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style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <div class="inner"> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/editor/2010/10/14/the-news-of-the-worlds-paywall-and-why-for-rupert-murdoch-the-internet-is-so-over/" target="allthingsd_voices">The News of the World's Paywall and Why, For Rupert Murdoch, The Internet is So Over</a></h4> <div class="entry"> The Times' all-or-nothing paywall was a shock to the system – but the News of the World’s paywall move today was even more extreme. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div meebo:url="http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/twitter-8217s-patent-strategy-don-8217t-bother/6091" meebo:title="Twitter's Patent Strategy: Don't Bother" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/erik_sherman.jpg"> <div class="header" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/erik_sherman.jpg" width="60" height="60" class="guest-thumb" alt="Erik Sherman"/> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/twitter-8217s-patent-strategy-don-8217t-bother/6091" rel="nofollow" target="allthingsd_voices"><span>Erik Sherman</span><span class="guest-title">Writer, BNET</span></a></h3> <div style="clear: left;"></div> </div> <div class="middle" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <div class="inner"> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/twitter-8217s-patent-strategy-don-8217t-bother/6091" target="allthingsd_voices">Twitter's Patent Strategy: Don't Bother</a></h4> <div class="entry"> Twitter co-founder Evan Williams predicted yesterday that the social media company will hit a billion users in time. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div meebo:url="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20019663-261.html?tag=mncol;1n" meebo:title="Twitter Lowers Boom on New Celeb-Tracking Site" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2008/04/sandoval.jpg"> <div class="header" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2008/04/sandoval.jpg" width="60" height="60" class="guest-thumb" alt="Greg Sandoval"/> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20019663-261.html?tag=mncol;1n" rel="nofollow" target="allthingsd_voices"><span>Greg Sandoval</span><span class="guest-title">Reporter, CNET</span></a></h3> <div style="clear: left;"></div> </div> <div class="middle" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <div class="inner"> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20019663-261.html?tag=mncol;1n" target="allthingsd_voices">Twitter Lowers Boom on New Celeb-Tracking Site</a></h4> <div class="entry"> A Web site called JustSpotted.com began ballyhooing an upcoming service today that would publish the real-time whereabouts of celebrities and crowed about its cozy relationship with Twitter. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div meebo:url="http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/26524/" meebo:title="Improving Phones through Surveillance" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-male.png"> <div class="header" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-male.png" width="60" height="60" class="guest-thumb" alt="Tom Simonite"/> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/26524/" rel="nofollow" target="allthingsd_voices"><span>Tom Simonite</span><span class="guest-title">Tech Editor, Technology Review</span></a></h3> <div style="clear: left;"></div> </div> <div class="middle" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <div class="inner"> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/26524/" target="allthingsd_voices">Improving Phones through Surveillance</a></h4> <div class="entry"> A cell-phone application that logs everything the phone's user does--from sending e-mail to playing games--may not sound so desirable. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div meebo:url="http://gigaom.com/2010/10/12/can-digg-apologize-its-way-back-to-popularity/" meebo:title="Can Digg Apologize Its Way Back to Popularity?" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2008/05/ingram.jpg"> <div class="header" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2008/05/ingram.jpg" width="60" height="60" class="guest-thumb" alt="Mathew Ingram"/> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://gigaom.com/2010/10/12/can-digg-apologize-its-way-back-to-popularity/" rel="nofollow" target="allthingsd_voices"><span>Mathew Ingram</span><span class="guest-title">Senior Writer, GigaOm</span></a></h3> <div style="clear: left;"></div> </div> <div class="middle" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <div class="inner"> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://gigaom.com/2010/10/12/can-digg-apologize-its-way-back-to-popularity/" target="allthingsd_voices">Can Digg Apologize Its Way Back to Popularity?</a></h4> <div class="entry"> It’s hard not to feel sorry for new Digg CEO Matt Williams. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div meebo:url="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/10/on-facebook-social-influences-are-all-or-nothing.ars" meebo:title="Good For Something: Tracking Social Influence Through Farmville" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2008/06/timmer.jpg"> <div class="header" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2008/06/timmer.jpg" width="60" height="60" class="guest-thumb" alt="John Timmer"/> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/10/on-facebook-social-influences-are-all-or-nothing.ars" rel="nofollow" target="allthingsd_voices"><span>John Timmer</span><span class="guest-title">Science Editor, Ars Technica</span></a></h3> <div style="clear: left;"></div> </div> <div class="middle" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <div class="inner"> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/10/on-facebook-social-influences-are-all-or-nothing.ars" target="allthingsd_voices">Good For Something: Tracking Social Influence Through Farmville</a></h4> <div class="entry"> Everything from ideas to communicable diseases spread through social networks, so understanding the processes that enable and influence this spread has immense practical value, even if the research involves... Facebook apps like Farmville. