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• PC Players Launch Metacritic Attack on Modern Warfare 2, Bury Rating

  
  InfoAddict — Authority: 131
  Hell hath no fury like PC gamers scorned. In this case, we have Infinity Ward to thank for porting their crappy console multiplayer system too the PC, wherein PC gamers no longer have access to dedicated servers, custom maps and most importantly, nothing resembling a lag-free game. It’s a sign of things to come as ...
  7 hours ago

• Innovative Ways to Build Your Credit

  
  Master Your Card — Authority: 414
  Get Rich Slowly has a great post this week entitled “ How to Establish a Credit History Without Losing Your Shirt ” and it focuses solely on secured credit cards. Basically, the credit line on a secured credit card is tied to a certain amount of cash collateral you put up. Unlike a debit card, this deposited money ...
  3 days ago

• Kiva, Transparency and P2P Microlending

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 480
  by Zev Lowe, KF8 Indonesia There’s been a bit of an ongoing debate about whether or not Kiva is what it seems. *cue ominous music* First, a post by David Roodman , followed by a response from Kiva co-founder Matt Flannery . More recently, Stephanie Strom wrote an article in the New York Times , to which Matt ...
  5 days ago

• Magnetiser Downloads Torrents When No Torrent File Is Available [Downloads]

  
  Lifehacker — Authority: 818
  Firefox: If youve used a BitTorrent search engine that lists lots of torrents but doesnt actually host any torrent files (like Torrentz ), most of the time you still have to go to other third-party sites for the download. Not so with Magnetiser. When you search a torrent aggregation site like Torrentz, all you see ...
  5 days ago

• The danger behind peer-to-peer file sharing

  
  Wael Isa — Authority: 147
  File sharing is very common nowadays. You can get a P2P (peer-to-peer) program for free, and soon start sharing stuff like music, videos and programs. We use these applications freely and most of us don’t know the risks involved when using them. Questionable reliability of files – Once we get our hands on a P2P ...
  6 days ago

• Why peer-to-peer lending is thriving

  
  WWW.MORERETURNS.COM — Authority: 114
  Credit is scarce and interest rates are hammering investors. With the credit crunch making it tough for anyone to get a loan, “peer-to-peer lending” or “P2P” is thriving. Increasingly becoming popular “P2P” websites are Prosper and Lending Club where lenders, lured by high interest rates, are linked with ...
  6 days ago

• San Diego’s Gizmo5 Reportedly Acquired by Google

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 709
  VOIP , deals , IT Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: San Diego’s Gizmo5, which was rumored to be a Skype acquisition target for $50 million about three weeks ago, is now reported to have been sold—except the buyer is identified as Google, and the price is put at $30 million. Both the Skype and Google ...
  6 days ago

• People who like music spend more money on music - survey

  
  No Rock And Roll Fun — Authority: 447
  Its been repeated, and found by surveys, so often it barely constitutes news, but its nevertheless timely that a Virgin Media funded survey again reports that people who use unlicensed music also spend more on licensed music, too: The study - funded by Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) - says a third of adults go illegal. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why We Should Debate Loan Expiration

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 480
  By Suzy Marinkovich, KF 8/9 As you may have seen, over the past couple of months Kiva has seen its first loans expire on the site.  Currently, I am in my eighth week of working with a brand-new Kiva partner, CIDRE, an MFI specializing in agriculture and livestock loans in Bolivia.  I mention this because I’ve ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top Five Reasons Why Free is a Good Business Model & How We Plan to Use it to Retire Before Were 90

  
  B.L. Ochman's blog — Authority: 556
  Pawfun , the site I hope will one day allow me to say "I used to be a corporate social media consultant", is one year old this month. My partner, Caimin Jones , and I started out thinking wed sell a ton of t-shirts , customized photo note cards , and personalized pet photo greeting cards to pet lovers. Weve ...
  2 weeks ago

