Techmeme: Web 3.0, The Movie [Video] (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)

10:50 AM ET, May 11, 2010

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Noah Robischon / Fast Company:

Square Brings Credit Card Swiping to the Mobile Masses, Starting Today — Now that Square is publicly available for iPhone and Android OS, with millions of card readers being shipped free-of-charge, Jack Dorsey tells Fast Company how his business model will disrupt the way you pay.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Engadget

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Square's iPhone App Hits The App Store — A month after the iPad app launched, Square's iPhone app is now generally available to users in the App Store. You can download the free app here. — Founded by Jack Dorsey, Square was unveiled last December as an innovative way to let people quickly …

Discussion: MacRumors, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, Mashable! and Phones Review

Mike Beltzner / beltzner:

Firefox 4: fast, powerful, and empowering — Today, I presented an early product plan for Firefox 4 to the Mozilla community (live, over the web!) to share our vision for the next version of Firefox, and what projects are underway to realize it. Then I invited everyone to get involved …

Discussion: eWeek, ZDNet, Tech Eye, Download Squad, Engadget, DailyTech, blogs.chron.com, CNET News, Softpedia News, Lockergnome Blog Network, Gizmodo, Erictric, gHacks technology news, Webmonkey, Mashable!, Pocket-lint and Neowin.net, Thanks:atul

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:

Mozilla's Plans for Firefox 4: Faster, Sleeker Interface & Better Privacy Controls — Mozilla plans to release Firefox 4 by the end of this year. Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's Director of Firefox, detailed the organizations' plans for the next generation of the popular browser in a presentation on Air Mozilla earlier today.

Discussion: Softpedia News, The Register and beltzner

Ben Parr / Mashable!:

Twitter to Launch Twitter Business Center [SCREENSHOTS] — We have confirmed with Twitter that beta testing of its new business features, dubbed the “Twitter Business Center,” has begun. — According to the company, “only a handful of accounts have these features presently,” but it will expand on a gradual business to more accounts.

Discussion: Softpedia News, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Twittercism, BloggingPro, The Blog Herald, Go Rumors, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, The Next Web and THINQ.co.uk

Jakob Nielsen / Alertbox:

iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing — Summary: iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems.

Discussion: ZDNet, GottaBeMobile, ClickZ, the Econsultancy blog, Zero Percent Idle, Stuart Henshall and TeleRead, Thanks:atul

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Confirmed: Apple and AT&T signed five-year iPhone exclusivity deal — but is it still valid? — The term of Apple and AT&T's iPhone exclusivity deal has long been a mystery — although USA Today reported a five-year arrangement when the original iPhone came out in 2007 …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Yelp Security Hole Puts Facebook User Data At Risk, Underscores Problems With ‘Instant Personalization’ — As if Facebook's Instant Personalization needed another knock against it, tonight comes news of a security issue that makes the feature even more unnerving.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

John Herrman / Gizmodo:

Sprint Won't Sell the Nexus One — First, Verizon changed their mind about the Google Phone after releasing the similar HTC Incredible. Now Sprint, weeks before the release of the Evo 4G, has done the same. And with that, the CDMA Nexus One is all but dead.

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: No Google Nexus One for Sprint. So What?

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

April Search Numbers Out! Yahoo Gains Share Because Of New Slideshow Tool (YHOO, GOOG, MSFT) — April's comScore search numbers were released tonight. — At first glance, Yahoo appears to be the big winner at Google's expense. But that's mostly because of a new “slideshow” …

Discussion: eWeek, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, BoomTown and Tech Trader Daily

Sam Diaz / ZDNet:

Was Apple right? Adobe Flash crashes twice during mobile demo — Nothing sucks more than being on stage in front of a bunch of techies and having your demo crash on you twice. Actually, the only way that sucks more is if you're Adobe and it's Flash that's crashing on a mobile device …

Discussion: AndroidGuys, Ryan Stewart, EuroDroid, Electronista, DVICE, Telegraph, Phones Review, JeffCroft.com, TechCrunch and internetnews.com

Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Android 2.2 desktop spied on Nexus One

Discussion: IntoMobile, Fonehome.co.uk, Android Phone Fans, PhoneReport v2.0 and Android Central

