Techmeme: Schools and Libraries Can Rent Fiber with Fed Funds, FCC Says (Ryan Singel/Epicenter)

6:05 AM ET, September 22, 2010

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar... Yesterday I was tipped off about a “secret meeting” between a group of “Super Angels” being held at Bin 38, a restaurant and bar in San Francisco. “Do not come, you will not be welcome,” I was told. — So I did what any self respecting blogger would do …

Discussion: VentureBeat, HipMojo.com, Adventures in Capitalism, GigaOM, FM Blog, A Bajillion Hits, Gawker, Gizmodo Australia, Gizmodo and broadstuff, Thanks:louisgray

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:

Hooray For Mike Arrington — If you haven't already, go read Mike Arrington's story about how he barged into a secret meeting of Silicon Valley's super-angels and discovered that the angels were discussing how to screw traditional venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, the latter by pushing down the prices of early-stage deals.

Discussion: VentureBeat

Quora:

Who are the Super Angels that Michael Arrington is talking about in his 9/21/10 Techcrunch post, “So a Blogger Walks into a Bar...”? — And if you can elucidate, what merit is there in his accusations? — Article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/ 21... — 4 Answers

Discussion: Venture Chronicles

Wall Street Journal:

RIM Readies Its Answer to iPad — BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. could unveil its new tablet computer—as well as the operating system that will power it—as early as next week, at a developers' conference in San Francisco, say people familiar with RIM's plans.

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Connecting the dots: RIM may launch its Black Pad Monday

Discussion: Boy Genius Report, Electronista, Engadget and The Register, Thanks:jasonhiner

Google Mobile Blog:

Updated Gmail app in Android Market — We just released a new version of the Gmail app in Android Market, so Gmail updates aren't tied to Android version releases anymore. Now you can get new Gmail stuff faster without having to wait for system updates. To start you off …

Jared Morgenstern / Facebook Developer Blog:

Making Games on Facebook Better — First, hello from the new Games team! Over the last few months, we've assembled a team of dedicated engineers and product managers who are focused exclusively on designing the platform you need to maximize the potential of your games. And we are game lovers, every last one of us.

Discussion: Facebook Blog, VentureBeat, Download Squad and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul

Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Making Changes to News Feed, Requests, Bookmarks …

Discussion: Inside Social Games, VentureBeat and CNET News

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
200 Million People Are Playing Facebook Games Monthly

Discussion: msnbc.com, Inside Facebook and All Facebook

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Mark Zuckerberg navigates the tightrope between gamers and non-gamers (video)

Discussion: TechCrunch

Surur / WMPoweruser.com:

Exclusive: The real HTC HD7 revealed! — Unfortunately its not an actual picture, but for a black slab the schematic s close enough. Above is the real successor to the HTC HD2, the HTC HD7, previously of course the HTC HD3, featuring the near bezel-less 4.3 inch screen we are so familiar with.

Discussion: SlashGear, pocketnow.com, MobileCrunch, Engadget and Ubergizmo, Thanks:gamalmsabry

Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
HTC confirms Windows Phone 7 launching October

Discussion: WMPoweruser.com, Softpedia News and Gulf News

Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb:

Developers Can Now Access Locations of 250 Million Phones Across U.S. Carriers — Location Labs today announced a “Universal Location Service” platform that aggregates locations of phones across carriers for developers and centralizes privacy management for end-users.

Discussion: VentureBeat

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Verizon Storms the App Castle: Launches Wave of Location …

Discussion: jkOnTheRun, Verizon, Urban Airship Blog, mocoNews and PreCentral.net, Thanks:turoczy

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Pie chart: Apple's outrageous share of the mobile industry's profits — Cupertino is raking in the cash as its competitors struggle to post any profit at all. Canaccord Genuity initiated coverage of Apple (AAPL) Tuesday with a “buy” rating and a price target of $356 per share.

