In Depth: Why are games so terrified of sex?

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Jimdo Makes Running Your Own Online Store A Breeze, Loses Investor

People who use Jimdo to create and publish their own basic website know how versatile yet easy-to-use the tool really is – I know because I used the service myself to set up and manage a site for my wedding last year. And if these users now want to start selling something online through their websites, it wouldn’t involve as much hassle as it would have a week ago.

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New glasses-free 3D game for Nintendo DSi

Nintendo has released a new 3D game for the DSi in Japan which uses the devices in-built cameras to track the position of your eyes in relation to the two screens, and then delivers a 3D game world in line with the position of your head.

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Twitter To Add “Nifty” Site Features That May Make You Forget Third-Party Clients

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Catch up: this week’s most popular posts

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webOS 1.4 update now available for the Palm Pre and Pixi on Sprint

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Your view: How far do you trust Google?

Google is a company that it’s hard not to admire. In the last decade it’s swept aside all rivals, becoming so powerful on the internet that it’s almost synonymous with it.

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Social Graph In Mind, Twitter Starts Prompting Users To Fill Out Their Profiles

When it comes to user discovery, the best way for services to do it is to use your profile information. Basic things like your name, location, bio, and email are all helpful ways for other people to find you on a network. The problem is that a lot of users don’t bother to fill this out when they sign up for a service. So Twitter is now prompting existing users to do so.

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Hands on: Samsung HMX-U20 review

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How Does Compete Get Its Web Traffic Data? At Least One Way Sounds Very Sketchy.

A month ago, Jason Calacanis went on a rant about why everyone should boycott comScore. He felt they were using sketchy tactics to bully people into their pay-to-play model for measuring web analytics. He also noted that their free competitors like Quantcast, Google, and Compete would soon eat their lunch. Both Quantcast and Google (Analytics) offer direct counting of pageviews (but even these methods can be abused). But you may wonder how exactly Compete gets its numbers? It appears, that some sketchy tactics are (or at least were) employed, as well.

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