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BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Opportunity Knocks — Twitter is growing at a phenomenal rate. Active users have increased 900% in a year and even though our web traffic is amazing, we see twice that traffic to the APIs. Interacting with Twitter over SMS is also getting more popular every day.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Twitter Raises $35 Million Series C From Benchmark and IVP — Update: We just got off the phone with IVP partner Todd Chaffee who says this round was actually in excess of $35 million. Apparently, $35 million is just the total of what Benchmark and IVP put in ($21 million and $14 million respectively) …
Owen Thomas / Gawker:Twitter Now Worth $230 Million, According to Investors
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Android Developers Blog:
Android Market update: support for priced applications — I'm pleased to announce that Android Market is now accepting priced applications from US and UK developers. Developers from these countries can go to the publisher website at http://market.android.com/publish to upload their application …
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Fred / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal — Jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, says Apple in comments filed with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial rulemaking. This marks the first formal public statement by Apple about its legal stance on iPhone jailbreaking.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Department of Déjà Vu: Last Microsoft Retail Store Foray Was a Bust — Displaying BoomTown's advanced age and elephantine cache of meaningless tech memories, after news yesterday that the software giant was plunging into the retail market, I was surprised to find little mention …
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Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:Bach clarifies Microsoft's retail strategy …
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Pinkerton / Sucking less, on a budget:
It's Alive! — Over the last couple of months, the group working on Mac Chrome (myself included) has shifted gears from layout tests and WebKit compatibility to getting the application user interface up and limping. That also means getting the separate WebCore renderer processes to communicate over IPC to the browser.
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Lee Mathews / Download Squad:First Google Chrome on Mac screenshot appears
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft splits Zune team in two — Microsoft has quietly reorganized its Zune team, splitting up the hardware and software teams, CNET News has learned. — The software and services portion of the Zune team—the bulk of its staff—will be added to the portfolio of Enrique Rodriguez …
Eric Bogs / Docs Blog:
Add, edit, sort, and filter: Improved mobile access to spreadsheets — Over a year ago, we enabled view-only access to docs from mobile devices. This has come in handy for me because I use Google Docs spreadsheets to keep track of a lot of nerdy and not-so-nerdy things in my life.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Pirate Bay trial starts Monday; pirate bus en route — The Pirate Bay goes on trial in Sweden this upcoming Monday, and the site's backers are ready to unleash a media juggernaut of bloggers, Twitterers, and press with the help of a city bus and a live audio stream of the entire trial.
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John Mahoney / Gizmodo:If Pirate Bay is Shut Down, It Could Take All of BitTorrent With It
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Emily Steel / Digits:
Rep. Boucher Calls for Internet Ad Regulation — In an interview Friday, Rep. Rick Boucher, (D-Va.) called for Congress to take a tougher stance in regulating online ad-targeting, despite the FTC's endorsement of industry self-regulation. … “I am coming to believe (industry self-regulation) …
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Jenna Wortham / Bits:
The Anatomy of a Tweet: Twitter Gets a Style Guide — They're no Strunk and White, but Dom Sagolla and Adam Johnson are aiming to do for Twitter what “The Elements of Style” did for good writing on paper: outline elementary rules of usage, composition and grammar.
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
Time to Say Goodbye to Yahoo! MyWeb — Back in 2005, we launched Yahoo! MyWeb with the goal to help our users save valuable information they discover on the Web. As we have continued to innovate with the 2.0 release of Delicious and the upgraded Yahoo! Bookmarks, we saw that MyWeb users' needs are being served by our newer products.
Mark Guim / The Nokia Blog:
8 Megapixel Nokia Nseries Cameraphone With Carl Zeiss Lens Coming to MWC 09 — It looks like Nokia will be announcing a Nokia Nseries phone with 8 megapixels and Carl Zeiss lens at the upcoming Mobile World Congress a few days from now. They've posted a sample photo taken from the said device …
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Coder's Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On — Apple's iPhone application store is as crowded as a Beyonce concert, with more than 20,000 apps available. But one independent developer still managed to rake in $600,000 in a single month with a single iPhone game.
Zach Spear / AppleInsider:
Apple, AT&T mulling tiered data plans for next iPhone - report — Apple and its US wireless partner AT&T are discussing plans to potentially offer next-gen iPhone customers more data plan choices amid fears of losing their business during a time of economic hardship, according to a new report.
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Mozilla Bespin tries taking coding to the cloud — Mozilla Labs on Thursday unveiled a new open-source project called Bespin, a Web-based programming environment its developers hope will combine the speed and power of desktop-based development with the collaborative benefits of cloud computing.
Kurt Soller / Newsweek:
Twitter, Unmasked — Who is really writing all those Tweets? Professional microbloggers. — twitpic.com (left); Mark J. Terrill / AP — Celeb Tweets: Shaquille O'Neal and Britney Spears — When Alex Rodriguez admitted earlier this week that he tested positive for steroids, many a Twitter feed were aflutter.
Chris / My Apple Guide:
Customizable 4 Finger Gestures for Snow Leopard? — When Steve Jobs introduced the new unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pros at Apple's media event last October, he announced the new glass trackpad with two four finger gestures for OS X Leopard. Well it seems Apple has even more four finger gestures planned …
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
The micropayments argument: do we want to turn the web into Zimbabwe? — Every so often between 1995 and 2003 or so I would meet Jakob Nielsen, the web usability expert whose Nielsen/Norman Group will tell you all sorts of things you hadn't thought about over usability.
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Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
UPDATED: Move Networks Lays Off 30% Of Company, John Edwards Still CEO — UPDATED: I've now heard back from Move Networks and can confirm that CEO John Edwards is still the CEO of the company. In addition, John has now been named executive chairman of the board of directors.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Search giants join to tidy up Web addresses — The average person likely won't even notice, but Webmasters can rejoice that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have banded together to support an unofficial standard for steering search engines in the right direction.
Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
Microsoft sued over charge to downgrade Vista to XP — With one major case challenging Microsoft's Windows marketing practices nearing a make-or-break juncture, another one was filed. A woman sued Microsoft in federal court in Seattle this week claiming that the company abused its monopoly power …
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Why Wikipedia's Policy to Blacklist Blogs is Outdated and Wrong — This week we received an email from a reader telling us that he'd tried to add a link to ReadWriteWeb onto a Wikipedia article, only to get the message: “The following link has triggered our spam protection filter: http://www.readwriteweb.com.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
700 comments tell the FTC “No DRM!” — The Federal Trade Commission's DRM conference coming up in March has already attracted 700 user comments... nearly all of them negative. Gamers currently appear to be the single most vocal group on the topic. — The Federal Trade Commission wants …
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