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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter's “Quickbar Uprising” Is Nothing: Wait Till The Ads Really Show Up — Some people hate Twitter's new iPhone app, and Twitter is listening: It's going to change the app slightly. — Which won't appease the people who hate Twitter's new iPhone app at all.
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Mobility Digest
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Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Twitter Reacts to the #Dickbar Uproar: Not Killing It - Just Making it a Little Bit Less Annoying — When Twitter launched the latest version of its iPhone app a few days ago, most users were more than happy to get auto-completion for names and hashtags, among many other improvements.
Thanks:fredericl
Dr. Drang / @drdrang:
Following @gruber's coinage, I propose all future complaints about Twitter 3.3 be tagged #dickbar.
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@gruber, @scobleizer, @marcoarment, @pragmaticgeek, @nzcspaul, @fuzzyscorpio, @fredericl, @joshelman, @anildash, @greatcaffeine, @justinaddition, @lqd, @al3x, @gruber, @nebhale, @parislemon, @dsilverman and The Next Web
C.K. Sample III / Sample the Web:
Dear Apple: You're not “Post-PC” until you cut the cord — On Wednesday, Steve Jobs took the stage and announced what he called “Apple's third post-PC blockbuster”, the iPad 2. Don't get me wrong: I'm loving everything I've seen about the iPad 2 and I plan on grabbing one next Friday …
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The Startup Foundry, Brian Alvey, The Huffington Post, TUAW, GigaOM, The Register and Electricpig.co.uk, Thanks:cksample
Om Malik / GigaOM:
iPad May Be Magical. Apps Aren't. Here's Why. — It has been nearly a year since I first came in close contact with the original iPad. It blew my mind, and since then, it has become a daily accompaniment. I create content on my MacBook Air, but I spend a lot of time consuming content and media on the device.
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Scobleizer
Chris / cdixon.org:
SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups — Many of the today's most successful informational sites such as Yelp, Wikipedia and TripAdvisor relied heavily on SEO for their initial growth. Their marketing strategy (whether deliberate or not) was roughly: 1) …
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft's Nightmare: First They Came For The Tablets, Then The Netbooks.... Taiwanese PC maker ASUS plans to release netbook PCs that run Google's Android and Intel's Meego operating systems, says its CEO. — The fact that ASUS is floating the idea again two years after abandoning …
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LAPTOP Magazine, Tom's Guide, The Microsoft Blog and Liliputing
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The App Wall — A couple nights ago, a friend sent me a message. “So glad we finally have a way to talk without hanging out.” — He was, of course, kidding. He sent me the message through Yobongo, a new location-based realtime chatting app that launched this week.
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@scobleizer and Scobleizer
Darren Murph / Engadget:
AT&T to allow grandfathered unlimited iPad data plans on iPad 2, your weekend rave to continue — Good news, iPad 3G owners. If you were lucky enough to snag one of those coveted unlimited data plans with your original AT&T iPad, you won't have to toss it when upgrading next week.
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MobileWhack, TiPb, Electronista and Gadgetell
Jackie Cohen / All Facebook:
Angry Birds Are Flying To Facebook — Angry Birds has enjoyed more than 75 million downloads, so it's about time that the game developer Rovio is expanding the franchise to the Facebook. — The official Angry Birds page on Facebook says that the game will come to the social network in a month …
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Digital Trends, Mashable!, Neowin.net, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Develop, Mobility Digest, NBC Bay Area, SlashGear and TDW Geeks
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
‘Tweet Viewer’ Virus Spreads On Twitter — There is something amazing about how desperately humans want to see who has viewed their online profiles. This desire has been taken advantage of (again) by Twitter spammers as tweets like “WOW! You can see WHO VISITS your TWITTER profile. That's cool! :)
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Mashable!, The Next Web, @delbius and Oaggle, Thanks:mobiletailgate
Charlie Sheen / @charliesheen:
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Ustream.TV, @scobleizer, The Next Web, @semilshah, @ischafer, @trey_anderson and @jowyang
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Are we witnessing YouTube's big fumble? (UPDATE: Not tonight!)
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Mashable!, USA Today, Socialnomics and Runnin' Scared, Thanks:scobleizer
Andrew S. Ross / San Francisco Chronicle:
Amazon.com: State stands up to anti-tax attack — Is Amazon.com getting nervous? — How else to explain its intemperate letter threatening to put more than 10,000 Californians out of work should the state even think about enforcing the collection of unpaid sales taxes on Amazon and other Internet retailers?
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Orange County Register and Seattle Blogs
Bloomberg:
Facebook Is Said to Resume Talks With Skype on Video-Calling Partnership — Facebook Inc., the world's biggest social-networking company, is holding talks with Skype Technologies SA about offering Web video calls to its 500 million users, two people familiar with the discussions said.
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The Next Web and PC Magazine, Thanks:fdestin
