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While this may be a blog about social media, search engine marketing, etc., I couldn’t help but notice today the dominant position Nintendo and their Wii and DS have taken in the battle against more upscale machines like the XBox 360 and Playstation 3, proving that Nintendo’s decision to maintain their niche was a brilliant one.

When the Wii came out around the same time as the other machines, many expected the high-powered X-Box 360 and Blu-Ray capable Playstation 3 would knock the gimmicky-looking Wii out of the water.
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Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider wrote an article today about the potential of the Amazon Kindle to reach iPod-like status and become one of the cornerstones of Amazon’s revenue going forward.

While the current Kindle is not much to look at and is rather overpriced, it’s winning over skeptics who initially thought it wouldn’t work. Attributes like the ease of downloading books and the relatively low price of the books that are downloaded are convincing people that this could really be a phenomenon in the making.

Of course, like early versions of the iPod, people are waiting to see what the next generation Kindle looks like, and how much use early adopters get out of the product. But a healthy number of sales combined with an iTunes-like purchasing model could bring in as much as $750 million a year to Amazon by 2010, according to Mark Mahaney of Citi.
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Robert Scoble and others are reporting that Twitter broke the story of the recent Chinese earthquake faster than even the United States Geological Survey.

Scoble, noted Twitter fiend and earthquake news follower, received tweets reporting the quake from Beijing as it was happening. Not only did he relay in the information before virtually any other source, but it was faster than the automatic reporting on the USGS site.
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Microsoft is attempting to counter the success of of Linux in ultra low-cost pc’s (such as ASUS’ Eee PC) by lowering the price of Windows XP Home and limiting it to certain hardware standards that would prevent the ULPCs from competing with higher-end machines that offer Vista.

Microsoft will offer XP at prices in the thirty dollar range to counter the rise of open-source Linux in small, low-end PCs, but only if those machines feature screens less than 10.2 inches, hard drives of less than 80GB, 1G of RAM or less, and a processor speed of less than 1 Ghz, although certain chips like Intel’s Atom will be allowed.
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Presumably in an effort to penalize serial P2P downloaders, Comcast is considering setting caps on the amount of content customers can download in a given month, and charging overage fees for users that go above the limit.

The preliminary limit would be 250GB per month. Comcast would allow one amnesty month per year, but would charge $15 for each 10GB over the cap customers use.

Comcast, which has a total of 14 million users, plans on testing out the new system in the coming months. According to them, only about 14,000 of their customers would actually be effected by the overage charges.
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