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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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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville? — Wolfram/Alpha has launched, but after a few searches it's an open question whether the search engine can break out of a narrow niche for select users. For many searches Wolfram/Alpha just “isn't sure what to do with your input.”
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees — Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to buy out shares of hundreds of regular employees. — Hundreds of the Palo Alto, Calif.'s employees have now toiled at the company …
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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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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Gizmodo
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 …
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Prepares To Launch Live Video Chat Product — Want to call your Facebook friends via video chat? Soon enough you'll be able to. Earlier today one of our readers sent us a link to one of Facebook's cached JavaScript files which reveals a number of clues as to a soon to be released video chat service.
