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Mozilla Labs: Help, We’re Out Of Ideas
The research section behind Firefox's parent company turned to the broader Internet community to find new concepts to mine.
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California Sues Online Travel Company
California Attorney General Jerry Brown is suing an online travel business for operating a "gigantic pyramid scheme" that recruited thousands of members with misleading claims that they could earn huge sums of money through its online travel agencies.
Reddit Turns Half-Life Meme Into CERN Gift
CERN will receive a wrecking bar from Reddit on behalf of its user community, a love of the game Half-Life, and a cheeky sense of humor.
Googler Proposes Twice Via Google Street View
See, here's how it works if you fall on the naturalist/biochemical side of love rather than the esoteric/spiritual side: The male species of human, as is common across non-asexually reproductive species, often makes grand gestures during the mating ritual in order to win the affection and devotion of the female.
Friendster Gets New CEO, $20 Million In Funding
Friendster is a social network that almost never gets mentioned in the same breath as MySpace and Facebook. Googlers living in Australia are also a little distance away from what's seen as the mainstream. Add these two things together, though - and toss in $20 million - and you have an intriguing development.
Major Internet Companies Agree On China Code Of Conduct
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have announced they are close to completing a voluntary code of conduct for doing business in China and other countries that censor the Internet. Details of the code of conduct have not yet been made public but Senator Dick Durbin (D-Il) was supportive of the companies' progress. "We must ensure that American companies operating in repressive regimes protect fundamental human rights," Durbin…
