A quick burst of 6 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Wow! It's Mike Lazaridis of RIM operating a real PlayBook! A confirmed siting! Hooray!Zynga Tops Electronic Arts as Social Games Spread >> BusinessWeek
"Zynga Game Network Inc.'s estimated worth surpassed Electronic Arts Inc.'s stock-market value, a sign of the ascendance of social-networking entertainment at the expense of traditional video games.
"Zynga, the maker of such games as "FarmVille" and "FrontierVille," is valued at $5.51 billion, according to SharesPost Inc., an exchange for shares of privately held companies. Electronic Arts, the second-largest game publisher by sales, is worth $5.22 billion on the Nasdaq Stock Market."
Yes, but how many acres do the Farmville farms cover?
Scrivener for Windows >> Literature and Latte
If you're doing the Nanowrimo (write a novel in the month of November) challenge, and use Windows, you might find Scrivener useful. Though you might just find it useful whatever you're doing.
Nielsen cops to iPad stat cock-up • The Register Forums
In reference to..."The customarily competent media-survey firm, The Nielsen Company, has backtracked on its startling claim that one-third of all iPad users have never download an app. The company now says that the number of download virgins is fewer than one in ten.
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Dawn of a New Day >> Ray Ozzie
Written in a kind of looping professor-ese that makes it read like the transcript of what might have been a good speech, he notes (in a sidelong no-names way) that Apple and Google have outdistanced Microsoft in mobiles and the cloud, and then asks people to consider a post-PR world: "there's one key difference in tomorrow's devices: they're relatively simple and fundamentally appliance-like by design, from birth. They're instantly usable, interchangeable, and trivially replaceable without loss. But being appliance-like doesn't mean that they're not also quite capable in terms of storage; rather, it just means that storage has shifted to being more cloud-centric than device-centric. A world of content – both personal and published – is streamed, cached or synchronized with a world of cloud-based continuous services."
Basically, a warning to those in Microsoft who are listening: change or get run over.
WARNING!!! iPhoto 11 Erases ENTIRE iPhoto Libraries >> Pigs, Gourds and Wikis
Apple has a habit of occasionally putting out software that wipes key elements such as music or photo libraries. Backups are good.
12-year-old finds critical Firefox flaw, earns $3,000 bounty >> ZDNet
Wow. "By Alex's estimation he spent about 90 minutes each day for about 10 days until he spotted it–a flaw in the memory of the running program."
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