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Brian Solis / PR 2.0:
Introducing the 2009 Twitter Bowl; Rate Your Favorite Super Bowl Ads on Twitter — Note: to bypass the background story and skip straight to the instructions for Twitter Bowl, click here. — In 2008, Jeremiah Owyang had a great idea to extend the conversation about Super Bowl ads from my living onto Twitter.
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Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News:
Where to watch Super Bowl Commercials Online — As mentioned in our Super Bowl Guide for Geeks you want to surf the web in front of the TV during Super Bowl XLIII to watch the Super Bowl Commercials again and again. — Below you find a list of sites that are supposed to publish all Super Bowl 2009 commercials.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public — Recently we have reported on what can happen when iPhone software from the Apple store is cracked and made available to the public. In our articles we briefly touched on how these applications were cracked, via a piece of code known as Crackulous.
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Telegraph:
Networking site cashes in on friends — Facebook founder finally finds a way to profit from its 150m members' private data — Facebook is planning to exploit the vast amount of personal information it holds on its 150m members by creating one of the world's largest market research databases.
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Dom Sagolla / 140 Characters:
How Twitter Was Born — Twitter was born about three years ago, when @Jack, @Biz, @Noah, @Crystal, @Jeremy, @Adam, @TonyStubblebine, @Ev, me (@Dom), @Rabble, @RayReadyRay, @Florian, @TimRoberts, and @Blaine worked at a podcasting company called Odeo, Inc. in South Park, San Francisco.
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Throwing Xbox 360 Tupperware Parties To Hook Women. Brilliant (MSFT) — We've seen social gatherings of women to sell products — so-called “tupperware parties” — for everything from sex toys to botox. But this might be the strangest one yet: Is Microsoft (MSFT) using tupperware parties to sell the Xbox 360?
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Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
The Top 10 Money-Making MMOs of 2008 — Game industry analyst DFC Intelligence will publish a comprehensive study of massively multiplayer online worlds next month, and was nice enough to give us an advance peek at their list of MMOs and MMORPGs that earned the most revenue in 2008.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
New Symbol of Elite Access: E-Mail to the Chief — WASHINGTON — Anthony Lake served as one of Barack Obama's principal counselors on foreign affairs during the campaign and exchanged e-mail messages with him regularly. But now that Mr. Obama is president, Mr. Lake no longer has his e-mail address.
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Best Yet? OS 4.7.0.99 Leaked for the BlackBerry Storm 9530 — Notice the blog post title starts with Best Yet followed by a question mark? That's because every time one of these unofficial Storm OS updates surfaces in the wild and I deem it Best Yet out of starting gates …
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge — The dam holding back U.S. federal adoption of open source just burst with the introduction of the Defense Department's Forge.mil. — Forge.mil is an open-source project repository built in the image of SourceForge.net, Federal Computer Week reported Friday.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Credit problem takes down the iTunes store — I just opened the iTunes store to attempt to buy last night's episode of Battlestar Galactica and was greeted with a message telling me that my store credit balance is currently unavailable. I found that odd because I don't currently have any credits …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Davos09: Open Bank — At the end of my Davos week, I finally saw tiny notes of hope - faint LEDs at the end of a long tunnel - and they came not from the business, government, and journalistic leaders here but instead from technologists, entrepreneurs, and educators.
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