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Nintendo and Sony Give Up on SOPA

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Read about it here.

What I'm wondering about with the bill is:

  • How much support was there really?  I mean this thing (and PIPA) were pretty bad.
  • How much support that was really there happened because somebody in legal said "sounds good" and never ran it by anyone else?
  • For that matter, how far up the food chain do these bills get inside actual companies?

Someone out there who does research and writes on these things could get quite an article out of it . . .

– Steven Savage

My Little Sony: Thoughts on The Sony Outage

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Well you knew I'd chime in on the Sony Playstation Network outage and the SOE hack.  I knew I'd do it.

I expected the writeup to be done after the fact, since I write at times a week ahead.  I figured it'd be a measured analysis (and with an extra rant, perhaps).  I had all these expectations of what I'd do when PSN was up.

I didn't expect I'd write it when PSN was still down and this was still a developing story.

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Ecosystems: One Of The Next Big Things

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So as the smoke clears from the Microsoft-Nokia deal, one word stands out – Ecosystem.  Microsoft and Nokia outright discussed of creating an Ecosystem of technology in the mobile space.

"Plans for a broad strategic partnership with Microsoft to build a new global mobile ecosystem; Windows Phone would serve as Nokia’s primary smartphone platform."

This doesn't surprise me in the least.  The reason for my lack of shock is that the importance and interest in building technical ecosystems of products has been building for awhile.  It's been heading this direction for years -  several companies bilding ecosystems of products and services.

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