Techmeme: 2010 Was a Boom Year in Chip Sales (Arik Hesseldahl/NewEnterprise)

2:55 PM ET, December 17, 2010

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What's Next for Delicious — Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We're genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can't answer each of your questions individually …

Discussion: CNET News, SAI, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Land, Lifehacker, GigaOM, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Geekosystem, Evernote Blogcast and Faster Forward, more at Mediagazer »

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Trying To Unload Del.icio.us, Not Shut It Down — Yesterday, a leaked internal Yahoo slide brought us the news that Yahoo will soon be shuttering Del.icio.us, the bookmarking service it bought a few years back. Today, Yahoo has released a statement on the group's blog.

Discussion: This is going to be BIG!, digiphile and Regular Geek

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon Can't Dent iTunes — On the day Apple Inc. rolled out the Beatles' catalog on its iTunes Store, Amazon.com Inc. fired back with a digital exclusive of its own: The latest album from rap-rocker Kid Rock—whose music still isn't available on iTunes—for just $3.99.

Discussion: TUAW, TechEye, The Tech Report, MacRumors, blogs.chron.com, MediaPost Raw, SlashGear, Yahoo! News, 9 to 5 Mac, Beyond Search, The Next Web, Music Ally, AppleInsider, iLounge, hypebot and MacNN, more at Mediagazer »

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Apple owns 66% of online music market, Amazon second at 13%

Discussion: Gearlog

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Word Lens Translates Words Inside of Images. Yes Really. — Ever been confused at a restaurant in a foreign country and wish you could just scan your menu with your iPhone and get an instant translation? Well as of today you are one step closer thanks to Word Lens from QuestVisual.

Sean Hollister / Engadget:

Word Lens augmented reality app instantly translates whatever you point it at — Augmented reality and optical character recognition have just come into their own, beautifully intertwined into an instant translation app for the iPhone. Download Word Lens, pay $4.99 for a language pack …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac

Jon Ying / The Dropbox Blog:

Dropbox hits 1.0! — Hey everyone! — We're super excited to announce the new hotness that we've been cooking up for the past few months: Dropbox 1.0! In addition to hundreds (yep, hundreds) of bug fixes, vastly reduced resource usage (think of it as the Prius model of Dropbox) …

Discussion: PC World, Business Wire, TechSpot, Techie Buzz, GigaOM, Engadget, CloudAve, Download Squad, Lifehacker, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gadgetell and Phone Scoop

Om Malik / GigaOM:

RIM In Talks To Buy Gist — RIM, the company behind the iconic mobile-messaging platform BlackBerry, is said to be in talks to acquire Seattle-based startup Gist, according to industry sources. While the deal is said to be nearly done, there is always a fair chance that the two parties might not come to an agreement.

Discussion: VentureBeat, TechFlash, IntoMobile, Electronista, SocialTimes.com, mocoNews, FierceMobileContent, Know Your Cell and Xconomy

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Rupert Murdoch's “Daily” iPad Newspaper Set for January Launch — Want to get a gander at “the Daily,” Rupert Murdoch's much-discussed but still sorta-secret iPad newspaper? Wait a month. — News Corp. plans to launch the publication the week of January 17, multiple sources tell me.

Discussion: Digital Trends, MacRumors, Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, Macgasm, SlashGear, The Next Web, Know Your Mobile, SAI, iGadgetsReport, MacStories, BGR, Electronista, everythingiCafe, Erictric, Gawker, MediaPost Raw, TUAW and iClarified, more at Mediagazer »

James Kanter / New York Times:

E.U. Deepens Investigation Into Google — BRUSSELS — European Union authorities have broadened their investigation of Google by accepting two complaints from Germany, one involving a powerful group of newspaper and magazine publishers and the other, a mapping company, officials said on Friday.

Discussion: GigaOM, SiliconANGLE, Post Tech, MediaPost Raw, The Register and Tech Report, more at Mediagazer »

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
EU extends Google investigation to news and mapping

Discussion: Bloomberg

Sam Gustin / Epicenter:

Facebook Briefly Shuts Down After Code Leak — Facebook, one of the largest websites in the world, voluntarily shut itself down Thursday after the code for several new products was made public before the products were ready for launch, the company confirmed to Wired.com.