Discussion: broadstuff, App Advice, Fast Company, Electronista, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, Macsimum News and MacDailyNews

Brian Morrissey / Adweek:

VideoEgg Buys Six Apart — Makes bid to become ‘modern media company’ — Rich media ad network VideoEgg is recasting itself as Say Media after its purchase of blog platform Six Apart. — The absorption of Six Apart gives the company the added reach of the latter's Movable Type and TypePad blogging software.

Discussion: Connecting the Dots and Beet.TV, Thanks:beet_tv

Kevin Fox / fox @ fury:

The first step to fixing the Android Marketplace has nothing to do with the Android Marketplace — Much fuss has been made about the user experience of the Android Marketplace and how it compares to the iOS App Store but, while there are many points to be made about how the Marketplace's design …

Thanks:louisgray

Bob Lord / Twitter Blog:

All about the “onMouseOver” incident — The short story: This morning at 2:54 am PDT Twitter was notified of a security exploit that surfaced about a half hour before that, and we immediately went to work on fixing it. By 7:00 am PDT, the primary issue was solved.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Tecca, Best Buy's New Shopping App, Isn't a Best Buy Shopping App — Here's another shopping app: Tecca promises to “help you find, buy and get the best from personal technology.” It's available for Apple's iPhone, Google's Android as well as Web browsers.

Discussion: paidContent and GigaOM

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:

Apple And Facebook Talked For More Than A Year — Then Apple Launched Ping Without Facebook's Help — Three weeks after Apple launched Ping, its new social networking service, Apple still hasn't been able to work out a deal with Facebook to integrate its vast social network into Ping.

Discussion: AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, TiPb, MacStories, Edible Apple, MacNN and iClarified

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Verizon: Our Apps Aren't About Taking Over The Phone — It's About “Choice”. Puke. — About a week ago, we noted that Verizon was gearing up to launch its own app store for Android phones. This app store, called V CAST Apps, would be completely separate from Android's existing Market for apps.

Discussion: Fast Company and Electronista

Ry Crozier / iTnews:

US hunters shoot down Google fibre — Repairers forced to ski in to Oregon back woods. — Google has revealed that aerial fibre links to its data centre in Oregon were “regularly” shot down by hunters, forcing the company to put its cables underground. — The search and advertising …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Gizmodo Australia, TechFlash, The Register, Data Center Knowledge and Geek.com

Michael Zwibelman / The Official Google Blog:

Taking rogue pharmacies to court — We work very hard to make sure that ads shown on Google provide useful information for our users. But sometimes we need to take action against ads that violate our policies, as when we block malware ads, or when we filed suit last year against “Google Money” scammers.

Discussion: TechCrunch and Search Engine Land

Christopher Mims / Technology Review:

The Death of the Book has Been Greatly Exaggerated — Why are tech pundits so eager to announce that the Ebook is taking over? — Tech pundits recently moved up the date for the death of the book, to sometime around 2015, inspired largely by the rapid adoption of the iPad and the success of Amazon's Kindle e-reader.

Discussion: Techdirt

Ryan Singel / Epicenter:

Schools and Libraries Can Rent Fiber with Fed Funds, FCC Says — “Fiber Optics Defined,” by ~Firas/flickr. Used with gratitude via a Creative Commons license. — Schools and libraries around the country are now free to turn themselves into internet speed-demons and share the broadband wealth …

Discussion: Ars Technica, Associated Press and Education IT Blog

Seesmic Blog:

The New Seesmic Web is here loaded with Multiple Twitter Accounts support — Anything new on the Seesmic Web front? You guessed it! Multiple Twitter accounts is now the new feature of our web app! You can track all your timelines - multiple Twitter accounts and all the top …

Thanks:seesmic

Aaron Greenspan / The Huffington Post:

The Legend of Mark Zuckerberg — Bill Gates got me into Harvard. I had never met the man even once in my life, and I had certainly never been the beneficiary of his unparalleled personal fortune in any direct sense. I had, of course, used his company's software, and throughout high school …

Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:

Is Apple tuning out audiophiles? — By failing to upgrade the iPod Classic, the tech giant seems to have left in the lurch the customers who made the music player a huge success. — It seems to be a law of nature that, just like toothpaste and government tax codes, great consumer technologies …

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