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Tweet Preservation — The Library of Congress is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States and it is the largest library in the world. The Library's primary mission is research and it receives copies of every book, pamphlet, map, print, and piece of music registered in the United States.
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Dylan Casey / The Official Google Blog:
Replay it: Google search across the Twitter archive — Since we first introduced real-time search last December, we've added content from MySpace, Facebook and Buzz, expanded to 40 languages and added a top links feature to help you find the most relevant content shared on updates services like Twitter.
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Matt Raymond / Library of Congress Blog:
How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive — Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress. — That's right. Every public tweet, ever …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Twitter COO Dick Costolo Spills The Beans On The @anywhere Platform — Last month at SXSW, Twitter CEO Ev Williams announced @anywhere, a new platform that would allow external sites to integrate some key Twitter features (it sounds a lot like Facebook Connect).
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter Does 19 Billion Searches Per Month, Beating Yahoo & Bing (Sort Of) — How many searches does Twitter handle per month? We've finally got a figure: 19 billion. That has Twitter doing over nearly five times the queries that Bing handles and about 20% of those that mega search star Google processes.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter's 100,000 apps and annotations: Huge potential, or a huge mess? — Twitter showed off new social features and said it now has 100,000 registered apps, the company's director of platform, Ryan Sarver, said at the Chirp conference in San Francisco today.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Twitter Launches Places, Annotations, User Streams for Developers
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Twitter's One Real Problem. No, Not Developers!
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Apple Media Advisory — Apple today released the following statement: — Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad™.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple: US iPad Sales Are Booming, So Everyone Else Has to Wait Another Month — Live outside the U.S and want to get your hands on an iPad? You're going to have to wait an extra month, says Apple (AAPL). — Release:
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Aaron Wise / The Official Google Blog:
Google Follow Finder: Find some sweet tweeps — This morning we announced a replay feature in real-time search that helps you search the public archive of updates from Twitter. Now, we have more Twitter news from today's Chirp Conference. We've just released a new experimental service …
Mike Gikas / Consumer Reports Electronics Blog:
Microsoft's creepy Kin video: Does it encourage sexting? — Microsoft is promoting its new Kin phones, built for socially networked kids, with a video that we think comes uncomfortably close to advocating sexting—as in the sending of nude photos via cell phone.
Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Backs Yahoo! to Protect User from Warrantless Email Search — Denver - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) along with Google and numerous other public interest organizations and Internet industry associations joined with Yahoo! in asking a federal court Tuesday to block a government attempt …
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Jim Dalrymple / CNET News:
Facebook deletes iPhone apps from its system — Some iPhone developers that make apps for Facebook got quite a surprise on Tuesday—their developer credentials had been deleted, without warning, leaving their apps and customers high and dry. — All Facebook developers have their own set …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Goodbye, Gears - Google Docs Boots Plugin for HTML5 on May 3rd — Uh-oh, Google Doc's offline mode is going...well...offline. Starting May 3rd, offline access for Google Docs, the Internet search giant's web office suite, home to an online document editor, spreadsheet editor and slideshow creator, will be disabled.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Seesmic Squeeze: how a company responds to market changes in Twitter's ecosystem — Take a pile of carbon and apply enough heat and pressure and you'll get diamonds. Of course you might just not get it right and will end up with a pile of ash. — If you talk with Loic Le Meur …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Joost Video Network Stuns With Big Reach: 67 Million Viewers Per Month — Straight out of left field, the Joost Video Network has assumed the number 2 spot in comScore's Video Metrix “Top 100 Properties”, second only to Google. — The Joost network, which is now operated by Adconion …
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Eric Schmidt: Today's Most Interesting Engineering Problems Are Around Sharing — Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat for a Q&A at the company's Atmosphere event yesterday pitching its Apps platform to the enterprise. A couple of his remarks stuck with me today and I wanted to share them as well as a video …
Simon Chester / MobileCrunch:
HTC Incredible Revealed on Verizon Staging Site, To Be Called “Droid Incredible” — This is about as firm a leak as you can get: the HTC Incredible has been revealed on a Verizon staging site. — Sadly, no further specs or pricing was revealed, but the April 29th launch date that we talked …
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