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 0px 10px 8px 10px; margin-bottom: 9px; background: #E8E8E8;"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">More Voices Inside &raquo;</a> </div> <div class="bottom"> <h3>About Voices</h3> <p>This is a section of the <strong>All Things Digital</strong> Web site featuring posts from around the Web, from other Dow Jones properties and also original pieces we solicit. The section is now explicitly labeled that it comes &ldquo;from other Web sites.&rdquo;</p> <p>Regarding third-party posts: We are trying to point readers of this site to other posts from around the Web that we admire and are trying to do so in the quickest manner possible.</p> <p>That is why we have made even more changes to Voices to ensure we do this in the most transparent and timely way. While we don't expect that everyone will agree with our policies, we have made changes that reflect our intent in pointing to content outside our site.</p> <p>So here is exactly what we do.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://allthingsd.com/about/voices/">Read More &raquo;</a> </p> </div> </div> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://allthingsd.com/subscribe/#widgets" title="Get All Things Digital Widgets for My Yahoo! and iGoogle"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://allthingsd.com/files/2008/12/allthingsd-widget-button-200.png" class="centered" style="margin: 0; padding: none;" alt="All Things Digital Widgets"/></a> </div><!--/left--> <div id="content-main"> <div id="content-left" class="posts"> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/youtube-leanback-freshens-up-for-google-tvs-debut/" meebo:title="YouTube Leanback Freshens Up For Google TV’s Debut" meebo:thumbnail="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/LeanbackScreenshot-275x154.png"> <h4 class="dateheader">Friday, October 15, 2010</h4> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/peter-different-view.jpg" alt="MediaMemo" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/youtube-leanback-freshens-up-for-google-tvs-debut/" rel="bookmark">YouTube Leanback Freshens Up For Google TV&#8217;s Debut</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Peter Kafka in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/">MediaMemo</a><span> at 6:00 pm PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/LeanbackScreenshot.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-24672" title="LeanbackScreenshot" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/LeanbackScreenshot-275x154.png" alt="" width="200" height="112"/></a>One of the things that Google thinks you&#8217;ll do with Google TV is watch a lot of Google video, via YouTube. That&#8217;s why the search giant introduced a &#8220;Leanback&#8221; version of the site, designed for couch-bound surfers, over the summer. And that&#8217;s why Google has freshened up Leanback for this weekend: Saturday is the first chance consumers will have to get their hands on Google TV for themselves. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/youtube-leanback-freshens-up-for-google-tvs-debut/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/youtube-leanback-freshens-up-for-google-tvs-debut/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">2 Comments</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/rim-tries-harder-on-apps/" meebo:title="RIM Tries Harder on Apps" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-male.png"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-male.png" alt="Voices" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/rim-tries-harder-on-apps/" rel="bookmark">RIM Tries Harder on Apps</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Phred Dvorak | Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">Voices</a><span> at 3:52 pm PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p>Research in Motion Ltd. is making its biggest push yet to woo developers, in an attempt to attract more applications—and the consumers who love them&#8211;to their BlackBerry smartphones. RIM is launching a slew of new services and development tools in coming weeks that promise to make it much easier and more profitable to write software for the BlackBerry. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/rim-tries-harder-on-apps/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/chile-mine-rescue-playset/" meebo:title="Chile Mine Rescue Playset." meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/1455-273x300.jpg"> <div class="home-post-title-plain"> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/chile-mine-rescue-playset/" rel="bookmark">Chile Mine Rescue Playset.</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Nitrozac and Snaggy in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">Voices</a><span> at 3:38 pm PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/1455.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/1455.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail"/></a> Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/">Geek Culture</a>, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/chile-mine-rescue-playset/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/chile-mine-rescue-playset/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">1 Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/ad-networks-pair-up-specific-media-buys-bbe/" meebo:title="Ad Networks Pair Up: Specific Media Buys BBE" meebo:thumbnail="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/pair.jpg"> <div class="home-post-title-plain"> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/ad-networks-pair-up-specific-media-buys-bbe/" rel="bookmark">Ad Networks Pair Up: Specific Media Buys BBE</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Peter Kafka in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/">MediaMemo</a><span> at 3:04 pm PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/pair.