5 O’Clock Roundup:
5 O’Clock Roundup:
(Tonight’s roundup is foreshortened so we can go meet with attendees at the NewTeeVee conference.)
Twitter finally added a built-in retweet button today – Co-founder Evan Williams posted a long blog entry explaining the company’s thinking. In short, they’ve built an automated retweeter that avoids the truncated text, confusing avatar/text mismatches, and river of redundant retweets in the ad-hoc manual retweeting ecosystem that users had concocted. They’ve used internal metadata and an API, plus I’m sure they reviewed every whiny complaint a lot of users might have. Does it work for you? Let us kn0w in comments.
Wall Street gossip network lights up in response to H-P’s $2.7B acquisition of 3Com – Volume in 3Com’s November call options were 17 times the four-week average, according to Bloomberg News. OptionMonster writer Jon Najarian pointed out that November call options are expected to provide a 3.5x return in one day.
Facebook iPhone programmer quits, blames Apple — “My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies,” developer Joe Hewitt wrote of his decision to abandon his role and move onto another Facebook project.
