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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 …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter's Free Love Era Comes to an End: Time for Developers and Publishers to Pay Up — Twitter isn't just booting other ad networks out of its stream. It now plans to tax some start-ups and publishers that are making money from the service. — That's a pretty significant change for the company …
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
TweetUp, Sponsored Tweets say they dodge Twitter's new restrictions
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Demands A Cut Of All Ads Sold Around Twitter API
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Chavon Sutton / CNNMoney.com:
Wal-Mart slashes iPhone price to $97 — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, plans to slash the price of Apple's 16GB 3GS iPhone to $97 beginning Tuesday. — Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) is widely expected to unveil a brand-new iPhone next month …
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Apple discontinuing Apple iPhone 3G 8GB? — A move that is sure to surprise few, we suppose. We've heard that Apple has stopped shipping iPhone 3G 8GB units to AT&T stores and orders are not being placed for the device. Could this mean we might see the iPhone 3GS drop to $99 and make way for a new model?
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Carol Bartz To Michael Arrington: “F*ck Off!” — Well, that just happened. — Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz took the stage for a fireside chat with our own Michael Arrington. It took about 15 minutes, but Mike got her to tell him to “f**k off.”
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Bartz: “Google Is 90% Search, That's A Fact” - Except It's Not
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
To Top Off A Busy Day, Yahoo Acquires Foursquare — Well, The Asian Foursquare — Yahoo has had a busy day. Not only did they announce a new cross-branding deal with Nokia, and struck a partnership with Match.com, and had their CEO spar onstage with Mike, but they apparently made an acquisition too.
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Tony Wright / RescueTime Blog:
The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man - 4.82 million hours — When Google launched its Pac-Man logo on Friday, we immediately heard amused groans in our tweet-streams. “Well, so much for my morning,” said one. “Google's Pac Man logo just ruined millions of dollars in productivity today, nationwide,” said another.
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Hulu on Android Foreshadows Google TV War — Hulu videos can be viewed on any Android phone with Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1, Absolutely Android reported this weekend. Hulu blocks mobile phones for licensing reasons, but the trick to get them to play on Android handsets is actually pretty simple …
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Matt Jones / Facebook:
Protecting Privacy with Referrers — Late last week, we quickly fixed an issue after being contacted by a Wall Street Journal reporter regarding an unintentional oversight in the data shared with our advertisers by your browser when you click some ads on Facebook.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Fake BP Twitter Account Draws Followers With Oil-Spill Satire — A Twitter user with an account dubbed BPGlobalPR is posting satirical entries about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and already has more than twice as many followers as BP America's actual account.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Shaking Up Entertainment Group In Desperate Attempt To Catch Apple And Google — Microsoft's XBox is holding its own, but otherwise the company is just falling farther and farther behind Apple and Google (mostly Apple) in the battle for mobile gadgets and devices and consumers' hearts and minds.
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Aza Raskin / Aza on Design:
A New Type of Phishing Attack — The web is a generative and wild place. Sometimes I think I missed my calling; being devious is so much fun. Too bad my parents brought me up with scruples. — Most phishing attacks depend on an original deception. If you detect that you are at the wrong URL …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Facebook Doesn't Adhere to Its Stated ‘Principles’ — Facebook has faced backlashes before, but this time feels different. Despite amassing an empire of nearly 500 million users, the company is in the midst of a public relations fiasco, with users, tech columnists and even the FTC slamming CEO Mark Zuckerberg for privacy violations.
Steve Gottwals / Adobe Reader Blog:
Introducing Adobe Reader for Android — On the heels of some cool Adobe news last week at Google I/O (The Engineering Behind Flash Player 10.1, Available Now: Developer Prerelease of AIR for Android and Flash Player 10.1 on Google TV), I am very pleased to announce that Adobe Reader for Android is available today in the Android Market.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Confirmed: Apple's next iPhone will have video chat, feature to be shown in ads directed by Sam Mendes — Well this can't be tremendously surprising. Apparently American Beauty director Sam Mendes is in the process of putting together a series of commercials for Apple's next iPhone …
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T agrees to provide unlocks for all devices minus iPhone — Thanks to a settlement of a pre-trial class action lawsuit, AT&T today agreed that it will provide unlocks to pre- and post-paid customers provided a specific set of criteria are met. Pre-paid customers must provide proof …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
With Bandwidth Demand Booming, a New Kind of Optical Network Is Born — Allied Fiber said today it's begun construction of a nationwide wholesale fiber network that will span 11,548 miles. The New York-based company will build out the network in six phases, linking undersea cable landing points …
Tim Bradshaw / blogs.ft.com:
Behind the Times' new paywall — ‘, Assanka. $(this).parents(’.falconpostactions'), “, ‘Share’, 530)”>Share — The time is near for putting to the test Rupert Murdoch's rhetoric about the value of digital journalism and the evils of Google. — The Times and the Sunday Times will unveil their new …
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Dell Streak official: exclusive to O2 UK in early June — Let's all feign surprise now, as Dell has just gone official with its worst kept, though perhaps sexiest, secret ever. The former Mini 5 has been christened the Streak and is launching at the beginning of next month.
J. Alex Halderman / Freedom to Tinker blogs:
School's Laptop Spying Software Exploitable from Anywhere — This post is by Jay Novak, Jon Stribley, and J. Alex Halderman. — Absolute Manage is a remote administration program that allows sysadmins to supervise and maintain client computers over the Internet.
Scott Karp / Publish2 Blog:
The New Associated Press for the 21st Century — Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt, we're announcing the launch of Publish2 News Exchange, a platform aimed at disrupting the Associated Press monopoly over content distribution to newspapers. With Publish2 News Exchange, newspapers can replace …
