Business — Long imagined to be a potentially significant threat to PayPal, the Facebook Credits payment platform will actually work with its once theoretical rival, according to a post on Facebook’s blog announcing a strategic partnership between the two companies. Under the deal, PayPal will become a payment option for purchasing Facebook Credits, which are still in use only sparingly in certain apps and games.
PayPal and Facebook Credits Will Play Nice After All
February 20th, 2010 
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Steve Jobs to Collaborate on Authorized Biography [RUMOR]
February 20th, 2010 admin 
Business — Apple hasn’t officially commented yet, but according to The New York Times, Steve Jobs may finally cooperate on an authorized biography. Other biographers have attempted to tell Mr. Jobs’s life story without his express involvement or even consent, prompting him to respond by yanking books by the same publishers from Apple stores.
Google Buzz Makes Popular Users Less Overwhelming
February 20th, 2010 admin 
Social Media — The Google Buzz team made changes today that prevent popular postings from overwhelming your inbox – that’s good news if you follow popular feeds like the Mashable Google Buzz account. The problem: since Google Buzz pushes items into your inbox whenever new comments are left after yours, popular postings can become noisy.
Netflix Goes Down
February 20th, 2010 admin 
Entertainment — Hopefully your Friday night plans didn’t consist of streaming a movie via Netflix, because the service appears to be suffering a widespread outage. Twitter users have been buzzing about the downtime for the past 30 minutes or so (as of 9:10 ET), and Netflix’s entire website is offline.
February 20th, 2010 admin 
Social Media — Hollrr is Foursquare for product discovery. It turns finding great new stuff into a game. Hollrr is a service that plugs into Facebook and Twitter and lets you share products and services that you love with your friends. Hollrr also recently implemented user badges — a la Foursquare — which are designed to turn sharing the stuff that you love into an interactive game.
Couple Says “iDo” at Apple Store Wedding [VIDEO]
February 20th, 2010 admin 
Web Video — Talk about a destination wedding — this Valentine’s Day, an Apple-obsessed couple tied the knot at New York’s Fifth Avenue Apple Store in a ceremony that referenced Steve Jobs, boasted a first generation iPod as a ring bearer and was officiated by a priest decked out like Jobs himself.
William Shatner to Star in “Sh*t My Dad Says” TV Pilot
February 20th, 2010 admin 
Entertainment — Justin Halpern’s immensely popular Twitter account “Sh*t My Dad Says” is in the process of being turned into a sitcom, and there’s a powerhouse of industry veterans attached to the project. Today we can add William Shatner to the list, as he’s primed to star as the dad-that-speaks-his-mind in the pilot episode.
FarmVille Wins Social Networking Game of the Year Award
February 20th, 2010 admin 
Entertainment — The 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards ceremony was held last night as part of the video game industry’s Dice Summit conference in Las Vegas, NV. Games.com reports that the top honor in the “Social Networking Game of the Year” category went to Zynga’s massively popular Facebook game FarmVille.
Facebook and Ustream Premiere New MTV Dance Flick Tonight [VIDEO]
February 20th, 2010 admin 
Web Video — It’s Friday night, so before you shamble out to make copious mistakes at the clubs, you can brush up on your dance skills by catching the premiere of the new MTV flick, Turn the Beat Around, via Facebook and Ustream. More and more, social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are becoming entertainment portals for live and exclusive content.
Tiger Woods Press Conference Draws 683,000 Views on Ustream
February 20th, 2010 admin 
Web Video News — The web took a collective 15-minute pause this morning as Tiger Woods made his first public statement since becoming engulfed in scandal back in November. Ustream is the first in with numbers from the event, as it tells us that its live stream drew 683,000 views.
Hulu Could be Coming to the iPad… For a Price [RUMOR]
February 20th, 2010 admin 
Apple iPad – When the iPad was announced a few weeks ago, the lack of support for Adobe Flash prompted outcries from would-be users — largely because of what impact that would have on streaming video services. Today, AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka is reporting that Hulu for the iPad is indeed likely, but you might have to pay for it.
CBS Might Sell iTunes TV Shows for $0.99
February 20th, 2010 admin 
Entertainment — It’s been widely reported that Apple is lobbying television networks to reduce the cost of TV episodes from $1.99 to $0.99, and it appears as if it has one big network ready to make a deal: CBS. In a company earnings call, CBS CEO Les Moonves is quoted as saying, “There are certain shows that will be sold on Apple for 99 cents.”
