Google Acknowledges Reader Sharing Complaints
Even though Google has seen the feedback in the Reader support group, and probably read a blog post or three, they are dodging the obvious solution to the question of sharing items.
Radiohead To Rock The Web Again
As a followup to their much-discussed pay what you like download plan for ‘In Rainbows’, Radiohead will play an hour-long concert on New Year’s Eve featuring the album and some other tunes.
Uh Oh Google, HyperPhrase Is Back
Google may have thought they saw the last of HyperPhrase Technologies and their patent infringement suit over AdSense and AutoLink. That would be wrong.
Drupal: The Next King of CMS?
Earlier this month I mentioned on the Platinax forums that I was keeping an eye out on Drupal as a potential CMS for the future. This week Aaron Wall put his weight behind predicting that in 2-3 years time Drupal will be the CMS of choice.
Google Ruining Christmas? Get a Grip
Since I’m full of the milk of human kindness after a wonderful Christmas, I’ve been trying to remain calm in the face of all the Google Reader hysteria about shared items and so on — but wiping out on some ice yesterday and landing on my ass has made it hard to stay serene (combined with gashing my hand playing Wii baseball), so I can’t help pointing out that much of the moaning about “privacy” is just ridiculous.
Majority Of Kids Play Online Games
When it comes to what activities children do online 78 percent between the ages of 6-11 reported playing games in the last 30 days according to a survey from MRI.
Fox Nabs Santa Pug From Flickr
Television networks and sports leagues are pretty vigilant about protecting their content, and have gotten fairly nasty about it lately, especially in relation to the Internet. That righteous indignation doesn’t always go both ways, though, as these same entities can be lax when it comes to use of other people’s content.
Antigua Wins Ruling In U.S. Online Gambling Case
A ruling from World Trade Organization arbitrators will allow the Caribbean nation of Antigua to suspend its intellectual property obligation to the United States to compensate for the U.S. prohibition of online gambling.The decision will allow Antigua to take copyright-protected U.S. goods, like CDs and software and sell them without copyright protection. The value of the goods can total up to $21 million annually to compensate for the financial loss the country has suffered.
Information Overload Costing $650 Billion
Information overload is being called the 2008 "Problem-of-the-Year" by research firm Basex.
Google Reader Becomes Holiday Snitch
Google’s orchestrating its own Facebook-Beacon-esque fiasco with its latest addition to Google Reader. Users are miffed (to put it lightly) that their shared feeds were suddenly broadcast to anybody they’d had a conversation with via Google Talk or Gmail chat.