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-24665" title="pair" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/pair.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="191"/></a>We&#8217;ll see more of this over time, as the overstuffed ad network industry consolidates, and this one makes some sense on paper: BBE specializes in video ads, and Specific doesn&#8217;t have any video business at all. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/ad-networks-pair-up-specific-media-buys-bbe/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/ad-networks-pair-up-specific-media-buys-bbe/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101015/qotd-yeah-just-like-moby-dick-was-a-celebration-of-the-whaling-industry/" meebo:title="QOTD: Yeah, Just Like “Moby Dick” Was a Celebration of the Whaling Industry" meebo:thumbnail="http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/john-different-view.jpg"> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101015/qotd-yeah-just-like-moby-dick-was-a-celebration-of-the-whaling-industry/" class="shorty"><strong>QOTD: Yeah, Just Like &#8220;Moby Dick&#8221; Was a Celebration of the Whaling Industry</strong></a> <img src="/web/20101016073354im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/d-mini.png" class="shorty" alt="DD Shorty"/></p> <blockquote><p>&#8220;The true takeaway for me was that entrepreneurship and creativity, however complicated, difficult or tortured to execute, are perhaps the most important drivers of business today and the growth of our economy.&#8221;</p> <p>&#8211; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://www.cnbc.com/id/39675388">Eduardo Saveri</a>, Facebook&#8217;s estranged co-founder, says he found inspiration in watching &#8220;The Social Network&#8221; (in which he is sympathetically portrayed as getting shafted by Mark Zuckerberg).</p></blockquote> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101015/qotd-yeah-just-like-moby-dick-was-a-celebration-of-the-whaling-industry/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/ivp-woos-hot-web-companies-before-they-grow-old/" meebo:title="IVP Woos Hot Web Companies Before They Grow Old" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-male.png"> <div class="home-post-title-plain"> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/ivp-woos-hot-web-companies-before-they-grow-old/" rel="bookmark">IVP Woos Hot Web Companies Before They Grow Old</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Russell Garland | Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">Voices</a><span> at 1:56 pm PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p>If you think early-stage investing is the only place to be in venture capital, you haven’t been paying attention to Institutional Venture Partners. Although it’s a senior citizen in VC with 13 funds to its name, the late-stage investor is behind two of the Web’s hottest companies, Twitter Inc. and Zynga Game Network Inc. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/ivp-woos-hot-web-companies-before-they-grow-old/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post newsbyte" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/instyle-pairs-with-groupon-on-beauty-bargains/" meebo:title="InStyle Pairs With Groupon on Beauty Bargains" meebo:thumbnail="http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/icon_newsbyte.png"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/"><img src="/web/20101016073354im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/icon_newsbyte.png" alt="News Byte" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/instyle-pairs-with-groupon-on-beauty-bargains/" rel="bookmark">InStyle Pairs With Groupon on Beauty Bargains</a></h4> <p>In its latest alliance with a major media property, deal-a-day service <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://www.instyle.com/instyle/package/general/touts/0,,20432394,00.html">Groupon is partnering with Time Inc.&#8217;s InStyle fashion franchise</a> on a three-day promotion offering half-price or better deals at editor-selected salons in six U.S. cities (brow tweezing in Boston, fake tans in L.A., etc.). Groupon has already run promotions with McClatchy in many of the newspaper chain&#8217;s local markets, and it announced <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/media-general-and-groupon-announce-partnership-for-locally-branded-deals-104703129.html">a similar deal with Media General</a> this week.</p> <p class="byline" style="line-height:1em;margin-bottom:0;">Posted by John Murrell <span> at 12:13 pm PT</span></p> </div> <div class="postmeta" style="border-top:none;padding-top:0;"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/instyle-pairs-with-groupon-on-beauty-bargains/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/sococo-offers-a-virtual-view-for-office-workers/" meebo:title="Sococo Offers A Virtual View for Office Workers" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/01/clark.jpg"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/01/clark.jpg" alt="Voices" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/sococo-offers-a-virtual-view-for-office-workers/" rel="bookmark">Sococo Offers A Virtual View for Office Workers</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Don Clark | Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">Voices</a><span> at 11:21 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p>Technology is helpful at work. But sometimes the best thing is to just stand up and peer over your cubicle to see who’s at their desk, who’s on the phone and who’s in a meeting. Sococo tries to simulate that experience–even for people who aren’t in the same office. