Top Items:
Carrie Grimes / The Official Google Blog:
Our new search index: Caffeine — Today, we're announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered.
Discussion:
PC World, CNN, Fortune, Guardian, eWeek, Search Engine Land, ResearchBuzz, Engadget, San Francisco Chronicle, Black Web 2.0, TechSpot, ConceivablyTech, DailyTech, AppScout, Search Engine Journal, DailyFinance, Pulse2, Fast Company, Geek.com, Telegraph, Softpedia News, Techland, Gizmodo, I4U News, SlashGear, the Econsultancy blog, Neowin.net, Erictric, CNET News, Switched, The Next Web, GottaBeMobile, Search Engine Roundtable, ReadWriteWeb, Techie Buzz, Bruce Clay Blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Mashable!, pluGGd.in, paidContent, TechCrunch, Lifehacker, Boy Genius Report, ZDNet, ResourceShelf, WebProNews and TechFlash
RELATED:
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Google Maps Navigation comes to Canada and mainland Europe, remains free as a bird — Patience has had to be your foremost virtue if you were eager to use Google Maps Navigation outside the US or UK, but you might be in luck today as a sizable new batch of countries is getting the free turn-by-turn nav service activated.
RELATED:
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Father of webOS notifications leaves for Apple — The man who “Invented the non-intrusive banner notification system used in webOS” and also did all sorts of other work for the OS, Rich Dellinger, is leaving Palm to return to his earlier employer, Apple, as a Senior User Interface Designer.
Omar / The Life and Times of AdMob:
Mobile advertising and the iPhone — Apple proposed new developer terms on Monday that, if enforced as written, would prohibit app developers from using AdMob and Google's advertising solutions on the iPhone. These advertising related terms both target companies with competitive mobile technologies …
Discussion:
ReadWriteWeb, MediaMemo, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily and Fortune
RELATED:
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
AdMob CEO: Apple's New Mobile Advertising Rules Will Hurt Developers — Yesterday, All Things Digital's Peter Kafka pointed out the possibility that Apple could be limiting Google-acquired mobile ad network AdMob from selling ads on the iPhone and iPad platform.
Sean Garrett / Twitter Blog:
Links and Twitter: Length Shouldn't Matter — Since early March, we have been routing links within Direct Messages through our link service to detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of malware, phishing, and other dangers. Any link shared in a Direct Message has been wrapped with a twt.tl URL.
Discussion:
GigaOM, eWeek, Computerworld, Mobile Marketing Watch, Help Net Security, Switched, Erictric, Asiajin, TechCrunch, The Blog Herald, Mashable!, TrendLabs, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Made by Many, Softpedia News, the Econsultancy blog, Geek.com, Techie Buzz, VentureBeat, L.A. Times Tech Blog, DailyFinance, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, Fast Company, Maximum PC, AppScout, paidContent, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Domain Name Wire, Twittercism, Silicon Alley Insider and textually.org, Thanks:atul
RELATED:
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
AOL to Hire ‘Hundreds’ of Journalists, Reorganize Content Division — Sites to Be Grouped Into ‘Super Networks’ and Sold to Advertisers — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — AOL is planning to hire hundreds of journalists, editors and videographers in the coming year as it builds out its content-first business model.
RELATED:
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
David Eun Puts AOL On A URL Diet With ‘Super Net’ Strategy
Discussion:
MediaFlect
Reuters:
Sprint says it overstated EVO launch day sales — (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said on Tuesday it had inadvertently overstated the launch day sales of the much anticipated EVO 4G phone from HTC Corp, which is touted as a serious competitor to Apple's iPhone 4.
Discussion:
CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, Android Phone Fans, Fortune, Silicon Alley Insider, PC World, Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg, Gadget Lab, ZDNet, DSLreports, Google Android News …, Digital Daily, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Register, AndroidGuys, wireless goodness, The Next Web, jkOnTheRun, Erictric, Maximum PC, MobileCrunch, Android Forums and I4U News
RELATED:
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
How Zynga Survived FarmVille — When Zynga launched FarmVille last June, the company thought 200,000 daily active users in the first two months would be a success. Within eight weeks, the game had surpassed Zynga's hits of the previous two years. For the first 26 weeks FarmVille added 1 million net …
RELATED:
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Meet the Two Grad Students Who Freaked Out the NYT-The Pulse iPad App Creators Speak! — The first thing to strike you about the pair of Stanford University graduate students (pictured here) who made the banned and then unbanned news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader …
Discussion:
PC World, MacNN, Fast Company, TG Daily, SlashGear, Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, Gizmodo, GMSV, Lifehacker, Digital Media Wire and NBC Bay Area, Thanks:rawmeet
RELATED:
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Street Artists Add A Little Porn To The iPad All Around San Francisco For WWDC — If you've been to San Francisco in the past few months, you'll know that the entire city is plastered with iPad advertisements. The situation is even more out of control now that it's WWDC week and thousands of Apple developers are in from out of town.
Computerworld:
WWDC claim exposed: Apple Safari 5 isn't fastest — Apple claimed at WWDC that its new Safari 5 browser is “fastest.” Faster than Chrome; faster than Firefox; and definitely faster than IE. Naturally, this was a red rag to the proverbial male Bos primigenius, so smarty-pants everywhere had to go see for themselves.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Apple's “evil/genius” plan to punk the Web and gild the iPad — There were two awkward moments yesterday at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference. A few sites have already made much of Steve Jobs' wireless networking difficulties during his demonstration.
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
RIP, Macintosh — Is Apple ignoring its signature line of computers and laptops? Yup. — Click the image above for a look at Apple's Innovations. — Dear Macintosh, — I hate to tell you this, but my guess is you've probably been sensing it already.
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Nexus One steps up to 720p HD video thanks to latest hack (video) — Just more evidence that rooting is the only true path of the geek. The indefatigable coders over at xda-developers have just pushed out a download that allows the Nexus One to start shooting video at 720p resolution.
Bing:
Use Bing Social To Search Facebook And Twitter — Back in October of last year, bing.com/twitter launched the first ever search experience powered by the Twitter firehose. Today at SMX Advanced, Bing's Senior Vice President, Yusuf Mehdi, sat down with Danny Sullivan to announce bing.com/social …
Christopher Schanck / Design By Gravity:
AT&T Learns Exactly The Wrong Thing About Data Usage — AT&T says that 65% of its users use less 200 megabytes per month; a whopping 98% use less than 2 gigabytes. (NYT) AT&T looked at these numbers and concluded it was time for tiered pricing; time to soak these “data pigs”. — I am a data pig.
Mike Jazayeri / Chromium Blog:
An update on Google Cloud Print — In April, we announced Google Cloud Print, a service that enables any app (web, mobile, desktop), on any device, OS, or browser, to print to any printer. Development is progressing quickly and we are now testing the service internally at Google.
