A gesture for Mr. Schmidt? (Photo: Wikipedia)

Wikipedia is bleeding admins. Why? The vetting process for becoming one "is basically a hazing ritual at this point." [The Atlantic]

Poor Microsoft. The unveiling of its newest Office suite yesterday was totally overshadowed by Yahoo's Marissa Mayer coup. We think we can hear Steve Ballmer throwing chairs from here. [Microsoft]

At a Fortune conference in Aspen, Peter Thiel called Eric Schmidt Google's "minister of propaganda." Fight! Fight! Fight! [Fortune]

LinkedIn got a much-needed UI makeover, and it looks a hell of a lot like Google+. [LinkedIn Blog]

No one knows what iCloud is. [Buzzfeed]

Oh good, another Hacker News Alley vs. Valley flamewar. [Hacker News]

Apple does have a trademark on "IBOOK," but according to the suit, it only applies to computers. (Apple once sold a PC known as the "iBook). Colby alleges that Apple didn't use the term to apply e-books or a means of delivering e-books until the iPad debuted last year. If Apple starts applying it to e-books and apps, the suit says it will render Colby's trademark worthless. But that's not the only trademark suit Apple got smacked with this week.

Apple was also sued for a trademark infringement on "iCloud" by a Phoenix-based VoIP company. Don't feel too bad for Mr. Jobs, though. After all, this is the same company that sued Amazon over the use of the highly-original, proprietary term "App Store." In their injunction to stop Amazon from using the term, Apple said, "Consumers of mobile software downloads are likely to be confused as to whether Amazon's mobile software download service is sponsored or approved by Apple." Somehow we feel like the giant Amazon logo will set them straight.

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Apple's WWDC keynote address yesterday seemed like a study in Newton's law: the tech version. For every glorified new product or feature announcement, there was an equal and opposite wave of anger and frustration from competitors who suddenly found themselves up against a behemoth that doesn't play well with others--or from Apple developers who found themselves cast outside the walled garden. The piecemeal rollouts (glaring absent an iPhone 5 update) may not have seemed like much individually, but arrows were slung high and low, hitting companies big and small. Without further ado, here's the angry mob Steve Jobs left in his wake.

iMessage: Pissed off Research In Motion, GroupMe, and Kik

Announcing a messaging service that mimics popular BBM features like delivery confirmation, the ability to tell when a message has been read, or when sometime is typing a reply just when RIM is almost down for the count? Yeesh, that's gotta burn. But the carcasses really piled up further down the food chain with group messaging service GroupMe, the belle of SXSW, and free real-time texting service Kik. We hardly knew ye.

iCloud: Pissed off Amazon and Google

Mere weeks after Amazon announced Cloud Drive and Google launched Music Beta, here comes Steve-o with a cloud storage service for files like photos and music that's completely free for 5GB, which means he probably even ticked off his own employees, at least the ones who had been working on Apple's pricier MobileMe. Google hasn't yet established a pricing plan. But iCloud only costs $24.99 per year, with allowances for up to 25,000 songs compared to Amazon's Cloud Drive costs $50 per year for $5,000 songs.  However, Amazon did the same price- undercutting maneuver with the Kindle when Barnes & Noble came out with the Nook. Jeff Bezos may think Jobs is a bitch, but he has to feel the same way about karma.

Safari's "Reading List": Pissed off Instapaper and many, many more.

Before turning sage about Apple's bookmarking service, which lets you save links to read later, Instapaper founder Marco Arment probably tweeted it best: "Shit."

Not mentioning the Lodsys debacle: Pissed off developers being sued by Lodsys.

In case you haven't been following the patent wars going on over at Apple, here's the short version. Lodsys, a patent-firm company--a mock Twitter account describes them as "a bunch of crooks who never invented anything"--is suing Apple developers for using an in-app payment technology. Apple came out in defense of its third-party developers. But at WWDC, there was nary a mention of their collective turmoil. Sean Woodhouse, an iOS developer and founder of Itty Bitty Apps tweeted:

Apple still pushing in app purchase with Lodsys outstanding? What's up with that? #wwdc

Stephen Vanderpool, another iOS developer at IMDB.com expressed a similar consternation:

You know what I didn't hear anything about in the #wwdc keynote? Lodsys.

Baking Twitter into iOS5: Pissed off Facebook and Instagram.

This does not bode well for Mark Zuckerberg's plan to wedge Facebook Connect between you and, well, everything on the internet. Likewise for hockey-stick growth-happy Instagram now that Apple has a photo integration for Twitter built-in.

Various assorted other features in iOS5: Pissed off Microsoft and Google.

There were so many similarities between iOS5 and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 that Joe Belfiore, director of Windows Phone, considered it a compliment, tweeting:

Feeling flattered today. Lots of great WP ideas headed to iOS. Camera button/above lock, auto-upload of pics, better notifications … wi-fi sync, built-in twitter, background download service, short-messaging chats (though we do Facebook!)

Although perhaps in this case, Microsoft just wants to feel like its still relevant enough to steal from. We think there was more thievery from Chrome's direction. With iOS5, you sign in to map and Twitters when you open the computer and then save files in iCloud. Deja-vu, Larry and Sergey?

Steve Jobs: Pissed off Paul Allen. We're just guessing here, but Allen has to spread the haterade around, right? That amount of vitriol can't just be all Bill Gates all of the time.

Who did we miss? Let us know in the comments!

First off, Apple has built Twitter right into iOS5. Scott Forstall, VP of iOS, said onstage that, "Users send more than 1 billion Tweets a week. We know Twitter is an important app for our users, so we want to make it easier to use." To that aim, Apple is making Twitter the default, on click service for sharing photos, location, article and video."

This is going to be a big challenge to apps like Instagram and Foursquare. Millions of iPhone users who are familiar with the more mainstream Twitter may begin using this service as their default for photo sharing and location.

Jobs came back onstage to announce iCloud. "We’ve been working about this for some time and we’er really excited about it … About 10 years ago, we realized that the PC was going to become the center of our digital lives, the place where we stored out photos and our music…. And it did become that and it worked well for a while, but recently it’s broken down. iCloud stores your content in the cloud and automatically pushes it to all your devices. But it’s also completely integrated with your apps, so there’s nothing new to learn. It just all works."

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Oh yeah, and it's free.

It syncs email, calendar and contacts everywhere for free. Daily backup of music, photos and apps data. Auto upload and sync of documents. That's gonna be a huge amount of data to store. It will be 1000 photos on iOS for 30 days. Free. Dropbox is hurting right now.

Who else got dinged? Well, Apple announced an internal set of push notifications, kind like BBM, that will function as a default service in place of apps like GroupMe or Kik.

Watch Instapaper's Marco Arment travel along an emotional roller coaster as the Apple announcement's went live.

"If the sound quality of a particular song on a user's hard drive isn't good enough, Apple will be able to replace it with a higher-quality version."

Because Apple is planning to charge a subscription fee for this service, it won't necessarily need to differentiate between music that was purchased legally and pirated tracks.

"Users will be able to store their entire music collections in the cloud—even if they obtained some songs illegally. That would finally give the labels a way to claw out some money on pirated music," writes Bloomberg.

The music labels are trying to leverage Apple against the unlicensed lockers launched by Amazon and Google, which is ironic, since they spent the last ten years watching in horror as Steve Jobs and iTunes became the gatekeeper for music in the digital age.