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Twitter rolling out 'official' retweets to all users

Posted Nov 11, 2009 - 10:07 am

The concept of retweets was born in the Twitter community. According to ancient legend, Tim O'Reilly initially popularized, and may have invented, the concept of the retweet. Now the Twitter dev team is making them an official feature. In doing so, will they make twitter.com a better alternative to 3rd party clients, at least in the short term?

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Internet, Twitter

Game developer Electronic Arts announces 1500 job cuts

Posted Nov 10, 2009 - 08:51 am

Yesterday the gaming industry was rocked by news that mega-publisher Electronic Arts was spending $300-$400 million on a social media game company while cutting 1500 existing jobs from various in-house development shops.

Netflix Instant Streaming on the Sony PS3: A review

Posted Nov 09, 2009 - 09:08 am

Last Friday Sony PS3 owners received their Instant Streaming Discs. Over the weekend I put the service through its paces, spending a grueling amount of time watching TV. I make these sacrifices for you, dear reader.

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Personal Tech, Netflix, PS3

New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients

Posted Nov 06, 2009 - 09:28 am

Twitter feels more and more like an ecosystem these days. Twitter takes features out of clients and rolls them into the API. The client devs incorporate new Twitter features and then extend them. In the end, everybody wins!

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Internet, Twitter

Weekend Walmart tech deals for geeks, gamers

Posted Nov 05, 2009 - 09:05 am

Walmart has a couple of very interesting tech deals running this Saturday. Get a cheap laptop and find out how to update your old 360 for next to nothing through a scheme that only Rube Goldberg could love.

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Offbeat, cheap deals, video games

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