1. New Software Update for Nexus One phones  permalink

New Software Update for Nexus One phones
Googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com

Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:

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Google’s Chrome OS: Why It’s Not a Layup Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch   —  Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.

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Nexus One Software Update Finally Brings Multitouch Functionality, Yey!   —  Another great news today for all of us Nexus One users – a new software update is being gradually rolled  out through OTA. And guess what the new features are? Well one of them just happens to be multitouch feature. Yes, you read it right.

2. Online Video Ad Network BrightRoll Raises $10 Million  permalink

Online Video Ad Network BrightRoll Raises $10 Million
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!

Online video advertising network BrightRoll has just announced that they’ve secured $10 million in Series C funding, grown to nearly 55 million unique viewers per month in the U.S, and are now profitable. The funding news means that BrightRoll — which distributes video ad campaigns via an extensive online publisher network — ...

3. Add Private Notes to Tweets and Group Emails With Bccthis  permalink

Add Private Notes to Tweets and Group Emails With Bccthis
Christina Warren / Mashable!

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Bccthis Quick Pitch: Bccthis is an innovative technology that provides new levels of ...

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch
Add Private Notes to Tweets and Group Emails With Bccthis Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack   —  Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...

Explicitly.me
Add Private Notes to Tweets and Group Emails With Bccthis Microsoft SEO toolkit   —  Well it seems that Search Engines are giving more and more prominence to helping people do better SEO. I haven’t (yet) personally tried the Microsoft tool kit, but it definitely qualifies as a good free resource. Especially for Small Businesses. To balance the equation, I have also linked below to the Google Guide to SEO, and one of my ...

4. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market  permalink

3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch

3Crowd , the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...

5. Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action  permalink

MG Siegler / TechCrunch

As we noted earlier , Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We've just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1, and have taken a video of the new ...

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Rachel Andersen / Search Engine Journal
Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action Breadcrumb URL Display: A Review   —  Back in November, Google announced that they would be rolling out “site hierarchy display in search results” to be (occasionally) displayed in search results instead of their exact destination URL. The reported purpose for this type of URL display is to offer a better search experience to the user by providing context surrounding a given& ...

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Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action Google Focused Research Awards   —  On Tuesday February 2nd, we announced the first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards. These awards are for research in areas of study that are of key interest to Google as well as the research community.

6. Music Consumption Faceoff: Subscription Vs. Ownership  permalink

Music Consumption Faceoff: Subscription Vs. Ownership
Barb Dybwad / Mashable!

Mashable was in attendance at today’s New Music Seminar in Los Angeles, where Spotify CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek gave an excellent keynote about the state of the music industry and the re-emerging subscription model. Since we have new music on the brain, we wanted to pose a relevant question for this week’s Faceoff Series head-to- ...

7. Street Scenes of Munich:  permalink

Street Scenes of Munich:
Omis.me

Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.

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8. Groundhog Day 2010: a prediction roundup  permalink

Groundhog Day 2010: a prediction roundup
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9. State of the Internet Explained In One Giant Infographic  permalink

State of the Internet Explained In One Giant Infographic
Samuel Axon / Mashable!

Remember that “ If You Printed Twitter ” image that made the social media rounds two weeks ago? A similarly formatted graphic that describes the state of Internet use and adoption has been published today for your infotainment. The focus is on exactly who uses the Internet, and how often. It breaks things down by gender, age, income ...

10. The State of the Internet  permalink

The State of the Internet
Www.focus.com

Here we take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they are using it and how much the amount of usage is increasing. At a glance, we can see that there are the same number of men and women who use the Internet. However, their age, educational background and level of income may influence how much time they spend online.

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11. A recent improvement for Arabic searches  permalink

A recent improvement for Arabic searches
A Googler / The Official Google Blog

This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed. We've learned that when performing a search on Google, people sometimes forget to separate words with spaces. Moreover, people often mistakenly repeat a letter within a single word. For instance, when ...

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12. Free inspiration and insight  permalink

Free inspiration and insight
Seth Godin / Seth

The Lemonade movie is so professional, engaging and inspiring that you've probably already seen it. If not, here it is. Todd Sattersten has written a free ebook about pricing that's well worth the time it takes to review. It will change the way you think about pricing. And if you can, take a look at this poetry video from Gabrielle Bouliane. She ...

13. Fixed To Flexible - The Ebook  permalink

Toddsattersten.com

It's called Fixed to Flexible. This ebook collects the commercial aspects of cost, price, and margin and presents a variety of alternatives about how to make your way in the world of infinite of choice.

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14. What Have You Been Putting Off and What’s Holding You Back?  permalink

Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips

In a quiet moment yesterday I asked my Twitter network: “what’s one thing that you have been putting off that would improve your blog? (and what’s stopping you from doing it now?)” The answers were quite varied – everything from redesigns, to writing E-Books, to posting more regularly to SEO optimization, to ...

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Problogger 18 hours ago feed Question: what's one thing that you have been putting off that would improve your blog?   —  Problogger 18 hours ago feed Question: what's one thing that you have been putting off that would improve your blog? (and what's stopping you from doing it now?)

15. Are Emerging Markets Enough to Fuel Nokia’s Ovi Store?  permalink

Are Emerging Markets Enough to Fuel Nokia’s Ovi Store?
Colin Gibbs / GigaOM

Nokia's Ovi Store has overtaken Apple's App Store as the storefront of choice for mobile developers in emerging mobile markets. But can Nokia leverage its traction in developing economies as Apple and Android build on their momentum in Western markets?

16. IPad Prognostications: What Matters in Web Tablets  permalink

IPad Prognostications: What Matters in Web Tablets
Michael Wolf / GigaOM

When it comes to Apple’s iPad , the question for many is not if they will buy the device, but when. However, as detailed in our new report at GigaOM Pro (sub. req’d), which presents the results of a survey of technology enthusiasts we ran in [...]

17. Tesla’s Profitability Claim Was The Milli Vanilli of Cleantech  permalink

Tesla’s Profitability Claim Was The Milli Vanilli of Cleantech
Earth2tech.com

“Profitability” can be a squishy term for startups — until they file for an IPO and deliver, through the SEC, what’s often the first unfiltered snapshot of their financial situation: the S-1. That’s been the case for Tesla Motors, which filed on Friday to raise up to $100 million through an initial public offering.

18. Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer  permalink

Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer
Www.mobilecrunch.com

I begged and pleaded with Greg, editor of MobileCrunch, not to make me write this, but it looks like I’m stuck introducing myself to you all. So in my best Troy McClure voice let me say: Hi, my name is Marc Flores. You might remember me from such popular sites as Boy Genius Report or True/Slant.

19. Do You Have a Blogging Strategy?  permalink

Ted Demopoulos / Blogging for Business

Well do you? I used to - not too sure about now, although I DO have a strategy overall :) Blogging Strategy: Do You Really have One?   by Jason Van Orden Some great stuff there. And let me add your blogging strategy needs to be part of your overall (business) strategy as well. I have an overall business strategy. How does my blog fit in? I need ...

20. How to Create Facebook Page For Your Blog  permalink

How to Create Facebook Page For Your Blog
QuickOnlineTips / Quick Online Tips

Guest Post By Dee Barizo Do you know how to create Facebook page for your blog? A couple days ago, I was doing research on my blog’s niche. I wanted to know which social media sites were being used by my audience. Did they have blogs? Were they active on Twitter or forums? Did they participate [...]