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Verbal Abuse And In-Fighting At TechCrunch 2008-03-15 08:22:54 It looks like the once informative and authoritive tech-news blog, Techcrunch is beginning to falter under the weight of it’s own ego, spiralling into school-yard bickering both within the ranks and with it’s supposed target audience of sillicon valley insiders.
Co-editor Michael Arrington, and Author Duncan Riley have been airing their petty insecurities on Twitter, which [...] Read more:Fighting
, TechCrunch
Microsoft Announces Acquisition of Rapt 2008-03-14 10:12:11 REDMOND, Wash. — March 14, 2008 — Microsoft
Corp. today announced plans to acquire Rapt Inc., the leading provider of advertising yield management solutions for digital media publishers. Rapt’s technology, along with its information and advisory services offerings, will become key components of the Atlas Publisher Suite, part of Microsoft’s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group. [...] Read more:Acquisition
Google: DoubleClick Employees Must Re-Apply For Their Own Jobs 2008-03-17 16:40:57 In a move that’s set to send shockwaves across Google
’s recently acquired DoubleClick, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has warned exsisting employees that the search giant has not yet decided who they will fire from the online advertising firm, and has ordered doubleclickers to submit their resumes to a Google committee for immediate review.
The move is [...]
ValueClick To Pay Record $2.9M To Settle Spam Charges 2008-03-17 14:07:19 Advertising network Valueclick has been charged by the Federal Trade Commission with numerous violations of the 2003 Can-Spam Act, including accusations of “serious deception” in offers for free i-Phones, plasma televisions and laptop computers.
The ruling states that offers for free incentives for consumers did not explicitly state in a “clear and conspicuous manner” that these [...] Read more:Record
, Settle
5 Startup Killers You Can’t Ignore 2008-03-20 08:39:29 The start-up game is a notoriously treacherous and risky business and although failure rates are particularly hard to pin down for web ventures, depending on who you speak to, it’s commonly accepted that as many as 50-65% of online start-ups fail to meet financial expectations (although I suspect this is much higher), and around two [...] Read more:Startup
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, Ignore
Online Reputation - Does Trackur Deliver? 2008-03-19 16:35:31 Trackur (www.trackur.com) is a brand new service that promises to take the legwork out of monitoring your online reputation by scouring the web for keywords related to yourself, your company or anything else that keeps you awake at night.
In a nutshell, it’s an aggregated ego-search for power users, allowing you to quickly see who’s talking [...] Read more:Reputation
Southpark: Every episode now free and legal online 2008-03-24 15:10:50 Confirmed: Matt Stone and Trey Parker have teamed up with Comedy Central to launch what could be the greatest website ever - South Park Studios, which promises to bring every single episode of South Park online
, in full high definition streaming video, at absolutely no cost to the viewer.
The full episodes will only be available [...] Read more:legal
Microsoft, Intel To Reinvent Computing At Berkeley 2008-03-24 11:14:06 Microsoft and Intel
have unveiled a plan to fund research into new programming techniques for multi-core processors that is set to change computing at a fundamental level and “break the industry out of a technological cul-de-sac that threatens to end decades of performance increases in computers”, by funding the University of California at Berkeley
.
In a [...] Read more:Microsoft
, Computing
6 Anti-Social Networks For Likeminded Losers 2008-03-24 10:21:08 Social networking: the art of making ‘friends’ online with scores of sickeningly jolly people you’ll most likely never meet.
If this description rings true, perhaps social networks aren’t for you - after all, the ‘real world’ caters quite well for the socially inept, so it was only a matter of time before a number of [...] Read more:Social
, Losers
Ask Won’t Ask Again.. Cease & Desist 2008-03-23 02:00:13 Search underdog Ask (www.ask.com) is apparently very unhappy with Palo-Alto based start-up, Askpedia.com for using the word “ask” in the name. Ask’s parent company, InterActiveCorp has issued a cease & desist order warning the fledgling start-up to remove any references to its intellectual property, stating…
“In using and incorporating Ask’s intellectual property in this manner, Askpedia [...] Read more:Again
Tweetburner - Track your Twitter Links 2008-03-26 09:46:33 Do you ever wonder what happens to the links you share on Twitter
? Well if you want to know just how your latest ‘lolcats’ tweet was received, Tweetburner could be a good way to find out if you’re an influential twitter-god, or just another face in the crowd.
