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Facebook censorship; Twitter raises another $15 million; Facebook's pending redesign

Facebook censorship; Twitter raises another $15 million; Facebook's pending redesignSystem allowing messaging between peopleI've got a great idea for a system that lets you send messages, uncensored, between friends.It's called PGP-signed e-mail.VC money, please.Kirkpatrick needs a dictionary and a lawbook1. The concept of censorship only applies to what a government...

Tags: Facebook, Kirkpatrick, censorship, Twitter

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

Facebook censorship; Twitter raises another $15 million; Facebook's pending redesign

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Facebook censorship.  Facebook is blocking certain messages between users under the umbrella of spam prevention, reports Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb: "If you ever get the...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Kirkpatrick, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Text messages bust mayor for adultery, perjury

If this was not already clear, the message is coming through loud and clear today. If you're the mayor of a major American city or, say, his chief of staff ... if you're a public employee using government-supplied computers, pagers, cellphones, cybersex is just a bad idea. In...

Tags: Message, City, Kirkpatrick, Gender And Diversity, Instant Messaging, Human Resources, Internet, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-25

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Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move

In a move that surprises few people, Plaxo is being acquired. The surprise - at least for some - is that it is Comcast and not one of the usual suspects of Facebook or Google. Comcast is Plaxo's biggest partner and provides hosting for all Comcast email subscriber address books....

Tags: Plaxo Inc., Comcast Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Marketing, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Is all publicity good publicity?

There's a well-known saying that all publicity is good publicity, but you have to wonder whether the team over at Radar Networks feel that way this morning. The company is behind Twine, which was unveiled to much fanfare at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit last November. Having...

Tags: Application, Network, Radar, Beta, Twine, Marshall, Aerospace & Defense, Semantic Web, Manufacturing, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-12

The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt

An application dubbed G-Archiver backs up your Gmail account to a hard drive with a not-so-nice twist: It swipes your user name and password. Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror outlines a chilling tale as told by Dustin Brooks, one of his readers. I was looking for...

Tags: Google Gmail, Password, E-mail, Business Ethics, Online Communications, Leadership, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-10

Why Twitter's failing

Right now, Twitter is a mess. Most of today, European users have experienced outages of varying length and even hard core Twitter fans are saying they've had enough. Some have talked of jumping ship to Pownce or Jaiku. Louis van Proosdij, in answer to TechCrunch France's Ouriel Ohayon offered: ...

Tags: Twitter, Marshall, Joyent, Rod Boothby, Patience, Manufacturing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Google and Facebook join DataPortability.org - better late than never

The big news is that representatives from Google, Facebook and Plaxo have joined Dataportability.org, a group setup to develop open standards to enable user data to be moved from one web service to another. Or as Marshall Kirkpratrick put it (over at Read/WriteWeb) "where users can take their data from...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, News, Social Networking, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Web Services, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Microsoft offers a Vista two-for deal

Microsoft offers a Vista two-for dealI should have kept my email.Why? It was French and not my language of English. At least the links were. :-) Did I take the offer? No, because I can get a better one elsewhere.sold 88 million copies of Vista at retail(to the channel, not...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-12-31

Facebook fbFund re-boots; tightens up terms and conditions

Facebook has sent out an email to those that have already applied to the fbFund, the company's grant for budding Facebook developers. Originally asked to submit applications by email, the social networking site is now asking interested developers to re-submit their proposals via a dedicated online application form. The reason,...

Tags: Developer, Facebook, E-mail, Online Communications, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2007-10-09

U.S. pushes WTO piracy case against China

U.S. pushes WTO piracy case against ChinaHow about this...If the Bush administration made companies pay more for the goods that they produce in China.... then maybe they wouldn't have to pirate American movies because they might actually be able to afford them. When things get too expensive then people pirate...

Tags: Free trade, World Trade Organization

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Interpol chief wants databases to track criminals

Interpol chief wants databases to track criminalsYour paperzzz ...I guess Hitler had the right idea after all, at least according to George Bush, Alberto Gonzalez, and now Interpol.The ends justify the means, even if it involves little things like torturing people, trashing the constitution, and intruding into every single facet...

Tags: database, Geneva Conventions, Interpol, POW

Discussion threads 2007-07-13

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee Unplugged: Semantic Web better than APIs for data access

Last night at the MITX Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange Technology Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, MA, the inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee was awarded the organizations 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award (last year, Nicholas Negroponte was the recipient). Prior to the...

Tags: Web technology, Video, Podcasts, Open Source, Legal, IT Management, General, Audio from TestBed Videos

Blog posts 2007-06-06

Why YouTube, MySpace are NOT worried

Is Facebook really the Anti-MySpace TechCrunch? Is Facebook really YouTube beware Mashable?NO, but Facebook IS a new Google. How so? SPIN, big time!From the New York Times, to the Wall Street Journal, to Fortune magazine AND to blogosphere heavyweights, Facebook has been spinning a whopping Facebook rules  tale, that even Rafat Ali now...

Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Video, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-05-25

SplashCast aims to take podcasting beyond iTunes

SplashCast has added a new use for its mixed media player: podcast syndication. MyPodcastNetwork enables the SplashCast player to support video or audio enclosures in any RSS feed so that users can create their own embeddable podcast channel -- which could be a single show, or a play-list of their...

Tags: Widgets, Video Sharing

Blog posts 2007-04-30

News to know: Patch fiesta; Boot Camp; Apache calls out Sun; Slow hard disks

Notable headlines: Clock is ticking on Apples Boot Camp beta.Ryan Naraine: Microsoft Patch Tuesday: Vista dinged again. New Word 2007 flaws, exploits released.Oracle patches to fix 37 flaws.Review: Nokia N95. Gallery left.Mary Jo Foley: Parting shots from parting Microsoftie. Larry Dignan: Microsoft naysayer bandwagon gets crowded.Ryan Stewart: How Adobe can...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-04-11

Interview: SplashCast's Marshall Kirkpatrick

Interview: SplashCast's Marshall KirkpatrickWhat need does this meet?I mean I drop a windows media player control on the web page and link it to the content. All done...

Tags: SplashCast, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Marshall

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

Interview: SplashCast's Marshall Kirkpatrick

SplashCast is a service that lets users create their own streaming media channels that can combine various media including video, audio, photos, and text. The result is then packaged into SplashCasts flash-based media player so that it can be embedded on any web site, blog, or social network page. When...

Tags: Video Sharing, Widgets

Blog posts 2007-04-10

Forget the Oscars, YouTube to launch User-Generated Content awards

Its like somebody forgot to tell YouTube that Time Magazines Person of the Year was YOU. Except that couldnt have been the case, as YouTubes founder and poster child, Brad Churley, was heavily featured in Times coverage. So why is it then that YouTube has waited till March 07 to...

Tags: YouTube Inc., nominee

Blog posts 2007-03-19

Twitter, the ultimate conference 'backchannel'

If the blogosphere is anything to go by, youd be forgiven for thinking that the South by Southwest Interactive Festival SXSWi was some kind of laboratory experiment designed to push the limits of Twitter, the micro-blogging platform created by Blogger and Odeo co-founder Evan Williams. Twitter is an SMS, IM...

Tags: Social networking, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Instant messaging, Cellular phones, Blogging, Twitter, SXSWi

Blog posts 2007-03-12