Twitter Hits 10 Billion Tweets It's official: Twitter has surpassed 10 billion tweets. While Gigatweet's counter is down due to over-traffic, you can tell by the actual tweet ID numbers that we have crossed the magical threshold. The milestone shows that Twitter's still growing at a rapid pace: It broke one billion tweets in November 2008 and five billion tweets just four months ago. So who was the lucky person that sent out tweet 10 billionth tweet? Science + Geek + Beer = Awesomely Geeky Science Beer SAN FRANCISCO — What do you get if you cross a beer geek with a science geek? Really good beers with really geeky names. I’ve already proven the connection between beer and geologists, but the number of brews out there with awesomely geeky science names suggests that the beer-science link is even more primordial.
Apple is Missing the Boat with Music Streaming from the Cloud News early this morning suggests that Apple's recently acquired Lala team (the former music streaming service) may be hard at work on streaming video as opposed to music from the cloud. Apple is missing the boat. A wave is fast approaching in the online music industry, and Apple is showing no signs of acknowledging it any time soon. That wave, of course, is streaming music--free music--via the cloud. It ain’t over, Sen. Reid Thanks for taking the time to read my first column. Every other week on this page you’ll read my unsolicited advice to those who - I believe - need it the most. They may not think they need it. Google Wave Gets Email Notifications Google Wave has finally turned on email notifications as a feature for users who want to see immediate, hourly, or daily email notifications for new and updated waves. Email updates can be turned on via the Inbox dropdown menu. Once on, Google Wave will notify you with a summary of updates to your waves and email you when you're added to a new wave. Thankfully you'll only receive one update for each individual wave — instead of receiving an email for each update to a wave — until you log into that wave again. As notifications are still in the testing phase you can definitely expect the experience to be somewhat buggy.
Spotted... August 9, 2010 Washington, D.C.‘s local media scene officially welcomed a new player Aug. 9. TBD, as in To Be Determined, is a venture of privately-held Allbritton Communications, which also owns the website and newspaper Politico, an ABC affiliate and a 24-hour cable news channel. Want to Know Why Apple Changed the iTunes Logo? Because CDs Are Dead. - Technorati Blogging A subject of much controversy since Apple's Wednesday afternoon press conference, the brand new iTunes logo appears to have the blogosphere up in a tizzy. Well, it's time they get over it because Apple is forging ahead, with or without the design snobs. (And on a side note--who the hell thinks they really know design better than Apple does?) Is America getting too crazy even for America? - Lewis Grossberger - Grossblogger After a week that saw an unhinged tax protester fly his plane into an IRS office, a loony neurobiologist shoot three fellow professors, a crackpot at the CPAC convention call for the hanging of a U.S. senator and Glenn Beck being Glenn Beck, the question must be asked: Is America harboring a dangerously high percentage of nut jobs? The answer, according to an informal survey I took among three or four friends and a bike messenger who almost ran me over on Eighth Avenue yesterday, is a resounding yes. This country is crazier than ever. Every few years, the American Psychiatric Association updates its compendium, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which lists every known mental disorder and each time, it gets bigger. The fifth edition of the DSM is out in 2013 and I’m afraid no one will be able to lift it. Next question: What are we going to do about it?
Apple Tops Google and Amazon on “Most Admired Company” List In Fortune Magazine's annual ranking of "most admired companies", Apple has once again walked away with the top spot. Apple was voted #1 for the third year in a row in a poll of executives, industry analysts and company directors. This year, Apple actually took pole position by its widest margin ever. Other companies that ranked high on Fortune's list include Google at #2 and Amazon.com at #5. Check out this video from Fortune that explains a little more about the process and provides some insights into why certain companies are so admired: Consumer and business trust, strong customer loyalty and the ability to transform new markets are all reasons that Apple was voted "most admired."
Google and Verizon: Consumers control Internet - Aug. 9, 2010 By David Goldman, staff writerAugust 9, 2010: 2:52 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Google and Verizon unveiled a joint policy proposal for an open Internet standard known as "Net neutrality" on Monday. The seven-part proposal -- in which the government would enforce a kind of Internet bill of rights of wireline broadband consumers -- would give the Federal Communications Commission authority to regulate wired broadband Internet providers to ensure consumers have access to all legal content and applications on the Internet. Wireline Internet providers like Verizon, AT&T (T, Fortune 500) and Comcast (CMCSA, Fortune 500) would not be allowed to favor some content over others or accept payments to prioritize certain Internet traffic. If a provider is found to be in violation of these laws, Google and Verizon propose that the FCC would be able to respond to complaints with a penalty of up to $2 million.