I’ve just discovered an amazing service called Tynt being used on the Daily Mail website and can’t understand how I missed it before. What Tynt does is use a neat piece of JavaScript to add a link to any content that is cut & pasted from your website.
We’ve been using JavaScript to add links to images for years now (best script available here) but this is the first system I’ve seen that adds the attribution when text is copied.
If you want to test it just copy some text from this post into Wordpress or another blog editor and see the link at the end.
The service also reports on content and links being copied from your site in real time – apparently there are news sites using this script to generate 1000 new links every single day.
Tynt Insight monitors copy and paste behavior on billions of page loads per month across hundreds of thousands of web sites . Our data shows that up to 6% of page loads results in a user copying content! On a site that has 20 million page views per month – content leaves that site about a million times each month. Curren/> [...]
Microsoft announced today that the Kinect for Xbox 360 will include Kinect Sensor and the video game "Kinect Adventures," and that it will retail for $149.99 when it launches November 4 in North America. The Kinect Sensor will work with all Xbox 360 consoles (of which 40 million have been sold, according to the company).
The company also announced an all-in-one Xbox 360 Kinect Console Bundle for $299. This will include the new Xbox 360 4GB console, Kinect Sensor, and "Kinect Adventures." Additional games will be sold at $49 each.
"Kinect truly is a revolutionary product," says Josh Hutto, director of product marketing for Xbox. "We're bringing controller-free entertainment into the living room. With one purchase, families get Kinect and the most complete and affordable way to have fun."
Kinect, announced last month at E3, features video and audio sensors that eliminate the need for a traditional controller, while the user uses body motions and voice commands to play games, watch movies, and interact with other Xbox LIVE subscribers.
ABC News has published this doomsday piece by Michael S. Malone, who notes that while Google's Nexus One device is getting a lot of buzz, it won't rightfully challenge Apple's iPhone hegemony.
Google is expected to unveil the device Jan. 5 at an Android press event at the company's Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex. We know the device is made by HTC, runs Android 2.1 and is super fast, with a Motorola Droid-like big touchscreen.
Documents indicate Google will sell the phone online for $529.99 unlocked or $179.99 through T-Mobile with a two-year contract.
Read Malone's piece and weep, Googlers and Google Fanboys alike. Most of the piece is an unabashed tribute to how great Apple is, detailing how great Apple's iPhone is and how most of whatever Apple turns out for consumers turns to gold. If you dislike Apple, this may set you to Level Seething, or at the least redden your cheeks a tad:
It has taken nearly two years for Apple's competitors to field products that are even close to the iPhone; to identify weaknesses in the device (such as the lack of a real keyboard for texters, its commitment to AT&T as service provider) and respond. Apple, meanwhile, has used that time to continuously improve the iPhone - the result being that the company now dominates the smartphone world to a degree Apple hasn't enjoyed since the early years of the Macintosh.
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