Web and Technology Links: 7 August 2009

Business Week: Twitter’s blackout, bad for business.
Tech Dirt: The ‘creative’ technology behind the AP’s news registry.
Netflix Prize the Sequel: Even Better Movie Recommendations?
Microsoft Startup Zone: TechStars incubator hatches 10 new companies. Worth paying attention to, espeically The Next Big Sound.
Sysomos Inc.: An in-depth look inside the Twitter world. 5% of Twitter users account for 75% of all activity.
Fast Company: Toward a participatory model for marketing.
Good Blogs: Andrew Shapiro on the (environmental) value of sharing.
Daily Finance: Choice words from Rupert Murdoch regarding the Amazon Kindle, the WSJ and News Corp.’s access to user data.
Wired: From earlier this week (not real time). A humerus story from DefCon. Feds at DefCon slarmed after RFIDs scanned.

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