Top Items:
The Official Google Blog:
This is your pilot speaking. Now, about that holding pattern... Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected.
Discussion:
ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, blogs.ft.com, Silicon Alley Insider, PC World, TechCrunch, Tech Beat, DSLreports, ITworld.com, InformationWeek, SiliconBeat, Tech Trader Daily, internetnews.com, Epicenter, TheNextWeb.com, Technology Live, Mashable!, Lockergnome Blog Network and AppScout, Thanks:sinkercat
RELATED:
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities — Updating: We're getting various reports via that Google services are down or at least sucking some serious wind. The service appears to be back as of noon-ish EDT in New York City, but packets are still being lost around the globe.
Discussion:
CNET News, eWeek, Forbes, PC World, Tech Central, TechCrunch, CircleID, Digits, VentureBeat, paidContent.org, GigaOM, Post I.T., The Register, Bits, SANS Internet Storm Center …, Lifehacker, Gawker, Search Engine Watch, Tech Broiler, The Toybox, Digital Download, AppScout, Steven J. Vaughan …, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Land, p2pnet and All things Indian Startups …
Jerry Cain / Facebook Developers:
Introducing New Application Directory and App Profile Pages — In the nearly two years since Facebook Platform opened to developers, over 52,000 applications have gone live in the Application Directory. Ensuring that applications are trustworthy, meaningful (whether for entertainment or utility value) …
RELATED:
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook will finally launch “Verified Apps” program (and more) — What makes a Facebook application good? The social network is going to try to make that clearer to users in the next few weeks, when it introduces a program it's been talking about since last year, called Verified Apps .
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
ASUS Eee Keyboard to launch by end of June — The dream of owning a keyboard embedded with a full-blown PC running XP on an Atom N270 processor and 5-inch, 800 x 480 pixel touchscreen display/trackpad is nearly upon us. A dream, quite honestly, nobody had prior to seeing the reveal …
Discussion:
Crave, I4U News, Maximum PC all, TechSpot, Gadgetell, Obsessable, Boy Genius Report and digg.com
Jeremy Liew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Apple has made no more than $20-45m in revenue from the app store — About a month ago Apple announced that one billion iphone apps have been downloaded in the first nine months. That's an amazing number. I wondered how much money Apple was making from the app store.
RELATED:
Eiji Hirai / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Product Search for Android now with Barcode Scanning — Since we launched Google Product Search for mobile a few weeks ago, I've been using it to check prices, reviews and product details on my Android phone. In addition to typing in my product searches, I've also had some fun speaking them.
Discussion:
Search Engine Watch, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, AppScout, IntoMobile, MobileContentToday, Android Phone Fans, Google Android News …, Kelsey Group Blogs and Phone Scoop, Thanks:atul
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Exclusive: Steve Jobs' Amazon.com Account Hacked, Hacker Claims — CC-licensed picture by Ben Stanfield. — A hacker claims to have broken into Steve Jobs' private Amazon.com account. — The hacker is trying to sell details of Jobs' Amazon.com account to journalists …
Discussion:
The Register, 9 to 5 Mac, Epicenter, The Mac Observer, Boing Boing Gadgets, Neowin.net, Gizmodo and Edible Apple
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Windows Mobile 6.5: the UI was rushed, more on widgets — A TechEd 2009 video gives more information on widgets, talks about how the UI in Windows Mobile 6.5 was rushed, and that Silverlight won't be coming till a later version. — TechEd 2009 already gave us details on Windows 7 …
Discussion:
Gizmodo, Digital Daily, InformationWeek, All about Microsoft, ithinkdifferrent, MobileCrunch, Electronista, SlashGear, WMExperts, Download Squad, TechVi and Engadget
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple, AT&T sued over ties to Shazam music ID service — Apple, AT&T and several others have been named in a new patent infringement lawsuit, presumably for their connection to Shazam, a maker of music identification software distributed under the same name for the iPhone and several other mobile devices.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How The Kindle Now Lets You Steal This Blog — Amazon's new blog publishing program has a major flaw: it lets anyone steal other people's blogs and charge readers for them. — Yesterday, Amazon opened up the ability to publish a blog on the Kindle to anyone who sets up an account.
