The deluge of information rushing by on Twitter may get a little less intimidating. Brizzly , the social media client from the team behind Google Reader, just launched a wiki-style guide to Twitter trending topics that stays long after hot stories fade from view. Each trending topic will get its own guide page that is a permanent source for up-to-date information where anybody can see the latest about a topic.
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Brizzly acquires WikiRank, launches wiki-style guide to trending topics
The New York Times has big digital plans for its Book Review supplement — one of the most popular and influential book review publications. The paper is planning to make Book Review an individual product (separate from the rest of the NYT’s e-reader content) on the three major e-reader platforms — Sony’s e-reader platform, Amazon’s Kindle, and Barnes and Noble’s Nook.
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New York Times to offer Book Review as a standalone e-reader product
The RealDVD soap opera is finally over: RealNetworks has settled its litigation with the movie industry and has agreed to pay out $4.5 million to cover their costs related to the lawsuit. It has been a long and painful fight for the company, and RealNetworks has decided to move on rather than continue dragging it out. Real announced the settlement late Wednesday, noting that it plans to withdraw its appeal to a recent injunction imposed by the courts prohibiting the sale of RealDVD.
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Beaten and bloodied, Real agrees to settle RealDVD fight
Parents of Internet- or TV-addicted teens finally have confirmation of something they have long suspected: the more screen exposure teenagers get, the more detached they are from those around them. Those are the findings of a paper set to be published in the March issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine , which examined the relationship between adolescent screen time and social involvement with parents and peers. Though the paper doesn’t quite say that Internet and TV are the cause of the detachment, it’s clear that the two are related
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Detached teens use Internet and TV more—or vice versa?
The online video business in China is seeing explosive growth, as Chinese consumers learn how to capture and watch video and as Chinese advertisers seek to boost their branding.
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Baidu raises $50M to exploit China’s online video explosion
Virgin Media announced today that it would begin rolling out 100 megabit per second fiber broadband to 12.6 million homes in the United Kingdom. The news follows the UK government’s pledge to bring universal broadband to everyone in Britain by 2012, as well as plans from ISPs in the U.S. and elsewhere to push next-generation broadband speeds
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Virgin Media to roll out 100Mbps fiber broadband to 12.6M UK homes
Dave Madden is executive vice president at game company WildTangent . You’ve probably heard that the New York Times is planning to put up a pay wall next year that will shut off its content to all but paying subscribers
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What the NY Times can learn from online games
Filed under: Multimedia , Apple Professional , Software Update Although Aperture 3 introduced a lot of new features , it also introduced a lot of bugs. Apple’s support forums have been abuzz with reports of memory leaks and issues with the new Faces functionality. Aperture 3.0.1 has arrived in Software Update , and Apple’s support document for the update details several fixes for its flagship photo-processing program.
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Aperture 3.0.1 available now in Software Update
