Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:35 PM ET, February 6, 2011

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Save The Money: Groupon's Super Bowl Ads May Spark Faux Outrage  —  Well, Groupon certainly isn't afraid of rustling a few feathers.  The red-hot group buying site has just posted its celeb-laden Super Bowl ads, and they've taken to poking fun at global crises like dwindling whale populations and deforestation.
RELATED:
Sara Inés Calderón / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Will Allow Users to Watch and Vote on Super Bowl Commercials  —  Facebook will allow users to watch and vote on the commercials from this year's Super Bowl as soon as they air.  The commercials will appear on the Facebook Replay tab of the Sports on Facebook Page …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Super Bowl Apps/Websites So That You Can Pretend You're Into The Game While Looking At Your Phone  —  It's Super Bowl Sunday.  The game starts in a few hours.  The pre-game has been going on for a few hours already (well, several days, actually).  And if you're reading this post …
Discussion: Digits, NYConvergence.com and SAI
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The Daily Gets a $3 Million Super Bowl Spotlight  —  The Daily got plenty of exposure last week.  Now it should get even more: I'm told Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper will be featured in a halftime spot during tonight's Super Bowl broadcast.  —  [UPDATE: The Daily's Twitter account is now winking and nudging in this direction.]
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Super Bowl Ads Live On at YouTube and Facebook
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
iPhone 4 on Verizon: how, when, where, and whether to buy it  —  The day of destiny is nearly upon us: on February 10th, you'll finally be able to get an iPhone that works on Verizon.  For us in the tech media, that's one blown-out, seemingly never-ending rumor that we never have to write about again …
Discussion: eWeek
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
How To Stop Domain Names Being Seized By The US Government  —  Check out TorrentFreak's new News Bits feed! .  —  This week, an ever more familiar picture started to emerge, the third such situation in well under a year.  US authorities had begun another round of domain name seizures …
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Google makes it easier to build sites for Google TV  —  Friday, the Google TV team published a couple of new design templates, as well as a still-in-beta Web UI library that Web designers can use to optimize their sites for Google TV.  —  “While existing websites can be displayed in Google TV …
Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
What Time Does the 2011 Super Bowl Start?  A (Continuing) Lesson in Search Visibility  —  (For those wondering what time the game really does start, the 2011 Super Bowl between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers kicks off on Fox at around 6:30pm ET.)
Discussion: Screenwerk
Jennifer Preston / New York Times:
Outrage and a Facebook Page That Gave It a Voice  —  If there is a face to the revolt that has sprouted in Egypt, it may be the face of Khaled Said.  —  That 28-year-old Egyptian businessman was pulled from an Internet cafe in Alexandria last June by two plainclothes police officers who beat …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and @loic
RELATED:
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Picture Of The Day: Cairo Protester Holds Sign That Says “Thank You Facebook”
Seth Rosenblatt / The Download Blog:
Control, play torrents via uTorrent on Android  —  Bandwidth caps are only part of the reason that torrenting has yet to hit mobile devices in a big way, but that hasn't stopped them from trickling into the portable world.  Today BitTorrent, Inc. announced remote control app uTorrent Remote …
Debian:
Debian 6.0 Squeeze released  —  After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name Squeeze).  Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours.  Alongside Debian GNU/Linux …
Hunter Walk / TechCrunch:
Please Read: A Personal Appeal TO Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales  —  Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Hunter Walk who spends way too much time researching 1980s hair metal bands on Wikipedia.  His obsession with Wikipedia is unrelated to his day job leading the consumer product team at YouTube.
Discussion: Elapsed Time
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
How one researcher helped the U.S. government slip news past China's censors  —  The U.S. government has used a special email program to “bust through internet censorship filters” in order to deliver news to people in countries such as China where censorship is in effect, according to Fox News.
RELATED:
Judson Berger / Fox News:
U.S. Government Slips Through China Internet Censors With New Technology
Discussion: Techie Buzz, Neowin.net and Slashdot
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 4:35 PM ET, February 6, 2011.

View the current page or another snapshot:


Page version:
 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Google:
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model  —  Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy.  Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
UiPath:
Introducing the UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation  —  UiPath's new platform empowers enterprises to experience the full power of AI to transform industries
Zoho:
Portable badge printing with SUNMI mobile terminals, now on Zoho Backstage  —  We're excited to roll out our latest integration: the Zoho Backstage Organizer app now supports SUNMI smart mobile terminals (Android only).
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data  —  Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Angry Birds for Android gets in-app SMS payments in Finland
Discussion: Android Central and Mobile Knots
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Softbank Invests $250 MM In China's PPLive
Discussion: TechCrunch and VatorNews, Thanks:jank0
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Inside the anti-kettling HQ
Discussion: Toronto Star, Boing Boing and Babbage
Quora:
On Quora, what is the algorithm/formula for determining the …
Discussion: TechCrunch
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Readability Just Became Instapaper's Publisher Payment Layer
Discussion: Instapaper Blog and Sample the Web
 Earlier Items: 
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Big Cable fed up with endless P2P porn subpoenas
Discussion: Slashdot
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Why You Shouldn't Trust the uSamp Verizon iPhone Survey
Kamal Ahmed / Telegraph:
Google's Eric Schmidt predicts the future of computing - and he plans to be involved
Discussion: Engadget, Neowin.net and Reuters
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Turning The Tables On The Google Toolbar & Disclosure Claims
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
WBD reports Q1 revenue down 10% YoY to $8.9B, net income down 53% to $453M, $2.6B streaming revenue, $339M streaming adjusted EBITDA, and 122.3M streaming subs

Lachlan Cartwright / Breaker:
Sources: NYT reporter Rob Copeland filed a HR complaint against editor Ellen Pollock after she threatened to “kill” him if a Harvard story exceeded 2,000 words

Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with RFE/RL reporter Andrei Kuznechyk, whose release from a Belarus jail in February was brokered by the US, on the importance of RFE/RL in Belarus and more

 
Sister Sites:

Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page