Facebook revoked a user's vanity username yesterday- citing that it was "in clear violation" of their policies regarding impersonating people or companies. The problem with this? The username revoked was "facebook.com/harman", and the user's name? Harman. In addition to this, the Harman got a message earlier that day from an employee of "Harman International", offering various incentives for Harman to give up his username. At this point it appeared clear that Facebook's actions had been influenced by Harman International. That was yesterday. As of now, Facebook is going to restore the username to Harman, crediting TechCrunch for bringing the story to light.
Pre-Apology Story via TechCrunch
Post-Apology Story via TechCrunch
Earlier this week Youtube began offering 5 independent films for rent, and word is that they are in talks with a number of studios to begin providing movie rentals through the video sharing site. While it isn't clear what the plan would be with major studios, it looks like they are planning to set up a system for independent filmmakers where they set the price, and Youtube takes a portion of the earnings.
Mashable
An informal text input speed test done by Dan Nosowitz at Gizmodo produced some interesting results. The tested input tools were a full size macbook keyboard, an iphone, a pen and paper, a Palm treo with hardware keyboard, an Apple Newton, and a Palm Graffiti. In inputting the same 221 word passage, the unsurprising fastest input tool was the full size macbook keyboard. After that however, things get a little interesting: The iPhone keyboard is second place, at about 40% slower than the keyboard, 3rd place was the Palm Treo keyboard, coming close behind, and close behind that was a pen and paper- now taking twice as long as the keyboard. 5th place is the Apple Newton, taking nearly 3 times as long as the keyboard to input text, and in last, taking a full 4 times as long was the Palm Graffiti.
Gizmodo
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