Twitter may be ready to introduce its own photo-sharing service as early as this week, say multiple reports.
The service will be announced tomorrow at the D9 Conference in California, with CEO Dick Costolo as keynote speaker.
Currently, there are a number of competing photo services for Twitter, with the most popular being TwitPic, Lockerz and Yfrog.
The new service shouldn’t be anything too mind blowing, but will be likely integrated into Twitter’s official Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Web apps/sites.
Twitter recently acquired popular client TweetDeck for $40 million.
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Cory Doctorow, the keynote speaker at the O’Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair, had a few choice words for publishers who continue to use DRM on their e-books, calling them “the real pirates,” and “bent on the destruction of publishing.”
Doctorow is the author of the Boing-Boing blog and long time activist in the industry.
Says Doctorow, via BookSeller.com: “Digital licensing systems currently employed destroy the bond between the readers and the book.”
He continued that DRM was a “farcical” way to exploit consumers, adding that “there is no mechanism whereby a retailer of a [print] book can take it away from you,” and that a system wherein that exists is “insane.”
Doctorow concluded that the “most valuable asset that publishers have” is the knowledge that a book “is passed to kids or has come from your parents”.
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Microsoft’s GDC keynote speaker, John Schappert has announced that the Xbox 360 has reached another milestone, over 18 million units sold worldwide.
“I think that we’ve sold 18 million, the last time I’ve checked. 18 million hardware units worldwide,” said Schappert. He would not however, project sales for the rest of 2008.
The speaker also went on to say that the company would probably not even bother with an external Blu-ray drive for the console simply because the HD DVD add-on sold poorly.
“We have no plans to announce anything like that right now. But I’d also urge you to look at the attach rate for the HD-DVD drive,” he noted. “It was a 3 percent attach rate…you also have to take into account how did the other accessory do when you look at the future.”
