Lifehacker:
Windows/Mac: Libox makes it easy to share music, movies, and photos with your friends in a private P2P network. After installing the Libox media browser and importing your media, you can share with friends—they must be using the Libox browser also—as easily as if you were sharing a link to a collection of pictures online. Y (Read More)
mashable:
We know there are a lot of interesting and unique uses for Twitter. We’ve seen Twitter used for customer service, tweets to monitor power usage, and even 140 character marriage proposals, but we never thought about it being used to quickly respond to incidents such as a kid being bit by an otter.Earlier today, a group of Tw (Read More)
TechCrunch:
There are many sites that show trending links across the web including TweetMeme, Topsy, and Bit.ly. Recently launched splurb is now in the mix with its site that shows the most popular links that are trending on social media sites. splurb currently indexes Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, TweetMeme, Yahoo Buzz and Fark.Splu (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, said in a blog post today that his company is suspending the use of offers as a monetization option in the company’s games until a better way to police them is found.The decision stemmed from the launch of Zynga’s new game, FishVille, which had a couple of thousand users before it was (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Cisco is expanding its lineup of collaboration tools today with a flood of new products and upgrades (61 in all, the company says). In addition to improving on established products like web meeting service WebEx, the networking giant is expanding into two new markets — email and corporate social networking. Alex Hadden-Boyd (Read More)
The Guardian:
"Twenty eight years and 91 days!" said the elated east Berliner I met walking up the Friedrichstrasse soon after the wall was breached. On the day the Berlin Wall went up, 13 August 1961, his parents had wanted to go to the cinema in west Berlin, but he, then aged 11, had been too tired. Next morning, they awoke to the soun (Read More)
Lifehacker:
YouTube's a quick source for hearing the occasional music track here and there. With TubeRadio, you can hunt down music on YouTube more efficiently, and even find entire albums, through a helpful... (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Last week Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said that they would take steps to remove scammy advertising offers from their social games. There have been a couple of missteps since then, and Facebook responded by taking Zynga’s newest game, FishVille, offline.Zynga insists they are serious about cleaning up the industry. And today Pincu (Read More)
The Guardian:
Yoani Sánchez says she was abducted, beaten and threatened for criticising Cuba's communist governmentCuba's most prominent dissident blogger, Yoani Sánchez, said she was abducted, beaten and threatened by state security agents in Havana.Three men forced her and another blogger, Orlando Luis Pardo, into an unmarked car, rou (Read More)
New York Times:
As major news erupted in Texas, a brand new 12-person Web-based newsroom had its debut as a nonprofit covering state government.
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
Britain's reputation for "libel tourism" is driving American and foreign publishers to consider abandoning the sale of newspaper and magazines in Britain and may lead to them blocking access to websites, MPs have been warned.Publishers, human rights groups and campaigners have expressed "substantial and increasing concern" (Read More)
The Guardian:
Google's SideWiki tool is the ultimate expression of people powerGiven the amount of fear other Google innovations have caused, it's surprising alarm bells have not been heard ringing throughout PR since SideWiki's launch in September. The internet is an evolutionary tool and for the world of PR, its daily use is as signifi (Read More)
The Guardian:
The Media Legal Defence Initiative, launched last week, aims to help journalists around the world by providing lawyers willing to fight for media freedomsA new organisation is to work to create legal support for journalists facing "huge risks" in countries with oppressive laws that threaten press freedom.The Media Legal Def (Read More)
The Guardian:
… rarely is the answer, in this new age of multiple marketing models and chief executives guided by bankers and consultantsThe Mad Men account man of legend, with a martini in one hand and a million-dollar deal in his pocket, is probably just that – legend. And few of these people, more account barons than handlers, still s (Read More)