Scams on the Internet never cease to amaze me. Some of them are sophisticated, some subtle, and some are just downright absurd.
I’d recently discovered a mailbox that I had left unattended for several years. It had no anti-spam tool monitoring it, so it was mostly filled with really obvious spam messages and phishing attempts [...]
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When Google first released the 0.1 version of their Gears browser plug-in back in May 2007, I thought for sure it would be only a matter of a few months before we saw web applications taking full advantage of an offline mode, maybe a year at max. I think I may have grossly underestimated [...]
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Earlier this week I wrote about Google’s TOS (terms of service) which grant Google an irrevocable right over the content you post through their service. I took a look at Twitter’s terms of service, and found a rather different story which I thought is worth mentioning:
We claim no intellectual property rights over the material [...]
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When it comes to who actually owns the content you post online on your favorite social networking sites, the devil is in the details.
I happened across a great blog post from Chris Bucchere, founder and CEO of BDG – the folks behind The Social Collective. In response to a post about Robert Scoble losing his [...]
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Here’s my impression of a web 2.0 company making a pitch to a venture capital firm from between 2006-2008: I’ve got this really great idea to build this service that everyone will love, no one will be able to live without, people will tell all their friends about, and users will add their own content. [...]
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Social aggregator site Power.com, which allows users to access multiple social networking sites from one interface, got in trouble recently with Facebook. Facebook sued Power.com for storing Facebook user credentials within their own database and scraping what Facebook called "proprietary data" (i.e. user data). Facebook and Power.com are working towards an agreement to settle [...]
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CNET News has a long list of Google projects that are getting scrapped or otherwise cut back. In short, here’s the buzz:
Getting shutdown (now or soon):
Google Video
Google Catalogs Search
Dodgeball
Jaiku (may live on w/volunteers)
Google Mashup Editor
Rumored to be shut down soon:
Grand Central
Knol
Google Base
Google Notebook
I’d add: Google Sites to that list, too. But CNET didn’t call [...]
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