Twitter’s First Trending Topics Appears As Advertisement For Toy Story 3

Twitter‘s new ad platform has been a little slow to roll out. Promoted Tweets are already in the system, but those popular trending topics have only today been penetrated by ads.

On Twitter’s homepage, the right-hand column that houses the trending topics now includes an eleventh in the list: Toy Story 3, branded with a prominent yellow button. Clicking the link brings up a search for “Toy Story 3,” and the top result is always a Promoted Tweet from Disney/Pixar.

There’s not much more to it. TechCrunch notes that the ad is not location-specific, though that could (and probably will) be implemented in the future. It’s a nice idea that the purchased trending topic falls at the bottom of the list, below the organic trends, and that big honking yellow button makes sure nobody is confused about the nature of that topic.

Of course, we’re left to wonder why Disney/Pixar chose Toy Story 3 to be first. It’s freaking Toy Story 3–it was going to be a trending topic anyway, right?

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WordPress 3.0 Is Finally Available

This is one of the major releases, and as a consequence many new features were introduced. For example, the default theme has been changed, there are developer APIs now, the admin interface was updated and so on. You can watch the video below to get an idea of what is new.

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FaceBook Earned 800$ Million In 2009 Says A Report

Facebook’s revenue in 2009 was nearly $800 million, and the company turned a part of it into a solid net profit, according to Reuters.

The number is significantly higher than earlier estimates of $500 million revenue in 2009, and even the projected $710 million revenue in 2010. Facebook, as usual, declines to comment on any of these numbers, but we know that somewhere in 2009. Facebook became cash-flow positive.

“They are downplaying their performance. There’s no upside in getting people’s expectations high, it’s always better to go low,” said one of Reuters’ sources. It could be true: if Facebook is heading towards an IPO, it’s definitely better to be able to show big growth than to boast high numbers now, and end up unable to beat them after.

If these new estimates are true, this is great news for Facebook, which has been on the ugly side of a privacy-related scandal that ended up reaching the cover of Time Magazine and had Mark Zuckerberg, the site’s founder and CEO, apologizing for the company’s misdeeds. As long as the earnings and growth is strong – and according to the latest numbers from Compete, Facebook is still growing quite fast – Facebook will have time to tinker and experiment with privacy to find out how far it can go before causing a backlash.

Well the above report was obtained and gained by Mashable ,well if I tell you in simple and little words Facebook just made 800$ Million dollars last year and they are still growing quite quickly.In my personal opinion if Facebook gets that much huge traffic and if still they don’t earn that much well then that is something to think about isn’t it ?

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Nokia C7, Nokia X7, Nokia E7, Nokia N9 – Coming Soon?

Nokia built a house drawing showing their this year’s phone releases, and all is good, except for the few leaks and new models that haven’t been released yet!

Ofcourse, I’m talking about the Nokia C7, Nokia X7, Nokia E7 and Nokia N9 that you can see in the image above. We’ve seen the others, but what about these? Are they going to be released this year? Or slated for 2011?

For now, all we have is a leaked Nokia document revealing these handset models which we are sure to see sometime soon in the near future! And oh, one phone I did miss. The Nokia S series chimney! Huh?

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HTC Droid Incredible Root is Now Possible

hTC Droid Incredible rooted. Yes, the phone which we all thought won’t get easily rooted and was one of HTC’s finest smartphones was finally rooted today.

The procedure to root HTC Droid Incredible is not easy and is recommended only for power users, but yes, atleast you can root Droid Incredible now!

Before this goes nuts. Yes, we got two phone’s rooted. I will update here if we find a way to make it likely and/or with more details. But suffice to say, at the moment its not very repeatable. We are working on many methods still, but this will be useful in many ways.

How to Root Droid Incredible

For the entire procedure and how to root Droid Incredible, visit the official Unrevoked team website.

Now all you have to wait for is an unofficial Froyo leak for Droid Incredible ;)

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Nexus One FRF72 Software Update

software update has started rolling out! Google has just started pushing the software update OTA internally, and will be followed by a public release real soon. And no, it’s not Android 2.3 ;)

Not much is known about what new changes and features have been added in this FRF72 software update for Nexus One, but it looks nothing more than bug fix and improvement release.

The changelog that came with the update only mentioned about better Flash support for the browser, and some other browser improvements which will make it faster! FRF72 is of just 1.8MB in size.

Adobe released an update to Flash Player 10.1 for Android a couple of days ago, may be this Nexus One software update is to accommodate those new changes in Flash and provide better support to the Android browser.

Update: For all those wondering if I have faked this, do a search on Twitter or Google and you will find another Google employee tweeting about the Nexus One FRF72 update.

Update 2: This seems to be an internal update, meant just for Google employees as no public release has been seen. Or may be, they plan to release it after they have verified it works fine and causes no bugs/glitches.

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Nokia E73 Review

Nokia success is no secret and we all know what a successful phone that was from Nokia. Even the E71-upgraded version, the Nokia E72, is still beats all the other new Nokia phones available right now.

Nokia E73 Mode is coming to T-Mobile, which is a “warmed-over E71″ according to Engadget’s review. It is a reworked version of E72 with T-Mobile branding and adds support for 3G on T-Mobile’s AWS bands.

Engadget has done a detailed review of the Nokia E73 Mode which you can read here, or read our Nokia E72 brief review.

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