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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.
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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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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Are we witnessing YouTube's big fumble? (UPDATE: Not tonight!) — UPDATE, my original post is below. I tuned in for the Charlie Sheen show, but only about 200,000 people were in the channel at peak and the show was very boring and viewers quickly went away. So, this won't be the “event” that proves this post's thesis right.
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Mashable!, USA Today, Socialnomics and Runnin' Scared, Thanks:scobleizer
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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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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) …
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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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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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!, Oaggle, The Next Web and @delbius, Thanks:mobiletailgate
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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