Daily Archives: September 2, 2011

Arianna! Arrington! Armstrong! AOL! (AOL)

September 2, 2011
Arianna! Arrington! Armstrong! AOL! (AOL)

Image: BusinessWeek See Also: AOL Is Replacing Michael Arrington At TechCrunch – He’ll Still Write AOL SPOKESMAN: Mike Arrington Is No Longer Employed By This Company* A Big Blow To Mike Arrington’s CrunchFund As AOL Says It Will Not Allow TechCrunch To Be Used For Deal Flow What a day for Michael Arrington. TechCrunch’s...

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NFL Hall Of Famer’s PR Staff Prematurely Reports His Death

September 2, 2011
NFL Hall Of Famer’s PR Staff Prematurely Reports His Death

Image: AP Images See Also: SPORTS CHART OF THE DAY: The NFL’s Best Regular Season Teams Since 1970 PHEW! President Obama’s Jobs Speech Won’t Interrupt Football Albert Haynesworth Is Happy Again—And That’s Bad News For The Patriots’ Opponents NFL Hall of Famer and former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive end Lee Roy Selmon suffered a...

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Weekly Wrap-up: The Future of the Internet, Flickr’s Geofences and More…

September 2, 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: The Future of the Internet, Flickr’s Geofences and More…

The Future of the Internet, Flickr’s new Geofences and Google AppEngine developers are up in arms in this week’s ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up. After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of the key trends that are shaping the Web – Internet TV, Internet of Things and Google –...

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Twitter adds a ‘Post Tweets to Facebook’ button in user profiles

September 2, 2011
Twitter adds a ‘Post Tweets to Facebook’ button in user profiles

Twitter has added a ‘Post Tweets to Facebook’ button in the user profiles section that will allow you to quickly and easily link your Twitter account to your Facebook account. The button, when clicked, will ask you to enter your Facebook credentials and then link the two accounts, allowing your Tweets to cross-post to...

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Apple’s Eddy Cue gets 100k share stock bonus worth $37.4 million today

September 2, 2011

Earlier this week Apple announced that it was promoting Eddy Cue to Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, a move that appears to be placing Cue in charge of the new iCloud and the flagging iAd products. Now, Cue has been given a 1000,000 restricted stock unit bonus worth $37.4 million at...

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Amazon Is Only Launching A 7″ Tablet? Genius. (Plus A Mockup!)

September 2, 2011
Amazon Is Only Launching A 7″ Tablet? Genius. (Plus A Mockup!)

The Amazon Kindle tablet is real. Very much real. As in, MG has held it in his very own hands. I threw together the mockup above based on what he shared with me. As MG explained, we now know that the Kindle tablet won’t initially ship in both 7-inch and 10-inch variants, contrary to...

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Foursquare Co-Founder Dennis Crowley offers motivational advice

September 2, 2011
Foursquare Co-Founder Dennis Crowley offers motivational advice

Great ideas only come around every so often, but some of us simply lack the ambition to bring these concepts to life. The startup business is a cutthroat world full of forceful competition, and the entire experience of attempting to build your company from the ground up can definitely be an intimidating one. Fortunately,...

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Why the music industry wants a piece of lyrics site Rap Genius

September 2, 2011
Why the music industry wants a piece of lyrics site Rap Genius

The music industry is not known for welcoming innovation. In fact, it’s downright hostile. If you’re a talented programmer, there’s a good chance that you’d rather hang yourself with your laptop cord than join a music startup. And good luck getting investors. Funny then that so many musicians and industry types are clamoring to...

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Apigee Adds OAuth Functionality to API Modeling

September 2, 2011

This sounds simple enough until you try to invoke an API function for a service like Twitter that uses OAuth for delegating user privileges to an app. With Twitter, OAuth sign-ins are used as signatures from the user, granting permission to an app to act on the user’s behalf. That’s the only way to...

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Friday Roundup: Court Tosses Oracle Award, App Engine Pricing, Fake IDs, Seesmic and More…

September 2, 2011
Friday Roundup: Court Tosses Oracle Award, App Engine Pricing, Fake IDs, Seesmic and More…

Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. It’s been a crazy conference week with VMworld and Dreamforce ’11 going on at the same...

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