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Aug 10

The Rise of the Anti-Facebooks

Facebook is dominating social media in almost every country where it hasn’t been banned, and the six-year old site shows no signs of slowing down. It’s creeping across generations, replacing things like the phone book and introducing tools the masses had no idea they needed.

…Maybe age or school-affiliation isn’t important, but exclusiveness still is. ASMALLWORLD is an invitation-only social network for “sophisticated” and “influential” people. “Trusted and loyal ASW members who meet certain criteria have the privilege of inviting a limited number of their friends to the network. If you know someone with this privilege, you can ask them to invite you. If not, please be patient and continue to ask around in your own personal and professional circles,” the site says.

Multiple personalities

Facebook does let you target what you upload to specific friends. But Facebook doesn’t want you to splinter your identity. Throughout its history, Facebook has encouraged users to use their real names, upload their real birthdays and use their real identities to log on to other sites.

Hibe is a yet-to-launch social network based around controlling which personality you project to whom, a concept its creator calls “Social Web 3.0.” “We are opening the way for a new social networking experience…

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30
Aug 10

Cartoon: So Sue Me

If you own a big tech firm, you aren’t Microsoft, and you weren’t named in the patent lawsuit filed this week by Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing, well… you’re probably looking deep into your soul today and asking where it all went wrong. If you aren’t a defendant - which includes AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! - why not

…Craig, click on the legal status tab for something perhaps even more intriguing: if I’m reading it correctly, that patent appears to be collateral, put up by AOL and currently held by the Bank of America. (Bear in mind that I have precisely zero legal expertise in this area. In fact, I have what I would describe as negative legal expertise: I am capable of reducing the net legal knowledge of a room simply by walking into it. It’s my admittedly meh superpower.)

Doug, that’s an interesting but unintended read of the first one-third of the sentence. (Anyone else reach the same conclusion?) If you grasp the nettle, steel your nerves and follow the sentence all the way to the end, though, then:

1) you should be sure to rehydrate after the long journey (my old J-school profs would flay me for writing such a lengthy lead), and

2) you’ll probably realize that these are three conditions followed by a conclusion: if (a) and (b) and (c) then (d). You apparently read it instead as “If (a) then (b) and (c), and Error:…

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30
Aug 10

Digg User Rebellion Continues: Reddit Now Rules the Front Page

Reddit has taken over the front page of Digg.

…It’s not unusual for a site to experience a significant user backlash after a major redesign. By announcing the redesign during the big Digg party at SXSW in Austin earlier this year, the company tried to soften the blow. Over the last few weeks, Digg also opened up the beta version of the new site to a very large number of testers. By the time the site finally went live for everybody last week, though, the backlash was almost immediate.

When we talked to Digg’s then-CEO Jay Adelson at SXSW, he noted that Digg was quite aware that some of its users would not be too happy with the new submission system. Not only does this new system take away power from Digg’s most active users, but in the eyes of many of them, it also currently favors big publishers like the BBC, Engadget, Wired and College Humor. Digg invited a number of well-known publishers (including ReadWriteWeb and most of our direct competitors) to submit their feeds early on during the beta test….

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24
Aug 10

The 10 Most Overblown Video Game Controversies

So-called “responsible” adults have always tried to find scapegoats for bad behavior since the dawn of time. These days, video games take the most heat, even though some controversies just aren’t very well thought out.

…Source: Atari

Turning a villain into the hero of a video game was unheard of in the days of the Atari 2600. So when horror movie auteur Charles Band got his bloody hands in the video game market, he caused a bigger stink than your Dad in the bathroom on Thanksgiving.

He turned the classic slasher masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre into a grind-’em-up game that puts the player behind the human skin mask of Leatherface and lets them chase down innocents with a gear-grinding chainsaw for points. Stores either refused to stock the game or hid it behind the counter where only adults could purchase it.

The concept of the game may have sounded violent, but the rest was far from bloody. Thanks to the limited graphics and extremely crude sounds, Leatherface just looked like a walking Jack-o-Lantern with a hot dog shaped tumor sticking out of his gut. So really, the only people who had a right to be offended by it were people with encephalitis or victims of kielbasa impalement….

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23
Aug 10

George Lucas sues to stop Jedi Mind wireless headset

LucasFilm has filed a $5 million trademark lawsuit against a company marketing a technology that allows users to control computer applications directly with their minds…

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31
Jul 10

Maryland Declares September 21 ‘Civilization V Day’

Maryland Governor proclaims, September 21 as Sid Meier’s Civilization V Day.

…The state of Maryland has officially recognized September 21 as Civilization V day. This means September 21, 2010 will be officially known as “Sid Meier’s Civilization V Day” in Maryland.
Governor Martin O’Malley cited the achievements of studio founder Sid Meier, “a longtime and celebrated Marylander who has spent his full professional life in this State.”
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27
Jul 10

Gamestop buys Kongregate.com

Gamestop steps into digital territory after acquiring flash-based gaming site, Kongregate.com

…Jim Greer, CEO of Kongregate, has announced that Gamestop
has acquired Kongregate as a wholly-owned subsidiary. In non-technical terms, this means that Kongregate now belongs to GameStop.
Roughly 4 years ago, Jim Greer founded Kongregate, a community centered on user-submitted flash-based independent games. With its profiles, friends lists, chat functionality, and ability for users to make money off their own content, one might label it as the de facto “social network” for indie games.
If you are wondering how the site will change after the deal, Jim writes,…

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25
Jul 10

Mortal Kombat Papertalities

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20
Jul 10

Why is the Xbox 360 Still Outselling PS3 in North America?

Sony has had a tremendous year with its Playstation 3 console. But despite all of the great headlines, why do sales of the PS3 continue to lag behind Microsoft’s?

…Wow Joe… any more spin?

The PS3 has by far more AAA exclusives. Threefold as many as the 360… stop living in a dream world. I’m not even counting the fact that half of the 360 games have a better version on PC, and aren’t really exclusive. When you consider that, the number is rather pathetic.

COD exclusive content is not a big deal, because you are brainwashed once again, you microdrone. It’s timed exclusive, in other words, it’s not exclusive and is being marketed as such. PS3 will get it eventually. Unlike every other game where exclusive content will be on PS3 only FOREVER. Dead Space 2, Assassin’s Creed, Medal of Honor, Mafia 2… you get the picture.

And the XMB is a million times better than that crappy wii-ripoff operating system. Give your head a shake. The XMB currently has the most awards ever won by a console user interface. Research next time, moron.

And the PS3 makes the 360 look like a last generation system altogether. You guys are happy to finally be getting WiFi… well the PS3 has…

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Jul 10

If Video Games Had Super Easy Mode (Video)

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