Stories abound on the Internet. Here’s some thought pieces to tide over your Friday lunchtime, covering everything from Click Frenzy failures, PSN security failures (again) and… Stan. I’m never going to get used to typing “Stan” as a product name. Ever.
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- Click Frenzy has come and gone for another year, and Caitlin Fitzsimmons has an interesting piece looking at the growth of mobile shopping and whether it made sense for one bookseller over at BRW.
- Does “PSN Hacked” merit a headline again? Yeah, it totally does, and as Michelle Starr notes over at CNET, it’s probably time to change your passwords for PSN, Windows Live and 2K Games.
- Over at Gizmodo Australia, Luke Hopewell got hands on with Stan. That sounds weirdly as though it should be some kind of South Park joke, but it’s instead Channel 9/Fairfax’s upcoming streaming service, and Netflix competitor.
- Google’s Contributor platform offers an interesting take on the issue of online ads, offering a fee-based approach to not having ads on sites that activate it. Fascinating given how much money Google makes out of ads, or as Wired’s Issie Lapowsky puts it, Google’s New Service Kills Ads on Your Favorite Sites for a Monthly Fee.
- And finally, it’s not quite a new Game Of Thrones TV season trailer, but instead one for the upcoming Telltale Games video game series based on the TV series… which is based on the books. This all gets very confusing very quickly, but obviously, your favourite character dies horribly at the end. That’s always the way.
Lunchtime reading is just that; stories I’ve hit during the day that have stuck with me for any of a number of reasons. Read them, and learn things — that’s how the Internet works, folks.