Friday Digital Flames
The ‘Stuff I Know’ Edition
I know that chocolate rocks my world.
I know that when I laugh I feel bloody marvelous.
I know that Thierry Henry cheated in the World Cup Qualifier against Ireland.
But…I didn’t know that a pig’s willy is shaped like a corkscrew.
You learn something new everyday.
And from now on, you absolutely will too.
Paul Fenton
Thebirth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, andTwitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10Internet moments of the decade.
Researchfirm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applicationsof the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases,even all that new.
I’m confident that if Charles Darwin were here today, he’d have something to teach us about apps.
We’vebeen covering the impending social integrations with Facebook, Twitter,and last.fm on Xbox Live since Microsoft first announced socialnetworking support would be coming to the console back at E3 this June.
“We’ve got a lot of rich people and we’re bigger than Twitter.”
OnMonday we broke the news that MySpace was in late stage negotiations toacquire music service iMeem. Those negotiations are now concluded,we’ve heard from multiple sources, and an agreement has been signed.