The Technology/PDA newsbucket: Wired iPad grumbles, social network infographics and more

Wired magazine app on the iPad. Photo by cvander on Flickr. Some rights reserved A quick burst of 16 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn't They Just Use HTML 5? >> Interfacelab Why choose the Wired iPad app over the physical magazine? "I'm starting to believe that the physical magazine's 'interface' is vastly superior to its iPad cousin. 10 Outstanding Social Media Infographics >> @NowSourcing.Com Pure visual fun. Google Reader ditches support for past browsers >> CNET News "Pop quiz: What company introduced a browser in September 2009 that Google now considers "antiquated"? Answer: Google itself. " Reading the iPad >> BBC - dot.Rory The BBC's technology correspondent on the iPad's ebook capability: "...when it comes to adults, is the iPad really meant for books? I've been trying to read one on the device and I'm still torn about its attractions. It is great for reading in bed, especially if you want to turn off the light so as not to disturb your partner - but in bright sunshine, the reflective screen becomes almost unreadable. "And there is another great downside to books bought in Apple's iBook store. They are locked to the device, so you only own the book on the iPad and can't read it elsewhere. For me, and I expect plenty of others, passing books on to family and friends is part of the attraction." Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple WWDC >> Microsoft on Twitter Nor is he doing Dancing with the Stars. Disappointing. Though not even close to surprising. Google Confirms "Mayday" Update Impacts Long Tail Traffic > Searchengineland When Google's heads twitch a little, the long tail whiplashes; it made between 350 and 550 changes to its organic search algorithms in 2009. That's more than 1 every working day. Top 1000 sites >> DoubleClick Ad Planner Where Google is Number 0 - the ur-site. Notice number 9: ever heard of it? The next Apple TV revealed: cloud storage and iPhone OS on tap... and a $99 price tag >> Engadget Well, perhaps. Cloud storage? More likely an index to the point where you were last watching, and to any programs you've chosen to watch. Does it compare with Google TV though? Client: "On that map of Maryland graphic..' >> Client From Hell Ah, the clients from hell. They're everywhere. Lenovo kills Skylight OS in favor of Android, U1 Hybrid and Skylight smartbook being shelved >> Engadget More upheaval in the tablet sector. Now there's WebOS, Android and of course Windows 7. Who's making stuff with Windows 7 now Dell and HP have dropped it? Windsor and Maidenhead 'goes further on transparency' >> ConservativeHome We don't often link to ConservativeHome, but this is interesting: it says it's got an online tool to turn its raw data about energy consumption into "meaningful headings". That's nice - but where's the raw data, in a machine-readable form? The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead >> Main site Now find the "open data" that we're hearing about. And if you can find it in any format other than PDF... we'd like to know. How Open Data Applications are Improving Government >> Mashable The American experience, soon - yes? - to be mirrored by lots of British examples too. Though we can hope for better spelling - "help fight appathy"? Good news for people everywhere! (If they want support on Twitter, anyway) >> Twitter blog It's really not that exciting, but worth noting if you often need Twitter support. No? How to generate the open data version of your local authority's website >> Tony Hirst It's a Google search - and not a very complicated one either. News apps on the iPad - my first impressions >> Martin Belam The Guardian's information architect gets to grips with ways to read the news on some new gewgaw. You can follow Guardian Technology's linkbucket on delicious