Luby's Digs in for a Proxy Pummeling
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The company is doing a little better in some ways -- but better enough to save the board?
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They are running for the hills but the end of the trail is Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand, and lost his life. Of course the Indians didn't do too well either. AP: "Girding for a potential threat from Apple Inc., online DVD rental service Netflix Inc. is lifting its limits on how long most subscribers can watch movies and television shows over high-speed Internet connections." Please oh Netflix strategy gods, get a copy of Marketing Warfare and read it. Netflix owns what used to be a great hill, for some it might still be one, the movies-by-mail hill. They obviously feel they need to be in the Internet movie business, and in that they have a huge head start that they aren't using. They are being too damned fair to their competitors.  Give the users the ability to grant other sites access to their movie ratings. Build Netflix into the social network of movies. You're already there, but you need to make every other social network connect up to Netflix. You need to be the hub for movie-watching on the net. You're lucky that so far that's what you are. But soon you will have to fight for that too, and then it will be too late to try to force your competitors to connect to your site. They will have data that you want. Then the nature of the negotiating will change. Right now you have the data. Use that power! Make the users everyone think of Netflix as the place on the Net for Flix.
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Tycho:  Gabriel's ill-conceived Pong Pong challenge has brought out the wolves, and now the forest rings with their baying. Amaze Entertainment is holding tryouts internally to see who will leave our merry band in ruins. Upstarts from the DigiPen Institute of Technology will arrive soon to unseat the last generation as is the charge of all young men. "Suckerpunch" will cease to be a euphemism when one of their usually mild animators suddenly strikes my diaphragm.
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A social networking site is fertile ground for teenagers to slag each other. Violence can ensue and now some legislators want a law making online bullying illegal. By the Associated Press.
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By Cynthia McCloud, The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.  Sep. 17--COMPANY'S COMING.  I panic when I learn guests are about to drop in unexpectedly -- at best, they call a few minutes ahead, at worst I'm alerted to their impending visit by the crunch of gravel in the driveway.
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A promotion for the tools blog Toolmonger.com gives an audience a chance to watch a shack get hacked to pieces.
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A high-profile promotion proves as risky as it is bungled.
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Business & money: Retail Watchdog may be on trail of bullyboys whose threats drive down prices.
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P2PLawsuits.com, registered recently by the Recording Industry Association of America, serves up ads for nasty file-sharing clients. The site is described in a leaked strategy letter allegedly sent by the group. In Listening Post.
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Plus: eBay outlines policy on racist language. [News.com Extra]
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Comps are on the slide, as competitors appear to be gaining the upper hand.
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Legendary snafu Customers of Legend Communications have scuppered been by a series of mishaps at the hosting, VoIP and broadband provider this week.â¦
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Sometimes the people breaking the rules aren't your typical Rule Breakers.
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Tycho:  We have done things in the past which were not "for" you, or anybody else for that matter.  That isn't what's goin' on now.  What's going on now is we are shoveling dense chunks of fanservice into the site's iron belly, and increased fervor in that chamber makes each comic bend and groan to please you.
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Many people are finding themselves cornered by a loquacious stranger, especially one whom theyâre paying.
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Tycho:  After seeing Chore Wars mentioned yesterday, the opportunities for manipulating people seemed...  rich.  The possibilities for mashups based on this data are also rich - I wonder if it could be exposed, somehow.  When my charge is old enough to manipulate in this way, my crib is going to fucking sparkle.
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Lycos Europe has started to offer a controversial screensaver that floods spammers&#39; servers with requests for info, similar to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.