Links for Oct 16, 2009

Google CEO Schmidt: "Android adoption is about to explode"

Hyperbole aside, Android is clearly strategic enough for Google to aim for at least the #2 spot in the smartphone platform wars. But that's not the company's only target for the OS.

• http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=26108
• http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/10/16/googles-android-attempting-a-takeover-of-the-mobile-world/

WeFollow acquired

Albeit "acquired" by another company run by the founder, Kevin Rose. WeFollow is a Twitter user directory.

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/15/confirmed-digg-acquires-kevin-rose-side-project-wefollow/
• http://www.businessinsider.com/digg-takes-on-kevin-roses-twitter-phone-book-2009-10

Twitter opens beta test of "Lists" -- allows users to categorize the people they follow

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/oct/16/twitter-lists-reputation
• http://lifehacker.com/5383134/twitter-lists-makes-following-easier-and-organized

Links for Oct 15, 2009

Microsoft/Danger confirms it will recover "all or most" Sidekick user data

T-Mobile breathes huge sigh of relief

• http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/oct09/10-15sidekick.mspx
• http://blogs.computerworld.com/14917/breaking_microsoft_recovers_data_for_t_mobile_sidekick_danger_hiptop_users

Tandberg rejects Cisco takeover offer

The shareholders are revolting

• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Tandberg-Shareholders-Reject-Cisco-3B-Offer-637046/
• http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cd9106de-b977-11de-abac-00144feab49a.html

Anatomy of a Facebook app exploit

AVG researcher spills the beans on Russian iFrame injection attacks

• http://thompson.blog.avg.com/2009/10/hacked-facebook-applications-reach-out-to-exploit-sites-in-russia.html
• http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101409-facebook-applications-attack.html

Weird news dept.: Twitter launches its own wine label

Cheers! It's all for charity.

• http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2009/10/twitter_launches_its_own_fledg.php
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/15/twitter-would-like-some-cheese-with-its-wine/

Links for Oct 14, 2009

Latest iPhone 3GS defeats jailbreakers, for now

• http://blogs.computerworld.com/14909/iphone_3gs_jailbreak_jeopardy_apple_pwns_dev_team_24kpwn_exploit
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/173629/

Facebook growing faster than Twitter, which is plateauing

Facebook gets 96 million unique visitors in September, vs. Twitter's 21 million.

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/as-facebook-nears-100m-u-s-visitors-twitter-falls-further-behind-in-the-rear-view-mirror/
• http://news.softpedia.com/news/Facebook-Closes-in-on-100-Million-Users-in-the-US-124227.shtml

Digg.com has found a successful new way to make money from advertising

Asking users to vote for/against ads seems to be working.

• http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/diggs-vote-for-ads-experiment-is-raising-revenue/
• http://www.marketingvox.com/diggs-voting-process-for-ads-bears-fruit-045233/

Links for Oct 13, 2009

Microsoft/Danger may be able to recover lost Sidekick data

Despite saying yesterday that the data are probably lost forever, Microsoft's Danger subsidiary seems to be changing its tune. T-Mobile will be hopeful that the feat can be pulled off.

• http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139279/Sidekick_users_may_regain_lost_data_Microsoft_says_
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10373647-56.html

ViVu raises $3 million for interactive video conferencing

Competes with WebEx and GoToMeeting.

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/vivu-raises-3-million-for-online-video-conferencing-platform/
• http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/10/13/vivu-raises-3m-for-interactive-video-suite/

Gist now offers free iPhone application

Gist merges data from email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and more.

• http://blog.gist.com/2009/10/13/gist-iphone-application-now-available/
• http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/10/gist_unveils_iphone_app_managing_contacts_on_the_go.html

Google Docs now has shared folders

Most request new feature.

• http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/10/shared-folders-and-more-in-google-docs.html
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/13/google_folder_sharing_rentokil/

Links for Oct 12, 2009

Death of email predicted (yet again)

This time it's the Wall Street Journal that's not thinking straight. Email is still good for what it's good at; what we're seeing is other applications that are better at doing things that email is unsuited for, but previously was the least-worse way of doing. Email was the hammer, so those tasks looked like nails.

• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203803904574431151489408372.html
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/12/google-wave-and-the-dawn-of-passive-aggressive-communication/

Searchtastic: yet another 'real-time' Twitter search startup

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/11/searchtastic-throws-its-hat-into-the-twitter-search-engine-ring/
• http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/10/searchtastic-aims-to-extend-twitter.html

Twitter denies rumors that it's adding video functionality

• http://mashable.com/2009/10/11/twitter-video-tweets-2/
• http://twittercism.com/twitter-rich-media-fail/

Death of Sidekick/Hiptop platform predicted, as Microsoft loses users' data

Microsoft has lost all users' personal information for the T-Mobile Sidekick service (aka Danger Hiptop). Little hope of recovery. Looks like there was a disk failure in its Danger subsidiary, and no working backups.

• http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/?category.id=Sidekick
• http://blogs.computerworld.com/14894/danger_microsoft_loses_t_mobile_sidekick_hiptop_users_data