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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
uTorrent 2.0 To Elimininate The Need For ISP Throttling — ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years already. Although the true reasons for this are not always clear, some ISPs have argued that a high number of BitTorrent connections are slowing down other applications and traffic.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell — Last weekend I wrote about how the big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through games like Farmville and Mobsters. Major media can't stop applauding the companies long enough …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype, Founders Settlement in the Works — The ongoing legal scuffle between Skype, a division of eBay, and its founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, may soon see a resolution, according to someone familiar with the situation. The parties are in discussions to resolve the various issues.
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Bgurley / abovethecrowd.com:
Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model — I like to think of myself as an aficionado of business disruption. After all, as a venture capitalist it is imperative to understand ways in which a smaller private company can gain the upper hand on a large incumbent.
Rachel Shields / The Independent:
Illegal downloaders ‘spend the most on music’, says poll — Crackdown on music piracy could further harm ailing industry — ‘File sharers are the ones who are really interested in music’ — Home > News > UK > Crime — People who illegally download music from the internet also spend …
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Daniel Brusilovsky / TechCrunch:
Scan Your Business Cards On The Go With Business Card Reader — Startups like Bump Technologies, which recently got some funding, and My Name is E are trying to kill the paper business card, but even in 2009, many of us, including myself, still use business cards.
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Jay Hathaway / Download Squad:
Confused about Google Wave? Now you can read the bleeping manual. — Google Wave is an innovative new communication tool, but part of innovation is that it's not always intuitive to use. Early adopters have been jumping into Wave with little guidance on how to take advantage of all its features.
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
30 predictions for the future of Twitter — At the 140conf conference in LA, Jeff Pulver asked me to think about the future of Twitter and even though I obviously have no crystal ball, I took some risks and here you go, I gathered my predictions here, in the form of “tweet slides” so you might want to watch the video too.
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Did Congress really give the FCC power to protect the 'Net? — With all the hoopla over the FCC's new net neutrality proposals, the question of whether the agency has the legal authority to act on this issue still looms. — With the release of the Federal Communications Commission's …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Next Hot e-Reader: The iPhone — Yesterday at the urging of a friend, I ordered “Your Brain at Work” by David Rock on my iPod touch via the Amazon Kindle app. In doing so, I became one of many people who are helping the iPhone become more than just a phone. It's latest role: e-reader.
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Paul Miller / Engadget Mobile:
New Sony Ericsson Rachael UI video hits, still looks nothing like Android — Calling this Rachael UI an Android “skin” is like calling Windows 95 a “DOS skin,” but that's not to say there's nothing to love about it. In fact, we're rather relieved that Sony Ericsson seems …
Chris V. Nicholson / New York Times:
Virtual Estates Lead to Real-World Headaches — PARIS — Two avatars, Leto Yoshiro and Enchant Jacques, met in the virtual world of Second Life in 2005. They married online the same year and built a house together on an island they had brought out of the waves that covered much of that world.
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
Spam Arrives In Twitter Lists — Spam expands to fill all corners, Twitter being no exception. We now have a confirmed example, via my Twitter account, of spam lists being created to promote a single user, the propagator of those lists. — Here is the spam list, not very subtle:
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Todd Zeigler / The Bivings Report:Using Twitter Lists to Judge Influence
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