Techmeme: Chrome OS Coming Along Quickly, But Not Ready Just Yet (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)

12:20 AM ET, May 14, 2010

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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:

Adobe targets Apple in ad campaign launched today, publishes open letter from founders — If you're reading Engadget today (and let's be honest, you're reading it right now), then you might have noticed that Adobe has launched a pretty full-force campaign to call out Apple on its anti-Flash mission.

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Absolute Power vs. the Pirate Flag

Discussion: MacNN, Daring Fireball, CNET News, Connecting the Dots, Computerworld, Macsimum News and BetaNews

VentureBeat:

Acer to launch Chrome OS devices in two weeks (exclusive) — It's been some time since we received any new details on Chrome OS, Google's web-focused operating system for netbooks. But that's about to change in a couple weeks. We've learned from multiple sources that the Taiwanese computer …

Discussion: Erictric, SlashGear, Download Squad, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing, TechSpot, CNET News, ZDNet, Engadget, Gizmodo, TG Daily, Geek.com, Gadget Lab, Neowin.net, Mashable!, Electronista, Silicon Alley Insider and CrunchGear, Thanks:devindra

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Chrome OS Coming Along Quickly, But Not Ready Just Yet — A report today on VentureBeat says that Acer will unveil the first Chrome OS devices in two weeks. While that certainly could happen, don't expect the OS to be finished, and don't expect those devices to launch anytime soon.

Discussion: Go Rumors

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:

Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy Problems — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company are suddenly facing a big new round of scrutiny and criticism about their cavalier attitude toward user privacy. — An early instant messenger exchange Mark had with a college friend …

Discussion: Gawker, Scobleizer, CircleID, msnbc.com, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, NBC Bay Area, VentureBeat, Gizmodo and MediaPost

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Has Facebook's Active User Growth Dropped 25% to 50%?

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:malpern

Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Why Mark Zuckerberg needs to come clean about his views on privacy

Discussion: Techtonic Shifts, L.A. Times Tech Blog, All Facebook, Gawker, Search Engine Land, Macworld, The Huffington Post and Download Squad, Thanks:aragni

Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Mum's the word from all-hands Facebook company meeting on privacy

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, All Facebook, PE Hub Blog, TG Daily and p2pnet

Lev Popov / Facebook Blog:

Staying in Control of Your Facebook Logins — At Facebook, we're constantly working on new ways to protect you from scams and help you keep your account and information secure. Today, we're announcing some new tools and systems designed to keep the bad guys out and keep you abreast …

Discussion: eWeek, VentureBeat, PC World, Macworld, Mashable!, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Gadgetwise, TNW Social Media, diversity.net.nz, CNET News, VatorNews, WebProNews, Silicon Alley Insider, Lifehacker and MediaPost

Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Facebook IDs hacker who tried to sell 1.5M accounts

Discussion: Neowin.net

Eugene Wei / Hulu Blog:

Pardon Our Dust — Today we're releasing several exciting updates to Hulu, most notably a new version of the Hulu video player. We've posted an overview of the new player, complete with an introductory video, here. And you can experience the changes for yourself throughout the site.

Discussion: Engadget, CNET News, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and NewTeeVee

Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:

Hulu: HTML5 Isn't Ready for Prime Time — UPDATED: Hulu rolled out a number of updates to its video player today, including making it bigger, adding adaptive bitrate streaming, improving content recommendations and enabling users to receive more personalized ads.

Discussion: MediaMemo, Silicon Alley Insider, Delve Networks Blog, Boy Genius Report, CenterNetworks, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, MediaPost, SlashGear, ReadWriteWeb, Edible Apple and Maximum PC, Thanks:natehermes

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:

OMG: Google Agreed To A $700 Million Kill Fee For AdMob??? — This one's a bit old, so apologies if we're the last ones to know. — But in a late April article about Apple, Bloomberg noted that Eric Schmidt had been so desperate to win the AdMob bidding war over Apple that he agreed …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Mercury News

Agence France Presse:
Google situation in China ‘seems to be stable’: CEO

Discussion: CNET News

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Reveals a Powerful Location-Based Service for the iPhone — Within the sixteen patent applications that were published by the US Patent & Trademark Office for Apple Inc today, a single gem emerged. It's a very powerful new concept for a location based application service …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, MacStories and TNW Apple

Michael VanDeMar / Smackdown!:

Hosting With GoDaddy? Might Want To Rethink That Decision. — One of the services I offer people is cleaning their Wordpress installations of hacks and infections, mostly for those who might not have the time or technical expertise to follow my hacked Wordpress cleaning guide.

Michael Gartenberg / SlashGear:

Two weeks of travel, Ten iPad lessons — A while back, I tried traveling on business with nothing but the help of three smart phones. I quickly ran into the headroom of those devices and, by the time I was home, I had a huge list of tasks I needed to deal with that could only be done on a computer.

Discussion: ZDNet

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Let's Try This Again: How Much Web Video Is Really iPad-Ready? — Steve Jobs says there's no reason to cling to Flash video on the Web, because most Web video also works on the H.264/HTML5 standard he's supporting. — But Adobe (ADBE) says the majority of the Web's video uses its Flash standard.

Discussion: Fortune and Post Tech

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How Much Web Video Is iPad-Ready? About Two-Thirds. Really.

Discussion: MeFeedia Blog and Mashable!

Agence France Presse:

65,000 Android phones shipping every day: Google — WASHINGTON — At least 65,000 mobile phones powered by Google's Android operating system are being shipped every day, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday. — Schmidt, speaking at Google's annual shareholder meeting …

Discussion: TNW Mobile

Jim Finkle / Reuters:

Special Report: Can that guy in Ironman 2 whip IBM in real life? — (Reuters) - In the movie “Ironman 2,” Larry Ellison makes a cameo appearance as a billionaire, playboy software magnate. It is a role he knows well. He is playing himself — chief executive of Oracle Corp …

Discussion: Guardian, NBC Bay Area, Tech Trader Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, The Register and InformationWeek

comScore, Inc.:

Americans Received 1 Trillion Display Ads in Q1 2010 as Online Advertising Market Rebounds from 2009 Recession — Facebook Was Top Display Ad Publisher in Q1, AT&T Ranked as Top Advertiser — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an overview …

Discussion: PC World, The Life and Times of AdMob, TechCrunch, ZDNet, paidContent, the Econsultancy blog, MarketingVOX, Tech Trader Daily, The Microsoft Blog and Computerworld

IAB:
Internet Advertising Revenues Hit $5.9 Billion in Q1 '10 …

Discussion: Agence France Presse, MediaMemo, paidContent, TechFlash and Media Decoder

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Exclusive: Google To Add Tethering, Wifi Hotspot To Android 2.2 Froyo — Google added a plastic desert sculpture of a frozen yogurt outside of their Android building today (here's Eclair, the last version), indicating the imminent arrival of the next version of the Android operating system, Android 2.2, AKA Froyo.

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