• Welcome to Lending Club’s New Investor Experience

  
  Lending Club — Authority: 456
  Lending Club continues to be a leading financial innovator. This time, we are pleased to present a completely new investor experience, giving you the tools that make it fast and easy for you to create diversified portfolios of Notes.   You can now create an investment order in seconds without sacrificing control, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Threat to Mandelson: if you attack peer-to-peer filesharing, we will wage digital warfare against you

  
  Telegraph.co.uk Culture Blog — Authority: 611
  Hannah Nicklin describes herself as “a brightly coloured playwright, tech-enthusiast, blogger and academic”. Among her interests are “the democratising power of the wiki-ethic”. And she is a strong defender of the contested Amendment 138/46 to the European Union Telecoms Package, which declares internet access ...
  2 weeks ago

• Android 2.0 Eclair: SDK Officially Supported

  
  DisplayBlog — Authority: 538
  Copyright © 2009 DisplayBlog . Visit the original article at http://www.displayblog.com/2009/10/27/android-2-0-eclair-sdk-officially-supported/ . Google announced the Android SDK now supports Android 2.0. a.k.a Eclaire. Here are the main updates to Android 2.0: Multiple Google and Exchange email accounts ...
  2 weeks ago

• French Record Label boss suggests that UK does like France

  
  No Rock And Roll Fun — Authority: 447
  The government is hosting an event called, Im afraid, C&binet; today. (Creativity & Business International Network is the reversed-out long form of the not-quite-an-acronym there.) One of the speakers was Jean Bernard-Levy, head of Vivendi , taking the opportunity to push three strikes onto the agenda. After ...
  2 weeks ago

• Leave peer-to-peer interaction to the humans, please

  
  Faster Future: Publishing possibilities now and beyond — Authority: 488
  I mentioned the word public domain in a tweet at the weekend. This was the automated response I received: I guess he thought I wanted a Domain? No he didnt. His algorithm did. Im sure HenryKhan (should he be a real live human being) could spot the difference - and avoid spamming me. Doesnt that kind of illustrate ...
  2 weeks ago

• CIRCLE Report: Peer-to-Peer Works, Registration Choice, and Absentee Ballots

  
  Kevin Bondelli's Youth Vote Blog — Authority: 430
  The October 2009 CIRCLE report has been released about college students and voting. Here are some of the findings: Students can be diligent voters with high turnout, both by absentee ballot and in local voting. Students who can vote in their home state or their college state are strongly influenced in that choice ...
  3 weeks ago

• CIRCLE Report: Peer-to-Peer Works, Registration Choice, and Absentee Ballots

  
  Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics — Authority: 531
  The October 2009 CIRCLE report has been released about college students and voting. Here are some of the findings: Students can be diligent voters with high turnout, both by absentee ballot and in local voting. Students who can vote in their home state or their college state are strongly influenced in that choice ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nice filesharing server youve got here. Be a pity if anything happened to it.

  
  No Rock And Roll Fun — Authority: 447
  Meet DigiRights solutions, a company whose business plan seems to verge on blackmail : After initially running through some pretty mundane stats about how much online piracy is costing copyright owners, the DRS presentation goes through their process of finding and pursuing users who illegally download songs and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bring in three strikes, and the terrorists have won

  
  No Rock And Roll Fun — Authority: 447
  For a while now, the default piracy/terrorism line has been that terrorists are making their money from flogging dodgy DVDs down the car boot sale. This has always had the scent of eau du unlikely - do you know how many wonky copies of Marley And Me youd have to flog in order to even buy the briefcase to put your ...
  3 weeks ago

• Peerblock Guide: Stop Prying Eyes Looking at your PC

  
  Big in Japan — Authority: 408
  Have had a few people ask me about this recently so thought it was about time I write up a guide on the installation and use of this software. About a year after I got here I received an email from my ISP saying that a movie company that will remain nameless had tracked my IP address from a torrent I was seeding. The ...
  3 weeks ago

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