iPad 2 international launch causes people to line up in line all over again (updated)

Glasgow, UK

Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France

Covent Garden, London

Ontario, Canada

Paris, France

Berlin, Germany (!)

Manchester, England

Milan, Italy

Sweden

Zurich

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Montreal, Canada

Dublin, Ireland

Leeds, England

Hamburg, Germany

Bristol, England

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Twitter Starts Hiring Sales People In London – But Stays Coy About A Euro HQ

There’s been a lot of speculation in recent months about where Twitter would put down a European base in its efforts to expand its operation. Certainly I’ve been bugging them in the last few weeks about whether they would come to London. But now we have the answer: London it is – at least for five people whose jobs will be largely about sales and commercial partnerships.

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Humans vs. Robots: Why People Power is Cool Again

What’s the best way to find great links on the web? Is it algorithmic search engines like Google, people-powered decision-making, or a combination of both?

This has been the perennial question online ever since Yahoo’s human-organized directory of web links lost the battle to Google’s automated crawlers. And yet now, in some circles at least, the pendulum appears to be swinging back: Google is broken, say some technologists, and people-power is the best fix.

That’s the topic of my CNN column this week.

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