Plus: Parsing The New York Times’ paywall figures, a big nonprofit news merger in the Bay Area, and all the rest of this week’s news in media and tech.
In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW 
Links on Twitter: SuperTweets, Microsoft’s folding tablet, the expansion of mobile
It’s a SuperTweet, SuperTweet…: new API will allow third-party apps to beef up tweets with contextual data http://bit.ly/bUVfkm »
Microsoft’s (rumored) tablet: just over 1 lb., and around 5″x7″x1″ when closed (it folds). Also comes with…a stylus. http://bit.ly/aO4DqS »
What will be the fate of books in a post-print age? http://bit.ly/97dtH7 (via @niemanstory) »
Using eye-tracking metrics, a survey concludes that the majority of users are “indifferent” to real-time search results http://bit.ly/cWLmJa »
Location-as-platform, cont’d: Google Chrome now supports geotargeting http://bit.ly/9bp8pz »
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