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Lawgarithms Links for 7/20/07

Now that I'm smitten with keeping a link blog, I'll endeavor once a week or so to cull through it for things I think might be of particular interest to Lawgarithms readers. So, here we go. I'm curious whether you find such undertakings useful or not, so there's...

Tags: Social news, Social networking, Privacy, Patent, Live Web, Links, Licenses, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Copyright, Collaboration, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-07-20

Viacom and YouTube lawyers and others are in violent agreement: intellectual property won't kill social media

There has been a good deal of violent agreement thus far here at Supernova, but I was pretty surprised at the degree of it we had on the panel I moderated this morning, captioned Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media? The answer was resoundingly "no," and the converse also...

Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences

Blog posts 2007-06-20

Digg and cracking HD-DVD: Reimerdes comes to social news

Techmeme is all a-flutter, and my ZDNet colleagues have been right on top of the Digg/HD-DVD crack story. Heres my quick take on things, as I run off to OnHollywood where Kevin Rose spoke this morning:Nothing says Digg has to respond to a mere demand letter under any circumstances....

Tags: Voice, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, Lawsuits, DRM, DMCA, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Supernova: will intellectual property kill social media?

Kevin Werbach just posted the draft agenda for the upcoming Supernova conference. Ill be moderating a session at the Challenge Day on June 20 titled "Will Intellectual Property Kill Social Media?," and weve confirmed the following stellar panel to take on this topic:EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney Fred von...

Tags: Video, User generated content, Social news, Social networking, MGM v. Grokster, Mashups, Live Web, Licenses, Lawsuits, DMCA, Copyright, Conferences

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Podcast on the law of business communities

The conference call Mike Madison and I recorded earlier this week in anticipation of our session at Community 2.0 more here and here is now available as part of the Bag and Baggage Podcast or from the Future of Communities blog. We talked about: Defining community and loosely-joined...

Tags: Attention, Blogging, Collaboration, Compliance, Conferences, Copyright, Defamation, DMCA, Free speech, Identity, Licenses, MGM v. Grokster, Social networking, Social news, Trademark, User generated content, Virtual worlds, Voice

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Take two: public conference call on the law of business communities

Our rescheduled conference call in anticipation of Community 2.0 details here takes place today at 1:00 p.m. PST/3:00 p.m. EST. Call-in details are here, please join us if you are interested.

Tags: Attention, Blogging, Collaboration, Conferences, Copyright, DMCA, Free speech, Identity, Licenses, MGM v. Grokster, Social networking, Social news, User generated content, Virtual worlds, Voice

Blog posts 2007-03-07

Join us Monday for a public conference call on the law of business communities

In connection with our session at the the upcoming Community 2.0 conference, law professor Mike Madison and I will be hosting a public conference call on Monday, February 26 beginning at 1:00 p.m. PST, and wed love your participation to help us hone in on the ownership considerations (IP;...

Tags: Blogging, Conferences, Copyright, DMCA, Free speech, Identity, Licenses, MGM v. Grokster, Social networking, Social news, User generated content, Voice, Collaboration, Compliance, Attention

Blog posts 2007-02-23

The Web's video library includes Saddam Hussein's uncut execution

As law professor, blogger, and sentencing law expert Douglas A. Berman writes, "[a]ll over the blogosphere, one can now access an uncut video of Saddam Husseins hanging." Good discussion in the comments there. Its not what I usually have in mind when I talk about participatory law, but...

Tags: Video, Free speech, Social news, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-01-02

Additional Resources

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Photos: Emerging devices at AT&T Labs

AT&T Labs in San Francisco opens its doors to show off its Emerging Devices division, as well as some research projects around location-based services, social networking, and medical devices of the future. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, AT&T Labs, Social Networking, Healthcare, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-11-05

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

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.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

The long and winding road to MSN's reinvention as a social hub

MSN, why bother?I remember what a turd-fest the original MSN was. When I got my DSL from Qwest a few years back, MSN was the service provider. So my last peek at MSN was in June 2007 and I never went back there -- it was still a crap-fest. How...

Tags: MSN

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

News to know: Ruiz, Moffat resign; Microsoft; Psystar; Smartphones

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.: Sam Diaz: Ruiz resigns as GlobalFoundries chairman; no mention of insider trading scandal Moffat no longer with IBM as...

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, CBS Interactive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Smartphone, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Mainframes, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Servers, Hardware, Sales

Blog posts 2009-11-03

News to know: Microsoft store; Domain names; Blackberry Storm2; VoIP; 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.: Robin Harris: A visit to Microsoft's first store Zack Whittaker: Web addresses to extend to non-English languages...

Tags: Data Center, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Domain Name, Sam Diaz, Data Centers, Sales Strategy, Telephony, VOIP, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Networking

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Facebook beats the 'spam king'

Good luck collecting that judgment award. ntntRE: Facebook beats the 'spam king'Ive always wondered why governments/courts don't do more on tackling spam. Surely regardless of where they are based, some pressure can be exerted by the government, onto local governments, if they don't comply, limit/block the whole countries internet...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Government, INTERNET, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, e-mail, Facebook, spam king, spam

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Power Twitter 1.37 (Windows)

Power Twitter adds features to the Twitter Web interface including displaying Flickr photo and YouTube videos. TinyURL links are also unwound to show the destination page title. Finally, any additional social information (blogs, photos) that match for the Twitter user are displayed in a news feed in the side bar...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Microsoft Windows, TinyURL Link, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-30

CNET launches social news river

When I worked at ZDNet as a tech producer, the term "river" meant "flood of new content". I guess CNET uses the same terminology. CNET River is a new perspective on their content. It includes blog posts, videos, photo galleries, and Twitter updates from the staff: ...

Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., Blog, CNET River, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Facebook users targeted by Zeus banking Trojan

Users of the popular social network are being tricked into revealing their passwords and downloading a Trojan that steals financial data. Here's how... On the heels of one fake Facebook e-mail scam, a researcher warned on Wednesday of another such campaign in which users of the popular social network...

Tags: Facebook, Banking, Trojan Horse, E-mail, Spyware, Phishing, Social Networking, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, trojan, malware, scam, Adware & Malware, Elinor Mills CNET News

News items 2009-10-29

Thanksgiving Boom for Firefox 1.0.2 (Windows)

Celebrate the fall harvest, family and the things we're thankful for. We've gathered some great sites into the toolbar from online games and holiday history, to the recipes you'll need to wow the family. Explore the links, enjoy the theme. These themes are free and we switch your default search...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Brand, Theme, Toolbar, Microsoft Windows, Brand Thunder, Branding, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-29

Ecoboom for Firefox 1.0.1 (Windows)

Be green with this eco-friendly nature theme for your Firefox browser. Includes links to leading sites, environmentally friendly products and an easy way to contribute to rain forest preservation--you're browser is something to be proud of. These themes are free and we switch your default search engine to BING, ASK...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Brand, Theme, Microsoft Windows, Brand Thunder, Branding, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-10-29