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/sococo-offers-a-virtual-view-for-office-workers/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/e-book-sales-booming-and-still-small/" meebo:title="E-Book Sales Booming, Now 9 Percent of Total Sales (And Still Small)" meebo:thumbnail="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/ebook-sales-2007-2010-275x118.png"> <div class="home-post-title-plain"> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/e-book-sales-booming-and-still-small/" rel="bookmark">E-Book Sales Booming, Now 9 Percent of Total Sales (And Still Small)</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Peter Kafka in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/">MediaMemo</a><span> at 10:27 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2009/09/rocket.jpg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2009/09/rocket-250x187.jpg" alt="" title="rocket" width="200" height="149" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-11414"/></a>Data point of the day: E-book sales are up 193 percent so far this year, and now comprise nine percent of all books sold. Context: That&#8217;s the equivalent of two mediocre Hollywood action movies. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/e-book-sales-booming-and-still-small/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/e-book-sales-booming-and-still-small/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">5 Comments</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post newsbyte" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/gartner-here-comes-the-tablet-tsunami/" meebo:title="Gartner: Here Comes the Tablet Tsunami" meebo:thumbnail="http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/icon_newsbyte.png"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/"><img src="/web/20101016073354im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/icon_newsbyte.png" alt="News Byte" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/gartner-here-comes-the-tablet-tsunami/" rel="bookmark">Gartner: Here Comes the Tablet Tsunami</a></h4> <p>With the iPad, Apple once again redefined a product category, and the result is one of Steve Jobs&#8217;s favorite words: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8L39UwOS-Y">Boom</a>! According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1452614">a forecast released by Gartner today</a>, worldwide sales of media tablets, led by the iPad, will reach 19.5 million units this year, and then jump 181 percent next year as more entries based on Google&#8217;s Android and other systems flood the market. By 2014, Gartner sees sales topping 208 million units. Some of those sales, however, will come at the expense of other portable computing and media devices, the report said.</p> <p class="byline" style="line-height:1em;margin-bottom:0;">Posted by John Murrell <span> at 10:05 am PT</span></p> </div> <div class="postmeta" style="border-top:none;padding-top:0;"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/gartner-here-comes-the-tablet-tsunami/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">1 Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/index-union-square-like-soundclouds-web-based-tune/" meebo:title="Index, Union Square Like SoundCloud’s Web-Based Tune" meebo:thumbnail="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/soundcloud_logo-275x157.jpg"> <div class="home-post-title-plain"> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/index-union-square-like-soundclouds-web-based-tune/" rel="bookmark">Index, Union Square Like SoundCloud&#8217;s Web-Based Tune</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Peter Kafka in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/">MediaMemo</a><span> at 9:25 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/soundcloud_logo.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-24615" title="soundcloud_logo" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/soundcloud_logo-275x157.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="114"/></a>Here&#8217;s another bet on Web-based music: SoundCloud, a start-up that makes it easy to share streaming music, is about to land a funding round from high-profile investors. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/index-union-square-like-soundclouds-web-based-tune/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/index-union-square-like-soundclouds-web-based-tune/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">2 Comments</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/senkaku-diaoyu-and-google-maps/" meebo:title="Senkaku, Diaoyu and Google Maps" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-female.png"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-female.png" alt="Voices" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/senkaku-diaoyu-and-google-maps/" rel="bookmark">Senkaku, Diaoyu and Google Maps</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Yoree Koh | Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">Voices</a><span> at 8:15 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p>Few would imagine Japan and China are yet ready to link arms and–-ahem–-sail off into the sunset following the renewed territorial dispute over an island chain sparked by a boat collision last month. But pointed remarks like, say, demanding one of the controversial names be wiped off the face of Google Maps, was unexpected in light of recent overtures from both countries that suggested relations were on the mend. