Archive for July, 2007

A long debate over how Facebook began is continuing in court, as the founders of social community ConnectU, continue their ongoing lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder of Facebook. Apparently, before he created Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg worked with a few friends on a project called HarvardConnect.com that also was attempting to connect college students [...]

Launched today (officially), News Groper is a collection of 70+ parody blogs written in first-person form with various “newsmakers” as authors. Well, people purporting to be the newsmakers, anyhow. No, Barack Obama didn’t really write that come-on to YouTube-based Jaimie (read post labeled: “YouTube debates round one: Wolf, I already miss you”). And Katie Couric [...]

Over the weekend, a story emerged from the world of Reuters concerning the social site Facebook and the quandary that is privacy in the era of Web 2.0. For the piece, the news organization sat down to talk with Chris Kelly, Facebook’s CPO (Chief Privacy Officer), to discuss what he considers the major element to [...]

There’s still quite a bit of noise traveling to and fro on the Web about SoundExchange’s perceived 11th-hour “change of heart” last Thursday evening, concerning Webcasters and the company’s proposed royalty rate hike increase. The new numbers were to be put into effect today, though it would be tomorrow – Monday July 16th 2007 – [...]

We learned last week that Google decided to make its Google Apps suite available to nonprofits. The company will offer the education-oriented version of its collection to such groups. Some rules apply, however. Firstly, Google will present its Apps suite to US-based nonprofits only. No word has been given on when or if the company [...]

Every so often, a new service comes across my screen that really gets my attention. In the case of MizPee, at first glance, it's a quirky mobile app that's bound to get a giggle or two from most folks. However, if you are a parent dragging kids around for errands or a public-toilet-a-phobe always concerned [...]

We all know what notification systems are, right? Most web users come across and use notification systems constantly, whether they are entering their email address into a short form to be updated on the latest happenings at a website or trying to be notified when a new web service opens for beta testing or public [...]

Here’s a piece of news so devoid of news yet so wonderful that we can’t help but give it a mention. It has to do with the ongoing spat between Google and Viacom, and this time involves Google CEO Eric Schmidt. According to a Reuters report, the company’s top spokesman was having a session of [...]

I gotta be honest. I didn’t think it would happen. But it did. The Web was abuzz with glee yesterday after news to do with a Congressional hearing, first broken to the world Thursday evening, filtered through to inboxes and RSS readers throughout the US – and even the world. The topic of discussion at [...]