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@thisissethsblog Headroom: The only thing worse than being able to say, "my boss won't let me," is having to ack... http://bit.ly/jYczlY The only thing worse than being able to say, "my boss won't let me," is having to acknowledge, "my boss will let me." Over the last fifty years, the amount of headroom offered to white collar workers has dramatically increased.... Link - Trackbacks

AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem: http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Link - Trackbacks

Superman threatens to renounce US citizenship: Conservative commentators and bloggers react with disgust to the ... http://bit.ly/mkvyKP Conservative commentators and bloggers react with disgust to the DC Comics superhero's decision Link - Trackbacks

RT @Aiannucci: Huge crowds already gathering in London for next Thursday's referendum. RT @Aiannucci: Huge crowds already gathering in London for next Thursday's referendum. Link - Trackbacks

Users Will Download 44 Billion Mobile Apps By 2016 http://tcrn.ch/kZBpTW by @leenarao There's no doubt that there's been both an explosion of growth in mobile app downloads and app stores. While Apple's App Store has dominated in terms of number of apps and downloads, Distimo just released a study that projects the Android Market will become the largest store in terms of number of applications in about five months from now, passing the App Store. Today, ABI research is reporting that the app industry is on its way to achieving 44 billion cumulative downloads by 2016. Similar to Distimo's findings, ABI reports that Android and Windows Phone 7 are steadily catching up with Apple in terms of downloads. Link - Trackbacks

Behind The Scenes: Record Labels Demands From Amazon http://tcrn.ch/lzrCRC by @arrington Amazon defied the record labels by launching an unlicensed personal cloud music service. (Disclosure: I'm CEO of competitor MP3tunes.) Music companies immediately expressed their dissatisfaction and Amazon public stated they would discuss licenses with labels. Since then considerable speculation has swirled about regarding licensing discussions Amazon, Google and Apple are having with the 4 major record labels. Dominating the discussions is the labels concern that personal cloud services will exacerbate piracy and erode their business even further. Consequently they want to impose substantial restrictions on any such service, but each labels has different concerns and demands. Below are examples of the startling limitations major labels wish to impose on such services. Universal Music Group is concerned that users will load pirated songs into lockers. Average MP3 players house more than a thousand songs and UMG believes that many were unpaid for. They do not want to see the billions of songs that came from P2P system laundered (think drug money) in a cloud service and become legitimate. Link - Trackbacks

RT @Queen_UK: Packed one's handbag for tomorrow's wedding (miniature gin, remote weapons button, reading glasses, iPhone, bag of peanuts ... Packed one's handbag for tomorrow's wedding (miniature gin, remote weapons button, reading glasses, iPhone, bag of peanuts). #royalwedding Link - Trackbacks

RT @gazedd: Feel sorry for William on his bachelor night, must feel weird stuffing money down a strippers' bra when every note has your ... RT @gazedd: Feel sorry for William on his bachelor night, must feel weird stuffing money down a strippers' bra when every note has your ... Link - Trackbacks

What Can an App Do With Your Twitter Account? New Login Screen Will (Sort of) Tell You http://rww.to/ij5Rus Twitter has taken to redesign the OAuth screen - the screen you see whenever you decide to login to an application using your Twitter account - in an attempt to better show what you are agreeing to when you hit the "Allow," err, "Authorize app" button. Twitter developer advocate Matt Harris announced on the developer Google group this afternoon that they were working on refreshing the screen to offer "better clarity about what an application can see and do with an account."... Link - Trackbacks

RT @reggie_bush: It's been fun New Orleans.  It's been fun New Orleans.  Link - Trackbacks