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Disney Announces Pixar 3D Movies
Walt Disney has announced that Disney and Pixar will make eight new 3D animated films in the next four years.With the exception…
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Behavioral Targeting: Why This Hot Technology is Burning its Users
Privacy is Only Part of the ProblemBehavioral targeting (BT) has been around since the first dotcom days. In late 2007 it rose to fame again thanks to a few big promoters like Facebook; and in early 2008 it ignited a firestorm of debate that continues to unfold before us each day. But what is it, what does it claim to do and why the surrounding…
Another Yahoo Exec Slips Out
Imagine that you're watching one or two boulders rolling down a hill; in this scenario, you'd actually pay attention to the individual rocks. But if enough stones started to tumble, you'd become interested in the landslide as a whole, and that's more or less where the departure of Elizabeth Harz from Yahoo comes in.
Wikipedia Defers To Google
UPDATE 4/9/08: Seems there was some confusion sparked by this piece, which is, at best, a muddled, meandering, word-labyrinth posing as an unconventional, smart-alecky essay on web journalism/blogging. That's okay, any reader would find himself in good company lost amid my verbose effluvia. For crying out loud, I used a word like "bildungsroman" and made references not just to Roman mythology but also to an obscure…
Entrepreneur Media May Be For Sale
Rumor has it that Entrepreneur Media is up for sale; its asking price is supposed to be $200 million. And even if you haven't heard of Entrepreneur Media, speculation puts well-known names like Yahoo, Time, and R.H. Donnelly among the would-be buyers.
Facebook And ConnectU Reach Settlement
As with most legal battles, the ConnectU suit against Facebook has begun to drag out: first filed in September 2004, the legal battle over who originally created the source code for Facebook is still ongoing. Last July, a Massachusetts Federal judge ruled that ConnectU needed concrete evidence to bring their suit.
