Techmeme: Qwiki Wins TechCrunch Disrupt: Information Consumption To Be Disrupted (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)

5:00 AM ET, September 30, 2010

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Apple TV 2nd Generation Teardown — After acquiring a small brown box during a daring heist this morning, we finally have the new Apple TV in our destructive mitts! Will this be the device that changes the direction of Apple as we know it? Tune in as we take apart the 2nd generation Apple TV.

Discussion: Gadget Lab, The Register, PC World, SlashGear, MacRumors, NewTeeVee, CNET News, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, Computerworld, Electronista, AppleInsider, CrunchGear, TiPb, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Seattle Times, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, iLounge, Ubergizmo, iClarified, TG Daily, TUAW, everythingiCafe and PC Magazine

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Teardown reveals new Apple TV comes with 8GB flash storage — The new Apple TV no longer allows users to purchase and store content on the device, but Apple still managed to cram in 8GB of flash storage, as well as 256MB of integrated RAM. The discovery was made by gadget repair site iFixit during …

Discussion: Boy Genius Report, Gadget Lab, AppleInsider and Ubergizmo

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:

Apple TV review (2010) — You've been waiting, and it's finally here: the Apple TV review. Months before Steve Jobs announced the new set top box at Apple's annual fall event, we had been reporting on news that the company would strike out again into the TV market, offering a small …

Discussion: Electronista, Gizmodo, BlogsDNA, Ars Technica, AppScout, Computerworld, Gadget Lab, mobiputing, MacRumors, eHomeUpgrade, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, MacDailyNews, Switched, Daring Fireball, MacStories, PadGadget, PC Magazine, TiPb, TUAW, everythingiCafe, NewTeeVee and Newlaunches.com

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

Google's Mayer criticizes content “locked” inside Facebook — Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search and user experience, mostly dodged questions on-stage today about the company's future plans, including rumors of some sort of social networking service in the works.

Discussion: Softpedia News

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: Major Meltdown at Yahoo As More Top Execs To Depart, Including U.S. Head Hilary Schneider — The executive turmoil at the very top of Yahoo continues, with the company poised to announce the resignations of three top execs, including U.S. head Hilary Schneider (pictured here), according to sources close to the situation.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, mocoNews, CNET News, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider and Tech Trader Daily

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:

Kevin Rose: Digg Turned Down $80 Million Acquisition Offer — At TechCrunch's Disrupt conference, Digg's founder Kevin Rose presented a very candid view of the current state of Digg during an interview with TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington. Rose admitted that he and the rest of the team made mistakes when they launched Digg v4.

Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Erictric

Ben Serridge / Google Mobile Blog:

Introducing the Google Phone Gallery — Here at Google, we're thrilled with the global adoption of Android and with the high quality of devices that are coming to market around the world. Since there are so many great phones, we wanted to make the selection process a little easier for people who are in the market for a new one.

Discussion: mocoNews, MobileCrunch, Android and Me, MobileContentToday, Phone Arena, Softpedia News, Mashable!, Android Police, Google Android News …, BuzzingUp, Erictric, Ubergizmo, Pulse2, Engadget and Gizmodo

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Qwiki Wins TechCrunch Disrupt: Information Consumption To Be Disrupted — The votes have been tallied. The judges have weighed in. A battlefield of twenty-seven startups was whittled down to a final, elite group of seven. And now the winner has been chosen: Qwiki has taken the top prize at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco.

Discussion: VentureBeat, AppScout, The Next Web, down the avenue and CNN

Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:

Tech giants back Microsoft in changing patent litigation — An impressive list of industry heavyweights filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court today to back up Microsoft in its bid to change a central standard by which patent-infringement lawsuits are won and lost.

Discussion: LAW.com

Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Supports Microsoft in Seeking to Make it Easier to Invalidate Patents

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Michael Arrington's Road To Millions — Earlier this week, AOL snapped up TechCrunch, a technology blog network started by former attorney Michael Arrington for an undisclosed amount of money. The final price is said to be somewhere between $25 million to $60 million.

