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Yes @daropedia - we'll be talking iton TWiG today - verrry interesting. I hope no one got fired for posting it.

Over the past year, about 70% of Evernote’s new users came from mobile app stores, mostly iOS and Android. This led us to the understandable conclusion that mobile was the crucial thing that made a platform attractive to independent developers. Last week made us realize that the reality is a little bit more nuanced. It isn’t mobile that’s overwhelmingly important, it’s the app store. Until a week ago, all the good app stores just happened to be on mobile devices, but someone with a shiny new Macbook is just as eager to get the best apps as someone with a shiny new iPhone.

We are releasing a web-based subscription service with Bondi Digital Publishing that will give users access to every issue of Playboy both past and present. The service will be iPad compatible and will utilize iPad functions.

All-Time Top Paid iPad Apps SoundHound StickWars FlightTrack Backbreaker Football Calorie Tracker BlocksClassic iFart Mobile GoodReader for iPad Cro-Mag Rally Ambiance

it’s only too much information if you don’t have the skills and tools to filter it. That filter is more essential today than ever before. Over the past year, I’ve come to believe it represents one of the essential skills for current and future generations of engaged, informed citizens — and for building communities where meaningful debate and engagement can emerge.

In 2010, while the FCC was debating net neutrality rules, ISPs like Time Warner Cable settled on a "they're gatekeepers, too!" strategy. "Google has led the charge to adopt regulation to ensure Internet openness, yet it has the ability and incentive to engage in a range of decidedly non-neutral conduct due to its control over so many aspects of the Internet experience," said one representative filing. "Google’s core search application relies on a pay-for-priority scheme that is squarely at odds with its proposed neutrality requirements for broadband Internet access service providers."

Swiss whistle-blower and former banker Rudolf Elmer has given WikiLeaks information about bank accounts of more than 2,000 prominent individuals, potentially exposing tax evasion, the BBC reports.

If you watch Watson's performance, it appears to be at least as good as the best Jeopardy! players at understanding the nature of the question (or I should say the answer, since Jeopardy! presents the answer and asks for the question, which I always thought was a little tedious). Watson is able to then combine this ability to understand the level of language in a Jeopardy! query with a computer's innate ability to accurately master a vast corpus of knowledge. I've always felt that once a computer masters a human's level of pattern recognition and language understanding, it would inherently be far superior to a human because of this combination.

U.S. marketers will spend $3.08 billion to advertise on social networking sites this year, according to new estimates from eMarketer. That’s a 55% increase over the $1.99 billion U.S. advertisers reportedly spent on social networking sites in 2010, and nearly 11% of what they are expected to spend on all online advertising in the U.S. in 2011, eMarketer says.

Today I signed the lease for the new TWiT studio - 9400 sq ft in Petaluma. Live by May Day. via @youtube

David Oneal and Notes From The Future TV (in 3D!) on Wealth TV. @ TWiT Cottage

I'm watching Californication (via @gomiso)

I was just awarded the "TV Newbie" badge on @gomiso