Fast and quick this time around:
- TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is sick with the flu at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich. But if that’s not miserable enough, according to Robert Scoble’s convoluted TwitFriend feeding stream, someone did a spat and run on poor Arrington.
- Score one for the anti-paparazzis, New York congressman Pete King wants to introduce legislature to make sure cell phone makers always enable clicking sounds when taking pictures, copying similar existing requirements in Asia to stop the perverted and sneaky.
- Hulu is going to try to go even more mainstream by spending millions on a Super Bowl ad. They’re easing us making it super secret. I hope they use some kind of cute animal.
- Apple was granted a patent for its multitouch interface. Pundits are theorizing this will be used as an axe to chop away at Palm and their Pre phone.
- CNBC’s Power Lunch host Dennis Kneale is a technology and media analyst but that doen’t make him any better than you. MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe appeared on the show this morning to reassure the public they’re still relevant with the recession, layoffs, and Facebook being awesome. Kneale suggested that combat Facebook’s awesomeness, and $15 billion dollar evaluation, that News Corp. should split MySpace off and let the market decide. At least DeWolfe didn’t laugh too loud when he replied that the idea wouldn’t work.
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