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• Facebook traffic approaching Google levels June 9, 2009
  To anyone who doubts the importance of Facebook in the web economy these days, that headline alone should be reason enough to make you a believer. According to Compete in the last month alone, traffic to Facebook.com grew 8 percent, reaching 82.9 million unique visitors. As TechCrunch points out, it's almost beside the point to compare [...]
• And the fedoras in England say ‘Cheers!’ June 5, 2009
  Happy Friday! "Media workers are the heaviest drinking professionals in England, consuming the equivalent of more than four bottles of wine or more than 19 pints of beer a week, according to government research." via Media has heaviest drinkers, poll finds | Media | The Guardian. Can't refute that. But what about the U.S. stats?
• Slogan Call: Need some hyperlocal help June 4, 2009
  We've been working long and hard for several months now on what we're calling our "hyperlocal project." Yes, indeedy, more town-centric citizen journalist goodness. Trust us, it'll be awesome. More on that in the weeks to come. In the mean time, we're still polishing up the site, and one bit of spit shine that would really [...]
• Larry Mendte sues Inquirer, Daily News June 4, 2009
  This article courtesy of MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press. Cheers! PHILADELPHIA - Convicted former news anchor Larry Mendte has filed a defamation suit against The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News and several of their columnists. Mendte says he was defamed in coverage of what he calls a "romantic" relationship with co-anchor Alyci […]
• AP reveals fair use to be fake, fake, fake June 4, 2009
  Go go creative commons and go go licensing fees. MediaShift takes a look at iffy fair use rules and the wobbly future of news copyright on the Web through the epic toils of AP's legal staff. I've always tried to follow the fair-use-doesn't-exist rule. The Copyright Act stipulations take too long to translate and are a little [...]
• News tidbits I bet you didn’t know June 4, 2009
  Did you know there's a newspaper (or a few) per continent including Antarctica? Or how about the lyrics to "The Washington Post March" (born and raised in Fairfax, Va. and even I didn't know that!) Check out this list of nine things you probably didn't know about the news. My favorite: "You've probably heard the New York [. […]
• Philadelphia Bulletin bites the dust June 3, 2009
  Done as of yesterday. "The Bulletin retained its predecessor’s famous slogan, 'In Philadelphia Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin'..." via RIP Philadelphia Bulletin | Newspaper Death Watch. Check out the Bulletin's website here. Will they make something of it? Doesn't look promising... [Editor's note: Updated 1:15 p.m.]
• Saucy tool of the future: Google wave guide June 3, 2009
  Call me simple, but the things that most excite me about Google Wave are the threaded comment thingies and chess. Check out this all-you-could-ever-want-to-know-and-probably-more guide to this sexy social media item: "This in-depth guide provides an overview of Google Wave, discusses the terminology associated with it, details information on Google Wave […]
• Let’s pitch a move to community ‘portals’ June 3, 2009
  There's a lot of Google hate going around in journo circles ... but maybe instead of adding to our list of scapegoats we should note that Google's damn successful for a reason (many actually). Maybe we should ask ourselves how we can be a little more like Google. Do I sound like WWGD evangelist Jeff Jarvis? [...]
• The high hopes of Philly papers June 2, 2009
  What's this? Inquirer and Daily News websites to start charging by the end of 2009? Tierney to take on Google? (He might want to rethink his strategy.) I think it might be time to bring back an old poll: How would you pay for online news content?

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• Nuts to AT&T and its no-tether, no-MMS ways June 9, 2009
  Just about tech blog in the U.S. is currently bitching about yesterday's news that AT&T will NOT be supporting many of the newest features on the iPhone 3G, like MMS and tethering. Instead of echoing their gripes, I'd instead like to kindly point you to a petition to get Ma Bell to please, please join the [...]
• Google Street View Gets Smart Navigation June 5, 2009
  We all know that navigating through street view can be a major pain. Especially when you're really trying to find something. Googles fix? Smart Navigation. It's brilliant. Google no longer makes you hurt you brittle finger by left clicking so many times you finally just exit the page. You can now use your cursor to navigate. It has [...]
• Microsoft Goes Live With Bing June 1, 2009
  For those of you hiding in a dark closet, Bing is Microsofts latest search engine. Why the change? Bing is geared at finding you what you want in a more organized way. Microsoft has really come through with this one, extremely impressive. They call it their "Decision Engine". It's much more than just a search engine. Aside [...]
• The Future of Web Development May 21, 2009
  This week I've been asked the same question twice. That question of course is, what do I believe is the future of web development? My answer is sort of condescending. In my personal opinion, the web is a never ending gateway of possibility. Every day engineers are finding new ways to overcome obstacles and create new mind exploding application ideas. […]
• Amazon’s Kindle DX: Finally, an e-reader that newspapers don’t look crappy on May 6, 2009
  Today Amazon unveiled its latest e-reader iteration, the Kindle DX, which has a massive 9.7-inch screen and can finally open PDF files. Which means, happy day, you'll be able to see newspapers and magazines in something like the original format they were published in. That said, no word yet on whether the versions that newspapers [...]
• Voice dialing coming to iPhone OS 3.0 April 20, 2009
  Finally. I can finally purge all those lame, wonky iPhone voice dialing apps. According to Ars Technica, new voice control features have been discovered in the iPhone OS 3.0. Codenamed "Jibbler," the features will provide both voice synthesis and voice recognition. Our sources turned up references to classes and methods named VSSpeechSynthesizer, V […]
• Pirate Bay Found Guilty April 17, 2009
  You've all done it before. Maybe you heard that awesome new song on the radio, or maybe your friend downloaded the new X-Men movie before it hit theatres. At any rate majority of us have been involved with some sort of illegal downloading at least once. In this day and age it's almost accepted. We automatically [...]
• Fun with concept phones: Kyocera’s flexible folding cell April 17, 2009
  I always imagined the first electronic device to go totally elastic would be the e-reader -- after all, if we're looking to replace the printed paper with something from the Kindle genus, the device should feel something like a newspaper or magazine. And while that device isn't ready for market yet, it looks like the flexible [...]
• If Apple won’t build a touchscreen tablet, TechCrunch will April 10, 2009
  Who says bloggers don't make or create anything truly original. Photos of the new touch screen tablet developed by TechCrunch's Michael Arrington and the folks at Fusion Garage have been spreading around the internet the last couple days. And by the looks of the thing, it's spectacular. Actually, pretty similar to what everyone imagined an Ap […]
• iPhone VoIP rush continues: Google Voice app on its way April 8, 2009
  Skype's got company on the iPhone. Google recently announced that it'll finally be coming out with an app for its popular VoIP service, Google Voice. The GV Mobile app does just about everything the regular iPhone phone app -- visual voicemail, call history, contact list, text messaging -- whihc I image will make it very [...]

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