Techmeme: You are not an eyeball: Why tracking is the ad biz's last gasp (Scott Rosenberg/Scott Rosenberg's …)

8:15 AM ET, August 3, 2010

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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Apple's plan for Lala cloudier than ever — SAN FRANCISCO—A speedy launch of an iTunes cloud-music service hasn't materialized the way many at the large record companies expected. — The thinking among some music insiders was that once Apple acquired the proper music licenses …

Discussion: AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, MediaMemo, Gizmodo, Engadget and Ubergizmo

Nick Bilton / Bits:

No E-Books Allowed in This Establishment — A few weeks ago I decided to mosey over to a local Manhattan coffee shop for an afternoon cappuccino. — After placing my order I sat down at a table and pulled out my Amazon Kindle. — I barely made it a sentence into the e-book I was reading …

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog

Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:

WikiLeaks must be stopped — Let's be clear: WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a criminal enterprise. Its reason for existence is to obtain classified national security information and disseminate it as widely as possible — including to the United States' enemies.

Discussion: ZDNet Australia, New York Times, Slashdot, CBS News and The Register, more at Mediagazer »

Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Wikileaks draws criticism, censorship threats

Discussion: p2pnet, Inquirer and Newsweek

Om Malik / GigaOM:

How Big is Amazon's Cloud Computing Business? Find Out — It goes without saying that with its array of web services, Amazon has transformed the computing landscape and nurtured what is generically known as the cloud computing industry. By turning expensive storage and computing hardware …

Discussion: Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Thanks:aktiwary

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

With iPad, Apple is No. 3 in portables — If you count tablets as notebook PCs, Apple just passed Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba and Dell — Click to enlarge. Source: Deutsche Bank — Apple is usually considered an also-ran in the global PC market. — But the chart at right …

Discussion: The Tech Report, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, Digital Daily, AppleInsider, TheAppleBlog, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report, TUAW, everythingiCafe, Daring Fireball and MacDailyNews

Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:

You are not an eyeball: Why tracking is the ad biz's last gasp — Marketers are following you around on the Internet. They don't know your name but they know what you do, what you buy, where you buy it, what you're interested in, and more. The sites you visit collect this information …

Discussion: Salon and The Microsoft Blog, more at Mediagazer »

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Spotify Who? Rdio Launches In The US And Canada, Lands More Indie Music Deals — It's been two months to the day since Rdio launched in the States - check out Erick's review if you're interested in learning more about the (awesome) social music service. — But until today …

Discussion: mocoNews, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Mashable!, GigaOM and Rdio Blog

Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S. — Sales of Google Android phones in the U.S. are rising so quickly, the devices have outsold Apple handsets for the first time on record. New smartphone subscribers choosing Google phones accounted for 27 percent of U.S. smartphone sales …

Canalys:
Android smart phone shipments grow 886% year-on-year in Q2 2010

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Here's how much data 3G FaceTime uses — Many people are curious to know how much data FaceTime over 3G actually uses. We put two iPhone 4s to the test, one running FaceTime over 3G, and took before and after screenshots of the data. As you will see, if you do the math …

Discussion: Gadget Lab, Fast Company, Engadget, App Advice, I4U News, Startup Meme, TiPb, iThinkDifferent and iLounge

Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Jailbreak Only: FaceTime Goes 3G

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, GottaBeMobile, Phone Arena, MacStories, InformationWeek, Velocity and Digital Society

Chris Pendleton / Bing:

Bing Maps Adds OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the newest layer for Bing Maps and the newest Bing Map App in the gallery. The map app, dubbed simply, “OpenStreetMap” loads OSM maps as a new map style option. OpenStreetMap follows a similar concept as Wikipedia …

Discussion: Softpedia News, LiveSide.net, Bing Maps Blog and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:rawmeet

Nielsen Wire:

What Americans Do Online: Social Media And Games Dominate Activity — Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The Nielsen Company.

David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:

Amazon: We have 70-80 percent of e-book market — Recently, I sat down with Ian Freed, an Amazon vice president in charge of the Kindle, to get a sneak peek at the new Kindles and discuss e-books and the Kindle business in general. Naturally, a good portion of the conversation centered …

Discussion: SlashGear, SmoothSpan Blog, the Econsultancy blog, Electronista and Kindle Review, more at Mediagazer »

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Check-In On Foursquare Without Taking Your Phone Out Of Your Pocket — Heavy Foursquare users, you have a new app to get immediately. Future Checkin is an app that allows you to check-in to your favorite Foursquare venues automatically when you're near them.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

AOL Sublets Huge Building From Google, Wants Startups To Move In — Google apparently has a lot of empty office space in Silicon Valley laying around under long term leases. One three story building - all 225,000 square feet of it - was just subleased by Google to AOL.

Sachin Agarwal / Sachin's Posterous:

Apple is run like a huge startup. The key to great products is small teams — One of my favorite and most-used iPhone apps is Apple's Remote app. It lets me remotely control iTunes, which is streaming to my living room stereo via an Airport Express. But why hasn't it been updated in over 8 months?

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, Thanks:atul

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

Connecticut AG's Tech Probe o' the Week: E-Book Prices — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is like the Stephen King of investigations: terrifying and terrifyingly prolific. This year alone he's gone after Craigslist, Google (GOOG) and Topix — and now he's drawn a bead on Amazon and Apple as well.

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, CrunchGear, Fast Company, Kindle Review and Wall Street Journal

CT.gov Portal:
Attorney General Investigates Potentially Anticompetitive E-Book Deals …

Discussion: Post Tech, eWeek, Ars Technica, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, The Register, CNET News, Computerworld, USA Today, TechFlash, WebProNews, MacRumors, everythingiCafe and iLounge

Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb:

Twitter to Require Password Reset for Those Who Bought Followers — Twitter is requiring password resets for users who signed up for “suspicious” third-party programs that promise to automatically (or magically) get them followers. Twitter usually pushes out password resets to users whose accounts …

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Will Wired Proclaim ‘The Web is Dead?’ — Word from inside Wired is the magazine is prepping a cover story in which editor Chris Anderson declares that “the Web is Dead.” At a magazine founded by digital utopians, that would be something close to sacrilege.

Discussion: TeleRead and FM Blog, more at Mediagazer »

Andrys Basten / A Kindle World blog:

Unsung features of Kindle 3. PDF contrast, Web Zoom-ins, Time-setting etc — First, Len Edgerly's The Kindle Chronicle's Friday Podcast has his “Extra” audio report on the Kindle 3 seen during his visit July 26 with Kindle Team members Jay Marine, Director of Product Development for the Kindle …

Discussion: SlashGear and TeleRead

Gadget Lab:
Why Does the New Kindle Have A Microphone?

Discussion: Electricpig.co.uk, Engadget, SlashGear and TeleRead

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