- Microsoft discontinues Xbox LIVE support for original Xbox consoles and Xbox 1 games playable on the Xbox 360. Probably unlikely, but it seems like a good candidate for letting the community take over via an open-source or standards effort.
- How a Superbowl ad featuring Jay Leno, David Letterman and Oprah Winfrey came together.
- Choire Sicha, the popular former Gawker editor, interviews Paul Ford about his work at Harper’s Magazine.
- Twitter releases open-source libraries for Java & Ruby that will handle parsing Tweets. Covers features such as @username|mention|replies, #hashtags, and extracting URLs. Additionally they released a YAML-based conformance testing suite to help those who want to develop libraries in other languages. This is a gold mine of test data and a stellar approach to opening up their platform.