New and notable for September 24th 2011 through September 27th 2011
What I’m reading and finding for September 24th 2011 through September 27th 2011:
- On Wednesday, Amazon Will Unveil The “Kindle Fire” | TechCrunch –
Last Friday, Amazon sent out invites to a press conference being held this coming Wednesday. They didn’t give away any details in the invite, but given our scoop earlier this month, everyone assumed it was to unveil the new Kindle tablet. We can now confirm this is correct. And we know a bit more.
On Wednesday morning in New York City, Amazon will unveil the Kindle Fire. Yes, this is the name Amazon has settled on, to help differentiate the product from the e-ink Kindles, which will still be ve… show all text - From Twitter – How I manage my Google+ Circles http://t.co/Xw4iqstZ
- Tumblr Lands $85 Million in Funding – NYTimes.com –
For Tumblr, a popular micro-blogging site, more financing has followed its increased popularity.
- What Exactly Am I Doing Here At Uncrunched? « UNCRUNCHED –
William Shatner once asked me what exactly I was doing at TechCrunch, the blog I started in June 2005. Let’s put aside the fact that I was testing out a new service that got celebrity autographs and a video in exchange for cash. I actually never answered his question.
I never really did know what I was doing at TechCrunch. I was writing about startups while building a startup and investing in others. It never occurred to me that as the site became, almost immediately, an important part of the t… show all text - From Twitter – http://t.co/f7NGgxXW Huge ancient Roman shipyard unearthed in Italy
- All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook’s new features, and nothing will ever be the same, and all I can do is sit here and weep at the beauty and magic that Mark Zuckerbe… –
I don’t mean to overhype this, but frankly I don’t think it would be possible to overhype something as huge and profound as what Facebook introduced yesterday, at least from what I gather reading the reports coming out of F8. Timelines. Open Graph. Apps. Music. Video. Bam! It’s all there and it’s all amazing and huge and life-changing and mind-blowing and nothing — nothing — will ever be the same again. It’s like Mark Zuckerberg is some kind of magic wizard from the future who came out onstage … show all text - Uncircle+ – Chrome extension – Uncircle+ is a google chrome extension that lets you easily uncircle (that is, remove) inactive people from your Google+ circles
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