{"id":1787,"date":"2011-12-05T23:10:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T07:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2012-07-03T19:20:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T03:20:58","slug":"week-of-112811-%e2%80%93-tech-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/week-of-112811-%e2%80%93-tech-news-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of 11\/28\/11 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Tech News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Path.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"shot\" title=\"Path 2.0\" src=\"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Path.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203935604577066773790883672.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that\u00c2\u00a0Facebook is targeting an IPO between April &#8211; June 2012 (<a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2011\/11\/28\/facebool-ipo\/\" target=\"_blank\">VentureBeat<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Spotify launches a music platform (<a href=\"http:\/\/evolver.fm\/2011\/11\/30\/spotify-becomes-a-music-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evolver.fm<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Complaints pop up for Jawbone&#8217;s UP wearable health\/fitness device (<a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20111201\/complaints-pop-up-for-jawbones-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Things D<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>RIP Napster. Napster officially merged with Rhapsody. (<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/12\/01\/rip-napster\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mashable<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It was a bad week for Mozilla. Chrome overtakes Firefox (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/btl\/statcounter-chrome-overtakes-firefox-globally\/64429\" target=\"_blank\">ZDNet<\/a>) and their deal with Google is ending (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/bott\/firefox-faces-uncertain-future-as-google-deal-apparently-ends\/4241\" target=\"_blank\">ZDNet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Acquisitions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAP acquires SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion (<a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/03\/sap-to-buy-successfactors-for-3-4-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times DealBook<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Facebook acquires the Gowalla team but not the app (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gowalla.com\/post\/13782997303\/gowalla-going-to-facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Gowalla blog<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.path.com\/post\/13533662902\/introducing-path-2-the-smart-journal\" target=\"_blank\">Path launches the 2.0 version of their app<\/a> and got mostly positive reviews. Some concerns were raised about the feature that automatically tracks your location.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One Year Later, Path &#8216;Personal Network&#8217; App Still Brings the Love (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2011\/11\/path-version-2-smart-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired Gadget Lab<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>New Path 2.0 automatically chronicles, shares your life (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-19882_3-57333449-250\/new-path-2.0-automatically-chronicles-shares-your-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rafe Needleman, CNET<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>New Path kicks ass&#8230; (<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/111091089527727420853\/posts\/DTkLLnGFN9m\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Scoble<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/path\/id403639508?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Download Path 2.0 on iTunes<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Robert Scoble interviews Path founders Dave Morin and Dustin Mierau:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2iDjrW8NqJI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that\u00c2\u00a0Facebook is targeting an IPO between April &#8211; June 2012 (VentureBeat) Spotify launches a music platform (Evolver.fm) Complaints pop up for Jawbone&#8217;s UP wearable health\/fitness device (All Things D) RIP Napster. Napster officially merged with Rhapsody. (Mashable) It was a bad week for Mozilla. Chrome overtakes Firefox (ZDNet) and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-news","category-weekly-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/4345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}