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- Lessig: Don't fall into the four-year trap
- CNET News.com's Caroline McCarthy interviews Lawrence Lessig, Stanford law professor and co-founder of the new Change Congress project, about government corruption then and now.
- Tags: News, caroline mccarthy, laurence lessig, government, corruption, creative commons, but no tags matched
- Videos 2008-06-24
- Social networking on the 'New York Times'
- CNET News.com reporter Caroline McCarthy talks with Derek Gottfrid and Nick Thuesen, who developed TimesPeople, a new feed that lets people recommend stories to other readers on 'The New York Times' Web site.
- Tags: Network, New York Times Co., Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, News, caroline mccarthy, New York Times, TimesPeople, social networking, news
- Videos 2008-06-18
- Is the Web 2.0 economy in limbo?
- CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and reporter Caroline McCarthy wrap up the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco and discuss the current Web 2.0 boom and how long it will be sustained.
- Tags: News, dan farber, caroline mccarthy, web 2.0, san francisco, mark andreesen, social networking
- Videos 2008-04-25
- Toys Aren't Us
- Whats wrong with the toy industry? Im not the only one wondering. From the Toy Fair at New York Citys Javits Convention Center, my colleague Caroline McCarthy asks, Has The Toy Industry Screeched To A Halt?Sure, many of the exhibitors were familiar, but Caroline decries an overarching lack of...
- Tags: General, trends
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
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- Twitter, LinkedIn announce tie-up
- LinkedIn's 'status' feature now syncs with Twitter with an optional check box, a feature that the two companies say should be rolling out over the next few days. A new partnership between Twitter and LinkedIn lets LinkedIn status messages sync with Twitter. "The business-use case of...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., LinkedIn, Business Structures, Finance, Twitter, Caroline McCarthy CNET News
- News items 2009-11-10
- The FTC's guidelines raise ruckus, but are (mostly) unenforceable
- The Federal Trade Commission published controversial guidelines for bloggers and Facebook and Twitter users, but they are largely unenforceable. The FTC's rules are an encroachment on free speech, absurd in parts and far reaching. On the surface, the FTC's laws boil down to disclosure: ...
- Tags: FTC, Blogger, CNet News, Blogging, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- News to know: Microsoft; Google; Dell; Robo-pills; Android;
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: A close-up look at the new Office Web Apps Gallery: Office Web Apps Technical Preview ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Office, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Smart Phones, Federal Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Notify.me pings you when your feeds are fresh
- Notify.me is your content in real time. That means you can sign up for different feeds, and choose how that content is delivered to you. It's not passive feed reading. You are getting direct notifications of any content you choose. Imagine that you...
- Tags: Cell Phone, Service, Notify.me, Cellular Phones, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- FTC to go after product reviews bloggers who accept freebies
- The Federal Trade Commission is planning to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products while earning freebies or payments, according to an Associated Press report. That means bloggers who review gadgets -- such as this one -- would be subject to...
- Tags: FTC, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Follow Friday: Essential Webbies
- tweetmeme_url ='http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=551'; tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source = 'zdnetblogs'; Welcome to my new #followfriday series. Each Friday I will try to share with you a few people that I enjoy following on...
- Tags: Web, Twitter, Tom Merritt, Merritt, Channel Management, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Facebook now twice as big as MySpace
- Facebook is now pulling in nearly twice as many unique visitors worldwide as News Corp.-owned competitor Myspace, according to new statistics from ComScore. click to enlarge Roughly 222 million people around the world visited Facebook in December versus 125 million people for MySpace. (CNET's Caroline McCarthy...
- Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Operational Accounting, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- The Macintosh turns 25 (and how it was almost a Bicycle)
- Tomorrow, 24 January 2009, is the 25th anniversary of the Macintosh. On that fateful day in 1984 Apple released a little toaster of a personal computer that went on to become the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface. The embedded video...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Poll: Do you really use Wikipedia?
- "Wikipedia gets $890,000 for the Luddites," screams the headline of a post my intrepid CNET colleague Caroline McCarthy wrote earlier this week. If you haven't heard, the Stanton Foundation gave the Wikimedia Foundation the grant to hire three new developers and "commission research to identify the most...
- Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- News to know: Internet worm's 20th birthday; Windows 7; Apple patents; Ubuntu
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 to scale to 256 processors Add Windows Mobile 6.5 to the Microsoft roadmap John Carroll: Windows 7 - user interface...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Patent, Internet, Microsoft Windows 7, Internet Worm, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs
- A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...
- Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube (and its users)
- On this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about all the search happenings this week--Google and Adobe, Microsoft and Powerset and the never-ending Microhoo saga--as well as the Viacom vs. Google lawsuit. It was a busy week on the search front. Adobe kicked off the...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Viacom Inc., Podcasts, Games, Internet, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose
- Updated: The latest battle in Google's ongoing court battle with Viacom over YouTube copyright infringement is a glass half full or half empty situation. In the half full department, Google scored a legal victory as a judge shot down Viacom requests for the search giant's search code and other critical...
- Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., IP, Video, Viacom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- AOL to offer "guaranteed" ad rates for Bebo and Facebook application developers
- In an attempt to attract developers to its own ad platform, AOL announced today that it will "guarantee CPM revenues to developers on Facebook and Bebo's platforms if they opt to use its Platform-A ad technology", reports CNET's Caroline McCarthy. If the offer sounds to good to...
- Tags: Bebo, Facebook, Advertisement, America Online Inc., Application Developer, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- 'Last.fm in a Box', ad-supported music service expands its "offsite community" strategy
- CBS continues to show signs that it understands the distributed nature of the net -- and no, I'm not saying that because it's in the process of buying ZDNet's parent company CNET. Today, Last.fm (which CBS purchased in May 2007) announced a major expansion to its "offsite...
- Tags: Strategy, Advertisement, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Last.fm, Box, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Facebook reaches safety plan with states
- Facebook has joined MySpace and inked a deal with 49 state attorneys general on a safety plan. Texas was the lone holdout. News.com's Caroline McCarthy reports: "We've agreed with 49 states and the District of Columbia to set up principles around Internet safety," Facebook...
- Tags: Facebook, Agreement, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Harassment, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
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