Techmeme: Facebook's Zuckerberg admits mistakes, promises privacy fixes (Jacqui Cheng/Ars Technica)

2:10 PM ET, May 24, 2010

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Dick Costolo / Twitter Blog:

The Twitter Platform — Enduring Value — When we discuss the future of Twitter, we focus on the mechanisms through which we can build a platform of enduring value. The three mechanisms most important to building such a platform are architecting for extensibility, providing a robust API …

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Twitter To Prohibit Any Third Party To Advertise In-Stream — Twitterjust put up a blog post talking up its platform approach and long-term strategy. Surprisingly, the company has made some decisions that are sure to irk a couple of third-party developers and startups.

Discussion: Inc.com

Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post:

From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings — Six years ago, we built Facebook around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. If we give people control over what they share, they will want to share more.

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Facebook's Zuckerberg admits mistakes, promises privacy fixes

Discussion: VentureBeat, Post Tech and TechCrunch

Jenna Wortham / New York Times: Rivals Seize on Troubles of Facebook

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
When do you throw a CEO's privacy under the bus?

Discussion: Gawker, Venture Capital Dispatch, Tech Eye, Mashable!, Startup Meme, Epicenter, The Blog Herald, Inc.com, p2pnet, thylmann.net, ZDNet, All Facebook, Erictric, Chester Wisniewski's Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, The Tech Herald …, broadstuff and Icodom, Thanks:sameerpatel

Zephoria / danah boyd:
Quitting Facebook is pointless; challenging them to do better is not

Discussion: Rough Type, Thanks:louisgray

Neal Mohan / Inside AdSense:

The AdSense revenue share — Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we're sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — AdSense for content and AdSense for search. — As you may already know, AdSense is comprised of several products.

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Google finally reveals AdSense cut: 68% on content — At last, Google is revealing its split on AdSense: 68% to publishers for content ads, 51% for search ads. — I had two primary complaints about Google in my otherwise admittedly and obviously wet-kiss book, What Would Google Do?:

John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
68% of 85% is really 57.8% — Google today announced …

Discussion: Techie Buzz

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

17 Percent of Verizon Customers Would Upgrade to iPhone — AT&T's iPhone-exclusivity deal hasn't yet expired; nor has Apple announced plans to sell the device through a second U.S. carrier. But that's not stopping analysts from speculating about what might happen when it does.

Discussion: Fortune, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, FierceWireless, Internet2Go, Electronista, PE Hub News, EverythingiCafe, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories and MediaPost Raw

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Bartz: “Google Is 90% Search, That's A Fact” - Except It's Not — Mike Arrington just had a no-holds barred interview with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz at TechCrunch Disrupt. Bartz gave back as good as she got, at least in sound bites. As usual, I didn't find many of her statements convincing.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Carol Bartz To Michael Arrington: “F*ck Off!”

Discussion: Tech Eye and ZDNet

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Yahoo, Nokia To Launch Co-Branded Services Around The World — While we already knew the subject of this news, Yahoo's CEO Carol Bartz officially announced Project Nike, a distribution partnership with Nokia this morning. Nokia will build Yahoo email, search, and other applications into their devices.

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
Yahoo-Nokia Alliance Is Too Late for Mobile Market

Discussion: Search Engine Land, CNET News and Silicon Alley Insider

Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:

Video: Android 2.2 (Froyo) Web Browser Speed Test and Comparison — According to Google, the web browser in Froyo beats every other mobile browser available right now. That's a lofty claim, and in this video, we put Froyo up against Safari on the iPhone and Opera Mobile 10 on the HD2. The results?

Discussion: Ars Technica, IntoMobile, TechCrunch, MobileCrunch, Android Phone Fans and Phones Review

David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:

Pandigital, B&N partner on $200 color e-reader — If you know of Pandigital, you probably know it for its photo frames. However, the company is moving into the hot e-book reader market with a device that a lot of people have been waiting for: an affordable color screen e-book reader with ties to a major bookseller.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Gearlog, Engadget, Business Wire, AndroidGuys, ZDNet, Android Phone Fans, Bloomberg, Techland, Electronista and TeleRead

Apple:

Steve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 with Keynote Address on Monday, June 7 — Apple® will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address by CEO Steve Jobs on Monday, June 7 at 10:00 a.m. This year's WWDC sold out in a record eight days to over 5,000 developers.

Discussion: ZDNet, Mobile Marketing Watch, Mashable!, PC World, mocoNews, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, I4U News, DailyTech, Yahoo! News, Silicon Alley Insider, MacRumors, Edible Apple, Gearlog, Webomatica, TUAW, iLounge, Obsessable, Pocket-lint and Engadget

Sean Hollister / Engadget:

Flash 10.1 on Froyo goes tete-a-tete with Flash Lite 4 on Eclair: butter vs. stutter (video) — Believe it or not, your newly-upgraded Nexus One isn't the first Android smartphone to have Adobe Flash video capability, nor even the first to play said content on a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU …

Discussion: eWeek, Electronista, AndroidGuys, MobileContentToday, Android Community, Fast Company, Softpedia News, Android Phone Fans, ZDNet, MacDailyNews, MobileTechWorld and Fone Arena

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

IBM buys Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4 billion — IBM on Monday acquired Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4 billion. Big Blue said it will lump Sterling Commerce and its 2,500 employees in with its WebSphere middleware unit. — The move means that Sterling Commerce has another home inside of a large company.

Discussion: GigaOM, eWeek, PR Newswire, ReadWriteEnterprise, Tech Eye, The Register, Seattle Times, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily and Velocity

Joanna Stern / Engadget:

Intel officially outs Core i3, i5 and i7 ULV processors for those ultra-thin laptops — We can't say this one is much of a surprise, but it sure is good to get the official details on Intel's latest ultra-low voltage Core i3, i5 and i7 processors. Just as we had heard …

Discussion: CNET News, Computerworld, ZDNet, Intel, Gizmodo, Crave, Carrypad, Electronista, dailywireless.org and TechSpot

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

TweetUp Launches “AdSense For Twitter” Product At #TCDisrupt — TweetUp, the Twitter-focused search and advertising startup that was incubated by idealab - the original Overture founders - is launching today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City.

Discussion: VentureBeat and TweetUp Blog

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