Robin Sloan, a former strategist and executive at Current TV, is joining Twitter to handle media partnerships. He says he’ll help “producers, reporters, developers and strategists at media organizations that want to do cool, transformative things with tweets.”
He was recruited by a former colleague Chloe Sladden, who experimented with one of the earliest of uses [...]
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Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
McGraw-Hill axed from iPad launch after CEO leaks on TV — The day before announcing its iPad tablet, Apple appeared to have removed McGraw-Hill from the list of publishers who will sell e-books [...]
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PaidContent.org has put together a thorough, helpful chart that compares the six most popular e-readers: Amazon.com’s Kindle 2 and Kindle DX, Sony’s Daily Edition, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, Plastic Logic’s Que proReader, and of course Apple’s iPad.
The chart compares 19 features ranging from hardware to software to content.
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PC World reports that the iPad demo video which showed working Flash components in a New York Times webpage has been replaced. In the new video, the embedded Adoble Flash player generates the little blue Lego that means “I don’t have a working plug-in for this content.”
Why is Apple deliberately breaking Adobe’s Flash content? No [...]
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On Friday evening, we noticed that books from major publisher Macmillan had disappeared from Amazon.com, but couldn’t explain why. The fact that Macmillan was a partner on Apple’s iPad, which should be a formidable competitor to Amazon’s Kindle, seemed suggestive, but again: We didn’t know.
Now The New York Times has an explanation. Citing an anonymous [...]
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Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner.
Ask the Attorney: What issues do I need to consider when forming a start-up? – In part two of this column, attorney Scott Edward Walker looks at the things you need to address as you’re ramping up your company, including IP, management and employment issues.
50 Three-word phrases that can [...]
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Orli Yakuel noticed that Google has quietly added a new icon in the ‘Compose Mail’ window of its free webmail service Gmail, enabling users to run search queries from within the interface and insert results and URLs straight into drafted e-mails or open chat conversations.
This is an expansion of a Google Labs feature, simply dubbed [...]
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It used to be that Twitter followers were worth something, or at least people thought they were worth something, which is the same thing. It was only about a year ago when Jason Calacanis was offering $250,000 to buy a spot on Twitter’s Suggested User List, which would have guaranteed him perhaps a million [...]
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Columnist’s Note: In a little under 24 hours, I have to submit the final manuscript of my next book. My original deadline – January 1st – sailed passed weeks ago, as did the one-week extension I awarded myself on the basis that no-one does any work in the first week of the year. This last [...]
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post penned by Ethan Nicholas, developer of the million-dollar iPhone game iShoot and the newly released Kim Rhode’s Outdoor Shooting. Before the iPad was even announced, Nicholas was already conceiving his next game with the tablet device in mind.
The Internet is a funny place. After Apple announced its [...]
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