Sunday 9 September 2012
Barnes And Noble Just Priced Its Nooks To Move [Tablets]
Do You Use Your Phone As Your MP3 Player? [Chatroom]
How Many Things Do You Have Plugged Into Your Laptop Right Now? [Chatroom]
How to Watch Porn Online and Get Away with It [How To]
Tracking athletes' Twitter mentions over the Olympics
The New York Times is back with another excellent infographic about the 2012 Olympics in London — this time showing Twitter activity on athletes' accounts. The graphic visualizes the number of mentions 140 verified accounts received over the games so far per 1,000 followers, honing in on when different athletes' mindshare peaked on Twitter. So, who won? Malaysian track cyclist Azizulhasni Awang (@AzizulAWANG) looks to have received the the most mentions per 1,000 followers (2,308) after his public apology for failing to obtain any medals. Michael Phelps' mentions, meanwhile, were dwarfed by his over 1,000,000 follower count.
Watch Out: "We Know Your House" Uses Twitter to Find Out Where You Live and Then Posts It Online [Psa]
Saturday 8 September 2012
Ebook lending service shut down after authors accuse it of piracy
Ebook piracy is a legitimate problem that publishers have had no qualms attacking, but a lending site may have been caught in the crossfire after a group of authors mistook it for an illegal pirating site. CNET reports that LendInk, a site that helped owners of lending-enabled ebooks connect and swap titles via email, was shuttered after a group of authors noticed the site and felt it was offering up their work for free. The initial confusion appears to have stemmed from the fact that searching LendInk would bring up results for virtually any title in the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble ebook libraries; the site itself was a member of Amazon's affiliate program, and would receive revenue when users clicked through to purchase titles. If...