Techmeme: YouTube Time Machine Trips You Back Into the Past (Liz Shannon Miller/NewTeeVee)

7:50 PM ET, September 10, 2010

Top Items:

Android Will Blow Past Apple And RIM To Become Second Biggest Mobile OS This Year — Google's Android will become the second-biggest mobile operating system in the world sometime this year, according to the latest report from Gartner. — Nokia's Symbian will have more marketshare …

Anupreeta Das / Wall Street Journal:

GoDaddy Is on the Block — GoDaddy.com, the closely-held company that registers Internet domain names, has put itself up for sale in an auction that could fetch more than $1 billion, people familiar with the matter said. — Qatalyst Partners, the boutique firm run by veteran technology …

Discussion: VentureBeat, techrockies.com, Between the Lines Blog, Voices on All Things Digital and Reuters

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Exclusive: IAC Finally Kills Off Bloglines — It's finally happened. Bloglines,the troubled RSS feed reader owned by IAC, will officially be shut down, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. The site has had a tumultuous history, so it's unsurprising that IAC has finally put the platform out of its misery.

Discussion: paidContent, ReadWriteWeb, Techie Buzz, Silicon Alley Insider and The Blog Herald

The Ask.com Blog:

Bloglines Update — Today, Ask.com let our users know that we will shut down Bloglines on October 1. Not an easy decision, especially considering our loyal and supportive (not to mention patient) user base, but, ultimately, the right one given business reasons simply too hard to ignore.

Discussion: Computerworld, The Next Web, Quick Online Tips, Network World and Off On A Tangent

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent: The Death Of The RSS Reader

Tom Warren / Neowin.net:

Microsoft workers celebrated Windows Phone 7 RTM with iPhone hearses — Microsoft workers celebrated the release to manufacturing of Windows Phone 7 last week by parading through their Redmond campus with iPhone and BlackBerry hearses. — Employees dressed up in fancy dress and also modified cars to include Windows Phone branding.

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, msnbc.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Engadget, IntoMobile, everythingiCafe, WMPoweruser.com, Gizmodo, MobileTechWorld, SlashGear and MacDailyNews, Thanks:ajstockdale

MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Where Was Android In Microsoft's iPhone Funeral Procession? Taking The Pictures

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:

A Time Capsule of Mark Zuckerberg From 2005 — Sometimes you have to admit that winners can see the future far before the rest of us. They might zig or zag on the way, but they have a clear idea of who they are, what they're doing, and where they want to head.

Discussion: MediaPost

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Not Go Public Anytime Soon

Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com:

Google: ‘Android not optimised for tablets’ — Gingerbread seems likely to be tablet-friendly OS — Google has stated that it currently isn't using Android on any tablets, hinting that it will have a tablet-centric OS soon. — Although Gingerbread and Honeycomb have been strongly tipped …

Nokia:

Nokia appoints Stephen Elop to President and CEO as of September 21, 2010 — Espoo, Finland -Nokia's Board of Directors has appointed Stephen Elop President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia as of September 21. Elop currently heads Microsoft's Business Division.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Register, MarketWatch, Mashable!, All About Symbian, BBC, TechCrunch Europe, Bloomberg, Associated Press, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Microsoft, Internet Evolution, Mobile Marketing Watch, Computerworld, SlashGear, Thoughts from the Sidelines, DailyTech, GMSV, Fast Company, IntoMobile, blogs.ft.com, OSNews, BoomTown, Digital Daily, FierceWireless, Guardian, All about Microsoft Blog, TechFlash, Tnooz, paidContent, Total Telecom, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, Engadget, SmartMoney.com, Gizmodo, paidContent:UK, asymco, CNET News, Edible Apple, MacDailyNews, WMPoweruser.com, Know Your Cell, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Reuters, Internet2Go, 9 to 5 Mac, My Nokia Blog, Ubergizmo, The Microsoft Blog, Neowin.net, Smartphones …, Voices on All Things Digital, WinBeta, Phones Review and New Media Age, Thanks:atul

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Can a Microsoft man fix Nokia? Here are 6 things that have to happen

Discussion: Stowe Boyd, IntoMobile, Fast Company and SlashGear

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Nokia Makes The Same Mistake Again: Hires A Manager, Not A Product Visionary

Discussion: Guardian, BetaNews, New York Times, Microsoft, TechFlash and Stowe Boyd

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

Apple to discontinue free iPhone Bumper Case program on Sept. 30 — When Steve Jobs announced during a press conference in July that all iPhone 4 users would receive a free case, he set a deadline of September 30 to reevaluate the program. Apple has, and they will discontinue it.

