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Watch Out Trolls, Your Menacing Comments Could Lead to Big Fines
Written by Sarah Perez / October 23, 2009 7:44 AM / 24 Comments
Two former Yale University law students have settled their suit brought against some 30-plus anonymous commenters who posted derogatory remarks about them on an internet forum called AutoAdmit. The comments, Continue reading »


Netflix to Launch Streaming-Only Service...but Not in the U.S.
Written by Sarah Perez / October 23, 2009 6:13 AM / 6 Comments
During yesterday's Q3 earnings call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings revealed the company's plans to launch a streaming-only service which will allow users to watch movies via their PCs without having Continue reading »


CNN.com Gets a Radical Redesign
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 22, 2009 2:18 PM / 22 Comments
CNN.com, one of the top 25 websites in the US, just announced a radical redesign of its service at a press event in New York City. The new CNN.com homepage Continue reading »


Bing Keeps Growing While Yahoo's Steady Decline Continues
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 22, 2009 10:49 AM / 7 Comments
Google's dominance in the search engine market isn't likely to end anytime soon, but Microsoft's Bing managed to continue its slow but steady growth last month, even though the search Continue reading »


LocaFollow: Finding Local Tweeps Made Easy
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 22, 2009 9:56 AM / 4 Comments
While Twitter offers a decent search experience, Twitter's own search engine doesn't make it very easy to discover interesting local Twitter users. LocaFollow wants to change this. The service offers Continue reading »


Things Have Changed: Facebook to Open Public Messages to Search
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 21, 2009 4:38 PM / 9 Comments
Facebook began as a place for college connections, secluded from the prying eyes of the outside world, but today that era is officially over. Major Facebook investor Microsoft announced this Continue reading »


Yahoo! To Come Full Circle With News Link Curation Site
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 21, 2009 9:14 AM / 1 Comments
Yahoo! started out as a hand-curated directory of links and will now recognize the value of manual curation again in a new project to be run by respected online journalist Continue reading »


Firefox is Coming to Android
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 20, 2009 12:01 PM / 4 Comments
Mozilla plans to release Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox, for Nokia's Maemo, Windows Mobile and Android devices in the near future. In an interview with Om Malik, Mozilla CEO Continue reading »


Blogs on the Go: WordPress.com Goes Mobile
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 20, 2009 9:39 AM / 9 Comments
The millions of blogs on WordPress.com will now have a clean mobile theme turned on by default, removing most of the formatting and making the sites easy to load on Continue reading »


1,500 Newspapers Could Soon Support the AP's Controversial hNews Microformat
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 20, 2009 9:17 AM / 4 Comments
Earlier this year, the Associated Press, together with the Media Standards Trust, introduced hNews, a new microformat for describing news content. HNews allows publishers to easily attach machine-readable news semantics Continue reading »


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