There’s a real struggle going on right now for control of the InBox. The platform is the iPad and the challengers are Flipboard and Twitter. I just tried the revamped Flipboard and still felt handcuffed between an art director’s vision of what I should like and what I would like to discover.

Editor’s note : Online video is going through many changes as people begin to connect their TVs to the Internet and social sharing over Facebook and Twitter influence what people watch as much as search.

The Gillmor Gang took advantage of the presence of multiple Android lovers to provide a visceral demonstration of the anti-Jobs reality distortion field. Namely, that no matter how many new Android phones hit the market at 2 week intervals, none is actually better than the iPhone . Michael Arrington went a step further, declaring that Android tablets were destined for instant has-been status once the next iPad ships in February or so.

The Wall Street Journal just ran another piece in its series covering online privacy issues, this time focusing on how mobile apps on the Apple and Android platforms may share unique device ID numbers without consent. If matched against real names, UDIDs pose a bigger privacy risk than cookies on websites since people usually have one phone and carry it with them constantly. The storyline from here on in will be familiar

Yesterday, we debuted Part I of Startup Sherpa , a new show with angel investor ( Founder Collective ) and Hunch founder Chris Dixon talking to Stickybits CEO Billy Chasen about when is the right time for a startup to pivot. Today, in Part II above, Dixon and Chasen discuss how startups can serve two different masters (in Stickybits’ case, consumers and advertisers). With consumer mobile apps there is always a tension between pleasing advertisers and driving away users.

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Two weeks ago the Google eBookstore finally launched , and the world was briefly amazed. Google Editions, as it was known until launch , was the book world’s Duke Nukem Forever : vaporware for seven years , depending on how you count

If you haven’t noticed, we’ve been away great stuff for the past few days and this weekend is no exception.

Regions all over the world have spent millions—sometimes billions—of dollars trying to create their own Silicon Valley . They drank the same Kool-Aid and used the same recipe: start with a research university; build a fancy tech park next to it; give tax breaks to chosen companies to locate in the park; attract venture capital by offering matching investments; and watch the magic happen. Unfortunately, the magic never happened, anywhere

Facebook Plans 15 Acquisitions in 2011 – Company corporate development manager Michael Brown said it was looking at 15 acquisitions in 2011, according to peHUB . These would be similar others this year, like the  Hot Potato and drop.io acquisitions in that they would be a mix of talent and product acquisitions.