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% [...]
(Not the real time web) a great podcast from This Week in Tech with hosts Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Pete Cashmore, and Jason Hiner. This week’s podcast is fantastic, animated, humorous, opinionated, and informative.
Topics Covered:
Netflix 10% competition.
Microsoft’s ads and Apple.
AT&T’s 4chan Block.
Slashdot Hardware Story.
Amazon Reports Lower-Than-Expected Sales.
Gates Faults U.S. Policy on Data Privacy and [...]
Forrester: Josh Bernoff and Forrester, Groundswell Awards — I love the diversity.
Wired: AP doesn’t know its protection tech doesn’t protect.
Financial Times: Apple joins forces with record labels. The title is a bit sensational but an interesting approach in the age of digital music.
Conversation Agent: Listening, for a change.
Nieman Lab: The Times should focus on niches, [...]
Wired: Rate your internet dependency level.
Mahsable: GO Canada! Facebook doesn’t comply with our privacy laws.
EFF: Orwell in 2009 – dystopian rights management. A good piece on the Amazon debacle.
Mashable: Amazon: We won’t remotely delete books again.
O’Reilly Radar: How NPR is embracing open source and open APIs
TechCrunch: If execution is what matters, where does that leave [...]