Find out the new essential apps you must have for your smartphones and gadgets. Check out what the most expensive house in America looks like (it is in Silicon Valley!), and find out how you can outsmart your airline. All this plus more in today’s Tech Roundup!
1. The new essential apps, March 2011: iPhone, Android, iPad and Windows Phone. Gizmodo is updating their essential apps list today! woohoo! [Gizmodo]
2. The top 10 Twitter trends this month. [Mashable]
3. The most expensive known price for a single-family home in the U.S. Russian Billionaire investor Yuri Milner, just paid $100 million for a French chateau-style mansion in Silicon Valley. The house is 25,500 sq-ft. Milner’s Digital Sky Technologies holds investments in companies including Facebook, Groupon and Zynga. [WSJ]
4. I totally forgot to include this yesterday but it’s pretty big news for certain circles I frequent in Nolita. The man responsible for Gawker.tv, Richard Blakeley, is saying his goodbyes. He’s (curiously) on to Thrillist. It’s too be determined how the lean hipster will fit in with the frat boys? [Blakeley]
5. Google is really into April Fools Day. Check out the jokes they’ve played through the years. [BI]
6. Speaking of Google, I can’t tell if this is a joke or not: The company has selected Kansas City for its ultra high-speed Internet project. The proposed network will clock in at speeds about 100 times faster than what most households in America currently have access to, reaching about 1 gigabit per second. [RWW]
7. April Fools! Here are some high tech items for the perfect prank. [GofG]
8. The New York Public Library partners with Foursquare giving patrons a special “Find the Future Centennial” badge. [Mashable]
9. Outsmarting the airlines. Want to know how to score the best seat in coach? SeatGuru.com has seat layouts and ratings for 720 different airplanes by 100 different airlines, and has become the authoritative source for cabin information. [WSJ]
10. The iPad generated nearly 100% of media tablet revenues in 2010. Spending on tablets was $9.6 billion. [BetaNews]
11. Get on the go style advice with Fashism’s upgraded iPhone app. [Mashable]
12. VYou is really picking up steam. I wonder if having Courtney Love answer questions (this time about her best experience had sober), is a good or bad thing. Alas:
13. The Top 10 most hated YouTube Videos. [Urlesque]
14. Rex Sorgatz’s take on “Color:” “By embracing this idea of anonymity and the flow of life, Colors ends up feeling like a system that’s not letting me know enough about itself. It’s being intentionally opaque. It’s like poetry. And I fucking hate poetry.” [Fimoculous]
15. People are really getting into the Bronx Zoo’s missing Cobra. The reptile started it’s own Twitter feed chronicling it’s adventures around the island, and is currently at almost 200k followers (including mayor Bloomberg). [@BronZoosCobra]
Twitter Patter [NYT]
16. The all-time most highlighted passage by Amazon Kindle readers, as quoted by Abraham Verghese in his book, Cutting for Stone. [DavieMorin]
