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Et Tu, Lamar?
In 2008, an obviously important election year, 30 bills were introduced to Congress aimed at protecting children online; all of them failed.…
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Revenue Decline at TheStreet.com
Between the decline in newspaper performance and the dominance of financial reporting in the news, you would think that online financial publications would be one area that is flourishing in this economic downturn.
Megalomaniac Creates Digg Spam Business
A little chutzpah goes a long way, but this is chutzpah bordering on comical grandiosity. The existence of uSocial.net (sorry, kid, no linking) is audacious enough: The site offers a Digg.com gaming service (StumbleUpon and Propeller, too), where clients can pay to have submissions linking to their website voted up on Digg. But wait until we get to the press release about it—then things get…
eBay Highlights Trusted Sellers (and Other Tidbits)
eBay recently announced a change to product pages for books, music, movies, and video games last week - a change that will likely give sellers yet another reason to complain.
Google Transit Ushers In Another Update
Let's face it: public transportation isn't a sexy topic, and it's not really one of the fields in which Google specializes. But the subject does seem rather recession-appropriate, and the search giant has made a nice gesture by updating its Google Transit feature on Google Maps.
Firefox Extension Resizes Shortened URLs
Tools for shortening URLs have become very popular in the age of microblogging, but shortening a URL to incomprehensible code makes it impossible to know what you’re clicking on. The now quintessential microblogging service is Twitter, which limits messages sent to a group of followers to 140 characters. This makes it difficult to post URLs with long set of parameters that follow. The necessity to…
