The Economy of Attention

LG Japan’s inaugural cell-phone design competition brought new concepts and ideas about how we communicate.read more | digg story

Apple Inc.’s iPhone outsold rival Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry in the latest quarter, according to a technology analysis firm, lending weight to a recent boast by Steve Jobs.read more | digg story

Amazon Web Services’ platform is increasingly gaining popularity beyond Web 2.0 and video companies. The AWS Start-Up Challenge includes finalists who are a diverse group of companies.read more | digg story

Aussies who thought they could opt out of the government’s new Cyber-Safety filtering plan have found themselves taken by surprise. They will be able to opt out of the “additional material” blacklist, but there’s apparently no way to opt out of the “illegal content” filtering.read more | digg story

At the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo in Santa Clara today, Dave Beckett (principal software architect at Yahoo!) and Tom Hughes-Croucher (technical evangelist, Yahoo! Developer Network), answered questions about the recent consumer release of Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) and discussed the company’s future plans to open up almost everything. read more | digg story

While some universities restrict the use of BitTorrent clients, others embrace the popular flilesharing protocol and use it to spread knowledge. Stanford University
’s School is one of the few to realize that BitTorrent does not equal piracy.read more | digg story

After Long time of Announcement Finally mozilla released It’s mobile Version of browser, which will be very helpful for all who are in love with tabbed browsing, and prt from all the features that mozilla is offering is mouth watering.
I’m Stil waiting when i will have the version available which is compatible with my mobile.read [...]

A group of media industry companies said it is planning to build a digital world where video devices and content websites play together in perfect harmony, and consumers can safely store their digital content. The new digital framework would turn Apple Inc’s “closed” iTunes model on its head.read more | digg story

Four ways corporations are using Twitter to build community, provide service, and boost their public profiles.read more | digg story

Hackers armed with laptop computers, camping tents and dreams of software glory invaded Yahoo during the weekend as the internet pioneer opened its strategy and its doors to outside developers.
The “hackathon” was as much a symbol of Yahoo rising from the ashes of a burned-out courtship with technology colossus Microsoft.read more | digg story