Posted on January 28th, 2009 by Steve
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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Posted on January 26th, 2009 by Steve
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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Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by Steve
There’s been a slew of stories about people posting embarrassing or boneheaded things on their Twitter or Facebook profiles without realizing that their boss, friends or clients could see the posting, and that it ultimately led to disaster – stories including pictures of people spending the night partying, lying about calling in sick, or [...]
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Posted on January 19th, 2009 by Steve
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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Posted on January 13th, 2009 by Steve
Apple announced DRM-free iTunes earlier this month at MacWorld, which in part means that tracks downloaded from iTunes will work on other players. But there are still lots of details about the new DRM-free tracks to pay attention to.
Amongst them: it costs money to transfer existing purchases to DRM-free tracks, you can’t choose to [...]
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Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by Steve
The good news (depending on how you look at it, exactly) is that the RIAA has announced that it will no longer issue blanket lawsuits against individual file sharers. Instead, at least in the US market, the RIAA plans to issue a series of notices to your ISP. After each notice, it would be [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2008 by Steve
Loopt, a GPS-based geo-location service that allows you to broadcast your whereabouts on the web, is now available on the Google Android, including support for the HTC G1.
Loopt, as with Loki and Yahoo’s FireEagle service, are all in the same category of sites that I feel actually go a little too far in terms [...]
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