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Here’s your scenario: You’re the CEO of an immensely popular social network with 175 million registered users, or just shy of the…
While some people might think that Ashton and Oprah on Twitter is the only news, the real social media story happening at the minute involves the FTC (the Federal Trade Commission).
It's not a news story--doesn't really rise to the level of newsworthiness--but people do seem to be talking more lately about the death of newspapers. Recently even Eric Schmidt of Google discussed how newspapers must find a mixture of advertising, micropayments, and regular subscriptions to fund their futures. To me, all this talk about how newspapers collect money is misplaced. Instead, I think newspapers must…
Big changes may be afoot at MySpace. Although the info's far from being confirmed, a new report claims that CEO Chris DeWolfe - in addition to at least a couple other execs - is leaving the company on what could politely be called an involuntary basis.
Twitter recently released a product called "Sign in with Twitter," which is basically the social network's answer to Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, etc. It's based on OAuth, but there's a security problem with OAuth. In fact, Twitter and Yahoo have both disabled OAuth support temporarily. Biz Stone talks a little bit about it on the official Twitter Blog:
Cybersquatting is not a new problem on the web. People have been squatting on domains for years. The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act defines cybersquatting as registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a…
