Techmeme: Hulu Plus Cuts Its Price, After All-By $2 (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

5:45 PM ET, November 17, 2010

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Editing your Google Docs on the go — Cross posted on the Official Google Blog, Google Enterprise Blog and the Google Docs Blog — With Google Docs, we're always trying to make you more productive—and part of that means making it possible for you to get things done from anywhere, at anytime.

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Now You Can Edit Google Docs on iPad, iPhone and Android

Discussion: TechCrunch, Technologizer, Ars Technica, BetaNews, BGR, 9 to 5 Mac and Electronista, Thanks:krissy314

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

Twitter to Sell 50% of All Tweets for $360k/Year Through Gnip — Twitter announced today a new partnership with social data streaming service Gnip at the Defrag Conference outside of Denver: Gnip will offer 50% of all the messages posted to Twitter for $360,000 per year, or 5% of all messages for $60,000 per year.

Discussion: NetworkEffect

Jud Valeski / Gnip Blog:
New Gnip & Twitter Partnership

Discussion: Search Engine Land and SAI, Thanks:joshk

Adam DuVander / ProgrammableWeb:
Gnip Selling Twitter Firehose Access, But You Can't Display Tweets

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

Jason Kilar / Hulu Blog:

Hulu Plus Launches Out of Preview for $7.99/month — Since we released the Hulu Plus™ subscription service as a preview in July, the Hulu team has been hard at work extending the device footprint, refining existing applications, and adding to the content lineup, all while listening …

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu Plus Cuts Its Price, After All-By $2

Discussion: GigaOM, The Seattle Times, SiliconANGLE, SAI, Tech Report and BetaNews, more at Mediagazer »

Munjal Shah / The Official Google Blog:

Introducing Boutiques: a new way to shop for fashion online — The way we shop for fashion is different from how we buy cameras—especially online. With fashion, reviews and specs are less important; fashion shopping is about discovering something that fits your taste and feels right.

Jay Yarow / The Tape:

Fred Wilson: Hot Potato And Drop.io Are Failures That “Came Crashing To The Ground” — Fred Wilson says Justin Shaffer of Hot Potato and Sam Lessin of Drop.io are “essentially failed” entrepreneurs. — In a story in the New York Observer about a funding bubble forming in the world of startups …

Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer:
Don't Blow It! New York Tech's Top Investors Have Bubble Trouble on the Brain

Discussion: SAI, Venture Capital Dispatch and Feld Thoughts

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Mark Zuckerberg: Your Map Is Missing ‘Uncharted Territory’ — The final speaker during the second day of the Web 2.0 Summit was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who was joined on stage by John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly. The scope of the interview was broad — Zuckerberg answered questions …

Discussion: eWeek, BoomTown, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, VentureBeat, All Facebook, Edible Apple, TiPb, Insights on the tech industry, SAI, The Next Web, SelectStart, Fast Company, Electronista and The Apple Core Blog

Adam Ostrow / Mashable!: Mark Zuckerberg on the State of Facebook [VIDEO]

Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:

BREAKING: Twitter's Official Analytics Product Has Arrived — Twitter has started inviting a select group of users to test a new analytics product, Mashable has learned. Such a product has been rumored for some time, and a Twitter executive said earlier this year that Analytics would debut by the end of 2010.

Discussion: The Next Web

Richard Gaywood / TUAW:

The staggering size of iOS's game collection — How big is iOS as a gaming platform? I wondered to myself on an idle rainy afternoon. After all, we hear a lot about how the App Store has passed eleventy gajillion downloads, or how it makes people richer than astronauts …

Discussion: Touch Arcade and asymco

Chris Rawson / TUAW:

White iPhone conversion kits land teenage entrepreneur in hot water — Since Apple's apparently having trouble making a white iPhone 4, a 17-year-old entrepreneur decided to do it himself. Fei Lam purchased white iPhone parts directly from Foxconn, the overseas factory that manufactures many of Apple's products, including the iPhone.

Discussion: Technologizer, Examiner, MacRumors iPhone Blog, Switched, Geek.com, IntoMobile, Macgasm, TechSpot, Neowin.net, Pocket-lint, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, iClarified, Fudzilla, adafruit industries blog and Fast Company

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

RIM Denies Deal With India Over Access — Research in Motion isn't any nearer to a deal to provide the Indian government with access to its encrypted e-mail and instant messaging data than it was back in October. This despite the claims of an anonymous official from the country's interior ministry …

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
BlackBerry to allow Indian government to monitor messages

Discussion: livemint.com, Fast Company, Times of India and Wireless Federation

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Twitter Raising New Venture Round at $3 Billion Valuation — Twitter is mulling over raising a new round of financing, we've heard from multiple sources, and a variety of venture firms are frothing at the mouth to lead the round. The valuation is likely to be in the $3 billion range …

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and The Next Web

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

FCC Head: The Google/Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal Slowed Us Down — Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, FCC head Julius Genachowski sat down with New York Magazin's John Heilemann. One question Heilemann asked was Genachowski's thoughts about the joint Google/Verizon net neutrality policy …

Discussion: CNET News, Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, paidContent, Epicenter, VentureBeat, FierceWireless, IntoMobile and Mashable!

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:

Windows Phone 7's microSD mess: the full story (and how Nokia can help you out of it) — There are many reasons to be excited about Windows Phone 7, but a bleak spot has been Microsoft's message — or lack thereof — on user-expandable storage, and the situation finally came to a head last week …

Discussion: The Microsoft Blog, Electronista, Softpedia News, The Next Web, asymco, My Nokia Blog and Android Community

Mark Boslet / PE Hub Blog:

Doerr vs. Wilson: The Internet Bubble Is Real. That's Where The Agreement Ends — If there is one thing Fred Wilson and John Doerr can agree on it is this: The Internet bubble is real and valuations are frothier than a Starbucks latte. — Unfortunately, that's where the merging of the minds ends.

Discussion: Insights on the tech industry

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Google investor John Doerr: Zynga is our best company ever

Discussion: Search Engine Land

Martin Elm / Mobile-review:

First look. Sony Ericsson Anzu - X12 — Sony Ericsson's Android devices are beginning to grow in numbers and still trying to keep up in the OS's race that Google starts with a new version every few months. So far all the XPERIA Android devices were relying more on their design …

Christopher Lawton / Wall Street Journal:

Nokia's Go-It-Alone Strategy — DUBLIN—Stephen Elop's first major decision as Nokia Corp.'s new chief executive could prove the most critical to the cellphone giant's future: to continue with a go-it-alone strategy for operating systems rather than adopt Google Inc.'s Android.

Discussion: eWeek and Tech Trader Daily

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