Best Man Rigs Newlyweds’ Bed To Tweet During Sex. Not Kidding. When a man in the UK was asked to be the best man at his friend’s wedding, he was touched. So touched, that he promised not to pull any pranks before or during the wedding. After the wedding though, that’s another story. This man, who is choosing to stay anonymous, has set up this Twitter account for the sole purpose of automatically tweeting when the newlyweds are having sex. I’m not kidding. Read the entire tweet stream from the bottom up if you want the full story.
But basically, this guy was watching his friend’s house while they went on their honeymoon and he placed a device under their mattress. This device, which is similar to the one found here, is a pressure-sensitive pad that tweets out when sexual activity starts, when it ends, the force of the “action,” and a “frenzy” rating. December 9 saw the first such action. They’re on the job! And then it was over — 3 minutes later: They’re off the job! They’re on the job! 22 minutes later: They’re off the job! So why’s he doing this? Change Roiling Book Business. EBM Version 2.0 To a book business already rocked by the advent of digital delivery to handheld devices and subscription Websites for book content (see “Disney Makes Children’s Books Avialable Online”), add two more trends with game-changing potential: piracy and store-based print-on-demand.
A story in Sunday’s New York Times titled “Will Books Be Napsterized” raises the possibility that books end up like recorded music, where 95% of digital copies are unauthorized and industry revenues, including rapidly growing revenues from sales of digital copies, have dropped by half in the last ten years. A site called RapidShare is the source of the most illegal copies, according to the article, which reported that of 166 illegal copies of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol found on the Web, RapidShare was the source of 102 of them. A device that produces DVDs on demand is rapidly changing Blockbuster’s business model.
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