Top Items:
Biz / Twitter Blog:
The Discovery Engine Is Coming — A few weeks ago we started testing Twitter Search in the web interface for a subset of folks. We had the search box way up near the top of the page and the results on a separate page. It turns out that's not the awesome way to do it.
Discussion:
Between the Lines, Search Engine Land, Mashable!, Electricpig.co.uk, Search Engine Journal and Pocket-lint.com
RELATED:
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter Confirms And Details New “Discovery Engine” — We've been getting a lot of tips today and yesterday about the limited roll-out of a new Twitter homepage design, which gives the search functionality a more prominent place along with some additional features.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service — Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data. — The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses, researchers and analysts trying …
RELATED:
Dana Gardner / Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect:
Amazon's BI-on-the-fly using MapReduce-as-a-service brings huge cloud data crunching to the masses — Amazon's announcement of a cloud-based data mining and analysis service, using the Hadoop implementation of MapReduce, potentially opens advanced business intelligence (BI) activities to many more businesses and organizations.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm announces webOS SDK availability, Palm OS emulation for Pre, new cloud services — Well, it's not quite the release date and price you were hoping for, but it's definitely something. Today Palm — via a short keynote at the Web 2. Expo — announced that the company would begin taking names …
Discussion:
Download Squad, The Register, Palm Developer Network Blog, GMSV, Electronista, Pulse2, Gadgetell, WebOS Arena, Mobile Tech Addicts, Gadget Lab, VentureBeat, PC World, The Technology Chronicles, AppScout, MobileContentToday, PreCentral.net, TechCrunch, eWeek, Phone Scoop, Technologizer, Gizmodo and Epicenter, Thanks:sinkercat
RELATED:
Bonnie Cha / CNET News:
Really? I can't touch the Palm Pre? Really!?! — OK, I know I just got done gushing about the third-party apps on the Palm Pre, and I didn't want to take anything away from that but there's something I need to get off my chest. — Sprint, Palm, what is the deal with not being able to hold and use the Pre with my own two hands?
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:Palm Pre 3rd Party App Video Walkthrough
Discussion:
Engadget Mobile, Mobile Marketing Watch, Mobile Tech Addicts, IntoMobile, Gadgetell, The iPhone Blog and jkOnTheRun
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Is Office Finally Coming To The iPhone? — I'm here at the Web 2.0 Expo keynote, where Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division, hinted that we may be seeing Microsoft Office make its way to the iPhone some time soon. After his interviewer Tim O'Reilly caught him on the comment …
Discussion:
eWeek, TUAW, The Register, CloudAve, MobileContentToday and TechFlash, Thanks:mrinaldesai
RELATED:
QuickPWN:
QuickPWN 3.0 BETA Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2 — Any iPhone Devs want to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2? QuickPWN 3.0 Beta 2 is out! This is an unofficial release and it's not created by the iPhone Dev Team. I know there are iPhone developers out there who want to upgrade to iPhone 3.0 …
RELATED:
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google uncloaks once-secret server — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency.
Discussion:
Search Engine Land, Computerworld Blogs, rc3.org and Data Center Knowledge, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Hulu begins encrypting HTML content to thwart non-browser apps — It looks like Hulu's trying yet another ill-fated tactic to keep its content restricted to traditional browsers and off things like Boxee — TunerFreeMCE's Martin Millmore says Hulu's HTML is now encrypted at the source and then decrypted using Javascript on the client.
RELATED:
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
SlideShare's April Fool's Prank: Cruel, Or Just Unusual? — April Fool's Day pranks are in full effect around the Web, and so far, most of them have been pretty easy to defuse. But SlideShare - the service that lets you share presentations online - is catching some heat for a prank that a lot …
Discussion:
Venture Capital Dispatch, the Econsultancy blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SlideShare Blog, Pulse2 and HighContrast
New York Times:
Light and Cheap, Netbooks Are Poised to Reshape PC Industry — SAN FRANCISCO — Get ready for the next stage in the personal computer revolution: ultrathin and dirt cheap. — AT&T announced on Tuesday that customers in Atlanta could get a type of compact PC called a netbook for just $50 …
InfoWorld:
MindTouch rides the bus in collaboration platform — MindTouch is releasing on Thursday MindTouch 2009, extending the development platform's collaboration capabilities through a bidirectional message bus, the company said. — With the bus, push-based e-mail notifications can be sent.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala — A new love on the back-end — Free whitepaper - Data center projects: standardized process — Famously, when Twitter's Web2.0rhea app was suddenly embraced by digerati+dog in late in 2007, its original Ruby on Rails architecture had more than a little trouble keeping …
Discussion:
Internet Evolution
Bill Ray / The Register:
Apple cracks down on rogue app stores — iPhone T&Cs switcheroo to smother competition — Free whitepaper - Deploying high-density zones in a low-density data center — Apple has launched a pre-emptive strike on stores selling unauthorised iPhone applications, by changing the terms …
RELATED:
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
NetSuite aims to connect to Salesforce.com's cloud — NetSuite on Thursday announced a set of connectors from third party developers that will hook up its enterprise planning software suite with Salesforce.com's CRM apps. — The idea: Allow Salesforce.com customers to integrate NetSuite applications …
Jeff / Venture Chronicles:
Is Twitter Killing RSS? — For media, there are two primary use cases for RSS, promotion of new content and content syndication. The latter is true plumbing that offers low cost, reliability and convenience while the former is a means for promoting new content through RSS client applications …
Terrence Russell / VentureBeat:
Hulu to replace video ads with questions? — Would you rather answer a question instead of watching a commercial? Executives at the online video hub Hulu think so. Chief executive Jason Kilar told iMedia that the company is working with advertisers to incorporate question-based prompts in place of traditional video ads.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Stealth Webmail Product Definitely Happening (Internal Memo) — In January we wrote about rumors of MySpace launching a webmail product that would compete head on with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. At launch it could be as large as some of the biggest players in the space.
Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Gawkk, the online video Twitter? — I'm sure someone has quantified this phenomenon by now, but one of the truisms of user-generated content sites is that most of the work — posting, linking and reviewing — is done by a relatively small percentage of the users.
Sony:
SONY TAKES FLIGHT WITH HD CAMCORDER DESIGNED FOR SAVVY TRAVELERS — New Model Offers Embedded GPS, Durable Titanium Body, and Sleek Design — Designed for travelers who pack lightly, Sony today unveiled a new high-definition camcorder that combines powerful performance and simple operation into a sleek, portable body.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Video: NVIDIA's ION-based netbooks and nettops are go for launch — Things are finally hotting up in NVIDIA's ION camp. An official press release now tells that the first batch of “incredibly small and affordable PCs” (like the Acer Hornet rumored for an April 8th launch) are due in Q2 …