Discussion: Yahoo! News, Digital Daily, CNET News, Jonny Evans's blog, The Toybox Blog, Fortune, Silicon Alley Insider, Daring Fireball, Gizmodo, LaptopMemo, MacRumors, BlogsDNA, Phone Arena, SlashGear and everythingiCafe

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Says iPhone 4 Antenna Issue “Even Smaller Than We Originally Thought”

Discussion: DSLreports, Boy Genius Report, Macworld, AppleInsider, TechFlash, Tech Trader Daily, Erictric, IntoMobile, Macsimum News, Ubergizmo, Electronista, Between the Lines Blog, MacNN, iLounge and Insanely Great Mac

WMUR:

Police: Thieves Robbed Homes Based On Facebook Posts — Off-Duty Police Officer Who Heard Fireworks Credited With Cracking Case — NASHUA, N.H. — Nashua police are crediting an alert off-duty police officer who heard fireworks with cracking a burglary ring that targeted homes known to be empty because of Facebook postings.

Discussion: TechCrunch, CNET News, Geek.com and Switched

Byron Acohido / USA Today:

Bing exec: Google Instant may be fast, but Bing results are smarter — Not to take anything away from the top-flight Google engineers responsible for Google Instant, but a young Australian tech geek, named Long Zheng , tweaked Microsoft's Bing search engine to do the same basic functions back in August 2009.

Discussion: Fast Company, Microsoft Watch, Search Engine Journal, istartedsomething and LiveSide.net, Thanks:atul

Shashi Seth / Yahoo! Search Blog:
Back to the Future: Innovation is Alive in Search

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and DailyFinance

Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:

Newsday's Ad For Its iPad App Is Brilliant — Newsday just released the funniest, most clever ad for an iPad application we've ever seen. Enjoy! — Get Alerts for these topics » — Short URL … Blackboard Home » … Sponsored Link: — Receive email updates on new comments!

Discussion: Bits, TUAW, MediaMemo and Laughing Squid

Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:

Stanford student creates YouTube Instant, gets job offer from YouTube CEO — Stanford student Feross Aboukhadijeh, in a nod to the recent unveiling of Google Instant, has created a real-time search engine for YouTube videos — and it's caught the attention of YouTube CEO Chad Hurley.

Discussion: MediaMemo, Silicon Alley Insider, Fast Company, Engadget, PE Hub Blog, Urlesque and Electricpig.co.uk, Thanks:atul

Bloomberg:

JPMorgan Said to Test IPhone for E-Mail as More Bankers Bypass BlackBerry — JPMorgan Chase & Co. may soon let employees use iPhones for corporate e-mail, making it an alternative to Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry at the bank for the first time, two people familiar with the situation said.

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, TiPb, SiliconANGLE, MediaMemo, Macsimum News, Electronista, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Trader Daily, DailyFinance and LOOPRumors

Jeff Gillis / Google Analytics Blog:

More On Instant Search — Since this week's launch of Instant Search, we've been asked how to track Instant Search in Google Analytics, and in particular, whether it's possible to see partial Instant Search queries in your reports. — You actually don't need to do anything to track Instant Search queries in Google Analytics.

Discussion: Xconomy

Kit Eaton / Fast Company: The Side-Effects of Google Instant

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:

Facetime coming to iChat, Windows? — Mac4ever this morning posts that Facetime, Apple's open source video chatting protocol, will be coming to iChat very soon, adding desktop Macs to the machines that are able to video chat with Apple's camera-wielding iOS devices.

Discussion: PC World, Engadget, iThinkDifferent, BlogsDNA, TiPb, MacRumors, Techie Buzz, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, Macsimum News, IntoMobile, TUAW and App Advice

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

Apple Provides us with a Peek at Spirals, a new iTunes UI Feature — It's no secret that Steve Jobs has had a serious cube fetish over the years. So he's decided to shake things up a bit this year and shift his passion to all things spiral and/or cylindrical.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Gearlog and SlashGear

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Office for Mac 2011 coming October 26th according to Amazon — Earlier today we reported on a rumor that Office for Mac 2011 will be launching on October 27th, but tonight we've discovered otherwise. When browsing for Office for Mac 2011 on Amazon there's a noted date of October 26th …

Discussion: Macworld, The Next Web, Neowin.net, All about Microsoft Blog, TUAW, Go Rumors and Gizmodo, Thanks:beautifulcode

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