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Monday, August 22, 2011

Boot up: 200,000 BitTorrent users sued, Spotify reaches 1.2m US users, and more

Music Power 100: Daniel Ek of SpotifyTuning in to America ... Spotify convinces 12.5% of new US users to pay Photograph: Andrew Testa/Rex Features

A quick burst of 6 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team

"If you're not familiar with Bagcheck, it's a fun way to create and share lists of the things you are passionate about using on your computer, in your kitchen, for photography, when parenting, and everything in between."

This seems a scaled up version of the speculative invoicing scheme mastered by ACS:Law - although these alleged filesharers apparently settle for $2,500 each on average.

"LinkedIn (Debut: May 19) -- $75.16, down 18 percent

Zipcar (Debut: April 14) -- $21.59, down 10 percent

Renren (Debut: May 4) -- $6.75, down 11 percent

Pandora (Debut: June 15) -- $12.55, down 7 percent

Zillow (Debut: July 20) -- $26.17, down 7 percent

Fusion-io (Debut: June 9) -- $24.78, down 5 percent"

A 12.5% conversion rate already. Remember how long it took to reach that in Europe?

Charlie Kindel explains more about his decision to leave Microsoft.

Microsoft veteran Charlie Kindel walks away.

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Monday, August 1, 2011

White House of Rickrolls Twitter users, which of itself adversely affected "Matt" feed

White HouseThere was a break from the high seriousness on the White House Twitter feed on Wednesday as a follower of Rickolled was. Photo: Ron Edmonds/AP

Twitter and the White House may come as a dry combination, but also with the debt ceiling dangerously close to crushing everyone under him, the leader of the free world - or at least the people responsible for the White House Twitter-feed - the time found to have a bit of fun on Wednesday.

How? By Rickrolling from 2.3 million Twitter users, that their feed to follow and complained that it is not very interesting.

"Sorry to hear." Fiscal policy is important, but sometimes dry can be. Here of some more fun, "tweeted the White House." And then it... at Rick Astley gonna give singing a link never you up.

A David Wiggs, to themselves as "Energy tech enthusiast and mediocre golfer" whose Tweet - "briefings WH [White House] correspondence not almost as entertaining as of yesterday" - triggered outbreak of fun of Pennsylvania Avenue, liked it: "Hilarious", he tweeted, and "Love!"

"Rickrolling" is a prank, which began on the 4chan message board (originally as Duckrolling as the link would lead to an image of a duck on wheels); the first use of the Astley video link was under the guise of being a secret trailer for the then-unreleased video game Grand Theft Auto IV.

It then spread from 4chan and moved with Twitter in 2008, as a very large number of people the service connected: the necessity of links for the 140-character service shortened you meant to cover up their goal - and to keep out a tempting treat that instead turned out to be Rick Astley to sing could.

In the year 2010 was it poured over just when the video has been removed from YouTube-, but the White House found time, a different trench.

In the meantime ceiling crawled the deadline for the debt closer on Wednesday night - what a dramatic intervention.

(Updated to clarify the history of Rickrolling.)


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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Boot-up: Foursquare hit 10 m users, such as one with LulzSec and more

Quickly to chew over, as picked by the technology team burst of 9 links for you
Beautiful animation.
Dan Frommer new venture digs into the details of the ChangeWave research. iPhone satisfaction: 70%; WP7, 57%; Android, 50%; WHEEL, 26%.
"If governments really seriously stop this threat that they were to defuse the anger and hate people almost feel toward the Government these days work would, she would take, people show that they are not the bad guys and taking this tough approach." Would more public perception on attention and the problems that people have not address an honest and transparent way responsible to the public, if questions are asked. "
Comments are interesting.
"Alon Laudon discovered a new experimental interface for Google results pages." The most important change is that most navigation items be visible remains, even if you scroll down. "Sidebar options have a fixed position, the navigation bar, the search box and search which means that you no longer scroll to the top of the page, edit the query or a special search engine switch."
It's bad that a first response was "I wonder, when, which was patented in?"
"Remember, the one great purpose of this Conference is to liven up Microsoft's network of partners and choice is exaggerated Turner's rhetorical fuel." "But as an insight into Microsoft's competitive mentality, it is enlightening - and also quite entertaining, if taken with a huge grain of salt."
Comments on Apple, Siebel, Salesforce, Google... You are all available. (Thanks @ Rquick for the link.)
Arrested a 16-year-old South Londoner: "Police hope that that could bring they teen and his computer, which was taken for the analysis of Topiary and the hackers Sabu and Kayla, added to by other hackers as the driving force behind the attacks on security companies like HBGary Federal." Also credit for attacks on a FBI partner, subsidiaries of Sony the PBS television network, AT & T called for the Lulz.
"The most recent arrest came on the same day that the United States were 16 accused hacker, which all but two of those charged with noted organized participation in attacks against payment processor PayPal in an operation by hacking group anonymous." "Two of the U.S. hacker connections to Lulz accused."
Ed Bott, nobody's idea, a Microsoft hater: "after nearly a decade, Microsoft's reign as a monopoly is over."
"The consent decree in United States against Microsoft expired last month officially Microsoft remove from antitrust review by the United States Department of justice." And the most recent data on Web usage, is that Microsoft's once dominant position in the world of personal computing crumbling.
"For the last four years I have collected market share snapshots of your Web experience by net half-year reports." The data for the first half of 2011 say an ominous story for Microsoft. "See for."
OK, wrong source in the diagram, but interesting.
"Apple's lion is their demands of us perhaps the real beginning of the end for PCs, in the sense of a computer, which roughly, personally, is above." Scroll bars? They are not natural and have no equivalent in the real world. We touch usually only one document, and with our fingers bewegen-- a Tablet way of working, which seems more natural and is now part of the lion. It's still that mouse or touchpad - work with large vertical screen compromises - needs, but the interface is one that to work, if it can start nothing more than an advertisement of some sort. If the computer itself, in other words, went way.
"Combining this type of movement with, say, projectors in walls and the way of the lens by which they can integrated throw a readable image everywhere;" Motion sensors, who know where the fingers and hands are; a connection in the cloud; "documents, is that you must never explicitly store, because they just always... where, in this picture the PC?"
"If you find data.gov.uk in detail that it is filled declarations with Organograms and expenditure and many of the datasets, the publication started already have stopped (for example A & E activity.)" Most authorities seem always is "User pays" policy run, if you will also headline free data publications such as Meteorological Office data services receive. "While there are some particularly early success, there is clearly much more to do."
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