NYT: Facebook's Zuckerberg Lied To Us; Coke: Ditto
The "Beacon" fallout continues. The New York Times' Louise Story essentially accuses Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg of lying to her about Beacon's being "opt-in." Coca-Cola got a similar impression from...
A Well-Deserved Court Loss For Facebook
It should come as no surprise, of course, given it was essentially a legal temper tantrum on the part of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. — But a judge in Massachusetts wisely denied an inane reque...
Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy: Tracking users who opt out or are not logged in.
As follow-up to Ben's look at Facebook's Beacon system, I began investigating the extent of its privacy implications. What I found is extremely disconcerting.
Google Apps Presentation in Ann Arbor
I had the privilege to attend a Google Apps presentation in Ann Arbor last night. The event was hosted by Google in coordination with The Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce at the Boardwalk Creative Cente...
GameSpot editor (?) on fired reviewer [Jeff Gerstmann]
We never know for sure if the commentards are who they claim to be. But one prodigious poster with the new account "gamespot" is telling what reads like a credible insider story — it's written in edi...
One Laptop Per Child orders surge
Peru wants 260,000 machines; Mexican billionaire signs up — Despite slower-than-expected sales and tough competition from commercial rivals, the One Laptop Per Child Foundation of Cambridge is enjoy...
Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6
Newer breeds of browser such as Firefox and Safari have offered support for PNG images with full alpha channel transparency for a few years. With the use of hacks, support has been available in Inter...
Friending, Ancient or Otherwise
THE growing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Second Life has thrust many of us into a new world where we make "friends" with people we barely know, scrawl messages on e...
Pogo Stylus Tickles Your iPhone With More Precision [IPhone]
Pogo Stylus Tickles Your iPhone With More Precision — If you have fingers as big as chorizos and want to click with more precision on the iPhone, here's the Pogo Stylus. According to the manufactur...
WebFives/Vizrea aquired by Microsoft so download your content in the next 30 days
I set up a Vizrea account back in 2006 when they launched their service that was going to make it easy to get photos and video off of my camera-enabled phone and onto my PC so I could share it easily ...
Lots of Little Screens: TV Is Changing Shape
INEXPENSIVE broadband access has done far more for online video than enable the success of services like YouTube and iTunes. By unchaining video watchers from their TV sets, it has opened the floodga...
For the 2008 Race, Google Is a Crucial Constituency
LAST century, General Motors assembly plants were a regular stop on the itineraries of presidential candidates. This election cycle, Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., has become a favorit...
Comcast CEO sees 160Mbps internet in 2008
Remember that blisteringly fast channel bonding modem Comcast showed off earlier this year? Turns out that the firm's CEO is apparently aiming to roll out internet services that can reach up to 160Mb...
Search Engine Land Celebrates Its First Birthday!
Happy Birthday to us! Today, Search Engine Land officially turns one year old. Below, I wanted to share some thanks to all those who've helped make it such a successful year, and I'm going to save t...
Google Street Views Hides Your Face. What Took So Long?
Finally, Google's thinking about making its Street Views map completely anonymous, to protect the privacy of people that show up in the photographs. For its Europe Street Views version, Google will b...
Pogo Stylus Tickles Your iPhone With More Precision [IPhone]
Pogo Stylus Tickles Your iPhone With More Precision — If you have fingers as big as chorizos and want to click with more precision on the iPhone, here's the Pogo Stylus. According to the manufactur...