Techmeme: Syria: Facebook and YouTube Unblocked, Among Others (Anas Qtiesh/Global Voices in English)

1:10 PM ET, February 8, 2011

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Nokia heading to Silicon Valley? And the ‘Standing on a burning platform’ memo — With Nokia expected to unveil a shift in its long term strategy at the company's annual Capital Markets Day this Friday, it should be no surprise that rumor and conjecture are rife.

Discussion: Digital Trends, The Register, The Next Web, I4U News, Electricpig.co.uk, Gearlog, Mobile Entertainment, SlashGear, Electronista, MacDailyNews, The Register and Agence France Presse, Thanks:mikebutcher

Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:

Operators To Nokia: Use MeeGo, Or WP7 If You Must. But Please, No Android — In the lead-up to Nokia's strategy presentation at the end of this week comes a report on what mobile operators are hoping the challenged handset maker decides to do to turn around its business.

Discussion: The Register, Financial Times, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat and SAI

TMZ.com:

Mark Zuckerberg — I Fear My Facebook Stalker — Mark Zuckerberg claims he's being stalked by a man who's been sending him creepy messages through Facebook and threatening his safety ... TMZ has learned. — Zuckerberg has obtained a restraining order against 31-year-old Pradeep Manukonda …

Discussion: Digital Trends, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Techland, The Not-So Private Parts, newsfeed.time.com, NBC Bay Area, SAI, Gawker and Switched

Jackie Cohen / All Facebook: Facebook CEO Gets Restraining Order Against Stalker

Kindle Post US:

Early Preview of Free Software Update for Kindle — We're excited to tell you about some new features coming to the latest generation Kindle and Kindle 3G: — • Public Notes - This feature lets Kindle users choose to make their book notes and highlights available for others to see.

iFixit:

iPhone 4 Verizon Teardown — We got our hands on the new iPhone 4 Verizon on the morning of February 7th, 2011. Compare this phone to our original GSM iPhone 4 teardown. If you're happy with your current coverage, then by all means hang on to it! Keep it running if you drop …

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Verizon iPhone tear-down posted, reveals Qualcomm Gobi chip!

Discussion: TUAW, Tech Trader Daily, PC World, Yahoo! News, Digital Trends, MacStories, Crave, MacHackPC, Wi-Fi Networking News, I4U News, Pulse2, Neowin.net, PC Magazine, GigaOM, AppleInsider, Apple Bitch and CrunchGear, Thanks:goog247

Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:

Google's Logo Dives 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (with Accelerometer Support) — It isn't quite the Pacman doodle, but today's version of Google's iconic logo introduces a whole new degree of interactivity to the animated logos the company sometimes produces for special occasions.

Discussion: Google Watch, PC World, App Advice, Search Engine Land, ReadWriteWeb, Fortune, NBC Bay Area, Geek.com, SlashGear, Telegraph, Guardian, Black Web 2.0, Gearlog, techeblog.com, Search Engine Watch and The Official Google Blog

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft Is Said to Seek More Management Changes — Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer plans to extend a management shake-up aimed at adding senior product executives with an engineering background, two people with knowledge of the decision said.

Discussion: TechEye, ITworld.com, VentureBeat, All about Microsoft Blog, WinRumors, TechFlash, Electronista, The Register, Computerworld, The Next Web and Electricpig.co.uk

Kevin Systrom / instagr.am:

A More Open Platform: The Instagram API — One of our guiding principles at Instagram is to create & maintain an open ecosystem that changes the way we see our world. With nearly 300k photo uploads happening every day, we feel encouraged by the strength of our community and platform.

Discussion: Mashable!, blog plz, ProgrammableWeb, MacStories, Inside Mobile Apps, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Mobile Entertainment and VentureBeat

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:

Wannabe Cool Kids Aim to Game the Web's New Social Scorekeepers — Sites Use Secret Formulas to Rank Users' Online ‘Influence’ From 1 to 100; 'It's an Ego Thing' — When Katie Miller went to Las Vegas this Thanksgiving, she tweeted about the lavish buffets and posted pictures of her seats …

Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:

LG Optimus 3D - new tantalising video leaked — EXCLUSIVE: We've got the HD clip and pics — We know that LG?will launch the LG Optimus 3D at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We know that the LG Optimus 3D will have a 3D screen and dual cameras. And we now know what the new phone will look like.

Discussion: Engadget, BGR, Android Community, SlashPhone, The Toybox Blog, Fonehome.co.uk, Know Your Cell, Electricpig.co.uk, Android Phone Fans, Liliputing, Electronista, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, CrunchGear, SlashGear, The Next Web and Gizmodo, Thanks:craigt44

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Meebo Acquires Psychographic Ad Targeter Mindset — Social content sharing and IM platform Meebo is putting last fall's $25 million funding round to work: the company is buying online ad measurement and targeting firm Mindset Media. As an online branding specialist that has a particular focus …

Discussion: NetworkEffect, AdAge, Mashable!, TechCrunch and silicontap.com

Declan McCullagh / CNET News:

White House will propose new digital copyright laws — The Obama administration has drafted new proposals to curb Internet piracy and other forms of intellectual property infringement that it says it will send to the U.S. Congress “in the very near future.”

