MediaDefender’s Decoy Effectiveness on BitTorrent Sites  —  MediaDefender determines the effectiveness of their spoofs and decoys by analyzing the top search results for the file in question, mostly movies and music albums.  If 2 out of 10 top search results are fake files spread by them …

Source:   TorrentFreak
Author:   Ernesto
Link:   http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-decoy…

Micro-USB Mobile Phone Charging Standard Announced  —  Relief from the tangled mess that is the cell phone charger market today is finally in sight  —  Last week a group of power players in the mobile phone manufacturing industry gathered to discuss the future of phone charging and data exchange.

Source:   DailyTech
Author:   Jason Mick
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Symantec issues bogus warning of full-scale Internet meltdown  —  False alarm result of ‘product testing,’ says company an hour later  —  Symantec Corp.’s early warning system gave its enterprise customers a brief scare late Friday when it erroneously sent an alert that said an Internet-crippling attack was in progress.

Source:   Computerworld
Author:   Gregg Keizer
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Techmeme and Google Shared Stuff: WTF?  —  Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests has mentioned this too, but I’m not sure whether the problem is Techmeme’s or something that has gone squirrely with Google’s Shared Reader.  A post entitled “Full Video of Ukraine Air Show Disaster 2002&Prime …

Source:   mathewingram.com/work
Author:   Mathew
Link:   http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/22/techmeme…

Sony PSP Vaults Past Nintendo DS in Japan  —  This is why Sony may yet rule the console-verse in spite of all its missteps and bungled first-gen games and cynical press.  Because pretty much out of the blue, a game like Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII can come along in the right market (Japan) …

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Google Could Trip Over the Mortgage Mess  —  IS GOOGLE TRULY IMMUNE TO THE SUBPRIME-MORTGAGE MORASS?  —  Ever since Google (ticker: GOOG) whiffed on its second-quarter earnings, fans and critics alike have been entertaining this critical question.  —  Critics such as Barron’s Roundtable …

Source:   Barron’s Online
Author:   Mark Veverka
Link:   http://online.barrons.com/article…

Thank you, Dave Winer  —  I tried to ignore the term “social graph” when it first started popping up a few weeks ago.  For one thing, it sounded like some sort of embarrassing disease; for another, the idea of having to figure out some arcane new Web 2.0 term was depressing.

Source:   Rough Type: Nicholas […]

How to avoid sounding like an monkey  —  A few weeks ago a well-respected developer wrote a blog post about something he called the “social graph.”  A graph, to most people, is a diagram like the one on the right, which plots the value of a stock over time.  For 99.99 percent of the people […]

Full video of Ukraine air Show disaster 2002  —  On 27 July 2002, 84 people were killed and over 100 injured at an airshow in Sknyliv () airport near Lviv, Ukraine.  A Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 aircraft crashed during an aerobatics presentation.  It was the world’s worst airshow disaster to date.

Source:   Google
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Facebook’s Impact on the Widget Economy  —  Last night I attended a technology event, Refresh DC.  Refresh DC provides local companies with the opportunity to speak for an hour about a topic of their choice.  Last night’s event was sponsored by Clearspring and the topic of discussion was widgets.

Source:   All Facebook
Author:   Nick O’Neill
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