New Media Gives Our Kids A History We Never Had

Think about what you know about your great, and great great grandparents. Unless they were famous for something, chances are what you know about them is limited to what your eldest relatives can tell you and, if your lucky, there’s documentation of some kind, somewhere, perhaps decaying in a trunk stored in a decaying attic.

How to Notify Google About Content Theft

If you're a blogger who has been at it for a while, you've probably run across other blogs stealing your content at one point or another. These are commonly referred to as scrapers, and will often use your content to post Google AdSense ads and make money off your work.

Ticketmaster Agrees To Change Online Sales Policy

Ticketmaster has reached an agreement with the state of New Jersey about how it handles online ticket sales after complaints from users about how it redirected them to its reseller site TicketsNow and charged them up to 50 times the face value for Bruce Springsteen tickets.

B2B Buyers Engaged With Their Peers Through Social Media

A new report from Forrester Research, outlined by Groundswell, takes a look at how B2B buyers interact with social media—and by and large, they’re more engaged than their average peers. The report breaks down the use of social media by Social Technographic role by type of social media involvement (types explained in this PPT):

Facebook Needs To Follow And Not Lead On Privacy Policies

I took last week off, and it was a big week for Facebook watchers. Facebook decided to change its terms of service, putting its millions of users on notice that Facebook owns their data and isn't planning any opt-out mechanism. Now, to many observers, including Chris Brogan and me, it's not news that free Web services own the data posted to them, but this Facebook…