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Wolfram:
Live, from Champaign! — Wolfram|Alpha just went live for the very first time, running all clusters. — This first run at testing Wolfram|Alpha in the real world is off to an auspicious start, although not surprisingly, we're still working on some kinks, especially around logging.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Serious About Background App Support For iPhone 3.0 — Apple (AAPL) is serious about letting more iPhone software — beyond its native apps like phone, iPod, and Mail — run in the background, we've heard from sources in the mobile industry. This could potentially happen as soon …
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Smartphones and Cell Phones, Computerworld Blogs, Neowin.net, IntoMobile, The iPhone Blog and MacRumors
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Is Indeed Talking About Opening iPhone Background Tasks — As great as the iPhone is, it has one glaring weakness: The inability to run third-party applications in the background. That badly cripples certain types of apps, such as those that do instant messaging, music streaming and location-based services.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:Rumors Regarding Background App Support in iPhone 3.0
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Chief Architect Joe Stump Teams With Social Thing's Matt Galligan To Found Crash Corp. — It must be something in the air. Spring perhaps. But when high level employees start to leave perfectly good startups before a liquidity event, there's usually something pretty important that they think they need to work on.
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Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Digg Lead Architect & Socialthing! Founder Start Mobile Gaming Company — Socialthing! founder Matt Galligan and Digg's Lead Arichitect Joe Stump are each leaving their day jobs behind to focus on Crash Corp, an alternate reality mobile gaming venture. — The concepts behind alternate reality …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Longer Queries Driving Down Ad Impressions? How About Bankrupt Advertisers? — Comscore has a fascinating post today talking about the relative decline in paid search ad clicks when compared to search query volume in the U.S. Search queries are up 68% in the last year, but paid clicks are up only 18% in the same period.
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Gian Fulgoni / comScore Voices:
What's Driving the Decline in Search Ad Coverage? — During my keynote at the Search Insider Summit in Captiva last week, I presented some data on trends in search activity that I thought might be of interest to readers of this blog. — I first showed that the number of search queries continues …
John Borthwick / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Rise Of Social Distribution Networks — Over the past year there has been a rapid shift in social distribution online. I believe this evolution represents an important change in how people find and use things online. — At betaworks I am seeing some of our companies get 15-20% …
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Meg / meish dot org:
Game Web 2.Over? — This collage of web 2.0 logos should be pretty familiar to many people by now. It's been knocking about for a few years, ever since the whole Web 2.0 Koolaid (what's the British equivalent? Ribena?) started flowing. — During that time, I've seen it printed …
Andrew Warner / Mixergy.com:
PR Lies Destroy Your Understanding of How Business Really Works. - With Owen Byrne — You know that much of what you learned about how businesses were built is bull, right? It's a collection of anecdotes created by PR people whose job is to promote their clients-not to give us an honest business education.
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Joe Wilcox:
Is Twitter @replies Change Ashton Kutcher's Fault? — Analysis. My immediate reaction is “yes,” after reading Dare Obasanjo's post “Why Twitter's Engineers Hate the @replies feature.” OK, so maybe CNN and Oprah, also members of the “million-followers club,” share the blame.
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Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Google's Gaffes — Two of the Internet giant's open competitions have been mysteriously delayed for months. — What's up with all the brainiacs at Google? — The Internet giant's services went down Thursday, impacting millions around the globe. At the same time, two of the company's high-profile competitions are languishing.
Tomio Geron / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Backed Into A Corner, Child Star Twitter Speaks! — Twitter Inc. broke into the mainstream in 2009 with appearances on everything from the Larry King Show to Oprah — and its usage is exploding. — If it were a celebrity, Twitter would be pursued endlessly by the paparazzi and appear …
John Cook / Gawker:
Twitter's Real-Time Uselessness Proven by (Mistaken) Gay Marriage Hysteria — Because people are irredeemably stupid and nobody pays attention to anything, thousands of Twitter users rejoiced today at the news that the California Supreme Court just overturned the state's gay marriage ban. One year ago.
