Techmeme: Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard (The Official Google Blog)

6:50 AM ET, February 1, 2011

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Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard — Like many people we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service …

Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:

Incredible: Watch volunteers translate Egyptian phone messages in real-time — Don't believe in the power of crowdsourcing yet? Well, if initiatives such as Wikipedia and Ushahidi haven't convinced you, the video below should pretty much negate anyone's doubts about just how monumental a force crowdsourcing has become.

Discussion: Global Voices in English

Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:
Google, Twitter build Speak to Tweet for Egyptians

Discussion: Engadget, Computerworld, Techie Buzz, ReadWriteWeb and Reuters, more at Mediagazer »

Danny Sullivan / @dannysullivan: the @speak2tweet account is official account for phone-to-tweet service for egypt news #jan25 — has links to some tweets left already

New York Times:

Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is further tightening its control of the App Store. — The company has told some applications developers, including Sony, that they can no longer sell content, like e-books, within their apps, or let customers have access …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: Apple Reportedly Blocks Sony Reader App, May Foreshadow War With Amazon Kindle

Paul Thurrott / Windows Phone Secrets:

Now Microsoft confirms Yahoo! as the data leak culprit — Microsoft this evening belatedly admitted that Yahoo! Mail was in fact the data leak culprit in Windows Phone, just hours after Rafael had already proven that to be the problem. Here's the note from Microsoft, which also includes information …

Caroline McCarthy / The Social:

Facebook's next big media move: Comments — Facebook is planning to launch a third-party commenting system in a matter of weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the new product. This new technology could see Facebook as the engine behind the comments system on many high-profile blogs …

Discussion: Mashable!, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb, Inside Facebook, Pulse2, The Blog Herald, Pocket-lint, All Facebook, The Next Web, MediaMemo, paidContent, SAI, Switched, WebProNews and @sjcobrien, more at Mediagazer »

MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Facebook Has Been Refining Their Troll-Slaying Comment System …

Peter Kafka / @pkafka: So: Yes, new FB comment system designed to work with Google, Yahoo, Twitter sign-ins, if pub wants them.

Vijay Bangaru / Docs Blog:

A refresh to the Documents List — Over the past year, many of you have been taking advantage of the ability to upload any file to Google Docs. With more files and of a variety of file types in one place, it becomes more difficult to organize and find what you need quickly.

Discussion: Datamation, Mashable!, InformationWeek, eWeek, Electricpig.co.uk, Google Operating System, The Next Web, GigaOM, SAI, The Register, NewsGrange and Google Enterprise Blog

Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:

Step By Step, Google Docs Becoming the Mythical “GDrive” — Last year, Google began allowing users to upload docs of any file format up to 250 MB in size to Google Docs, turning the service from simply an online word processor into a cloud storage service. Today, the company has unveiled …

Discussion: internetnews.com

Jon Swartz / USA Today:

Airlines offer free in-flight Facebook — Starting today, seven major airlines are giving away the social network on their Wi-Fi networks all month, just as they would soft drinks and peanuts. It's part of a promotion with Gogo Inflight Internet. — The free Facebook service will be available …

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, Fortune, SlashGear and Gizmodo

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Apple's 4% mobile market share rakes in over half the industry's profit — With just 4.2 percent of the global mobile phone market, Apple's iPhone accounts for a massive 51 percent of the total profits, a new report claims. — Apple continues to dominate the market when profit is measured …

Discussion: dailywireless.org, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com and Shiny Objects

Horace Dediu / asymco: The iPhone share: 17.25% of smartphones, 4.2% all phones

Horace Dediu / asymco:
Fourth quarter mobile phone industry overview

Discussion: BBC, Forbes, Appletell, Daring Fireball and MacRumors

Brandon Watson / Many Niches:

Paul Graham's Dilemma — I have to make sure I don't take 4 months off from blogging again. Having re-read this for editing, I had a lot to say, but more importantly, I enjoyed the mental exercise it put me through. — I am not sure that I am going to tread much new ground in simply covering …

Discussion: Howard Lindzon

Launch Blog:
L006: Angels Respond—Anonymously— to Yuri & Ron's All-in: $150K to 43 YCers