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/senkaku-diaoyu-and-google-maps/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post newsbyte" meebo:url="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/more-money-for-startups-first-round-capital-gets-a-second-fund/" meebo:title="More Money for Start-Ups: First Round Capital Gets a Second Fund" meebo:thumbnail="http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/peter-different-view.jpg"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/"><img src="/web/20101016073354im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/icon_newsbyte.png" alt="News Byte" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/more-money-for-startups-first-round-capital-gets-a-second-fund/" rel="bookmark">More Money for Start-Ups: First Round Capital Gets a Second Fund</a></h4> <p>First Round Capital, the VC firm that&#8217;s made a name for itself by investing in very early stage start-ups, has more money to play with. The Philadelphia-based outfit has a new $126.4 million fund&#8211;just $1.4 million bigger than its first fund, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://www.pehub.com/85637/josh-kopelmans-first-round-capital-quickly-reloads-with-1264m/">PE Hub notes</a>. First Round has been on a roll this year, including a very successful bet on ad tech start-up Invite Media, which raised less than $5 million and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100609/googles-final-price-tag-for-invite-media-81-million/">was sold to Google for $81 million</a>.</p> <p class="byline" style="line-height:1em;margin-bottom:0;">Posted by Peter Kafka <span> at 6:20 am PT</span></p> </div> <div class="postmeta" style="border-top:none;padding-top:0;"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/more-money-for-startups-first-round-capital-gets-a-second-fund/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/nbc-u-perks-up-a-bit-for-its-new-owners/" meebo:title="NBC U Perks Up a Bit for Its New Owners" meebo:thumbnail="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/10/NBC-U-Q3-highlights-275x179.png"> <div class="home-post-title-plain"> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/nbc-u-perks-up-a-bit-for-its-new-owners/" rel="bookmark">NBC U Perks Up a Bit for Its New Owners</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Peter Kafka in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/">MediaMemo</a><span> at 5:56 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/zucker.jpg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2009/07/zucker-199x300.jpg" alt="" title="zucker" width="132" height="200" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-9401"/></a>This should make the folks in Philadelphia feel a bit better about their purchase-to-be: GE says that its NBC Universal unit, soon to become a Comcast property, had a &#8220;pretty solid&#8221; third quarter. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/nbc-u-perks-up-a-bit-for-its-new-owners/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/nbc-u-perks-up-a-bit-for-its-new-owners/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/september-u-s-video-games-sales-down-eight-percent-npd-reports/" meebo:title="September U.S. Video Game Sales Down Eight Percent, NPD Reports" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2007/11/unknown.thumbnail.jpeg"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2007/11/unknown.thumbnail.jpeg" alt="Voices" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/september-u-s-video-games-sales-down-eight-percent-npd-reports/" rel="bookmark">September U.S. Video Game Sales Down Eight Percent, NPD Reports</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Eric Savitz | Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">Voices</a><span> at 5:00 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p>The trouble continues for the old school video game sector. In September, retail sales of new video game gear was down eight percent from a year ago to $1.18 billion, according to market research firm NPD Group. Hardware sales were down 19 percent and software sales were down six percent, although accessory sales were up 13 percent. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/september-u-s-video-games-sales-down-eight-percent-npd-reports/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <h4 class="dateheader">Earlier Posts</h4> <ul class="home-earlier-posts"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101015/three-cool-ipad-ads/" rel="bookmark">Three Cool iPad Ads</a> on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/">MediaMemo</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101015/qotd-sculley-on-steve-jobs-and-success-by-design/" rel="bookmark">QOTD: Sculley on Steve Jobs and Success by Design</a> on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/">Digital Daily</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101015/fcc-makes-it-slightly-easier-to-pull-plug-on-cable-box-rentals/" rel="bookmark">FCC Makes It Slightly Easier to Pull Plug on Cable Box Rentals</a> on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">Voices</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101014/high-profile-hires-for-palm-nokias-ari-jaaksi-and-samsungs-victoria-coleman/" rel="bookmark">Exclusive: High-Profile Hires for Palm&#8211;Nokia&#8217;s Ari Jaaksi and Samsung&#8217;s Victoria Coleman</a> on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/">Digital Daily</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101014/google-q3-beats-earnings-estimates/" rel="bookmark">Google&#8217;s Victory Dance: Check Out Our Go-Go Numbers!</a> on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/">MediaMemo</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101016073354/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101014/whats-bringing-yahoo-down/" rel="bookmark">Yahoo Up, But What Brought It Down? 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