Compete: Meetup.com Helps Ron Paul Campaign
The rabid fan base of supporters for Paul's Presidential nomination run have made use of the Internet, particularly Meetup, to aid the…
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The rabid fan base of supporters for Paul's Presidential nomination run have made use of the Internet, particularly Meetup, to aid the…
There’s another rash of Facebook headlines today, and for once it looks like they’re all different. Keep reading—I’m saving the best for last! Lawsuits of late Facebook is always in and out of court. Sometimes they’re the plaintiff, such as in a case they’ve filed in federal court against some hackers, naming Brian Fabian, Josh Raskin, Ming Wu and Slickcash.com.
Here's a case that'll likely leave you with an icky feeling. A lawyer for a large company in Idaho copyrighted a cease-and-desist letter, and when an anonymous blogger posted the letter on his blog, the company subpoenaed the blog hosting company for the blogger's identity in order to pursue copyright infringement claims.
In the third quarter of 2007 half of all Mac users had paid to download music tracks from sites like iTunes, but just 16 percent of PC owners had done so, according to NPD's quarterly Digital Music Monitor.
It's hard to blame Facebook for trying to remove phony profiles - the social networking site has often been made fun of for, say, having over a dozen Jack Sparrows onboard. Facebook's employees accidentally went too far, though, when they disabled the profile of a member of the British Parliament.
You won't get to see the video; it was taken down faster than a…well, let's not answer possibly offensive with possibly also offensive. (But you have to admit, the list of French things that could be taken down quickly is virtually limitless, and most likely very funny to everybody but the French.)