Techmeme: IE 9 Platform Preview 7: Making Your Web-Sites Faster (Ziad Ismail/The Windows Blog)

2:30 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 — Now you can edit Google Docs on the go, using an iPad, iPhone or Android device. The new mobile Google Docs will be rolled out to English-language users using Android Froyo and any iOS 3.x thingamajig. It even supports voice recognition.

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

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 and SAI, 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.

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

Jud Valeski / Gnip Blog:

New Gnip & Twitter Partnership — We at Gnip have been waiting a long time to write the following sentence: Gnip and Twitter have partnered to make Twitter data commercially available through Gnip's Social Media API. I remember consuming the full firehose back in 2008 over XMPP.

Discussion: Technology Review, Thanks:joshk

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter to Sell 50% of All Tweets for $360k/Year Through Gnip

Discussion: NetworkEffect and Tech~Surf~Blog

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

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

Apple:

Ronald D. Sugar Joins Apple's Board of Directors — Apple® today announced that Dr. Ronald D. Sugar, former Chairman of the Board and CEO of Northrop Grumman Corporation, was appointed to Apple's Board of Directors. Dr. Sugar will serve as the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee.

Discussion: The Register, Tech Trader Daily, Computerworld, Post Tech, Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, Digital Daily, Softpedia News, TUAW, MacStories, MacRumors and Edible Apple

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: BoomTown, L.A. Times Tech Blog, All Facebook, TiPb, VentureBeat, Insights on the tech industry, SAI, The Apple Core Blog, The Next Web, SelectStart, Fast Company, Electronista, The Social and MacDailyNews

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

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, Tech Trader Daily and All About MeeGo

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: Geek.com, App Advice, Switched, IntoMobile, The Atlantic Online, TiPb, textually.org, 9 to 5 Mac, Pocket-lint, Fudzilla, Fast Company and adafruit industries blog

Kirk Koenigsbauer / TechNet Blogs:

Microsoft Lync: Ushering in a new generation of communications — Today, with our customers and partners in New York City, we are celebrating the launch of Microsoft Lync — the next generation of Office Communications Server. — Earlier this year, Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 launched …

Discussion: All about Microsoft Blog, The Microsoft Blog, TechFlash, Computerworld, Bloomberg, MSDN Blogs, Winrumors, Microsoft, Softpedia News and The Microsoft Office Blog

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google Instant, Meet Yahoo Instant - Er, Yahoo Rich Search Assist — Yahoo is following Google by rolling out its own version of Google Instant, with a twist. Called “Rich Search Assist,” the feature automatically shows results as you type, though only in the top half of the page.

Discussion: The Tape

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Feature: Going all-in: Ars interviews Microsoft's Steve Ballmer — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is something of a polarizing figure. His loud, bombastic style on stage stands in stark contrast to the generally more reserved demeanours of other CEOs, and his tendency to gloss over what he sees …

Discussion: TechFlash, WPCentral.com and MacStories, Thanks:rawmeet

Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer:

Don't Blow It! New York Tech's Top Investors Have Bubble Trouble on the Brain — Is the tech industry in a bubble? Influential and well-informed leaders in the field have started to worry, and are speaking out unequivocally about reckless investors, rising valuations and the misuse …

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, SAI and Feld Thoughts

Ziad Ismail / The Windows Blog:

IE 9 Platform Preview 7: Making Your Web-Sites Faster — On October 28th, we released Internet Explorer Platform Preview 6. Today, we are announcing Internet Explorer Platform Preview 7 which is focused on real-world performance improvements across sites on the web.

Discussion: LiveSide.net, MSDN Blogs, Ars Technica, Download Squad, Ed Bott's Windows Expertise, All about Microsoft Blog, eWeek, Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News, Winrumors and The Next Web

Leland Rechis / Twitter Blog:

Instant Notifications — When you're out and about, your phone probably isn't always in front of you. It might be in your pocket or purse or on a table - perhaps with the screen off. We want to make sure you see important Tweets even when you're not looking at Twitter at the moment.

Eric Engleman / TechFlash:

Amazon.com as movie mogul? Retailer starts own online studio — E-commerce giant Amazon.com is taking on the movie business. The company is inviting aspiring filmmakers and screenwriters to submit their works to a new website called Amazon Studios. The winners will get cash prizes …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Inquirer, CNET News, Softpedia News, Company Town, Wall Street Journal, Media Decoder and Go Rumors, more at Mediagazer »

Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:

A Day in the Life of a Deal — How EMI's New CEO Helped Beatles Clear iTunes Hurdles — After years of litigation and ill will, it took two men just a couple of hours to hammer out the basic terms that would finally bring the Beatles' music to the iTunes Store.

Discussion: MacRumors, TUAW, DealBook, Fortune, TechFlash and MediaMemo

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Indeed Slips Past Monster, Now Largest Job Site By Unique Visitors — In October, Job search engine Indeed.com slipped past Monster.com to become the largest job site in the U.S. According to comScore, 12.3 million people visited Indeed in October, up 19.6 percent.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Travel Search Engine Kayak Files For $50 Million IPO — Travel search engine Kayak just filed an S-1 statement with the SEC for a proposed initial public offering worth $50 Million. — Here are some interesting stats included in the filing. For the nine months ended September 30, 2010 …

Discussion: GigaOM, NetworkEffect and SAI

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Google No Longer Claims Facebook Will “Trap” Users. Or Do They? — There's a new twist to the Facebook-Google contact data export brouhaha. It looks like the warning Google issued last week to Facebook users who tried to export their Gmail contact to the network has been removed.

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