Readers have recently sent in a few screenshots of the new search results design that Google is testing. This design includes the person’s location — though it’s hard to tell if it’s including the location in filtering yet. The big difference is the left-hand column that helps filter search results.
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In a profile of T-Mobile USA, the Financial Times reports that “T-Mobile USA is hoping to start selling the [iPhone] later this year or next year.”
Does it mean that T-Mobile is definitely getting the phone this year or next? Obviously not. Every carrier probably ‘hopes’ to sell the iPhone.
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Peter Kafka of All Things D is gleefully tearing through the Viacom-YouTube papers, tweeting out the best things he finds. Here’s a rolling widget to keep track of what he finds:
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Palm’s third quarter was terrible, as anticipated. The company slashed its guidance a few weeks ago, and today confirmed that its Pre and Pixi smartphones are simply not selling very well.
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Apple’s iPad is off to a solid start: The company has fielded “hundreds of thousands” of pre-orders for the tablet, according to the WSJ.
More to come.
Don’t miss: 10 burning questions about Apple’s iPad →
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Serial entrepreneur Bill Gross knows a thing or two about startups, having founded about 75 of them.
Being passionate and believing in what you are working on are crucial to overcoming the many bumps on the road a startup you’re bound to hit, says Gross.
Watch more advice for entrepreneurs below, and don’t miss the full interview with Bill Gross >
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In a recent post for ReadWriteWeb, Tim Trefren, founder of Mixpanel analytics service, writes that focusing on pageviews is no longer an effective business strategy.
If your business sells a product online, there are other customer metrics that are vastly more valuable than mere number of visitors coming to your site.
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We’ve just started to look over the YouTube-Viacom lawsuit filings, but this jumped out at us before we dug in.
In a blog post, YouTube accuses Viacom of “continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube.” YouTube says Viacom used “no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies” to put Viacom clips on YouTube.
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For the last six years, Steve Jobs has wanted to tear down a mansion he owns in Woodside, California. Last week he gained approval to do it, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
This isn’t the first time Steve’s been given the go-ahead. He was granted approval in 2004, and last May from the local town council. Conservation groups have managed to delay the process each time, saying it’s a historical resource.
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Smart move: Thanks to a legal settlement finalized today, many of the privacy watchdogs watching Facebook will soon seek funding from Facebook.
Remember how, in 2007, Facebook got in a hot mess when it launched a product called Beacon, which, unless users opted-out of it, broadcasted Facebook users’ activity on third-party sites back to Facebook for all those users’ friends to see?
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Here’s a tongue-twister that reminds us that the people running Facebook are very, very clever: Thanks to a legal settlement finalized today, many of the privacy watchdogs watching Facebook will soon seek funding from Facebook.
Remember how, in 2007, Facebook got in a hot mess when it launched a product called Beacon, which, unless users opted-out of it, broadcasted Facebook users’ activity on third-party sites back to Facebook for all those users’ friends to see?
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The unsealed court documents in the YouTube-Viacom fight are now public.
Viacom has a page set up for all the information and documents here. YouTube has its own page explaining itself here.
Peter Kafka at All Things D has helpfully uploaded them to Doc Stoc. We’re looking them over now.
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Apple filed a patent application for a mobile social networking service called iGroups that sounds an awful lot like Hot Potato, Patently Apple reports.
Like Hot Potato, iGroups helps its users “stay in communication with each other as a group to share information or reactions to live events as they’re occurring.”
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Once again, CBS has a fun “boss button” for its NCAA March Madness on Demand player.
This year, it’s a PowerPoint slideshow with Dilbert cartoons and a goofy “March 2010 Work Flow Diagram” from Scott Adams. Last year, it was a clever ad for Comcast. (What, CBS couldn’t sell it this year?)
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