Discussion: Forbes

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Egypt Shuts Down Noor, Its Last ISP — We're hearing reports on Twitter that the coverage of Noor Group's DSL service, Egypt's last standing ISP which powers the Egyptian Stock Exchange as well as sites of major brands like Coca Cola and Exxon Mobile is being shut down …

Discussion: TechEye, paidContent, Digits, NewsGrange and Electronista

Earl Zmijewski / Renesys Blog:
Egypt's Net on Life Support

Discussion: The Register, Network World, Threat Level, L.A. Times Tech Blog, BBC, ReadWriteWeb, @invisiblella, TechSpot, TechNewsWorld, ICANN, The Firewall, NBC Bay Area, Ars Technica and World Blog

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

4chan Founder Unleashes Canvas On The World — Canvas launches today for 4,000 or so lucky souls. — Seven year old 4chan, created by now-23 year old Christopher Poole, continues to delight and enrage the Internet. Major Internet memes were either created or spread on 4chan …

Discussion: Neowin.net, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb and NetworkEffect, more at Mediagazer »

Joshua Schnell / Macgasm:

Netgear CEO Patrick Lo apologizes via email for misspeaking — A lot of people were pretty disappointed this morning when they read the words that came out of the Netgear CEO's mouth. We ran an article today that highlighted words spoken by Patrick Lo (link) that essentially alluded to Steve Jobs …

Discussion: Softpedia News, AppleInsider and TUAW

Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey:

OpenID: The Web's Most Successful Failure — First 37Signals announced it would drop support for OpenID. Then Microsoft's Dare Obasanjo called OpenID a failure (along with XML and AtomPub). Former Facebooker Yishan Wong's scathing (and sometimes wrong) rant calling OpenID a failure is one of the more popular answers on Quora.

Stephen Shankland / CNET News:

Blame me: Mozy scraps unlimited backups — Mozy, the online backup service provider and EMC subsidiary, plans to announce today that it's dumping its subscription permitting customers to store unlimited data. — The reason is not hard to guess: with ever-growing quantities of photos and videos …

Discussion: Technologizer and eWeek

David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:

Worldwide mobile data traffic exploding, nearly tripled in 2010, Cisco says — The air is almost as thick with data as it once was with the smoke of the Industrial Revolution, with increasingly dense billows of bits traveling between the world's billions of mobile devices.

Discussion: SAI, Bloomberg, IntoMobile and GigaOM

Andrew Lyle / Neowin.net:

Windows Mobile outsells Windows Phone 7 in Q4 2010 — In the latest report from the NDP group, which proclaimed Android the world's leading smartphone platform, some more light was shed on Microsoft's current standing. — Although Windows Phone 7 didn't debut until November of last year …

Discussion: NPD Group, MobileTechWorld, ITProPortal, Digits, WinRumors, Digital Trends, The Microsoft Blog, Computerworld, CNET News, WPCentral.com and GottaBeMobile

Joanna Stern / Engadget:

The rise of the notbook, the fall of the netbook … About six months ago, the 11.6-inch Dell Inspiron M101z arrived on my doorstep for review. The AMD Neo-powered system looked like a slightly enlarged netbook, but in a briefing with Dell, the product manager reinforced quite a few times …

Discussion: SAI

Eric Raymond / Armed and Dangerous:

The Smartphone Wars: AT&T CEO reveals all — Well, well, well. A hot-off-the-press AP article, “AT&T CEO: We'll push Android phones”, finally sheds light on the vexing question of why AT&T let Apple out of its exclusive a year early. It's just stuffed full of revelations …

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Intel's billion-dollar mistake: Why chip flaws are so hard to fix — Chips are the brains of everything electronic. And like anything generated by software programs and high-tech factories, they can have flaws. Intel learned this the hard way today as it announced that it had a bug …

Discussion: Inquirer, AnandTech, Softpedia News, Engadget, Electronista, AppleInsider, PC World and Guardian

The Tech Report:
Intel finds flaw in Sandy Bridge chipsets, halts shipments

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