Discussion: Computerworld, Switched, Softpedia News, Geek.com, Techland, SAI, Mashable!, The Next Web, VatorNews, WebProNews, Examiner, Network World, Runnin' Scared, Tech Report and All Facebook

Zack Whittaker / iGeneration Blog:
Facebook adds ‘Memories’: Internal prototype exposed by mistake

Discussion: BBC, Inside Facebook, Mashable!, Computerworld, The Social Media …, The Next Web, SlashGear, Neowin.net and BuzzFeed

Panos Ipeirotis / A Computer Scientist …:

Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% spam. — At this point, Amazon Mechanical Turk has reached the mainstream. Pretty much everyone knows about the concept. Post small tasks online, pay people cents, and get thousands of micro-tasks completed. — Unfortunately, this resulted in some unfortunate trends.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and SAI

Gideon Wald / Google Webmaster Central Blog:

New hacked site notifications in search results — Today we've added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We've provided notices for malware for years, which also involve a separate warning page.

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Krebs on Security and CNET News

Bianca Bosker / The Huffington Post:

How The World's Technology Juggernaut Lost Its Buzz And Became The ‘Underdog’ — Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently took the stage at a joint press conference alongside another large technology company. He described his partner using a once-unthinkable designation.

Patricia Cohen / New York Times:

In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture — With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of possibilities for research and education in the humanities.

Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:

2010 Was a Boom Year in Chip Sales — When 2010 ends, worldwide sales of chips will have grown by their largest single-year increase ever, the market research firm iSuppli says in its latest survey of the global semiconductor market. Chip sales grew to $304 billion, up from $229.5 billion in 2009 …

Discussion: Softpedia News

Bloomberg: Silicon Valley No Longer Reflects Name as Investors Shun Chips

Amazon.com:

Newspapers and Magazines Coming to Amazon's Buy Once, Read Everywhere Kindle Apps - Starting with Kindle for Android — All of the features customers love about Kindle newspapers and magazines coming to Kindle for Android, including convenience of automatic overnight delivery of subscriptions …

Discussion: Engadget, GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, IntoMobile, dailywireless.org, PalmAddicts and Electronista, Thanks:richdemuro

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

Facebook Stock Sold At $56 Billion Valuation In “Significantly Oversubscribed” Auction — Private shares market Sharespost just sold 165,000 Facebook shares for $25 each. That price implies a $56 billion valuation of Facebook. — In an email to members, Sharespost said that because the auction was …

Joe Mullin / paidContent:

The Details Behind The Government's Recent Domain-Name Seizures — When Immigrations & Customs Enforcement agents seized 82 web domain names over the Thanksgiving weekend, it was an unprecedented event—not just because of the scope of the seizures, but also because the web sites grabbed included …

Discussion: Techdirt, TorrentFreak and techPresident

Vint Cerf / The Official Google Blog:

Governments shouldn't have a monopoly on Internet governance — The beauty of the Internet is that it's not controlled by any one group. Its governance is bottoms-up—with academics, non-profits, companies and governments all working to improve this technological wonder of the modern world.

Discussion: iTnews, Thanks:hornokplease

Horace Dediu / asymco:

92 percent of RIM's sales growth came from outside the US — First, a round-up of the quarter's numbers: — 14.2 million devices shipped, sell-through: 12.3 million — expect to ship 14.5 to 15 million units in the next quarter — ASP of approximately $315 — US, UK and Canada are 56% of sales

Discussion: GigaOM, mocoNews and Tech Check

Sam Diaz / Between the Lines Blog:

RIM: “Playbook redefines what a tablet should do” — On Research in Motion's conference call with analysts to discuss third quarter earnings result, there was the obligatory comments about the quarter that just passed - but clearly, one of the biggest topics of interest centered around the upcoming launch of the Playbook tablet.

Discussion: Market Wire, PC World, 9 to 5 Mac, PhoneDog.com, Mobilized, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Crave, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, IntoMobile and Electronista

Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:

Playable social games come to Bing's search results — Bing is putting social gaming into search results pages, letting users play a title without ever having to visit its specialty Bing Games site, or the publisher's hosted game page on social networks like Facebook.

Discussion: VentureBeat, SocialTimes.com and Search Engine Watch

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