James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:

How to Save the News — Plummeting newspaper circulation, disappearing classified ads, “unbundling” of content—the list of what's killing journalism is long. But high on that list, many would say, is Google, the biggest unbundler of them all. Now, having helped break the news business …

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and Lockergnome Blog Network

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: Google's Secret Plan to Save Newspapers: Sell More Expensive Ads

Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:

It's hip to be square (and Android 2.1-powered): Meet the Motorola Flipout — Square phones, man. Call me old fashioned, but I just don't get it. Nokia did it with the Twist, LG did it with the LG Lotus and Lotus Elite, and now Motorola appears to be giving it a go — but unlike the rest of the lot …

Discussion: PC World, Electronista, I4U News, Obsessable, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, Go Rumors, Boy Genius Report, AndroidGuys, Engadget, T3.com News, EuroDroid, Android Central, Phones Review, Android and Me, GeekSugar and Android Phone Fans

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Lenovo launches series of newfangled desktops, laptops and netbooks — Computer maker Lenovo is launching today a number of new desktop and laptop computers based on the newest Intel and Advanced Micro Devices microprocessors. The designs have a lot of variety to them and would be unrecognizable from just a few years ago.

Discussion: Tech Eye, ZDNet, eWeek, Electronista, Pocket-lint, Engadget, T3.com News, CrunchGear, SlashGear, HotHardware, Gizmodo, Digital Trends and Crave

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Web 3.0, The Movie [Video] — So much stuff. That's the general theme of a new short film, Web 3.0, by Kate Ray, a Journalism/Psychology major at NYU. — The 15-minute film (embedded below) is a pretty good general overview of the semantic web. That is, turning all of the data on the web …

Discussion: Mashable!, Thanks:crashbit

John Herrman / Gizmodo:

The Real Story Behind Twitter's Ridiculous Follow Bug — For a while today, a Twitter bug let anyone force anyone to follow their accounts. It was a hilariously simple trick, and equally bizarre. Even better? This bug was discovered by accident, by a Turkish Twitter user. Here's what happened.

Discussion: PC World, BBC, SFWeekly Tech, Telegraph, THINQ.co.uk, Silicon Alley Insider, CNNMoney.com, GigaOM, Adrants, Kotaku, Mass High Tech and BetaNews, Thanks:jwherrman

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Bezos And Mohr Davidow Back Stealthy Paperless Billing Startup Doxo — Paperless billing is the digital future that never quite fully arrives. Even among people who otherwise embrace the digital lifestyle, and pay their bills electronically, many find it difficult to give up on the paper statement.

Discussion: ZDNet

Matt Legend Gemmell:

iPad Multi-Touch — A friend of mine recently asked how many simultaneous touch events the iPad supported; I wasn't sure, so I promised to write some code to conduct an experiment and find the answer. I got around to doing so, and the answer is: eleven. — I'm sure you can imagine …

Discussion: EverythingiCafe, 9 to 5 Mac, ZDNet and Daring Fireball

Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:

The DealMap: ‘CityGrid for Local Deals’ — The friendly folks behind unassuming local-semantic search site Center'd have just launched what is probably the definitive local deal site on the Internet, The Dealmap. I wrote about it in a preliminary way in March after a brief discussion with Center'd CEO Jennifer Dulski.

Discussion: Bits, VentureBeat and Search Engine Land, Thanks:atul

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Swipely Nabs $7.5 Million in Series A Funding for Social Spending (and to Attack Blippy!) — Oh, joy, more venture bucks for more socializing of credit card information. — Today, it is Swipely's turn to grab the spotlight in the ever-crowded space to, as its press release so aptly says, “turn purchases into conversations.”

Discussion: Bits, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Mass High Tech, GigaOM and Payments News

NPD Group:

Android Shakes Up U.S. Smartphone Market — First quarter 2010 information from The NPD Group's Mobile Phone Track reveals a shift in the smartphone market, as Android OS edged out Apple's OS for the number-two position behind RIM.

Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
It Would Be Kind of Stunning if Android Phones Weren't Outselling iPhones

Discussion: MobileCrunch, Business Week and Ars Technica

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