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24 Jul 2009 17:57

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Biz, Politics, Tech: AP’s news wrappers: Our brains just imploded, guys

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  • Wow, and we thought the Republicans’ health care graphic was bad. Basically, if we’re reading this right: The Associated Press needs to convince its members to agree to put digital wrappers on their content, wrappers that are a) invisible to consumers and b) can be tracked on the Internet. Um, OK. We don’t know if they know something about the ASCII type spec that we don’t, but what they’re describing sounds impossible to do with copy and pasting.source
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24 Jul 2009 11:05

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Biz, Tech: Small businesses make out like bandits on the Twitter bandwagon

  • I would love to say that I just had a really good idea and strategy, but Twitter has been pretty essential to my success.
  • Curtis Kimball • The owner of a crème brûlée cart in San Francisco, on how Twitter has managed to build his side business into something that no longer requires him to keep his day job. He’s not alone. In fact, Mashable recently ran a neat little feature on how food cart owners have been using Twitter to stand out from the pack. But even beyond that, small businesses are using the site to market goods, find related businesses to partner with and talk directly to consumers. • source
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23 Jul 2009 09:47

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Biz, Tech: AT&T’s customer base is huge thanks to the iPhone, but it costs ’em

  • +3.5 million number of new 3G customers the wireless company got last quarter thanks to the iPhone – and 1.5 million new overall customers source
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22 Jul 2009 20:43

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Culture, Tech: Those who want to infect your PC follow Twitter trends too

  • What they wanted Internet nerds all around were looking for a leaked naked video of ESPN sports personality Erin Andrews, who 1) is easy on the eyes and 2) was apparently videotaped illegally. source
  • What they wanted Internet nerds all around were looking for a leaked naked video of ESPN sports personality Erin Andrews, who 1) is easy on the eyes and 2) was apparently videotaped illegally.
  • What they got instead Those internet nerds hoping for virally-spread hotel nudity instead got a virally-spread trojan horse. Which goes to show you: Lookin for nudity on the internet never pays off. source
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22 Jul 2009 20:35

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Tech, World: iPhone prototypes: Serious business in China – deathly serious

  • A Chinese worker for Foxconn was entrusted with a 4th Generation iPhone prototype. source
  • The worker lost the phone, told his bosses, freaked out, and killed himself last week. source
  • A Foxconn security guy was suspended, and Chinese police are investigating. source
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22 Jul 2009 10:36

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Biz, Tech: TechDirt approaches blogging like tech-savvy musicians

  • If only we could do this. Then we’d truly be smart. TechDirt, a popular technology blog well-known for taking the music industry to task for its heavy-handed approach to technology, has gone out of its way to champion artists who have fully embraced the promotional tool technology can be, such as Trent Reznor and Jill Sobule. Now, they’ve gone a step further and used these very techniques as tools to promote the site. Give a donation of a certain amount, and you can become a member of the site’s music club or book club and get tons of amazing goodies. Give a bit more and the site will review your business model. Genius, kids. Genius. *golf clap* source
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21 Jul 2009 23:08

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Tech: Your cellphone gives you cancer? Well, mine *diagnoses* Malaria

  • Okay, so it actually doesn’t. But it could! Some American researchers have fused the awesomeness of a cellphone with the usefulness of a microscope, which would make it easy to diagnose and track diseases in the developing world. Score! source
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21 Jul 2009 22:20

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Tech: Holy smokes!!! Apple is selling an *insane* amount of iPhones

  • 57,000 iPhones are sold every day. Not kidding. source
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21 Jul 2009 11:12

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Tech: Are Apple’s random App Store rules hurting the iPhone?

  • It’s one thing to delay a homebrew project like mine, but it’s another thing to shut down a team of developers burning real cash. Apple should be worried when real programmers shrug off the rejections by saying, ‘It’s just a hobby.’
  • Infoworld columnist Peter Wayner • Describing the hoops he’s had to go through – along with the months of waiting – just to get an iPhone app version of his book onto the App Store. He’s still trying to get a pay version on – with proceeds that go to charity – after four months. • source
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20 Jul 2009 17:01

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Tech, U.S.: A balanced diet: fruit, veggies, social media, grains, micro-blogging

To simplify your life, Wired has released suggested serving sizes of media. According to them, you should be reading us for up to an hour a day. We concur. source
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