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The (new) morning paper. Photo by smays on Flickr. Some rights reserved A quick burst of links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Hero Programmer Quest >> Kloonigames For hardcore C programmers only: find the bugs. Digital economy gets its Act together >> Guardian Media Monkey It's only taken 539 days to go from idea to Act. Including two hours of debate. iPhone OS 4.0: Apple launches Xbox Live-style Game Center >> Gamesblog The iPhone gets an online social gaming platform. Is there anyone Apple isn't coming after? Tech Entrepreneur Peter Gabriel Knows What You Want >> BusinessWeek The Filter has now signed US contracts including NBC: "In early April, NBC announced it was licensing The Filter's technology on its Web sites. So if you visit NBC's Saturday Night Live online and the site suggests you watch a clip from 30 Rock, you will have been touched by The Filter's hidden hand." iPhone OS 4 vs Android: Why Apple just lost the game >> The Next Web Brad McCarty imagines that open source and freedom can outweigh a lust for shiny shiny objects and endless marketing hype. 5 Must-Have iPad Music Apps >> MTV Buzzworthy Blog The big screen might mean that the iPad is some peoples' next piano. Live from Apple's iPhone OS 4 event! >> Engadget Doubtless reported using an iPad. No? Accuracy vs Completeness: OSM vs Meridian 2 >> Suprageography How does OpenStreetMap's detail compare with Ordnance Survey's new free roads detail? Intel to Ship Samples of Experimental 48-core Processor >> PCWorld Limited quantities of the 48-core processor will be sent primarily to academic institutions in the next quarter. "The chip may not become commercially available as it is part of a research project, but features from the processor could be implemented in future chips." Most Successful U.S. Broadband Over Powerline Network Shut Down >> DSL Reports Mains electricity cables have long been touted as a cheap way to deliver broadband to homes, but turning the idea into a workable business has proved harder than expected. Complicating Relationships in Media: Apple, NY Times Dealings Raise Questions >> Dan Gillmor Publications are on dangerous ground when they aim to profit from things they're reporting, like the iPad. "Jumping into an ecosystem like this violates fundamental journalistic principles, I believe. And the more popular the iPad gets the more potentially dangerous this could become to the information ecosystem," says journalist Dan Gillmor How Twitter's 1 API Gave Birth to 43 New APIs >> Programmable Web An ecosystem in action. April 2010 Apple Special Event >> Apple.com See if you can guess what clothes Steve Jobs wears to introduce iPhone OS 4 HuffPo Launches Separate Twitter Edition'; More Focus On Real-Time News >> PaidContent "The idea is to produce an entirely separate edition from The Huffington Post with the same kind of content we always have provided—but super-charged, if you will, for Twitter users," Lerer told paidContent. The man who took the iPad background photo >> ARTINFO.com It's Pyramid Lake, Nevada, in case you're passing by. IBM denies breaking open-source pledge >> ZDNet It turns out that IBM's support for open source only applies when it makes a profit for IBM. When open source threatens to reduce IBM's profits, it doesn't support it. Apple banning Flash applications from iPhone 4.0? That stinks >> Tim Anderson It looks as though Apple isn't just preventing people from offering apps it doesn't like, it will prevent them from developing them in ways it doesn't like. New SDK terms appear to ban the use of Flash-based development, and MonoTouch, which compiles C# and Microsoft.net apps for the iPhone. How the iPad Is Already Reshaping the Internet (Without Flash) >> Gizmodo "One of the more interesting effects of the iPhone was that it drove a ton of websites to format their content for the phone in at least of two ways, and often both: iPhone-optimized sites, with more finger-friendly navigational elements that look almost app-like, and actual iPhone apps. We're seeing a repeat with the iPad, though the adjustment appears to be less about the screen size than its lack of Flash support, and there's the fact a lot of sites will be ready on day one." Black Easter Monday At Denki Towers >> Denki Redundancies beckon at the games maker. "My advice? If you're an Independent Developer, and you're not selling games directly to customers yet, start worrying, because this industry is changing beyond all recognition." How MPs voted on the Digital Economy Bill committee stage >> TheyWorkForTheBPI.com Interesting to see those against: Tom Watson rebelling for the first time ever, and various other Labour members making up the small band of rebels. Maybe Sion Simon was right - they are up against Darth Vader. Apple reportedly planning a smaller-size iPad for 1Q11 >> Digitimes Research Apple is reportedly scheduling a smaller 5- to 7-inch version of the iPad that is expected to launch as soon as the first quarter of 2011, according to Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo. Price: "below $400". You can follow Guardian Technology's linkbucket on delicious