Techmeme: Palm's Ed Colligan hypes new OS to investors (Joshua Topolsky/Engadget)

4:40 AM ET, October 2, 2007

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Techmeme Leaderboard is live — The Techmeme Leaderboard, that much-leaked list of Techmeme's top 100 sources, including blogs, non-blogs, and everything in between, is now up. It ranks sites, every 20 minutes, simply by the amount of headline space they've occupied on Techmeme over the past month.

Discussion: The Jason Calacanis Weblog, Webware.com, blognation, Library clips, Insider Chatter, Between the Lines, TechBizMedia, Future Now's GrokDotCom, the Constant Observer, A VC, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, TechCrunch, ALLIED, Traffick, ProBlogger Blog Tips, David Dalka, franticindustries and Bloggers Blog

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

TechMeme list heralds death of blogging? — I was just looking at the TechMeme Top 100 List and noticed that it has very few bloggers on it — I can only see about 12 real blogs on that list. Blogging being defined as "single voice of a person." Most of the things on the list are now done …

Discussion: Scripting News, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Webomatica, WinExtra and Insider Chatter

Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:

Beyond Blogs: Old & New Media Converge — There's been a lot of discussion over the past 24 hours on the new Techmeme Leaderboard, which is a list of the top 100 sources for the popular tech news aggregator - calculated over the past 30 days. The Leaderboard updates daily and each site is ranked with a …

Discussion: franticindustries

Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: TechMeme Leaderboard In Context + New Verticals On The Way

Dave Winer / Scripting News:
A new top 100? — 12PM: The TechMeme Leaderboard site is live.

Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0: Techmeme Leaderboard Dominated By Media Companies

Ed Oswald / BetaNews:

Microsoft to Debut Zune 2 on Tuesday — Microsoft will hold a event on Tuesday in Redmond to herald the second generation of Zune music players, BetaNews has learned. — According to sources close to the situation, both Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Design and Development chief J Allard will be on hand for the event.

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Zune 2 leaks out in three flavors — Well, we'd heard new Zunes were coming tomorrow (or maybe October 16th) and it looks like retailers are starting to receive display units — everyone, say hello to the new Zunes. Barring some Photoshop trickeration, it looks like we're getting …

Discussion: Mobility Site, Tech Blog and Digg

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Zune 1 running firmware 2.1, Zune 2 coming Wednesday — Here it is, direct from a trusted source close to the situation — a Zune 1 running firmware 2.1, which will bring all the Zune 2 software goodies and UI tweaks with it when those bad boys are announced on Wednesday.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Today @ PC World and Digg

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:

It's Finally Official: eBay's Skype Has Bombed — eBay has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to the rest of the world for at least three quarters: the Skype acquisition gamble has failed. Among the news today: — Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom officially gone (he's been virtually gone for months)

Saul Hansell / Bits:
EBay's $4 Billion Lesson in the Value of Hype

Discussion: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life

Thomas Crampton / Media and Technology:
SCOOP: Zennstrom defends Skype while stepping down

Discussion: eWEEK.com, VentureBeat, Vindu's View from the Valley, CNET News.com, Janus Friis, Unbound Spiral, paidContent.org, Skype Journal, Silicon Valley Watcher, Mercury News, Valleywag, mathewingram.com/work, WebProNews, Digital Trends and IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Search Just Got Smarter — Yahoo is adding some major features to its search engine today. For instance, images from Flickr and playable videos are now embedded in the main results page. A search for a major rock band like U2 brings up information from the artist's Website …

Discussion: The Technology Chronicles and Searchviews

Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Search Launches Google Killer : Search Assist, Videos, Flickr Integration

Discussion: ReveNews Online Revenue …

Live Search:

Microsoft acquires Jellyfish.com — We want to welcome some new folks to the Live Search family - we recently purchased a company called Jellyfish.com, based in Madison, Wisconsin. Jellyfish has done some really innovative work in comparative shopping engines.

Discussion: TechCrunch, All about Microsoft, LiveSide and Mashable!

How to of the Day:

How to Quit Facebook — Maybe your affinity for Facebook began with a simple desire to keep in touch with your friends, or make new ones online. Or perhaps you were just bored. But now Facebook is the thorn in your side, and possibly a bona fide addiction.

Discussion: Valleywag

Ed Gorman / Times of London:

Steve Ballmer stirs the technology pay row — The Microsoft chief executive has questioned the mammoth $74m pay-package taken home last year by Oracle's Larry Ellison — Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, waded into the debate over executive pay today and questioned …

Discussion: Valleywag, paidContent:UK, The Open Road and Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally

Digital Joystick:

Bungie Leaving Microsoft!! You heard it here first folks — A friend of mine who has someone close to them that works at Bungie has just been dying to tell me a secret about their future. Since the NDA officially expire today the sent me and email with the details. I have full faith in this contact.

Discussion: Kotaku, CrunchGear, Game | Life, Joystiq, MTV and WinBeta

Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:

Nokia Buys Software Maker for $8.1 Billion — Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker, said today that it had agreed to pay $8.1 billion for Navteq, the maker of digital mapping and navigational software based in Chicago, as it seeks to migrate satellite-based location services onto its range of phones.

Discussion: Good Morning Silicon Valley, Digital Daily, David Dalka, The Register, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Mashable!, TechCrunch, BloggingStocks and Slashdot

Adobe:

Adobe Launches Flash Lite 3 — For immediate release — Flash Player for Mobile Devices Delivers High-Impact Video and Dynamic Web Content — ADOBE MAX 2007, CHICAGO - October 1, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® …

Discussion: Business Wire, Marketing.fm, The Business Of Online Video, Download Squad, All About Symbian, Gizmodo, Macsimum News, IntoMobile and biskero.org

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Is Favorit a Digg killer? — Fav.or.it is tiny start-up based in a small office an hour's drive from London. But this "feature rich community-based feed reading system" is about to unleash a wholly original take on reading blogs and news feeds which could see it face-down even the social bookmarking giants …

Discussion: The fav.or.it Blog

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