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06 Aug 2009 11:45

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Tech: First we were mad at Twitter. Now we’re mad at whoever’s DOSing them.

We’re sorry we were so mad at you this morning, Twitter. Our apologies. Denial of service attacks suck and help nobody, jerks. source
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06 Aug 2009 10:26

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Tech: Your diet of media on Twitter is littered with bots

  • 24% of Tweets are made by bots (but not at @shortformblog, guys!); many are from spambots, but many are legitimate source
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06 Aug 2009 10:15

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Tech: Will Wright wants to go from game-maker to multihyphenate

  • We’re taking the idea that you can have a million people engaged not just in entertainment, but also have them creating huge amounts of content for other people to experience. The question is how can you transfer that to other fields besides games.
  • “The Sims” creator Will Wright • Discussing the possibilities of taking the more experimental ideas in his games – also including “Spore,” perhaps the most overhyped non-“Halo” game of all time – and trying to push them in other portions of the entertainment spectrum. He used the phrase “entertainment designer.” For those of you who get much joy out of seeing ultra-successful famous people possibly fail, keep an eye on Will Wright. • source
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06 Aug 2009 00:55

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Biz, Tech: Radio Shack wants you to forget that it sells radios sometimes

Just because you guys completely alienated the hobbyist segment of your customer base doesn’t mean a cute thumb is gonna make us forget it. source
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05 Aug 2009 11:23

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Offbeat, Tech: Robots beat humans at hand-eye coordination. We’re scared.

  • Sure, you think this is awesome now, but just wait until this robot’s cold, metallic hand is wrapped around your neck while the other is slapping you silly. We predict a violent robot uprising. (Julius, however, won’t be involved.)source
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05 Aug 2009 11:07

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Biz, Tech: Remember how Sirius XM was close to bankruptcy? Neither do we

  • +18% increase in Sirius XM’s stock this week alone, due to high levels of investor optimism source
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04 Aug 2009 21:40

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Tech: Sony’s Reader puts pricing pressure on the Amazon Kindle

  • $199 the cost of the Sony Reader Pocket edition; they’re also coming out with a $299 edition featuring a nice touchscreen source
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04 Aug 2009 10:44

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Biz, Tech: AP: Charging for quotes it doesn’t own, going into PR spin mode

  • If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea.
  • Thomas Jefferson • Quoted by blogger James Grimmelmann, who used that handy-dandy quote-charging system to see if Associated Press would charge him to pay for a quote they didn’t even use in a story. Not only did they do it (for $12), they returned his money, then made a statement about it. (He smartly responded back.) Sure, they’re not attacking bloggers. That’s what they say. But we can see the precedent and the crosshairs. It’s just not good for the Internet, guys. Our ban on their content stands. • source
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03 Aug 2009 11:12

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Biz, Tech: All those ads that target you are being targeted … by the FTC

  • Google and Facebook, among others, could feel the burn. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz has brought with him a rep as a reformer, having fought hard against spyware. The latest thing he wants to reform is something that drives the financial engine of the web: Behavioral-targeted advertising. Google uses it. Facebook uses it (sometimes very poorly). Lots of other people do too. And sometimes consumers don’t know when they’re getting targeted. That’s something Leibowitz is working on. Expect heads to roll. source
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03 Aug 2009 10:35

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Tech: TechCrunch vs. Apple: The tablet PC wars are about to heat up

  • $400 expected cost of the CrunchPad, a simple-as-heck tablet produced by the TechCrunch dudes source
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