Techmeme: Amazon's Raw Deal for Android Developers (Ed Oswald/Technologizer)

6:05 PM ET, January 16, 2011

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Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Whoa, AMAZON Will Set The Prices For Paid Apps In Its Android App Store — Here's something big we missed earlier this month when Amazon was talking about the App Store it's building for Google Android — and we're not sure it got the attention it deserves.

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Ed Oswald / Technologizer:

Amazon's Raw Deal for Android Developers — Amazon's move to build an app store for Android may have initially sounded like a good idea, but in the end it could end up screwing the developers that would make it all possible. How so? A little-publicized stipulation of its agreement with developers: the retailer sets the price.

Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:

Facebook Grants Developers Access To Home Addresses ... Trouble Waiting To Happen? — Facebook has put in a lot of effort to getting users to enter their mobile numbers. But now the social network is giving developers access to numbers in addition to home addresses with a single click.

Discussion: Naked Security, The Atlantic Online, Download Squad and Thoughts from the Sidelines

Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Platform Update: Facebook Lets Developers Ask a User for Their …

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Vlad Savov / Engadget:

HP promises webOS netbooks to go along with smartphones and slates — Todd Bradley did promise us there'd be more than just slates on HP's webOS menu and today we can add netbooks to the list of form factors for Palm's famed OS. This heretofore unknown slice of info comes …

Discussion: MobileWhack.com and Thoughts from the Sidelines

Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:

HP training promises webOS Netbooks — If you were diligent enough to sit through the webOS carrier training site HP put together and we told you about on Friday, perhaps you caught this little nugget during the webOS 101 section - we alluded to it in our post but at the urging of Thor …

Discussion: Techie Buzz, Pulse2, Gizmodo and Electronista

Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:

With New Software, Headsets Are Outsmarting Phones — HEADSETS are staples for call-center workers, travel agents and many other people who have to talk frequently on the phone. With a headset to listen and speak through, both hands are free to work, and a shoulder needn't stiffen to cradle the phone.

Discussion: BloggingStocks

New York Times:

Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay — The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel's never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories make atomic fuel for the arsenal. — Over the past two years …

Discussion: Extended Subset, Security Watch, Danger Room, VentureBeat, Pulse2 and Gizmodo

Ethan Kurzweil / GigaOM:

Only $50B? Facebook Stock Is Still a Steal — Everyone from The New York Times to Fortune to CNN has been weighing in to decry the excessive hype leading to Facebook's reported $50 billion valuation, as if there's some immutable law of nature that private Internet stocks can't be worth that much.

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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Why Two Sites This Week Decided To Start Paying Their Writers — We hear all the time about sites debating whether to charge consumers for content but whether to pay people to create that content is something they're also tinkering with. If you needed any proof, there were two examples this week.

Discussion: MediaMemo, Seeking Alpha and The Business Insider

The Huffington Post:

Mark Zuckerberg Named One Of 2010's Worst Dressed Celebrities — Esquire magazine has released its “2010 Celebrity Style Hall of Shame” list, which names the year's 10 least-dapper men. This list of unfortunately dressed celebs includes eight performers, one political pundit and one tech titan.

Discussion: Mashable!, Technically Incorrect and Switched

Semil Shah / TechCrunch:

The Thin Wedge Of Quora — In 2010, a handful of mobile photo-sharing applications unleashed armies of handset users to snap pictures and instantly share them across multiple platforms and networks: Instagram growth exploded to become a Twitter for pictures; Picplz received generous funding …

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L.M.Orchard / 0xDECAFBAD:

How to use feed auto-discovery in Firefox 4 — TL;DR: The feed button is not dead; it's just been sent to sing backup in Firefox 4 because it's not pulling its weight up front. This post discusses how you can still use feed auto-discovery, even restoring the icon to the toolbar with a few clicks and a drag.

Discussion: gHacks Technology News, OSNews, TG Daily and PC Magazine

Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Dear Firefox, please keep the RSS icon

Discussion: 0xDECAFBAD, Pulse2 and TechCrunch

Arn / MacRumors:

iPad 2 Likely to Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution — There's been a lot of talk about a “Retina” display for the next generation iPad due from Apple in the coming months, but it hasn't been completely clear what resolution the iPad's “Retina” display would be.

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