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eBay Boycott Having Minimal Effect
A three percent drop in listings at eBay this week could be due to a boycott kicked off by enraged sellers this…
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Australian Government Calls Porn Filters A Failure
The Australian government is calling its $85 million plan to filter online pornography a failure.The filtering project was part of the governments $189 million NetAlert program launched in August 2007 to protect minors from online sexual predators and to block adult content.
OpenDNS People-Powers Web Filtering
David Ulevitch thinks network administrators have better things to do than manage expensive web filtering solutions; he also believes 'free' sounds good for a price tag.
Valleywag Goes Porno
Valleywag's never been one to pull punches, especially if the punch puts at risk the more prudish element of the audience. But they've never, as far I as know, gone full-on NSFW at the site itself. Celebrity sex tapes are all the rage on the Internet, but do a search on Valleywag and only one result comes back—one for Gene Simmons.In a t-shirt, no pants.
SMX – Search Marketing Expo
Search Marketing Expo West is three-day search engine marketing conference, organized by Third Door Media. Beginning from February 26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, the conference will cover topics that involve not only fundamental and basic issues, but also up-to-date topics on future developments, forward-looking keynotes from leading authorities in search marketing and technologies.
Yahoo Gives Hadoop A Big Hug
Yahoo's done one impressive thing after another since Microsoft threatened to acquire it, and now, in a step that should make the open source community proud, Yahoo has announced that it's running "the world's largest Hadoop application, a 10,000 core Linux cluster producing data used by the Yahoo! Search Webmap."
