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POPSWho benefits from the 'culture of participation'? i don't think there is a blanket answer to this issue. I think that in some cases, the people/users will benefit and the companies that provide the services will be successful. Skype is a great example of that. On the other hand, if the technology is nothing more than a conduit for participation for participation's sake, then i think people will get board of it and the ocmpany will not be successful. Make sense?
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POPSCable/telecoms: let us meter your web usage So if you download videos and they lose your TV account, they can recover the cost. So if AT&T loses your phone business to Skype, they can recover the cost. Some in Congress will resist, and we can hope this issue will attract anti-monopoly attention that the GOP put to sleep during Bushnight.
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POPSSad and pathetic use of Twitter! I honestly don't want to comment other than to say that commentary below from Marshall Kirkpatrick is spot on! Check out the source for some examples...you'll be shocked at the companies doing it and how lame the tweets are.
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POPSSkype Lie Detector A nice new toy comes with Skype now: a software program to detect lies. Try it out with Bill Clinton's 'I did not have sex' speech.
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POPSDeath of the Pink Flamingo Union Products, the company that has been making plastic Pink Flamingos as lawn ornaments since 1957, stopped production of the kitsch icon a few months ago, and is closing its doors today. This was a year before the Flamingo's 50th Birthday.
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POPS Honey, "Remember The Milk" Never forget the milk (or anything else) again. From PC to Mobile device, this is the best way to manage your tasks. FREE download.
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POPSZonbu: A $100 Green PC that charges a monthly fee the 15-watt PC can save up to $10 a month in electricity compared with a standard 200-watt PC “The market we want to target is the second PC in the home,” Mr. Gentil said. “If you want to give a PC to your kids or put it in the kitchen, this is a good candidate.” More @: http://www.zonbu.com/learn/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT1CJd7jFo0
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POPSSkype On iPhone AT&T must be just thrilled to pieces to hear about this. Who needs rollover minutes when you've got Skype via your unlimited data plan? - Louis Hau
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POPSThe Internet Is Closing Nobody needs an closed i-Phone in a depression. An open PC might be a lot more useful. Still a lot of useful open things are happening in the cloud computing world e.g. the work Amazon is doing with its business infrastructure services.
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POPSAmaze your friends with these tricks!
Rockstar Games suffered from arguably the most controversial Easter egg in history, even though it was an accident. Instead of removing the Hot Coffee mini-game from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas entirely, Rockstar merely cut it off from the rest of the game – leaving the assets on the disc. It proved a simple matter for hackers to get their hands on the mini-game, and the more explicit sexual content caused Rockstar a lot of problems. Despite showing nothing more than fully clothed bumping and grinding between consenting adults, the whole game had to be withdrawn and reclassified. The end result was millions of dollars of revenue lost and several class action lawsuits. Rockstar cheekily renamed the more moderate romance achievement in GTA IV after the incident; a polite cut-away to a building roof now throws up the message 'Achievement Unlocked: Warm Coffee'. Another classic example is the game SimCopter, which was released in 1996. One of the programmers, Jacques Servin, added an
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