than Others — Tomorrow, when it rolls out its new platform, one of the more interesting pieces of news from Facebook will be its initiative to dub certain of its third-party app developers more special than others.
VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale (Sam Diaz/Between the Lines)
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
VMWare looks ahead at Microsoft, year-end financials and morale — updated: VMWare, whose recent headlines have included an ousted CEO and a re-pricing of its employee stock options, reported second-quarter earnings of $92 million, or 23 cents per share, up from $52 million, or 16 cents per share, for the same quarter a year ago.
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Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million” (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million” — Google's on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we've heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property.
The Real Issue About Steve’s Health (Arik Hesseldahl/Byte of the Apple)
Arik Hesseldahl / Byte of the Apple:
The Real Issue About Steve's Health — After the earnings call last night I talked with a source who is close to Apple and who who has in the past proven very well informed on the concerns of Apple senior management. This source told me with near-certainty that Jobs' cancer has not returned.
Yahoo earnings decline, miss estimates (Stephen Shankland/CNET News.com)
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo earnings decline, miss estimates — Yahoo's earnings for its second quarter came in 1 cent lower than expectations, with net income declining 19 percent and revenue a bit light as well, but the company called the quarter “strong.” — Using generally accepted accounting principles …
AT&T Hints That Usage-Based Billing Is Coming … (Karl Bode/DSLreports)
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
AT&T Hints That Usage-Based Billing Is Coming - New, more specific speed tiers may come with a catch... At the FCC's hearing on broadband yesterday in Pittsburgh, AT&T Senior Federal Regulatory Vice President Robert Quinn said the company would be changing the way way they advertise their broadband tiers …
Leaving Yahoo! - I’ve thought a lot about how to begin this post … (Chad Dickerson)
Chad Dickerson:
Leaving Yahoo! — I've thought a lot about how to begin this post, but it's best to get right to the point (especially in light of the speed of Techcrunch). I'm leaving Yahoo! to pursue another very exciting opportunity: joining the Etsy team as CTO. I'll save my thoughts on Etsy for later …
Coming Tonight: Yahoo Reports Q2; Expectations Low (Joseph Weisenthal/paidContent.org)
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Coming Tonight: Yahoo Reports Q2; Expectations Low — It's a good thing the fight with Icahn is over and the back-and-forth with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has gone on the back burner, so we don't have to overdramatize Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) earnings report tonight (e.g. “Yahoo is fighting …
Games for Windows Takes on Steam, Set to Launch PC Digital Content … (Nick Breckon/Shacknews)
Nick Breckon / Shacknews:
Games for Windows Takes on Steam, Set to Launch PC Digital Content Distribution Platform — Microsoft today announced that its Games for Windows initiative is set to expand with the launch an online PC gaming marketplace this fall. The service will deliver free and paid downloadable game content …
Pound the pavement - It’s summer in the Northern Hemisphere … (Andy Schwerin/Google LatLong)
Andy Schwerin / Google LatLong:
Pound the pavement — It's summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and when it's not too hot, it feels like a waste of gorgeous weather to get behind the wheel or hop in a cab. Doubly so when you're traveling to a city you'd love to explore, and you're pretty sure that you could walk from your hotel …
RUMOR: Apple’s secret product is ‘MacBook touch’ (MacDailyNews)
MacDailyNews:
RUMOR: Apple's secret product is ‘MacBook touch’ — Get ready for Newton 2.0 MacBook touch?! — So says our source — the same one who tipped us to wireless iTunes Store sales direct to iPod, iPhone a week before Apple debuted it — in staccato fashion: … MacDailyNews Note: This is a rumor.
Cuomo Pressures Comcast To Sign Child Porn Code (Chad Bray/Wall Street Journal)
Chad Bray / Wall Street Journal:
Cuomo Pressures Comcast To Sign Child Porn Code — NEW YORK — Comcast Corp. said it expects to sign an agreement with New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in which it will block access to bulletin boards and Web sites that distribute child pornography.
If you don’t like AAPL’s “Steve’s health is a private matter” statement, then sell (Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/Hardware 2.0)
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
If you don't like AAPL's “Steve's health is a private matter” statement, then sell — Steve Jobs' health is once again being debated, and Apple's “Steve's health is a private matter” statement seems to have done nothing to put investors at ease. But the honest trust is that if you don't like that statement …
