1 Toshiba seems ready to abandon its HD DVD format as rival Blu-Ray captures much of the (still very tiny) market for high-definition video discs. So ends the least exciting “format war” since orange juice cartons shifted from the tear-open-fold-out top to that little plastic spout near the upper center.
2 “Hillary4U&Me” (above), an attempt at a viral music video in support of Sen. Clinton, backfires, drawing comparisons to “Up With People in the Nixon era” and “audiovisual waterboarding.” Its real achievement, though, is to make even “I Got a Crush on Obama” seem sophisticated and contemporary.
3 A new site, InSpot.org, lets you tell someone anonymously that you may have exposed them to a sexually transmitted disease. You don’t need to add that you’ve also exposed them to a spineless lout.
4 iPhones have been the source of an astonishing 50 times as many searches as any other mobile device, Google said. This means either Apple’s revolutionary device is making people more comfortable with using the Web on the go or iPhone users, collectively, need lots of extra help.
5 For 33 hours last week, Oprah Winfrey’s Web site offered free downloads of Suze Orman’s latest book “Women and Money,” and more than 1 million people downloaded it. They’ve been paying attention to one of my key tips for growing personal wealth: Stockpile free stuff, even if you’ll never get around to looking at it.
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