It’s a great idea for power users who [...] Read more:Track
Sloan Foundation Donates Record $3M To Wikipedia 2008-03-26 08:17:48 Community-driven behemoth, Wikipedia
has received it’s biggest donation to date, to the tune of $3 million from the Sloan Foundation
. The donation will come in $1 million installments over the next 3 years and will help the Wikimedia Foundation hire more staff and improve the quality and reach of it’s content.
Wikimedia board member and project [...] Read more:Record
Facebook Hacked: Paris Hilton Exposed 2008-03-25 11:21:51 (Associated Press) A Canadian hacker inadvertently exposed a number of private photos of ParisHilton
when he exploited a security hole on the social network, Facebook
that allowed access to thousands of private images in user accounts. The images included a previously unreleased library of photos of Hilton at a post-emmy awards party and were [...] Read more:Hacked
, Paris Hilton
Microsoft ‘White Spaces’ Device Just ‘White Noise’? 2008-03-29 15:59:19 A wireless device submitted by Microsoft
to the Federal Communications Commission for testing has been pulled after a disastrous failure. The prototype reportedly stopped working after tests by the FCC, which is the second such device submitted by the software giant, as part of the White
Spaces Coalition, which involves a joint effort by Dell, [...] Read more:Device
, Noise
, White Noise
Juicy Campus Denies Fraud 2008-03-28 06:04:36 (AP) College gossip website JuicyCampus
(www.juicycampus.com) has released a statement denying allegations by a consumer fraud investigation that it violates a N.J Consumer Fraud Act by suggesting that it doesn’t allow offensive material to be posted by users.
The statement reads…
“JuicyCampus is a gossip website. We do not make any representations as to the truth or [...]
Blogger Beware - The PayPerPost/CIA Connection 2008-03-31 16:52:33 Arguably the most hated web 2.0 start-up to hit the internet, Izea’s flagship PayPerPost
may be more than just a money-hungry scam, for partakers in the paid review service, it could pose a very real threat to your personal data.
Allegedly funnelling every word you write, your name, postal address and bank details directly into a [...] Read more:Blogger
, Beware
ProBlogger Misses The Point: Launches PayPerTweet 2008-03-31 10:28:03 If like me, you find reading paid blog posts obnoxious and generally insulting to your intelligence, you’re not going to like this one bit. ProBlogger just announced a service that makes the insidious PayPerPost service almost appealing by comparison.
PayPerTweet sets out to do for twitter what PayPerPost did for blogging; in other words, try to [...]
Yahoo! Defeats High-Court Ruling On Sponsored Links 2008-04-03 12:20:36 A court has ruled that a lawsuit brought against Yahoo
! owned Overture for displaying ads for competitors when a trademark was entered as a search-term is “totally without merit”.
The case was brought when the owner of a London based catering business, Victor Wilson, sued Yahoo! UK, and Overture for trademark infringement by placing sponsored links [...] Read more:Court
Google News Myths Debunked 2008-04-03 11:55:25 Google has responded to frequent speculation by news authors about how the service ranks news items for importance, and how timing, and the use of images affects the chances of being featured.
This unusually open response from the search giant differs from their one-size-fits-all response of “It’s all in the algorithm” they tend to dish-out to [...] Read more:Google
, Myths
BBC’s Arrogant Response to iPlayer/ISP Outrage 2008-04-03 10:13:44 Not content with relying on government backed extortion in the form of TV-Licences to fund their corporation, the BBC is now eating away at your broadband speed with their latest weapon, the iPlayer.
