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Click Fraud Frequency Drops, But Grows Up
When your business relies on an increasing trend in click fraud, what do you do when the bottom drops out of the…
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How Newspapers Should Adapt To Digital Era
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…
MySpace CEO Shown The Door
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 Temporarily Disables OAuth for Security Reasons
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 Goes Social
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…
What Separates a Blogger from a Journalist?
The New York Times is running an article looking at "hyperlocal" web sites as replacements to traditional newspapers. The catalyst for the concept is obviously the fact that some newspapers have been dying off, at least in print form.
