Teen alleging rape turns to YouTube
May 15, 2008
CNN
The video is hard to turn away from. A sobbing 16-year-old sits in her bedroom and, staring into a camera, says she has been raped. ...
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Facebook has a point where it comes to your privacy
May 15, 2008
Geekaholic / Aditya
Anyone who puts anything on a computer screen that they want hidden from public view should think again. The information stored on social networks doesn’t belong to them, because it is not the ...
Obama's sniper tale? When he stood up to Detroit's 'cold' ...
May 16, 2008
Top of the Ticket / Andrew Malcolm
Obama says no one clapped when he told off automakers, but tape shows a standing ovation. ...
Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden
May 16, 2008
TechCrunch / Michael Arrington
The scuffle today between Facebook and Google has very little to do with user privacy and everything to do with user control. A huge battle is underway between Google, MySpace and Facebook around cont ...
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Routine conduct at risk with MySpace suicide case
May 16, 2008
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news
(AP) -- Think twice before you sign up for an online service using a fake name or e-mail address. You could be committing a federal crime. Federal prosecutors turned to a novel interpretation of comp ...
NJ sex offenders charged for MySpace, Facebook use
May 16, 2008
Top National News on AOL
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) - Three convicted sex offenders have been arrested for surfing social networking Web sites and are believed to be the first charged under the state's new law that restricts the ...
Court sides with MySpace in suit over sex assault
May 16, 2008
MiamiHerald.com: Technology
Federal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. ...
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Demographics now available in YouTube Insight
May 15, 2008
Official Google Blog / A Googler (noreply@blogger.com)
Woman Indicted in MySpace Suicide Case
May 16, 2008
NYT > Technology / By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
A Missouri woman is accused of using a phony online identity to taunt a girl, who then committed suicide. ...
Report: Al Gore’s CurrentTV Offered $100 Million For Digg In ...
May 14, 2008
TechCrunch / Michael Arrington
Note: trust me, the picture makes sense once you read the quotes below. Sarah Lacy’s new book, Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of We ...
The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google ...
May 15, 2008
TechCrunch / Michael Arrington
Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesn’t involve openness or portability of data, it seems. Today they wrote a long 7 paragraph blog post to get a single poi ...
He Said, She Said In Google v. Facebook
May 15, 2008
TechCrunch / Michael Arrington
More details on Facebook’s banning of Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API earlier today. I spoke with Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly and Google’s Director of Engineerin ...
MySpace wins bumper spam payout
May 14, 2008
BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
MySpace has won $234m in damages from spammers - but has little chance of getting the cash say experts. ...
Mom indicted in deadly MySpace hoax
May 15, 2008
CNN
A Missouri mother was indicted Thursday in the case of a teen who killed herself after being taunted on the social networking site MySpace.com. ...
Mom indicted in MySpace suicide
May 15, 2008
MSNBC.com: Technology & Science
A Los Angeles federal grand jury indicted a Missouri woman on Thursday over an alleged role in a MySpace online hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide. ...
Experts Say MySpace Suicide Indictment Sets 'Scary' Legal Precedent
May 15, 2008
Wired: Threat Level / Kim Zetter
In their eagerness to visit justice on a 49-year-old woman involved in the Megan Meier MySpace suicide tragedy, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are resorting to a novel and dangerous interpretation ...
Facebook Connect blocks Google
May 15, 2008
Geekaholic / Aditya
We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users’ knowledge, which doesn’t respect the privacy standards our users have come to expe ...
Quiz: Are You An Online Jackass? [Webtards]
May 14, 2008
Gawker / Nick Douglas
Everyone has a little online jackass in them; some of us add people on Facebook too soon, some of us beg for votes on Digg, some make white whines on Twitter. But these behaviors can lead to more... ...
Dear Google: Facebook Is Just Not That Into You
May 16, 2008
Search Engine Watch Blog
Google FriendConnect friended Facebook. It looked as if Facebook (stocked with former Google executives) might become BFFs (best friends forever). Then Facebook blocked Google FriendConnect. The m ...
More Facebook chat goodness
May 14, 2008
Geekaholic / Aditya
Facebook will be (sometime in the future) opening up their Chat to be usable by Jabber/XMPP clients. Current aims at supported features are viewing online friends (and talking to them) and changing Fa ...
MySpace Suicide Case Yields an Indictment . . . But ...
May 15, 2008
Law Blog - WSJ.com / Dan Slater
Was Lori Drew surprised to learn that she committed a federal crime when she signed on to a social networking site using a fictitious identity? We wondered that today while reading an indictment that ...
The MySpace Suicide Indictment -- And Why It Should Be ...
May 15, 2008
Law Roundtable / The Volokh Conspiracy
Are social networks dragging down CPMs?
May 15, 2008
The Jason Calacanis Weblog / Jason Calacanis
My pal Mark Dempster over at Sequoia sent me a study on CPM's dropping.The key finding here, in my mind, is what I've said all along: social networks are great for traffic but horrible for advertising ...
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Battle Over Data Ownership on Gillmor Gang
May 16, 2008
TechCrunch / Michael Arrington
Epic Gillmor Gang today. Everyone went in with guns blazing over the data portability/ownership debate that has spilled out over the Facebook/Google scuffle. DataPortability founder Chris Saad was als ...
Essential Twitter Tools for the Social Media Climber
May 16, 2008
broadstuff / nospam@example.com (Alan Patrick)
Today on Planet Green
May 16, 2008
TreeHugger
:: Whip up a batch of Kelly's yogurt biscuits. :: Don't trash your old, favorite jeans. :: Stock up on organic, socially responsible tees. :: Test your tap water and then drink up. :: Live like E ...
Networking: How to Work a Twitter Party
May 16, 2008
GigaOM » FoundRead / Guest Column
Written by Larry Chiang, founder of duck9.com, which helps college students improve their credit ratings. He is also a frequent contributor to Found|READ. Networking has always been a high art in ...
Roundup: Facebook’s latest profile changes, Jangl sells, Kindle matters, and ...
May 16, 2008
VentureBeat / Eric Eldon
More on Facebook profile changes: The feed wall — The new profile is slated for launch later this year. The latest new feature the company is previewing: A “feed” portion of the new ...
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