Facebook Places 'Boring' Says Foursquare Chief
Foursquare called Facebook Places "boring" today. Facebook execs responded by saying "I know you are but what am I?" He said: "I have now had a chance to play around with Facebook Places and it's not that great or interesting. It's a pretty boring service, with barely any incentives for users to keep coming back and telling their friends where they are. Comments
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Minneapolis Will Pay $165,000 to Zombies
See, that's what I get for opening my mouth earlier about "headline of the day." As soon as I said that, this headline popped up talking about zombies winning a lawsuit. When arrested at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and 6th Street N., most of them had thick white powder and fake blood on their faces and dark makeup around their eyes. They were walking in a stiff, lurching fashion and carrying four bags of sound equipment to amplify music from an iPod when they were arrested by police who said they were carrying equipment that simulated "weapons of mass destruction." Comments
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HP Outbids Dell, Offers $1.5B for 3Par
HP has upped the ante with a $1.5B bid for 3Par just one week after Dell offered the company $1.13B. In 3Par they are bidding for a company that provides software for organizing data on corporate servers. The company, which is based in Fremont, Calif., offers its products on a subscription basis over the Web, an approach known as "cloud computing." Comments
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Chatroulette is Down, New Site Coming Today?
The Chatroulette website is currently down (does anyone still use Chatroulette?). The site is basically blank with only the following cryptic message left in its place: The experiment #1 is over now. Thanks for participating. Renewed and updated version of the website will be launched today. Comments
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Recession Hits Smart-Phone Makers in the Chips
It's early folks but I believe we may have a contender for headline of the day here. The seemingly recession-proof smart phone is suffering from a side effect of the rough economy: Manufacturers simply can't build enough of the gadgets because chip-makers that rolled back production last year are now scrambling to play catch-up. The chip shortage means Apple Inc.'s rivals are having trouble making enough phones to compete with the iPhone, a problem expected to persist through the holidays. Comments
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GTX 480 SLI PCIe Bandwidth Perf. - x16/x16 vs. x8/x8
In our continuing coverage of Multi-GPU configurations with varying PCIe Bandwidth, we put x16/x16 and x8/x8 PCIe to the test. Does having less PCIe bandwidth make difference in gaming? We know that a "lesser" motherboard can save you money. Using GeForce GTX 480 SLI we show you the real-world differences.
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Zynga In Trouble for Viral Marketing Stunt
The City of San Francisco is considering filing suit over a recent marketing campaign for the upcoming Mafia Wars: Las Vegas game in which Zynga has been tossing around $25,000 bills on the sidewalks. The city claims that cleaning up the mess of cash takes 45 minutes in each location, not to mention the need to bring in a special steam cleaner. The city wants Zynga to hand over all details of their plans in San Francisco and come up with a proposal for correcting the damage. Comments
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GameStop Not Impacted By Online Pass
Gaming research analyst Michael Pachter says that schemes from EA and THQ to recoup cash from used game buyers are ineffective. This is likely because GameStop says only 25% of used game buyers are interested in multiplayer. "The company has not seen a negative impact on used software sales from first-use codes or new competitors in the space," Pachter said. "The company estimates that only 25 per cent of used game buyers play online." Comments
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Why Big Companies Almost Never Notice Disruptive Innovation
A common belief is that no innovation would occur without patents because big companies will just copy the technology and destroy the new guy. The author is claiming this isn't true and that real innovation nearly always goes unnoticed. Disruptive innovations threaten standing cash cows, and large companies choose to ignore them as to not undermine their current revenue. Until it's too late, that is. Jerry didn't seem to care. I was confused. I was showing him technology that extracted the maximum value from search traffic, and he didn't care? I couldn't tell whether I was explaining it badly, or he was just very poker faced. I didn't realize the answer till later, after I went to work at Yahoo. It was neither of my guesses. The reason Yahoo didn't care about a technique that extracted the full value of traffic was that advertisers were already overpaying for it. If they merely extracted the actual value, they'd have made less. Comments
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Mythbusters' Kari Byron Getting Kids Hooked On Science
Kari Byron will be the host of an all new show which is aimed at getting middle-school aged kids interested in science. A few examples of what Head Rush will show is some of the science behind fainting goats, a beast that lays eggs inside tarantulas, and the amazing strength of egg shells. It will air each day from 4-5pm with no commercial interruptions. Though Byron is a huge fan of famous TV science educators like Bill Nye the Science Guy, she also thinks there's a lot of room on TV for a new kind of role model to help show kids why science is fun and exciting, and who is not the sort of typical "nerdy white guy" that has so long been associated with TV science education. And that's particularly important today, she said, in an age when 12-year-olds are inundated with glamor everywhere they look on TV, from Paris Hilton to movie stars. "I'm not your typical talking head," she said. "It might spark an interest" in kids. Comments
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Chrome Web Store
Google has announced that new Chrome Extension developers will be required to pay a one-time $5 registration fee. It is expected to significantly cut down on the number of malicious add-ons. Google has also set the minimum price in the Chrome store at $1.99, although developers can choose to give away their work for free. The store will take a 5% cut of the purchase price, and a $.30 transaction fee for each download and payment. "[The signup fee] is intended to create better safeguards against fraudulent extensions in the gallery and limit the activity of malicious developer accounts," said product manager Gregor Hochmuth in a blog post. The payment must be made using Google Checkout, which links payments to a credit card, thereby creating a paper trail to the developer -- or at least to the billing address and phone number recorded by the credit card company. Comments
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Valve Announces DLC for Both L4D and L4D2
The new DLC, The Sacrifice, will work with both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2. It is a continuation of The Passing, but this time you get to choose who dies! The expansion is due out in October and will expand on the story by showing how the original survivors met up with theLeft 4 Dead 2 characters, and will be accompanied by a digital comic that arrives next month. The comic will get everyone caught up on what's happened in the Left 4 Dead storyline so far and will be available as free DLC on PCs and Macs while it will be paid DLC on the Xbox 360 (nothing free here, folks). Comments
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Biggest FAIL of Quakecon
Young man on the left tries to make a quick buck by selling off his raffle ticket only to miss out on something pretty big! Quakecon 2010: Attendee Blunder of the Year from Daniel Harris on Vimeo. Comments
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Digg 4.0 and New CEO a Week Away
Kevin Rose has said that Digg Inc is about a week away from hiring a new CEO and launching Digg 4.0. Digg has narrowed the CEO search down to three candidates, Rose said in an interview this week at his office in San Francisco. The new chief will assume control about the time the new site, currently being tested by a limited number of users, is introduced to the public. He declined to name the candidates. Comments
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BlackPad to run QNX, Not BlackBerry 6
Instead of running RIM's new BlackBerry 6, the tablet will run software developed by QNX. The reasons being QNX's software is "simpler and faster" as Blackberry 6 "includes legacy software code from older BlackBerry phones." "The BlackPad is designed to capitalize on RIM's strengths with corporate customers, particularly with email service," Bloomberg reported. "The tablet will be closely integrated with BlackBerry's email system and will have similar security for messaging." Comments
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