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Archive for June, 2010

Christopher Null – Did you know that the founder of Orange Julius once invented a shower stall for pigeons? More information: click here

Macworld.com – If you’re a fan of knitting and/or crocheting, or would like an introduction to these classic hobbies, Jones APR’s Knitting & Crocheting HD is an educational iPad app that should have you knitting and crocheting your way to a warm and cozy winter. More information: click here

Today, Facebook has announced the rollout of a new permissions model for third-party applications, mandating that apps specify exactly what data they wish to access (and giving users the ability to opt out if they wish to). The change has been in the works for a long time: Facebook’s blog post notes that it was first announced back in August 2009 as a result of privacy concerns brought up by Canada’s Privacy Commissioner. The new dialog boxes were shown off at f8 in April.

Third-party Facebook applications have always had to ask users for permission to access their private data, but before now the dialogs were unspecific, and sometimes required users to click “Yes” to a series of boxes which could get confusing. Now all data that an application wishes to access will be presented in a single dialog box. As usual, applications will be able to access data that you’ve shared with ‘Everyone’ (which actually encompasses quite a bit of data these days). More information: click here

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Amazon Introduces 70% Royalty Option For Kindle Digital Text Platform  —  Right off the heels of announcing an expansion of its Kindle Digital Text Platform to authors and publishers around the world, Amazon announced back in January that it would introduce a new 70 percent royalty option …
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Right off the heels of announcing an expansion of its Kindle Digital Text Platform to authors and publishers around the world, Amazon announced back in January that it would introduce a new 70 percent royalty option in the program that will allow them to to earn a larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they sell.

Well, it’s the middle of the year, and it has now landed.

For the record: the new royalty option comes will not replace the existing DTP standard royalty option but rather complement it. More information: click here

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitpic Blocks Posterous’ Import Tool; Out Come The Lawyers  —  Well that didn’t take long.  Halfway into their big 15 importers in 15 days campaign, Posterous has managed to make one of their competitors very angry.  Twitpic is so angry, in fact, that they’re blocking the service and threatening legal action.
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Tell me “I told you so” in six months, but Bloomberg’s exciting news that two dudes said something about the iPhone coming to Verizon is false until we see hardware and there has been no hardware.

Apple picked GSM because it is an international standard. CDMA, the system used by Verizon and Sprint, is about as international as American beer – both are considered weak and both are reviled. Picking AT&T in this case was the only way Apple could reach a mass audience quickly without having two separate phone SKUs on the books – one for us and one for the rest of the world. AT&T has also been a good partner in terms of odd pricing systems including a la carte data. From a business perspective, it made sense. More information: click here

Tradeshift, which has been described as the “Skype for invoicing”, has announced a raft of new partners in the SaaS accounting space, along with plans to open up its API to enable more third-parties to tie into its free invoicing system.

The launch partners who have had access to a beta version of Tradeshift’s API include: ERPLY (free ERP system), E-conomics (a SaaS accounting solution provider), Workbook (a specialized platform for the media business), Office123 (an open-source ERP system), Continia (bank payments systems), Winfinans (Windows-based desktop accounting), and Ibistic (the leading e-invoicing workflow system in Scandinavia).

This, says the company, in which early Skype investor Morten Lund is an adviser, puts it on track to bring “directly integrated electronic invoicing” to more than 100,000 small European businesses over the next 6 months. More information: click here

And so it begins. The European Commission this morning launched a consultation on key questions regarding the contentious issues of net neutrality and the open Internet.

The consultation covers such issues as whether ISPs should be allowed to adopt traffic management practices, prioritizing one kind of Internet traffic over another. This has become an issue with the onset of broadband and Internet services which require more bandwidth, such as VoIP or online TV. Essentially, the EC wants to find out whether these practices would create any problems (economical, technical or otherwise) and have ‘unfair effects’ for users. More information: click here

Sam Diaz / ZDNet:
Meet Cisco Cius: Android tablet for workers, students.  Watch out, iPad?  —  It’s not quite an iPad – or better yet, the iPad isn’t quite this.  —  Cisco CEO John Chambers today unveiled the Cisco Cius, a “mobile collaboration tablet that delivers virtual desktop integration with anywhere …
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