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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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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Video of Arrington-Shukla fight highlights controversy of special offers — TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington and Offerpal Media chief executive Anu Shukla got into a brouhaha over special offers, which are used to monetize social apps on social networks, at the close of the Virtual Goods Summit on Friday.
Myofferpal / The Offerpal Media Blog:
Virtual Goods Summit '09: What an ending! — Yesterday's 2nd Annual Virtual Goods Summit was, by all accounts, a wild success. Organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs once again brought together a who's who of the industry's best for a full day of informative, thought-provoking sessions …
Todd Zeigler / The Bivings Report:
Using Twitter Lists to Judge Influence — If you've used Twitter for awhile, you know that judging the influence of a Twitter user by their number of followers is a dicey proposition. Lots of Twitter users are obsessed with their number of followers, and work to inflate their stats in ways too numerous to mention here.
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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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epiZENter.net:
Creative's next big thing is a Zii MediaBook — In what was thought to be just another Annual General Meeting, Creative surprised many by announcing its plan of entering the e-book market. Displaying a working model of its first e-book reader - tentatively named the MediaBook (no …
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Smartphone Showdown: iPhone 3GS vs Motorola Droid — If hype were to be believed, the Motorola DROID is the pièce de résistance of the mobile world; the conclusive creation sent down by the Great Smartphone in the sky to rid us of our woes. It would prepare your breakfast …
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Edo Segal / TechCrunch:
For The Future Of The Media Industry, Look In The App Store — The following guest post was written by Edo Segal (@edosegal). — Media scarcity is dead. In the future my son will have a flash drive that he will pay $29 for that will have the capacity to hold all movies and music ever released …
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Open Gardens
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Leaked docs show HTC's DROID Eris launching on November 6th for $99, running Android 1.5 — Like it or not, we've got it on pretty reasonable authority that HTC's first “DROID” phone is nothing more than a rebadged, shape-shifted Hero (something we've been hearing for a while now) …
Washington Post:
Yes, journalists deserve subsidies too — President Obama, a self-declared “big newspaper junkie,” fears he might be forced to go cold turkey. “I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context …
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Dan Gillmor / Mediactive:The Only ‘Journalism’ Subsidy We Need is in Bandwidth
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Keller's Guess: NYT “Within Weeks Of Decision” On Charging For Online — One of the longest-running guessing games for New York Times insiders and observers may be nearing an end: will the paper charge again for content online and what form would a pay program take?
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Google Navigator for Android Review: Good For Free But Far From Perfect — As you know, Google's freebie turn-by-turn navigation app for Android 2.0 surfaced this week. After driving around our patented testing track for a few days, I can tell you what's great—and what's surprisingly bad—about it.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
With Ribbit, BT Is Rethinking Its Voice Business — When BT, formerly known as British Telecom, splurged and bought Mountain View, Calif.,-based Ribbit for $105 million some 15 months ago, I dismissed it as an attempt by an aging incumbent carrier to reinvent itself as a web-savvy …
