Techmeme: So looks like at least one Twitter user (@ReallyVirtual) live-tweeted the Osama raid yesterday without knowing what it was. (Megan McCarthy/@megan)

4:30 AM ET, May 2, 2011

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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

First Credible Reports Of Bin Laden's Death Spread Like Wildfire On Twitter — @keithurbahn — So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn. — about 1 hour ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®ReplyRetweetFavorite — According to the Twitter-sphere …

Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Twitter Just Had Its CNN Moment — It's a great time to be working at Twitter. — Remember CNN when the Gulf War started in 1990? Before then, it was watched mostly by obsessive news followers — people in finance and government, political science professors, insomniacs.

Discussion: SAI, GeekWire, everwas, Boing Boing, Mashable! and Wall Street Journal, more at Mediagazer »

Megan McCarthy / @megan:

So looks like at least one Twitter user (@ReallyVirtual) live-tweeted the Osama raid yesterday without knowing what it was.

Discussion: VentureBeat, textually.org, Gizmodo, Techdirt, NetworkEffect, CNET News, Startup Meme, WebProNews, Almighty Link, @reallyvirtual, New York Observer and @m0hcin

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google & The Death Of Osama Bin Laden — I remember distinctly how Google reacted during the 9/11 attacks. Miserably, effectively telling people to go away and turn on television news, because its results were so out of date. How things have changed, in so many ways. — Recall Google back on September 11:

Discussion: TechCrunch and VentureBeat

Josh Ong / AppleInsider:

Preliminary white iPhone 4 teardowns reveal modified lens, proximity sensor — Early teardown images of Apple's white iPhone 4 appear to show a more recessed rear-facing camera lens and a slightly modified proximity sensor. — After a 10-month delay, Apple launched the white iPhone 4 around the world last week.

Discussion: Gizmodo, PhoneArena, MacHackPC, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista and iClarified

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Phil Schiller: White iPhone isn't thicker, don't believe all the junk that you read — Following the news that the white iPhone 4 is slightly thicker than its black variant, 9to5Mac reader Ernesto Barron tweeted Apple Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Phil Schiller to see if the news is really true.

Discussion: The Toybox Blog, SlashGear, PC Magazine, TiPb, TechSpot, @dannysullivan, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin.net and App Advice, Thanks:markgurman

Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal:

Time Inc. in iPad Deal With Apple — Time Inc., the country's largest magazine publisher, has reached a deal with Apple Inc. to make all its iPad editions free for print subscribers, marking a break in the impasse between publishers and Apple and lending support to Time's contention …

Discussion: I4U News, SlashGear, CNET News, Electronista and @radamswsj

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

News Corp.'s IGN Buys Hearst's UGO In Preparation For Game Site Spin-Off — News Corp., which is getting ready to part with MySpace, is now prepping a move for another one of its big Web properties. — The media conglomerate plans to spin out its IGN.com dudes-and-games site …

Discussion: Neowin.net, VentureBeat, @pkafka, VG247 and Joystiq

Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Numbers Feed IPO Outlook — Facebook Inc.'s business is growing faster than it forecast several months ago, raising the stakes for an initial public offering as early as spring of next year, said people who have seen Facebook's recent financial information.

Discussion: Friending Facebook Blog, @stevecase, Reuters and FM Blog

Katherine Noyes / PC World:

Shuttleworth: Ubuntu's New ‘Unity’ Puts Users First — Hardly a day goes by in the tech industry without some software package or other getting updated, but the widely celebrated release of Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” this week has been no ordinary milestone.

Discussion: Mark Shuttleworth, Open Source Blog, eWeek, Canonical and Yahoo! News

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

Carnival Barker Edition: Show me your iOS licensing certificate! — Apple is doing it wrong, Apple is living on borrowed time! Apple will Fail Again! — This idea, this meme, isn't new. For more than 30 years we've heard a number of versions of the “Apple is doomed” requiem.

Discussion: parislemon, @lessien, @gfxspeakrsn and @gaberivera

Martyn Williams / PC World:

Sony Finds No Apparent Anonymous Link to PlayStation Attack — Sony said it has found no link between an attack on its PlayStation Network and Qriocity services and Internet activist group Anonymous, which had earlier targeted its systems. — The online gaming and entertainment services …

Discussion: DailyFinance.com, ITworld.com, The Register, Ars Technica, ZeroPaid.com, RipTen Videogame Blog and CNET News

Chris Kohler / GameLife:
Sony Details PlayStation Network Revival, ‘Welcome Back’ Gift

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, BetaNews, CrunchGear, Wall Street Journal, VGN365, I4U News, Hardware 2.0 Blog, PlayStation Blog, Engadget, CNN, Gadgetell, Guardian, SAI, Gizmodo, PC World, SlashGear, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Reuters, Neowin.net, NewEnterprise, IndustryGamers, Siliconera, Engadget, New York Times, Bloomberg, Kotaku and Reuters

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