Discussion: Techdirt and White House.gov Blog

Ronald D. White / Los Angeles Times:

Fake iPods and iPhones are seized from downtown warehouses — More than $10 million in counterfeit and stolen goods are recovered in a case stemming from a theft investigation begun by Los Angeles Port Police. — These are some of the counterfeit iPods, iPhones and other items seized …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Fortune, iLounge, AppleInsider, MacNN, MobileWhack.com, 9 to 5 Mac and TUAW

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

BBC iPlayer app landing on UK iPads this Thursday, US in June — A BBC Interactive Operations Engineer has British hearts all aflutter tonight with a tweet announcing that the iPlayer app for the iPad is ready to roll out this Thursday, February 10th. It's specific to the tablet for now …

Discussion: BBC, App Advice, Hardware 2.0 Blog, mocoNews, GigaOM, The Toybox Blog and The Next Web

David Kravets / Threat Level:

Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody Posting PlayStation 3 Hack — Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or “distributing” the first full-fledged jailbreak code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console. — What's more, the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google …

Discussion: Techdirt, CrunchGear, TG Daily and Destructoid

Andrew Mason / Groupon Blog:

Our Super Bowl Ads, and How We're Helping These Causes — I've been spending the day listening to the negative feedback about our Tibet Super Bowl commercial, and want to take a crack at explaining why we created this campaign. We take the causes we highlighted extremely seriously …

Discussion: AdAge, Socialnomics, Jeff Nolan, USA Staff Blog, Digital Trends, eMoney, BrandonLive and The Huffington Post

Ross Miller / Engadget:

HTC to invest $40 million into OnLive to help with games on smartphones — Let's be fair, for a company that pulled in NT$14.59 billion (about $500 million in US currency) in net profit last fiscal quarter, $40 million isn't exactly a huge chunk of change. But the recipient of HTC's money …

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:

Early Facebook execs back artificial-intelligence startup Vicarious Systems — It looks like several key players from the early days of Facebook have taken an interest in an artificial intelligence startup called Vicarious Systems. — The company, which is based in Union City, Calif. …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

ComScore Says You Don't Got Mail: Web Email Usage Declines, 59% Among Teens! — In introducing his messaging platform last November Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said one of the primary motivations behind Messages product strategy was that teenagers have given up on email, “High school kids don't use email, they use SMS a lot.

Discussion: comScore, Inc., The Huffington Post, msnbc.com, GigaOM, VatorNews, FierceIPTV and Bloggasm, more at Mediagazer »

Anas Qtiesh / Global Voices in English:

Syria: Facebook and YouTube Unblocked, Among Others — Internet in Syria has been heavily censored in Syria for years. Seemingly harmless sites like Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia Arabic have only been accessible through proxies and various circumvention software.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, The Next Web and WL Central

Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:

Case Settled: Union Employees, You Can Badmouth Your Boss on Facebook — Ambulance company worker wins right to bash her boss — Last November, Dawnmarie Souza got the country talking about the right to complain about your job on Facebook. The American Medical Response of Connecticut employee …

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, Bloomberg, CNET News, L.A. Times Tech Blog and Associated Press

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Online Dating Site Zoosk's 2010 Sales Up 250 Percent To $90 Million — Online dating site Zoosk is announcing some impressive revenue numbers this morning, reporting that the startup has grown its annual sales run rate approximately 250% in 2010 to more than $90 million. That's up from $20 million in revenue in 2009.

Discussion: VentureBeat, NetworkEffect and Online Dating Insider

Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:

Drobo Takes Aim At Small Businesses With New 12-Bay Version — Over the years we've seen Drobo expand its portfolio of devices from a strictly consumer-oriented lineup to a broader and more business-friendly one. October's DroboPro FS made a beeline for small businesses by mashing …

Discussion: The Register, Electronista, Engadget, Between the Lines Blog and Crave

Ina Fried / Mobilized:

AT&T's Chief Marketing Officer on How the Company Has Found (Android) Religion — Although AT&T has dabbled with Android in the past, the carrier is now dead serious about making sure that it has a range of products running Google's operating system. — While many will observe …

Discussion: DSLreports

Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:

In-app purchases in iPad, iPhone, iPod kids' games touch off parental firestorm — Over the winter break from school, 8-year-old Madison worked to dress up her simple mushroom home on the iPhone game Smurfs' Village. In doing so, she also amassed a $1,400 bill from Apple.

Discussion: MacStories

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