Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:Memo to Eric Schmidt: Being Social is Not a Widget — Google CEO Eric Schmidt made some comments last week about the company’s plans to get more social, and more than anything else they showed how little the web giant really understands what it is up against.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Facebook Is Not Working On A Phone Just Like Google Was Not Working On A Phone — In 2007, Google said it wasn’t working on a Google Phone. In 2009, Google said it wasn’t working on its own branded phone. In 2008, Microsoft said it wasn’t working on a Zune Phone.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Facebook’s Non-Denial Denial: “We Are Not Building A Phone” — Facebook has responded to today’s news about its mobile phone plans with a classic non-denial denial. — “The story, which originated in Techcrunch, is not accurate,” Facebook rep Jaime Schopflin said in a statement to Mashable.
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters — News aggregators have grown into all shapes and forms. Some are truly helping the producers of original content but others simply amount to mere electronic ransack. — My daily media routine starts on Techmeme.
Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:Facebook: We Are Not Building a Phone — Rumors surfaced earlier today that Facebook is building a mobile device based on Android OS. According to Facebook, however, the company is not, in fact, building a phone. — Spokesperson Jaime Schopflin revealed the following in a statement to Mashable:
Cade Metz / The Register:Google search index splits with MapReduce — Welds BigTable to file system ‘Colossus’ — Exclusive Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google’s worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform …
Ryan Tate / Gawker:The Secret Dealer for Farmville Addicts — The company behind Mafia Wars and Farmville doesn’t like to talk about the sad addicts who fuel its profits. But it does quietly run a special store for them, where imaginary credits are bought with very real bank transfers.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:“YouTube Instant” Dude Can’t Go to Work for Chad Hurley, Because He’s Already Working For Mark Zuckerberg — There are lots of ways to become famous on the Internet. It took Feross Aboukhadijeh three hours of coding. — When he was done, he had built “YouTube Instant,” a great riff on...
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:Yahoo Revamps Mail Service — Makeover Comes as Service Faces Slide in Users Amid Competition From Rivals — Yahoo Inc. is redesigning its email service to help stem a user decline and counter offerings from longtime rivals Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. as well as social-networking services such as...
David Kaplan / paidContent:Facebook Introduces New Ad Impressions Counter — In its neverending quest to prove the value of ads on its site, Facebook has added a new social metric that it says will show the benefits of ads that include social context from people’s friends on Facebook.