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Archive for May 26th, 2008

Sometimes Crowds Aren’t That Wise (Josh Catone/ReadWriteWeb)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Sometimes Crowds Aren’t That Wise  —  Last week, computer book publisher SitePoint relayed a story about recent experiences with Digg that demonstrates that the Digg system is far from perfect.  We’ve written recently on ReadWriteWeb about the decline and fall of quality on Digg …

YouTube suit called threat to online communication (Larry Neumeister/Associated Press)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
YouTube suit called threat to online communication  —  NEW YORK - A $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit challenging YouTube’s ability to keep copyrighted material off its popular video-sharing site threatens how hundreds of millions of people exchange all kinds of information on the Internet, YouTube owner Google Inc. said.

Blazing Samsung 256GB SSD Is the One We’ve Been Waiting For (Matt Buchanan/Gizmodo)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Blazing Samsung 256GB SSD Is the One We’ve Been Waiting For  —  This is the solid-state drive that we’ve been waiting for: a full 256GB, which Samsung says is “the world’s fastest and largest capacity 2.5-inch, MLC-based SSD with SATA II Interface.”  Sick sequential read and sequential write speeds …

New York Times API Coming (Josh Catone/ReadWriteWeb)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
New York Times API Coming  —  As print circulation continues its slide at most newspapers, one of the United States’ most respect the New York Times is taking steps to boost online readership.  The paper is already the third most cited web site on Techmeme, and the first on Memeorandum … […]

Should services charge “super users”? (Robert Scoble/Scobleizer)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Should services charge “super users”?  —  Om Malik says that Twitter should charge super users like me and come up with a business model.  —  Dare Obasanjo, in a separate, but similar post comes to the conclusion that Twitter’s problems are due to super users like me.  —  Interesting that both […]

Nvidia has two CPU lines (Charlie Demerjian/Inquirer)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Nvidia has two CPU lines  —  Meet the Tegra APX and CSX  —  NVIDIA IS GOING to release two types of CPUs in the near future.  On June 3rd, according to the slides from this week’s reviewers day.  Luckily as they forgot to invite us, they forgot to NDA us as […]

Seesmic: Why it’s so important to just frackin’ start (Jason Calacanis/The Jason Calacanis …)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Seesmic: Why it’s so important to just frackin’ start  —  Loic is a good friend of mine.  He’s had me to Paris to speak at his wonderful events, I’ve had him stay at my place (and take video), and we spent some time over Thanksgiving together.  I think […]

Samsung ultra-fast, cheap 256GB SSD due this year (Electronista)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Electronista:
Samsung ultra-fast, cheap 256GB SSD due this year  —  Samsung late on Sunday promised what it says is a breakthrough in solid-state drives with the launch of its first 256GB SSD.  The drive offers twice the capacity of the Korean firm’s previous 128GB SSD but is also much faster.

Samsung intros ultra-fast, cheap 256GB SSD (Electronista)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Electronista:
Samsung intros ultra-fast, cheap 256GB SSD  —  Samsung late on Sunday promised what it says is a breakthrough in solid-state drives with the launch of its first 256GB SSD.  The drive offers twice the capacity of the Korean firm’s previous 128GB SSD but is also much faster.

Twitter! (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter!