‘ICED’ Seeks To Show How Immigration Laws May Increase Crime [Gaming Today]
When did “Your Ox has just drowned” become “You have lost your student visa”? A new game called ‘ICED’ puts people in the shoes of U.S. immigrants, hoping to increase understanding of their plight.
Please, No More Friends! [Spin]
Are social networking sites making our spheres of influence too big and unmanageable? When all it takes is a click of a mouse to form a relationship, we might be using the term “friend” too loosely. We think the word may have just changed meaning entirely.
Google Pushes Tailored Phones To Win Lucrative Ad Market [Wired]
The Google phone might be coming as early as the beginning of next year, with actual prototypes mentioned in the Wall Street Journal, but most people that have seen them don’t think they are as revolutionary as the iPhone.
A New Online Music Market [PSFK]
Amazon has decided to invest heavily in Amiestreet, the music buying site that prices songs based on popularity. iTunes has stayed at the 99c model despite pressure to change to variable pricing.
Dethroning the king of ‘Donkey Kong’ [c|net]
The new documentary The King of Kong follows two gamers: Billy Mitchell who set an unbreakable Donkey Kong high score 25 years ago, and Steve Wiebe, the man dedicated to taking him out.
‘Fake Steve’ Blogger Comes Clean [NYT]
Daniel Lyons, senior editor at Forbes, has been revealed as the blogger behind fakesteve, “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs,” whose followers included Bill Gates and Steve Jobs himself.
The Internet Seen As An Opportunity for Newspapers [MediaPost]
92% of America’s top newspapers are now offering video on their website, up from 61% last year. Some experts have claimed that the internet will destroy newspapers as we know them, while others say that adaptable news agencies will thrive in the new media outlets.
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