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We knew this was coming, but Yahoo has announcing that it will not longer support Yahoo Buzz, its a Digg-like product where users can rank stories from publishers.

According to a message on the Buzz website: Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of this date, you will be unable to access the Yahoo!

Buzz site. This was a hard decision. However this will help us focus on our core strengths and new innovations.

We appreciate your patronage. The Yahoo! Buzz Team.

Reader David Carter sends in this bizarrely uninformed column by Christopher Mims at the MIT Tech review, praising patent trolls and calling them "the secret heroes of the tech world." Carter notes that when he first read the article he thought it was satire.

I can see why he thought that as well, but it appears to be serious.

Two game theorists have shown in a recent paper that it may not only be exposure that begets popularity. Social influences in a network can boost new innovations up, as well as slow them down, depending on the network's structure.

With Apple and Nokia already locked in a patent nuclear war involving lawsuits filed back and forth and back and forth, it looks like the same thing may be happening now in the Apple-HTC dispute.

The URL shortening market has been experiencing a renaissance ever since Twitter’s 140 character limit spurred the necessity of shorter URLs.

Twitter may be a toddler in terms of age, but when it comes to purpose the microblogging site has managed to become the most useful utility for keeping up with news and hot topics as they happen.