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News
- Circuit City Blows it's last fuse
- Filed for Bankruptcy last year - 2nd largest electronics retailer - 5-10% game sales
- Could not get a re-structure on its debts or find a buyer
- Even the liquidation sales sucked (10%,20%, good luck finding 30%)
- YouTube optimized for TV and YouTube experimenting with direct downloads
- TV optimization specifically targetted at PS3 and Wii, easier interface, etc
- Lots of plugins available that download files, but they are a bit cumbersome
- This allows select videos to have a "download now" link on the youtube page
- Obama speech was one of the firsts to get the feature
- Google Terminates 6 Services, Jaiku one of them
- Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, and Jaiku
- Jaiku to become open source
- Closed some offices (Austin, Norway, Sweden)
- 100 recruitment positions gone
- Twitter may have a new business model
- Jason Calacanis
- "Suggested Friends"
Talk Point
- Walk Down Memory Lane: Game Patents since 1969
- Let's talk about the ones we remember
- Steven: Atari 2600, NES, Simon
Gamer's Corner (Conferences, New Developments, Game Reviews)
- WoW Patch 3.0.8 Released
- First since Wrath of the Lich King published
- World of Warcraft now supports 3-D imaging.
- Lots of crashing on release day, Revolves around Wintergrasp
- Can now create Death Knight on any server if you have lvl 70 on account
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