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What I’m reading and finding for March 29th 2011 through March 30th 2011:

• When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD –
  kara.allthingsd.com - Kara Swisher
  

  A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app.
  The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty Images, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the action, which you can read all about below.
  Zite bills itself as a “personalized iPad magazine that gets smarter as you use it.”
  Not smart enough, it seems, to avoid copyright complaints from the content creators the app sucks in.
  “The Zite application is p..  show all text
• Meet +1: Google’s Answer To The Facebook Like Button –
  searchengineland.com - Danny Sullivan
  Nearly a year after Facebook Like buttons spread out across the web, Google has announced its own rival, the +1 button. It launches today as part of Google’s search engine, allowing you to “+1″ the search results and ads that you like. And in a few months, it’ll be arriving… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
• Salesforce Buys Social Media Monitoring Company Radian6 For $326 Million –
  techcrunch.com - Robin Wauters
  

  Cloud computing giant Salesforce.com has acquired social media monitoring company Radian6 for approximately $276 million in cash and $50 million in stock, net of cash. In addition, approximately $10 million in stock and $4 million in cash will be issued to Radian6′s founders (subject to vesting conditions over two years).
  Radian6 helps clients like Dell, GE, Kodak and UPS monitor, analyze and engage in ‘hundreds of millions’ of social media conversations. Salesforce argues tha..  show all text
• Evan Williams | evhead: An Obvious Next Step –
  evhead.com - Ev
  I'm a very lucky guy. Over the past twelve years, I've had the good fortune to work on two huge projects that happened to be the right idea at the right time. These ideas attracted brilliant, idealistic people to do the incredibly hard work of making them work for millions of other people across the globe. And through each, I learned a tremendous amount about business, products, and people. I spent about five and a half years of my professional life on Blogger. Though not a headline-grabber t..  show all text
• Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Wants to Make Service More Mainstream – Digits – WSJ –
  blogs.wsj.com - Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
  Making Twitter more useful for the average person — that’s Jack Dorsey’s first challenge as he returns to the company he founded, he said Tuesday. “We have a lot of mainstream awareness, but mainstream relevancy is still a challenge,” he said during a discussion at Columbia University’s Journalism School Tuesday. Mr. Dorsey, who came up with the idea for Twitter, said Monday that he is returning to be product chief of the company; on Tuesday he outlined more..  show all text
• The Shiny New Evernote Web: Redesigned Interface, Expanded Note Sharing Options and More « Evernote Blogcast –
  blog.evernote.com - Andrew Sinkov
  

  Over the past several months, we’ve released major updates to our four most popular versions: Windows, Mac, iPhone, and Android. Today, we’re excited to unveil the fifth newly redesigned member of the Evernote family, Evernote Web.
  All of our recent redesigns have had several key ideas in common:
  Improving the user experience
  Optimizing performance
  Getting the most out of each platform’s native capabilities
  Incorporating as much user feedback as possible
  Each one of these core..  show all text
• Amazon Cloud Player Doesn’t Work On iOS — But It’s Not A Flash Issue –
  techcrunch.com - MG Siegler
  

  As you may have read by now, earlier tonight, Amazon dropped a bomb on their rivals in the online music space: a fully working cloud storage and playback system. And it’s not just working on desktop web browsers, it works on Android devices too. One important place it doesn’t work though: iPhones, iPads, iPod touches — no iOS devices.
  At first, you might think this is a Flash issue (Apple’s devices famously do not support Flash). But it’s not. I don’t have Fl..  show all text