guardian.co.uk Sport:
Failure to post epic Betfair Chase on the internet is symptomatic of a backward-looking sportRacing's ability to do itself down, even at moments when its light burns most brightly, is a continuing source of wonder. The struggle between Kauto Star and Imperial Commander in the Betfair Chase at Haydock on Saturday was one of (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Two years and a month after announcing that it would launch a more professional-looking developer platform than the wildly successful one at Facebook, LinkedIn today finally opened up a series of application programming interfaces for other companies to build on top of. Make no mistake about it, though - there's some good (Read More)
The Guardian:
According to a Financial Times report, Microsoft is in discussions with News Corporation and others about pulling content from Google The next battle in the search wars could be over access to news content. The FT reports that Microsoft – which has made increasing the market share of its Bing search engine its top online pr (Read More)
Mashable!:
It wouldn’t be an award show without some sort of bizarre and shocking moment that gets the Internet abuzz, and last night’s American Music Awards were no exception.The talk of the show this time is Adam Lambert’s (who you may remember from American Idol) performance, in which he kisses another guy towards the end. The eve (Read More)
The Guardian:
Limited seating and live streaming for Chilcot inquiry public sessions at Queen Elizabeth II conference centreThere are two areas at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre at Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, set aside for people wishing to attend the public evidence sessions. The first is the hearing room itself, where 60 se (Read More)
VentureBeat:
LinkedIn aims to be an even more central part of your professional identity, by expanding its platform with the site developer.linkedin.com.The Mountain View, Calif.-based professional networking site already offers a platform for third-party developers, allowing them to build widgets and apps that run in LinkedIn itself. W (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
From the beginning, this administration pledged to give more than a cursory nod to the notion that 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. was the People's House, assuring the country it would welcome regular folks in, not just those with significant bank accounts and the president's secret BlackBerry number. It distributed tickets for the (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still invitation only and in preview, the real-time wiki collaboration platform is being used by some media companies for community building, real-ti (Read More)
The Guardian:
If the president had talked instead about Jiwai or Fanfou – Twitter's Chinese rivals – China would have been less confusedWhen Barack Obama told students in Shanghai last week that he had never used Twitter, there were two responses. In the west, surprise from some of his 2.6 million followers. And in China, reportedly, a s (Read More)
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Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his social news startup Socialmedian was sold to the Germany-headquartered company. The Social (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Astronomer Stuart Clark joins us in the studio to look at the latest thinking about the effects of variations in solar activity on the Earth's climate. Dark matter gets a mention too. Over the coming days he will be conducting question-and-answer sessions on Twitter - both on solar activity and dark matter. Follow him at Dr (Read More)
Mashable!:
In a bizarre case involving teen YouTube sensation Justin Bieber and a riotous crowd of his fans, a record exec from Island Def Jam Records was arrested Friday for, among other things, failing to Tweet when told to by authorities.When the Beiber event at Roosevelt Field mall became unruly (video below), police appealed to t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
China enjoyed center stage this week thanks to President Obama's visit. Naturally, trade relations were on the agenda.For Internet companies sitting in the US, news reports that chronicled the President's every move in China were a visible reminder of the business opportunity that may seem a click away.SponsorThis guest pos (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
South Africa 250-9; England 252-3England won by seven wicketsHello.Hello?Hear that tap-tapping sound? That's me knocking on the screen to see if anyone is out there.No one said anything about an 8am start. It's an unholy hour to be up and working on a Sunday.While you're busy rubbing the sleep out of your eyes and squinting (Read More)
Mashable!:
If you’ve been on the web long enough, you’ll know that Twitter isn’t the first startup to have suffered scaling issues: the auction site had significant problems keeping the servers humming in its early days. Today eBay is giving users a small reminder of that era: eBay’s search engine is down, meaning goods cannot be fou (Read More)