ISP’s in the UK are unhappy with the 20% rise in streaming costs caused by the bandwidth-hungry iPlayer, and are having to absorb [...] Read more:Arrogant
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Phorm Is Watching You - Who’s Watching Phorm? 2008-04-04 18:19:49 If you’re reading this article from inside the UK (or soon, worldwide) there’s a good chance an advertising company called Phorm is watching your every move, and has been for some time. Three major ISP’s in the UK have been secretly selling your browsing habits to the company as part of a trial, which has [...] Read more:Watching
Facebook To Settle ConnectU Lawsuit ‘Within Weeks’ 2008-04-08 00:44:30 After a long-running battle between social networking rivals, Facebook
and ConnectU, the embarrasing episode may be coming to an end with Facebook (formerly ‘TheFacebook’) settling the case with ConnectU (formerly ‘Harvard Connection’) for an undisclosed amount.
The bitter row started after the founders of ConnectU accused Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook co-founders of stealing their lucrative idea [...] Read more:Settle
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Ballmer Furious As Yahoo! Trials Google Adsense 2008-04-10 07:24:50 After Microsoft recently threatened Yahoo
! with a 3-week ultimatum to “accept our offer or else” (the ‘or else’ being a hostile take-over), Yahoo! have responded with a bewidlering tactic to try and gain leverage in the bitter talks. For two weeks, Yahoo! will be implementing GoogleAdsense
into Yahoo! search.
The move is said by a [...] Read more:Ballmer
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Phorm Update: BT To Customers - We are Dropping Phorm 2008-04-12 10:31:49 After a brief phonecall with a BT representative this morning (who at first, denied all knowledge of Phorm) they finally got tired of my incessant badgering and admitted trials had took place, and when asked when the scheme would be implemented fully, he had this to say…
“..It’s [Phorm] not going ahead apparently. I’m told by [...] Read more:Update
Ameibo Offers Legal Movie Sharing 2008-04-11 07:58:46 According to Ameibo, this service is the only website in the world that pays you cold hard cash when you legally share the movies you buy or rent from them, which should not only satisfy all the copyright nazis who are getting their knickers in a twist about illegal file sharing, but promises to fill [...] Read more:Offers
, Sharing
Gawker Drops Three Blogs From Its Crapfolio 2008-04-14 12:38:01 New York based Gawker Media has sold three blogs from its impressively sized array of online publications, because Managing Editor, Nick Denton couldn’t care less about the subject matter, citing a failure to generate enough ad-revenue to make it worth the effort.
The three blogs being dropped are Gridskipper, Idolator and Wonkette, all of which are [...] Read more:Drops
, Three
, Blogs
Anonymous Turns Its Gaze To Virgin Media 2008-04-16 10:01:40 Not content with their campaign against the dangerous cult of scientology, internet activist group, Anonymous have turned their attention to an issue which affects more than just whacked-out celebrities - their latest target being Virgin
Media CEO, Neil Berkett.
The issue of net neutrality resonates with a great majority of internet users, and has finally come [...]
StickK - Put A Contract Out On Yourself 2008-04-19 00:18:48 With a slogan like “Put a contract out on yourself” I was half expecting StickK to be the brainchild of a masochistic hitman. I was slightly disappointed to find out it was quite the opposite - StickK is a service that helps busy people to improve (not extinguish) their lives by setting goals in the [...] Read more:Yourself
Ebay To Sell Skype 2008-04-18 23:35:23 Ebay President, John Donahoe has announced that its failing VoIP subsidiary, Skype
will likely be heading for the chopping block, after the calamatous purchase failed to live up to expectations. Ebay acquired Skype for $3.1bn back in 2005, in the hope that internet phone service would improve communication between its user-base, and despite rapid growth [...]
ISPs Open Door To Hackers - Entire Internet Now At Risk 2008-04-20 02:56:40 According to a security report by information risk management firm, IOActive, major ISPs in the US have created a massive security hole which puts the entire internet at risk, all in the name of making money.
Earthlink, an internet service provider has, along with a British advertising company called Barefruit, been engaged in the practice of [...] Read more:Hackers
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