New Getty Deal Compliments Flickr’s Photographers

Here's the less exciting side of a new development: Flickr users aren't being given any choice other than to go about their business as usual.  But on the more interesting front: Getty Images will begin swooping in to offer some of them commercial opportunities.

Google Launches Lively Virtual Rooms

A few days ago, Marissa Mayer wrote a blog post about Google's homepage, and an obsession with simplicity and clean design became almost painfully clear.  Now, her company's launching a sort of fragmented virtual world in which users can choose cats as avatars and hug each other underneath dinosaur skeletons.

Microsoft Enjoys Mild Patch Tuesday

Windows users and system administrators should breathe a little sigh of relief as Microsoft's light package of patches for July, but a recently discovered Critical problem with Snapshot Viewer still lacks a solution.

Blog Comment Ownership Question Resurrected

This is a topic destined for a courtroom one day, bitter enemies formed along the way: Can a blog publisher collect blog comments and publish them in a book? We addressed this topic weeks ago, with no definitive answer. The question arises again today as a result of simultaneous, otherwise minor, occurrences.