Techmeme: Google +will+ save Flash, a developer who uses it says (Robert Scoble/Scobleizer)

5:20 PM ET, January 31, 2010

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John C Abell / Epicenter:

Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Mantra is ‘Bulls**t,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple's Steve Jobs (Update 2) — After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop …

Arn / MacRumors:

Steve Jobs at Apple Town Hall Meeting on Google, Adobe, Next iPhone, 2010 Macs and More — Steve Jobs held a town hall meeting with Apple employees late last week following the iPad launch. Wired reports on what was said at the meeting by Steve Jobs. Two of the biggest topics included Google and Adobe.

Discussion: Daring Fireball, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista and EverythingiCafe

Charlie Stross / Charlie's Diary:

Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight — (Apologies for the formatting; I'm typing this on a netbook with a tiny keyboard.) — Last Friday, Amazon.com unilaterally pulled most or all of Macmillan's books (edit: including all paper editions, not just electronic) from their online store.

Discussion: NBC Bay Area, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, SlashGear, Mashable!, Kindle Review, GalleyCat, rc3.org and MediaMemo

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:

Hey, John Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Books, Screw You! — John Sargent, CEO of publisher Macmillan, has taken out a full-page ad to explain why he is insisting that Amazon raise prices on its ebooks to $15 in some cases. — So we're going to take out a full-page post to explain to John why …

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Jason Boog / GalleyCat:
Macmillan CEO Confirms Amazon Price Feud

Discussion: Guardian, Publishers Marketplace, MicroISV on a Shoestring, CrunchGear, Brave New World, Steamboats Are Ruining …, Creative Capital, Publishers Weekly and Tech Trader Daily

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? — Robert Scoble has a good analogy: … Regarding those blue boxes that indicate embedded Flash content in MobileSafari, think of it this way: Who can make them go away? — Adobe can't. They can't put Flash Player on iPhone OS on their own.

Discussion: Scripting News, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Gawker, DisplayBlog, The iPhone Blog, Scobleizer, Techmamas, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, Smarterware and Gravitational Pull

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:

Google +will+ save Flash, a developer who uses it says — I just recorded a 45 minute conversation on my iPhone while we sat on the deck at the Half Moon Bay Ritz with Luke Kilpatrick about Flash, Silverlight, Palm Pre, and a few other topics, but mostly focusing on what will happen to Flash.

Andrew Lim / Recombu:

iPad board games: Apple has created a ‘Jumanji platform’ — While many people struggle to understand why they would ever buy an iPad, we think we've come up with a pretty exciting reason - digital board games. If you've ever tried to play a board game on a games console …

Discussion: I4U News, Thanks:ogerrard

Ahandy / Software Development Times Blog:

Facebook rewrites PHP runtime — A week ago, I let ya'll know that the core PHP team had been brought to Facebook's main campus. That team were forced to sign NDA's, and taken to a very quiet, secluded meeting room where some cool new Facebook-backed open source project was described.

Steven Sande / TUAW:

All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple's iBookstore — Overlooked in much of the hype about the iPad announcement earlier in the week was a comment by Steve Jobs in the Keynote presentation where he mentioned that the iBooks app for iPad would take advantage of the popular EPUB format for electronic books.

Steve Lohr / New York Times:

Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism — GAME CHANGER? — The more, the better. That's the fashionable recipe for nurturing new ideas these days. It emphasizes a kind of Internet-era egalitarianism that celebrates the “wisdom of the crowd” and “open innovation.”

Discussion: psychologytoday.com

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Google Labs Adds Search Icon To ‘Compose Mail’ Window In Gmail — Orli Yakuel noticed that Google has quietly added a new icon in the ‘Compose Mail’ window of its free webmail service Gmail, enabling users to run search queries from within the interface and insert results and URLs straight …

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David Leppard / Times of London:

China bugs and burgles Britain — THE security service MI5 has accused China of bugging and burgling UK business executives and setting up “honeytraps” in a bid to blackmail them into betraying sensitive commercial secrets. — A leaked MI5 document says that undercover intelligence officers …

Discussion: Tech Eye

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