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April Fools Virus Bigger Than March Madness
March Madness has been a very buzz-worthy topic over the last month or so, but as the NCAA tournament has gotten closer…
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Tweet Crazy
Courtney Love, rock musician famous for being married to Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, is being sued for libel after tweeting some nasty things about her personal fashion designer.
Nearly Half Get News Online in Spain
Research from comScore found that out of the total Spanish Internet audience of 18.3 million people in February, 8.4 million or 46% visited an online newspaper site.
Easier Flash/Facebook Integration
Update: More from the press release, which has since come out: Documentation, example applications and code are now available at http://www.adobe.com/go/facebook for developers to get started building rich applications with Adobe Flash and Flex software, and Facebook Platform.
Big Publishers Want Special Treatment from Google
Update: In an interesting turn to this story, the New York Times has eliminated 993,000 article pages as it rolls International Herald Tribune (IHT) into the NYT site. Instead of redirecting the articles to the same article on NYT, they all simply go now to one landing page.
YouTube to Collect Real-Name Data in South Korea
YouTube users in South Korea may have to confirm their real identities to use the site in the near future. There is a law in that country that requires them to do so and would require Google to turn over information to the South Korean government when asked. The Hankyoreh explains:
