Friendfeed
Revealed: why Facebook acquired FriendFeed – Brand Republic News – Brand Republic – Will McInnes talks about the Facebook | Friendfeed deal.
Business
Delicious Founder: I Wish I Had Not Sold to Yahoo
Consumer behaviour
Kids want to own, not stream, their music says survey – The Next Web
Design
Little Art Book – Limited Edition Prints – Art Gallery – I love the prints here mix of great illustration and Banksy like image subversion of cultural icons
Gadgets
Nokia outsmarted on smartphones
How to
boxee: the open, connected, social media center for mac os x and linux – I need to check this out
Ideas
Some Serious Freeconomics – interesting points from Fred Wilson
Luxury
brandchannel.com | Vuarnet – interesting brand history of the storied sunglasses brand
Marketing
NY Mag Commenters Get Hired for HSBC’s SoapboxCampaign – PSFK
PR Communications: A PR Strategy Not Social Media Tactics Won The Presidential Election 2008 – cutting through the hoopla and looking at the substance. At the end of the day social media is just a channel
Media
Revisionist History: Bartz Claims Yahoo Was Never A Search Engine – Danny Sullivan shows the holes in Yahoo!’s spin around the search deal with Microsoft. When I was Yahoo! search was responsible for about 50 percent of revenue.
Highfield joins Microsoft after just four months at Project Kangaroo • The Register – Ashley Highfield jumped from the BBC’s digital transformation to Microsoft in a manner that raised a few eyebrows
Online
UK PR people on Twitter | PRBLOGGER.COM – PR blog – Stephen Davies has done the hard work so you don’t have to in his list of UK PR people on Twitter
Google’s new search update “Caffeine” changes both look and feel | VentureBeat
WebWorkerDaily » Archive How Twitter is a Communications Game Changer «
Software
Yahoo’s Hadoop Genius Leaves For Startup (YHOO) – spiraling the drain
Yahoo’s BrowserPlus continues to dismantle wall between browser and desktop » VentureBeat – Interesting features including drag and drop into browser
Worst. Bug. Ever. – this is the best: the T-Mobile G1 Android handset sounds like a complete dog
Digital Evangelist: 72Hours in what have I learnt about my Nokia? – interesting learning experience on Symbian and Ovi web services
Wireless
Total Telecom – Low-cost handsets to account for half of all mobile phones by 2014
On its second try, Sandbridge promises a revolution with the Holy Grail of wireless chips » VentureBeat – software defined radio gets new silicon