The Future of Streams: Twitter Looms As Biggest Obstacle

One of the five reasons why Web publishing is changing is the emergence of streams of information. In other words, a constant flow of information ordered chronologically and (ideally) topically too. In the near future, the theory goes, it won't matter where you enter content - a blog platform, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etcetera - because all of it will be accessible to other people as a stream.

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Avril Lavigne's 350k ring

Avril Lavigne's engagement ring is worth a reported $350,000. The 'Complicated' singer recently got engaged to Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger and he has given her with a very expensive rock. Jewelry expert Michael O'Connor added of the ring: ''A pear shape diamond set in platinum is a nod to vintage glamour and individuality - perfect for a rocker like Avril.

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Facebook for iOS goes native, waves goodbye to HTML 5

Facebook today announced the culmination of more than six months of work, a native version of the Facebook app for iOS that's twice as fast. "Up until now we've looked at scale," iOS Product Manager Mick Johnson says, "but we've become aware that while we have a great mobile website, embedding HTML 5 inside an app isn't what people expect."

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How YC S12 Companies Make Money

Following on from Y Combinator's Demo Day yesterday I ran an analysis on the companies that presented looking at how they made money.

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Best Battery Life: 10 Laptops That Last 7+ Hours

What good is a notebook that dies two hours after it's unplugged from the wall? Not much. We've created a list of the clamshells that ran the distance on the LAPTOP Battery Test (continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi). Each machine lasts (at least) to the 7-hour marker, but some systems use larger, sold-separately batteries to stay active up to 20 hours.

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