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You’ve been adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing all day long.

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Mathletes appreciate the Pi shower curtain

Sorry for the short notice but I thought it might be fun to toast to Turkey Day and the launch of our our Gift Guide.

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Reminder: New York Meet-Up is tonight, meet the CrunchBoys and Cali Lewis

Own a Zune HD ? Let me suggest you head over to the forums at AnythingButiPod and check out all the wallpapers

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High-quality Zune HD wallpaper source

Sorry for the short notice but I thought it might be fun to toast to Turkey Day and the launch of our our Gift Guide.

I’m teaming up with Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.TV for an impromptu CG meet-up in New York. We’ll be meeting at 7pm Friday at Heartland Brewery, 35 Union Square West, in Manhattan. We should be able to commandeer the back of the pub for our purposes.

Online advertising company Adknowledge has obtained the advertising business of SocialMedia.com, a social media advertising platform. The terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.

Adknowledge says that the move will “strengthen” the company’s position as a monetization platform for publishers of social apps and social games. SocialMedia, which company specializes in advertising across social networks, was most recently working with MySpace to develop and deploy ‘Interaction Ads,” which is an advertising product that can prompt a MySpace member for input and use that, along with MySpace’s social graph, to tailor the advertising shown to their friends.

Adknowledge has made four other acquisitions in the advertising space in the past few years. Cubics, which was acquired in 2007, delivers more than 700 million banner impressions daily to consumers using Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. The company also acquired Lookery’s ad business as well as Adnomics in 2008. And earlier this summer, Adknowledge acquired Super Rewards, a web advertising startup that offers points and rewards to users who sign up for services.

SocialMedia.com will continue to operate its social advertising platform to create ads for social networks, but its publishers who participated in the startup’s network will be moved to Adknowledge.

Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

As the TechCrunch Network’s resident mobile guy, I was given the task of writing up a list of apps for each smartphone platform that you ought to buy as little e-stocking stuffers for your loved ones. It was to be my primary contribution to CrunchGear’s ultra-amazing Holiday Gift Guide; my festively themed magnum opus.

But there’s a problem with this idea: it can’t be done. It’s not because I’m lazy (which may be true), nor because I don’t have any apps to recommend (which most certainly is not). I can’t recommend apps for you to buy for others, because you can’t buy apps for others.

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Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

What the hell? It’s been three years since I first joined this motley crew? I guess so. I’m a man of few words so I’ll keep this short. This is my last day with CrunchGear and TechCrunch. Thanks to Mike, Heather and John for giving me the opportunity to do something that I’ve grown to love over the last few years.

As a general rule, I tend not to like the flashy, semi-transparent, radically-designed PC cases. They’re for the showboats, the pro gamers, and so on. Give me a good steel chassis with lots of noise reduction and I’m set for life

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NZXT’s Lexa PC case is angular and attractive

For all the angst around the demise of Tr.im, the fact is that there are way too many URL shortening services in the world and inevitably more will fall by the wayside. There simply is no need for more than a dozen services to make long URLs shorter (and that doesn’t even count services such as Su.pr or the Diggbar which incorporate a URL shortener as a feature).

Already, the market is consolidating around bit.ly, largely thanks to it being the official URL shortener adopted by Twitter (which switched from competitor TinyURL back in May). Currently, bit.ly makes up 79.6 percent of the short URLs on Twitter, according to stats kept by Tweetmeme. It is followed by TinyURL (with 13.75 percent), is.gd (2.47 percent), ow.ly (2.26 percent), and FriendFeed’s ff.im (1.92 percent).

On Friday, before it shut down, Tr.im was no. 4 on the list, even with ow.ly. So when I say that Tr.im is not going to be missed I do not mean that it was not loved by some users. It was even moderately popular. But as you can see from the market shares above, it is hard to compete against bit.ly since it is Twitter’s default URL shortener. Twitter should just buy it already and put all the other ones out of their misery. Until it does that, it is in Twitter’s interest to keep a few alternatives in the wings. If it ever chose to switch to another default service, that one would grow to 70 to 80 percent of all short links within a few months as well.

In other words, if bit.ly ever slips on the innovation front, it can easily be replaced. But bit.ly is more than a URL shortening service. All of those links hold valuable data. Collecting that data plays into its grander plans to show users deep analytics and the most popular links being shared at any given time. Tr.im didn’t have any such plans. It was an afterthought of Nambu, whose main focus is to make a killer stream reader. If making URLs short (and mining the resulting data) is not your main business, it is hard to compete against startups who do nothing else.

Many developers and others find Twitter’s favoritism maddening, but that is how standards are created (right or wrong). As for Tr.im users who are afraid they will lose their data or that all of their short links will be broken, bit.ly has offered to create a short-link redirecting archive at 301works. Nambu should take them up on the offer.

What happens to those links is really what we should be worried about. Broken links mess up the Web. All URL shortening services should make a directory of all of their short links available where anyone (especially search engines) can look up the underlying long link where each one redirects. Maybe this is 301works or some other non-profit repository, but having all of these non-standard short links proliferate will just create more problems down the road when other URL shorteners inevitably fail. And fail they will, which is another reason for publishers to use their own custom URL shortener (we use Awe.sm) and always control their data.

Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

So you say you REALLY like Laura Croft, and Tomb Raider Legends really is your favorite game of all time. Here’s a way to let your short-shorts flag fly, with a custom bedazzler job containing over 43,000 crystals attached to the case. Supposedly coming from official Xbox marketing in Germany, and selling for yes, $11,000 dollars, only a few of these cases will be produced

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A Tomb Raider Xbox case mod, yours for $11,000