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GetaFirstLife.com and Linden Labs

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I was wandering by Second Life interviews onsite at Davos. Second Life, the on-line parallel universe, is a controversial topic. Some folks are fanatical about it, and it's touching a lot of real world places. At the same time, I have heard that it is overhyped and that the number of participants is exaggerated.

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Thanks to BitTorrent, The 4-Hour Chef goes from being boycotted by Barnes and Noble to a bestseller

The Next Web

This helping hand came in the form of a BitTorrent Bundle , featuring Part 1 of the book, interviews, photos, and so on. Copyright infringement isn’t going to stop any time soon, but that doesn’t mean BitTorrent can’t keep helping out authors, musicians, and producers with the P2P protocol.

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8 best practices for running a successful hackathon

The Next Web

Copyright: NYU Photo Bureau. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion entrepeneruship How-To''s Profiles and Interviews YEC yec.co Everyone can have a laugh or reminisce when folks wear their hackathon T-shirts to work three months after the event. Adam Lieb , Duxter. Top image credit: Flickr/Elena Olivo.

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Artists are playing takedown whack-a-mole to fight counterfeit merch

The Verge

Someone sent me a screenshot and was like, ‘Hey, I just saw this ad on Facebook for your calendar’,” he said in an interview with The Verge. To spread their fake goods on platforms like Facebook and Amazon, counterfeiters take advantage of a legal provision that protects those companies from user-generated copyright infringement.

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How a band of P2P hackers planted the seeds of a unique expense management giant

TechCrunch

There were also rumors of the company planning to go public during our interviews for this EC-1, but they stopped speaking to us in March, and now we know why: Expensify confidentially filed to go public on May 3.

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Microsoft’s new 3D emoji include Clippy coming back to life in Office

The Verge

I grew up using Clippy, and it just seemed like a fun little Easter egg,” says Claire Anderson, Microsoft’s official “Emoji-ologist,” in an interview with The Verge. “We It’s likely that there were legal or copyright issues behind the decision, and interestingly, Microsoft actually filed for a Clippy trademark just last month.

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DJ and crypto startup founder 3LAU explains the value behind music NFTs

TechCrunch

But then when there’s a real, true owner, and you can validate that on-chain, it makes that other person look kind of foolish, at least within the web3 community,” DJ and NFT art collector Justin Blau explained in an interview on the TechCrunch podcast Chain Reaction. NFTs sold on Royal represent two things, Blau said.

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