Techmeme: Apple lands 10-year Grand Central Terminal store deal (Electronista)

9:30 PM ET, July 23, 2011

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Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers — A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names - alienating and frightening the people it aims to serve.

Discussion: adafruit industries blog, Violet Blue, @bloatedlesbian, @avflox, @adafruit and @xenijardin, Thanks:violetblue

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iOS 5′s Siri-like system navigation is called ‘Assistant’, uses device-info to handle actions — Apple's purchase of Siri in early 2010 and their partnership with Nuance in 2011 has many hoping that Apple has something like speech-to-text or voice-navigation up its sleeve for iOS 5.

Discussion: TUAW, MacGazette.net, iDownloadBlog, I4U News, App Advice, VentureBeat, TiPb, MacRumors, Electronista and iClarified

Bob Warfield / SmoothSpan Blog:

NoSQL is a Premature Optimization — There's been a lot of back and forth lately from the NoSQL crowd around Michael Stonebreaker's contention that reliance on relational technology and MySQL has trapped Facebook in a ‘fate worse than death.’ This was reported in a GigaOm post by Derrick Harris.

Electronista:

Apple lands 10-year Grand Central Terminal store deal — Apple has already reached a deal for its Grand Central Terminal store. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority confirmed to the NY Post that Apple will have the location for 10 years and is refurbishing the space.

Discussion: New York Post, AppleInsider, Engadget, Gizmodo, Examiner, MacStories, iGadgetsReport, TUAW, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, iClarified and Sky News Australia

Jacqueline Wong / Reuters:

China inspects electronics stores after fake Apple shops report — Chinese industrial and commercial authorities in Kunming have started to inspect all of the southwestern city's electronics shops after an American blogger wrote about fake Apple stores, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

Discussion: AppleInsider and Electronista

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / The Business Insider:

Facebook Investor Roger McNamee Explains Why Social Is Over — Elevation Partners and Facebook investor Roger McNamee, who is also a rock musician, gave an amazing talk recently where he goes over some of the biggest trends affecting the technology industry. — The talk was spotted by our friend Dan Frommer at SplatF.

Jake Smith / 9to5Mac:

Did Apple eject Google Books from the App Store for violating terms? — For reasons yet undefined, Google Books has been removed from the iTunes App Store. We noticed the App was gone earlier this week but thought it might have been just a blip. Now it has been awhile.

Discussion: GottaBeMobile and App Advice

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

How MySpace Tom May Have Inadvertently Triggered The Google/Facebook War — Gotta love Tom Anderson. Newly reinvigorated by the launch of Google+, “MySpace Tom” has become a social power user (and regular TechCrunch contributor!). As a man at the forefront of the early days of the social wars, he's obviously full of information.

Discussion: TechCrunch

NPR:

Intellectual Ventures And The War Over Software Patents — Nathan Myhrvold is a genius and a polymath. He made hundreds of millions of dollars as Microsoft's chief technology officer, he's discovered dinosaur fossils, and he recently co-authored a six-volume cookbook that …

Discussion: GeekWire

Guardian:

Hugo Chávez uses Twitter to run Venezuela from hospital bed — Venezuelan president is using Twitter as a tool to govern remotely while he undergoes cancer treatment in Cuba — The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, is using Twitter as a tool to govern remotely while he undergoes cancer treatment in Cuba.

Discussion: Tecca, The Next Web and Gawker

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

On Succeeding Steve Jobs — On Wednesday, less than 30 minutes before Apple announced another record-breaking quarter of financial results, the Wall Street Journal published a story by Yukari Iwatani Kane, Joann S. Lublin, and Nick Wingfield regarding the issue of Apple CEO succession.

Discussion: Fortune, I4U News, parislemon and Webomatica

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

Google+ business profiles to include analytics & more — If businesses can contain themselves for just a few more months, they'll have much better Google+ tools than the ones that currently exist. — In fact, Google will be unveiling specially tweaked profiles with analytics …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, eWeek and L.A. Times Tech Blog

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

A Norwegian National Tragedy That Unfolded on the Web (Updated) — What's being described as the most violent day in Norway since the Second World War unfolded today for so many via social media. — Having seen early reports concerning an afternoon bombing attack outside government offices in Oslo …

Discussion: @andersbbreivik, The Lede, @securityweek, New York Times, Vacuum, BBC and News: News blog, more at Mediagazer »

Nicholas Jackson / The Atlantic Online:
A Bomb in Oslo? What Google Lost by Ending Real-Time Search

Discussion: Technology Review

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