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YouTube UK Blocks All Premium Music Videos
In the minds of some overdramatic and/or young people in the UK, it might be today, and not February 3rd, 1959, that…
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Google Docs Privacy Glitch Accidentally Shares Documents
On Friday Google contacted some Google Docs users to alert them of a privacy issue. Less than 0.05% of user docs were accidentally shared with people with whom they were not supposed to be.
LinkedIn Stands Out in Terms of Revenue
LinkedIn is a social network that often gets lost in the shuffle with greater attention being paid to Facebook and Twitter, but LinkedIn is making money focusing on its niche of professional networking. Marketing Shift, which notes that LinkedIn just came off its most successful quarter yet, takes a look at the network's "three-pronged" revenue model:
Google, Yahoo, MSFT Asked To Stop Censorship For One Day
It never hurts to ask. Representatives of Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International have written the CEOs of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft to see if they would please cease censoring things for just one day.
Twitter Meets Parasite Hosting
Google’s seemingly automatic trust of popular social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia make all of them—and by default, you, the end game—a target of spammers, scammers, and hackers. Combine that trust with Twittter’s foray into realtime search, and you’ve got yourself some spammer’s delight.
Self-Proclaimed “Facebook Era” Founder Wins Google Suit
Aaron Greenspan, a man known mostly for his legal issues with Facebook, recently sued Google when his account was shut down and payment of $721 he was due from pubslishing Google Ads was halted. One day Greenspan received an email from Google saying:
