When you own the court, you set the rules -- Twitter decides to redefine Retweets. On the Twitter Blog, an announcement was made that Twitter is looking at Officially incorporating the ReTweet convention that evolved organically from the user community. We are still sketching out exactly how this feature and its API counterpart works. Sharing our thoughts before launching means developers will have the opportunity to prepare their applications. In a few weeks or so we'll launch the feature on our web site and because app developers had a chance to prepare, it should become available across most of the Twitter ecosystem about the same time. This way, we can all enjoy retweeting—however we choose to access Twitter. Unfortunately, one of my favourite ReTweet conventions doesn't seem to be addressed yet. This is the ability for me to 'add opinion or value' to a ReTweet. For example; [what a dumb idea] RT @bgrier Waxing the cat By changing RT to simply clicking on a RT link, there doesn't seem to be a way for me to comment and RT at the same time. We'll have to watch how this develops. Microsoft in the weird position of defending netbook OS pricing.  It may be me, and I appreciate his candor, but it doesn't sound like he's concerned about the impact on the consumer at all: Ballmer was frank with analysts about Microsoft's rationale for setting Starter's limitations. "We want people to be able to get the advantages of lightweight performance and be able to spend more money with us, with Intel, with HP, with Dell and with many, many others," he said. "With today's netbooks, we sell you XP at a price," Ballmer continued. "When we launch Windows 7, an OEM can put XP on the machine at one price, Windows 7 Starter Edition at a higher price, Windows 7 Home Edition at a higher price, and Windows 7 Professional at a higher price." Oh, and it also looks like Outlook is going to come out in the 2010 edition of MS Office for OSX. Some folk wonder why, when there are a number of excellent options already available for OSX. Apple, too, has worked to support Exchange within its own mail program and has said it will add improved Exchange capabilities from within Mail as part of its forthcoming Snow Leopard operating system. Eric Wilfrid, general manager of Microsoft's Macintosh business unit, said on a conference call that he couldn't really talk about how Outlook for Mac will compare to Snow Leopard, in terms of Exchange support, since Apple hasn't yet released the new operating system or detailed how the Exchange support will work.    And finally, a pretty good read at Ars Technica about Why we quit video games. Badly spaced check points are another easy way of booting the player out. As I found, oftentimes you'll simply not want to redo a section of the game that you didn't find enjoyable, especially when you had assumed you had bested that particular section of the game. You can alleviate this problem by saving more often, but you shouldn't have to; badly placed checkpoints are insanely obvious when they occur. After a big set piece, the game should auto-save. The quiet after a long firefight? Autosave. Your Turn So, did I miss anything? What online story really got you going this week? Link to it in the comments!