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Xbox 360: Welcome to the Social?

Submitted by ZatzNotFunny on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 20:27

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Digital Media Bytes: Last100 Edition

Submitted by ZatzNotFunny on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 21:00

A periodic roundup of relevant news… from our friends at Last100:

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Rupert Murdoch’s Sky bringing interactive TV to XBox 360
In addition to live pay TV channels, Sky Player on XBox 360 will offer an “on-demand library of thousands of programmes spanning entertainment, movies, documentaries, kids, culture, news and sport.”

Twitter PSA: Delink Spymaster

Submitted by ZatzNotFunny on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 11:42

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TechCrunch covered the Best Video Twitter worm yesterday, but seems to have missed the equally insidious opt-in Spymaster game. Unlike Facebook silliness, once authorized, Spymaster is much more in the face of your followers - freely tweeting game updates. Not only will you end up spamming your followers, you’ll notice your @mentions queue fills up with Spymaster tweets.

Sharing Digital Media (Legally)

Submitted by ZatzNotFunny on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 12:02

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As ZNF readers are well aware, one of the biggest challenges we face with digital media (books, music, video) is in sharing it. Legally.  Over at Live Digitally, Jeremy Toeman details one possible scenario for an Amazon Kindle used book store - allowing folks to resell books back to Amazon for a store credit. And in turn, Amazon offering these ‘books’ at a lower cost than ‘new’ ones.

Video recording on G1 (Cupcake update)

Submitted by ZatzNotFunny on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 09:11

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Photo by bookgrl

After a few delays, the 1.5 (Cupcake) update for the Android G1 phone from T-Mobile has arrived. Impatient as I am, I followed the instructions from the AndroidGuys and forced my phone to update, although I think I only gained about 12 hours ultimately. In any case, it’s a big step forward for the phone and the Android platform, with some great UI improvements, including the much discussed virtual keyboard.

New DirecTV TiVo Delayed to 2010 (plus tru2way)

Submitted by ZatzNotFunny on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 22:47

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Photo by Zandir

After finding a few minutes to scan TiVo’s quarterly call transcript what stands out, other than hoarding $200+ million in cash, is what appears to be a slippage in the delivery of a new DirecTV TiVo DVR. 2009 has become 2010. CEO Tom Rogers, via Seeking Alpha:

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