Discussion: Helloform, PC World and Inc.com

Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:

Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi Pooh-poohs Google Instant — A top Microsoft official dismissed as conceptually misguided the new Instant feature that lets Google's search engine refresh search results on the fly while people type queries. — Yusuf Mehdi, who as senior vice president …

Discussion: Search Engine Watch, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Search Engine Land and webpronews.com

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Facebook's Sandberg: In The Future, All Media Will Be Personalized — There will always be a place for mass marketing, but in the next three- to five years, a website that isn't tailored to a specific user's interest will be an anachronism, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told Arianna Huffington at the latter's Advertising Week event.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, Fortune, dailywireless.org, webpronews.com, FM Blog and Bits, Thanks:atul

JBC / Nokia Conversations:

Nokia N8 is shipping (photos) — SALO, Finland and BEIJING, China - The first Nokia N8 devices have left the factories in Finland and China and are now making their way around the world. First recipients will be those who pre-ordered and with the highest ever pre-order for a Nokia device …

Discussion: Engadget, Smartphones …, MobileCrunch, Nokia, Reuters, Softpedia News, MobileWhack.com and everwas

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

You'll Be Able To Deposit Checks To PayPal Via Mobile Pictures In The Next Day Or So — Last month, we noted that PayPal would soon launch a new version of their iPhone app that would be more check-friendly. That app should be released in the next day or so, PayPal's Laura Chambers revealed …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, Cult of Mac, Phone Arena, BlogsDNA, SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, IntoMobile, Boy Genius Report, The Atlantic Online, LaptopMemo and Gizmodo

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Google Instant Gets Even More Instant With More Features And New Countries — Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Google's Marissa Mayer took the stage to talk with our own Michael Arrington. But before her talk she had a couple new things to announce.

Discussion: The Official Google Blog, PC World, Erictric, Search Engine Land and AppScout

Erica Naone / Technology Review:

The Browser Gets Fragmented — Browser manufacturers are finally really competing with each other. But is that good for users? — For a long time, Microsoft's Internet Explorer was the undisputed winner of the browser wars because it was the default choice on Windows computers …

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:

Here's Why Google Needs To Buy Twitter Immediately — Angel investor Dave McClure pointed out yesterday what is obvious to everyone but Google: Google needs to buy Twitter immediately. — We've been urging Google to buy Twitter for more than 18 months now, and it would have cost the company …

Discussion: InformationWeek, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Colin Walker, Adotas, DealBook, GMSV and TechCrunch

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

When Google Wanted To Sell To Excite For Under $1 Million — And They Passed — On stage today at our TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Vinod Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures, recalled a story from the days when he backed Excite, one of the original Internet portals.

Discussion: Fortune, MediaFile, NBC Bay Area and Geek.com

Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley's blog:

Inside Facebook security, and how to better protect your account — Facebook's Nick Bilogorskiy kicked off proceedings at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference in Vancouver this morning, giving the social network's view on the scale of the cybercrime problem. — Bilogorskiy, who heads …

Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:

Feature: There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly — Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that's a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the Internet.

Internet Society:

What Will The Internet Look Like In 10 Years? — What Will The Internet Look Like In 10 Years? — The Internet Society engaged in a scenario planning exercise to reveal plausible courses of events that could impact the health of the Internet in the future.

David Pogue / New York Times:

A Simple Swipe on a Phone, and You're Paid — It's always thrilling when somebody looks at the Way Things Have Always Been Done, and then asks: Why? — And then goes on to change the world forever. — 1967: Why is it necessary to wait in line for a human teller if all you want to do is withdraw cash?

Discussion: The Next Web

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Internet Tethering coming to iPad? — Although Steve Jobs told a Swedish DJ that internet tethering (iPhone's connection used for a WiFi iPad, in this case) wouldn't be coming to the iPad, beta 2 of iOS 4.2 for iPad tells a different story. Hidden within the APN network settings on the iPad 3G …

Discussion: I4U News, iClarified, Gizmodo and Covering Web, Thanks:koenven

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Groupon Launches $60,000 Grouspawn Scholarship And Dating Service — Daily deals site Groupon has chosen TCDisrupt to launch Grouspawn, their latest publicity stunt and exercise in strange company culture. Groupon CEO Andrew Mason has decided that as the company expands …

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, Ars Technica, msnbc.com, PC Magazine, Silicon Alley Insider, Tnooz, VentureBeat and Baltimore Sun

Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:

Deleted Facebook and MySpace Posts Are Discoverable—Romano v. Steelcase — On my personal blog, I have repeatedly blogged about plaintiffs who tell one story in court only to have that story undone by their postings to social networking sites. See, e.g., Sedie v. US, People v. Franco …

Discussion: The Register and Metropolis

Wiltse Carpenter / Gmail Blog:

Turn off Gmail's conversation view — The way Gmail organizes mail into conversations is like cilantro. You either love it — and, like me, enjoy the nice citrusy, herbal finish it gives to everything from salsa to curry — or you hate it. And those of you who hate it hate it enough …

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