Video games no longer indirectly cause people to kill other people, video games are now the actual killer of people.
Yesterday, a man in China decided to go to an Internet cafe and play video games, for THREE DAYS STRAIGHT! CNN is reporting that he died from exhaustion, brought on by "too many hours on the Internet."
In China, the Internet is the new SARS.
We sensed this one coming for a while… amidst all the rumors throughout the past few months.
Time, Inc.’s magazine Business 2.0 is closing next week, after its October issue comes out.
I have literally had a Business 2.0 subscription card filled out for the past 2 months, and the only reason I never mailed it out was because I have been too lazy to write the check. Phew!
Remember the Palm Foleo? Well, you can now forget about it. Just months after its introduction, it has been canceled.
The gadget was riddled with bugs and and the company would rather concentrate all of its attention on its Treo line or cell phones (good news for me, since two days don’t go by where I haven’t been this close to throwing my Treo 750 against a wall).
This one has been a couple weeks coming… Bolt.com has officially announced it is ceasing operations. After copyright lawsuit debts amounting to $10 million, and the news on August 1st that GoFish.com was not longer in the hunt for Bolt, it’s over.
I’m just not understanding the economics behind this one. If anyone has any financial states, I would love to see them. I don’t put much faith in silly website rankings, but there’s no joking around with a Compete rank of 112. I’m assuming the copyright lawsuits also included cease and desist judgment for much of the content on the site. But still, with all the money being thrown around right now, it seems as if someone could’ve turned such a high trafficked site down a new path. Oh well, I guess that’s just more traffic that has now become available for the rest of us, right? :-\
Back in May, MySpace estimated that there were 7,000 sex offenders on their website. However, reports this week show that the number is actually over 4 times that, at 29,000. MySpace was quick to remove all these profiles to avoid any future criticism.
What is this world coming to? First Craigslist goes down and now MySpace is removing profiles… Where is a sex predator supposed to find their next prey now?!
If you were one of the hundreds of thousands of people logging into CraigsList this morning to find that 1997 $500 scooter or an Oriental massage with a happy ending, today just wasn’t your day. For quite some time, Craigslist, NetFlix, Technorati, Vox, Typepad, and Livejournal were all offline today. Our guess is it was due to the major power outages experienced within San Francisco.
What does this all mean? Welp, I guess it just means thousands of men had to deliver a self medicated happy ending. :-\
Sorry to Amp’d Mobile clients. After blowing $360 million in VC Funding and dropping from 200,000 members in April to about 100,000 currently, Amp’d Mobile will be closing shop tonight just after midnight. And if you are an Amp’d Mobile subscriber, what is your recourse? Absolutely nothing! When Amp’d closes down tonight, it will seem as if it never existed. Instead of helping its clients switch to new provider, Amp’d is turning a blind eye and basically saying “F-ck you all.” Not exactly the most ethical problem, but I’m assuming the top dogs at Amp’d are more willing to pocket the rest of the investment funds from the company than to pay employees to assist outraged clients.
This may be the first time I am happy to be with Sprint…
