Techmeme: Amplification, retweeting, and the loss of source (Davidw/Joho the Blog)

9:15 PM ET, December 26, 2009

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Apple ‘iSlate’ Trademark and What is a ‘Magic Slate’? — After we broke the news yesterday that Apple had acquired iSlate.com, other pieces to the puzzle seemed to fall into place. Notably, TechCrunch found that iSlate had been registered as a trademark by an unknown Delaware company …

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No Electronics Allowed During International Flights? — That failed terrorist attack yesterday might make international flights a whole lot less enjoyable. Passengers are reporting that new restrictions are in place. Among them: No electronics allowed. Updated:

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NYTimes misuses Kindle Review stats to attack the Kindle — The NYTimes' Bits Blog has an article using Kindle Review statistics to attack the Kindle. — It's a perfect example of why people are losing faith in newspapers. — Here's what the ‘Is Amazon Working Backward’ article by Nick Bilton does -

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Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:

Learning from bad graphs and weak analysis — Yesterday's Times features a blog post about the Kindle. There's a lot wrong with the post (which hopefully has been corrected by the time you read this) and I thought I'd point out two useful lessons. Nick Bilton, the author of the post …

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:

Kindle Milestone: Amazon Sold More Kindle Books Than Physical Books On Xmas (AMZN) — Amazon's Kindle hit an important and startling milestone yesterday: On Christmas, the company sold more Kindle books than physical books. — Yes, this is obviously the result of everyone who got a Kindle for Christmas …

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Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:

Enough Waiting — It's Time for Amazon to Buy Netflix — Like an old sports injury, the rumor of Amazon buying Netflix seems to flare up once every few months. It happened again this week when a Reuters reporter tweeted about its impact on stock-options trading, and the meme gained traction when other blogs ran with it.

Vladislav Savov / Engadget:

Nook fails to communicate, download purchased ebooks — You didn't think the whole Nook saga was over, did you? After just succeeding in delivering devices to expectant pre-orderers in time for Christmas, Barnes and Noble is today cleaning up yet another mess courtesy of its ill-prepared content servers.

Discussion: GottaBeMobile.com, Gadgetell and Erictric

Davidw / Joho the Blog:

Amplification, retweeting, and the loss of source — Jos Schuurmans usefully coins “Amplification is the new circulation.” And then he usefully worries about how to handle the fact that with each amplification, the link to the source becomes more tenuous.

Stefanie Olsen / New York Times:

Helping Children Find What They Need on the Internet — When Benjamin Feshbach was 11 years old, he was given a brainteaser: Which day would the vice president's birthday fall on the next year? — Benjamin, now 13, said he typed the question directly into the Google search box, to no avail.

Discussion: Techmamas

Serkan Toto / TechCrunch:

Location-Based Mobile Advertising Platform AdLocal Enters America, Wants To Win With Japan Know-How — Mobile advertising is poised to become a huge growth area, with research firm Kelsey Group seeing the market grow from just $160 million in 2008 to $3.1 billion in 2013. eMarketer projects …

Chris Williams / The Register:

Software fraudster ‘fooled CIA’ into terror alert — Spooks ‘f*cking livid’ — A con man fooled US spooks into grounding international flights by selling them “technology” to decode al-Qaeda messages hidden in TV broadcasts, it's claimed. — A long and highly entertaining Playboy article explains …

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