RELATED:
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
4G wireless makes progress with WiMax, LTE developments — Suddenly, there's a light at the end of the 4G tunnel. We keep hearing about the next generation of wireless communications but thanks to two developments this week, it's finally starting to feel like we're getting close.
RELATED:
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Spectacularly Awful 24 Hours — Twitter just went through an awful 24-hour stretch. It included taking away a feature some people loved, probably being misleading about it, getting a huge amount of backlash, halfway bringing the feature back, and getting railed by the press for it all …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Makes A Twitter Clone...In Portuguese — We've heard that Yahoo may be unveiling a Twitter clone called Yahoo Meme. According to our tipster David Ruiz's blog (it's in Portuguese, here's the translated version), Yahoo is inviting users to test out the alpha version of a competitor to Twitter.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google News spotlights YouTube, suffers outage — Click here for the latest on those widespread Google outages. In addition, this story was corrected at 11:30 a.m. PDT to reflect that YouTube videos already had been available, but now are spotlighted as a part of a broader Google News facelift.
BBC:
Pirated pop keeps stars popular — File-sharing sites help make popular acts more popular, finds a study. — The research, by industry body PRS for Music, showed the most pirated pop songs tend to be those at the top of the music charts. — There was little evidence …
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Who Has the Most Web Servers? — There was a milestone buried deep within the earnings tables in this week's first quarter results from Rackspace: the San Antonio company has become one of a select number of companies that have more than 50,000 servers. Rackspace reports that as of March 30 …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
College Journalists Want To Erase Their Past From Google — While many professional journalists fondly remember the work they did in college — covering townie news for the university paper or radio station — some are trying to erase their past work from the Internet because it shows …
Discussion:
/socnets
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
April Video Winners: Hulu, of Course. And... MTV? — Here's an online video story you haven't seen before: Viacom's MTV sites had a really good month last month. — This news comes from Nielsen Online, which just released its video traffic numbers for April. The top line is more or less unchanged.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
ASUS bringing 1008HA, UX50 and U80V laptops Stateside, we go hands-on — We've got the skinny on ASUS's latest North American foray, with the Eee PC 1008HA Seashell, UX50 and U80V “thin and light” all vying for your slice of the stimulus this summer. The quite familiar (by now) …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
MLB.com Gets Geolocation Patent — Another achievement for Major League Baseball's incredibly successful Internet arm: The company has been awarded a patent for a system that verifies access to a service based on a subscriber's location. — MLB Advanced Media uses this system to determine whether …
Google Code Blog:
Google OpenID API - taking the next steps — Six months ago, we announced our first step in supporting single sign-on using OpenID. Well, we wanted to share with you what we have been working on since. As a strong supporter of open standards such as OpenID, Google's top priority in this area …
Toshiba:
World's First PC Integrating 512GB SSD — Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), reinforcing its “dynabook SS RX2 series” of notebook PCs offering light weight, slim lines, and long-lasting battery operation, today announced the introduction of the top-of-the-range “dynabook SS RX2/WAJ,” …
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Apple OS X Update Gives Battery Boost to Hackintoshes — Here's a rather odd little tidbit regarding Apple's latest update to OS X. While it doesn't bring many new features to the Mac, consisting as it does of mostly bug-fixes, OS X 10.5.7 apparently gives a significant boost to battery-life on hackintoshes.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Network Use Not the Only Reason For AT&T to Hate 3G iPhone SlingPlayer — Everyone may think that AT&T threw their fat around and made Apple lock down the SlingPlayer iPhone app because of AT&T's lousy network, but a tipster tells us there's a more nefarious reason at play.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Don't Drink The 151.im — The Latest Facebook Phishing Scam — Facebook phishing attacks seem to be a dime a dozen these days. The latest is oddly simple but people are still falling victim to it. The subject line will be “Hello” and the body of the Facebook email will simply be a the domain 151.im.
David Liu / Team Fusion:
A Message to VMware Fusion Users with Macs that have ATI Graphics Cards about Apple's Mac OS X Update 10.5.7 — Apple released the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update yesterday, and I know many of you are eager to try it out. However, if your Mac has an ATI graphics card (MacPro or iMac) …
