1. Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go  permalink

Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go
Www.mobilecrunch.com

As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...

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…

3. 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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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. 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…

6. From Infinity to Fish  permalink

From Infinity to Fish
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vielleicht nunja: Nico Lumma über die Irrelevanz von Blogs usw. (die traurige trope bzgl. der blogs ist halt, dass im ersten schritt ein bündel von erwartungshaltungen geschnürt wird, das mit dem ding an sich wenig zu tun hat, und in der folge dann die nichterfüllung mit gewisser genugtuung ausgeweidet wird, interessanterweise glauben ja ...

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From Fish to Infinity   —  vielleicht nett: Steven Strogatz hat für die NYT eine Blogserie zum Thema Mathematik im gebloggten Bildungsweg gestartet . ( via )

7. 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…

8. Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack  permalink

Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack
MG Siegler / TechCrunch

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 ( ...

9. 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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10. 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 ...

11. Google Focused Research Awards  permalink

Google Focused Research Awards
Research.google.com

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.

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12. Meet Marc Flores, the new MobileCrunch writer  permalink

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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.

13. Spotify Opens Up In France, Removes Invitation-only Lock  permalink

Spotify Opens Up In France, Removes Invitation-only Lock
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch

Spotify is no longer invitiation-only in France. The streaming music startup now lets anyone register, but for some reason - probably to make sure you actually live in France - they'll allow you to register only by verifying your phone number first. The company says it's now because they are sure they can "maintain the quality of service for ...

14. Pimp  permalink

Pimp
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hmm, irgendwas fühlt sich da nicht ganz richtig an.