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The dominant social networks cater too much to advertisers, says the man behind a Twitter-style network that users would pay for.
Social networking is too important to the future of the Web to be reliant on the advertising industry. That’s the argument put forward by the founder of an effort to create an open, ad-free social network closely modeled on Twitter but supported by fees from users.
The mall cops in the iTunes App Store today finally ejected Armed Heroes Online, a Chinese-published MMO, sold only in iTunes’ Canadian store, which evidently stole most, if not all, of its audiovisual assets from the PC dungeon-crawling hit Torchlight. The takedown came about a week after demands from Torchlight‘s lawyers. More »
from Kotaku
Online advertisers keep paying Google less for its ads, but so far, Google has proven it can out-sell the problem.
You’ll find it inside the top-secret data centers that run Google. It provides extra speed at Apple, Facebook, Dropbox, and countless other operations across the web. And now, Amazon is offering it up to the rest of the world via its massively popular cloud service, letting you slip it under your own online applications — without actually installing it in your own data center. What is it? It’s flash — the super-fast storage hardware that’s gradually replacing traditional hard disks across the web and beyond.
from Wired Top Stories
As the Midwest continues to suffer through its worst drought in more than 50 years and corn prices near record highs, sixth generation farmer Pam Johnson stares out her window, praying for rain.
For $10, identity thieves can access the full name, Social Security number and other personal information of a dead person through a list of millions of deceased Americans, known as the Death Master File.
Good news for your email inbox: You’ll be seeing less spam in it now, thanks to a global takedown effort that knocked one of the world’s biggest spammers offline this week.