links for 2009-08-06

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  IZEA Calls for Transparency, but Can Twitter Remain Pure? Ted Murphy Thinks So | All Up in Your Business | Fast Company
  I am glad to see that IZEA’s tools for Sponsored Tweets are pretty good at goading the hired twitterers to put in microsyntax that discloses the for-fee basis of the post. (And it defaults to “AD:” at the start of the tweet, which is the microsyntax I advocated.)
  (tags: microsyntax sponsored+tweets izea)
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  Moblin: a First Look at Intel’s Open-Source OS - Business Center - PC World
  “Moblin is an Intel-created open-source operating system for netbooks and, specifically, the kind of people who use them.”
  (tags: intel, os, moblin)
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  Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary, Censored by Apple
  “Apple censored an English dictionary.

  A dictionary. A reference book. For words contained in all reasonable dictionaries. For words contained in dictionaries that are used every day in elementary school libraries and classrooms.

  […]

  The list of omitted words includes some which have utterly non-objectionable senses: ass, snatch, pussy, cock, and even screw. (Ass and cock appear throughout the King James Bible.)

  Every time I think I’ve seen the most outrageous App Store rejection, I’m soon proven wrong. I can’t imagine what it will take to top this one.

  Apple requires you to be 17 years or older to purchase a censored dictionary that omits half the words Steve Jobs uses every day.”

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  You have got to be shitting me.

  
  
  (tags: apple appstore ninjawords)