Man Arrested In YouTube Baby Food Hoax
A New York man who posted videos on YouTube claiming he had persuaded others to poison millions of bottles of Gerber baby food, with the intent to kill babies was arrested on Thursday, federal prosecutors said.Anton Dunn, 42, calling himself "Trashman," anonymously posted a series of videos of himself titled "gerbersbabyfoodalert" on YouTube. In one of the videos Dunn wears a black mask and says that Gerber employees acting at his direction have poisoned millions of bottles of Gerber baby food.
FCC Declares Comcast’s Filtering Illegal
It’s official, as far as the FCC is concerned, that Comcast’s throttling of peer-to-peer traffic was illegal and in violation of the FCC’s network neutrality principles. The highly expected ruling came down today, with Chairman Kevin Martin crossing the political aisle to join commissioners Copps and Adelstein, serving Comcast with a cease-and-desist order.
Yahoo Yelps at new search content from Local and LinkedIn
They aren’t monkeying around at Yahoo Search, but they are SearchMonkeying with more universal content in the search results.
Cuil Interest Shows Hunger For Search Competitor
Cuil, the search engine launched at the beginning of the week with brassy fanfare and progressive decrescendo on Monday, still looks about the same on Friday. It’s faster, at least, without 50 million—seriously—queries hitting its categorized servers. The images are still a bit out of whack, the categories still odd, the results certainly alternative.
Agents Can Search And Seize Laptops At U.S. Border
U.S. federal officials have disclosed that agents at the U.S. border may seize a traveler’s laptop or other electronic devices with no limits on how long they can hold them and without any suspicion of wrongdoing.The Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed the new policies that allow agents to search a laptop’s contents and share the information with other agencies and private organizations for language translation, data decryption or other reasons.
Banned To Unbanned At StumbleUpon
ProBlogger enjoyed significant traffic from bookmarking site StumbleUpon, until the site declared ProBlogger unwelcome at its domain; thanks to social media, that changed fast.
SEOMoz Dishes On ‘Give It Up’ Secrets
Rand Fishkin blogged about the little bits of secrets discussed at a session of the recent SMX Advanced conference; the session centers on some of the tips and tricks that aren’t widely known in search marketing.
Google and Yahoo Small Fries In Lobbying
When it comes to lobbying Congress, Google and Yahoo are relative lightweights compared to other companies. Both companies combined spent about $1.3 million last quarter–$730,000 from Google and $630,000 from Yahoo. Microsoft nearly doubled them, and Verizon, as a single company, has spent three times as much as all three.What issues were Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo lobbying legislators for?
One Fifth Of Marketers Buy Advertising For News Coverage
One in five senior American marketers polled said they had bought advertising in return for a news story about their company or product, according to a survey sponsored by PRWeek and Manning Selvage & Lee. The Marketing Management Survey, conducted annually in May, polled 252 chief marketing officers, VPs of marketing, marketing directors and managers about digital media and marketing ethics.
Mama Mia: Italian Firm Sues YouTube & Google
Copyright infringement accusations emerged from Italy as a TV company called Mediaset lobbed a 500 million euros lawsuit at Google.