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AOL Settles With States On Cancellation Policy
AOL has reached a settlement with 48 states and the District of Columbia over their confusing cancellation policy.
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Facebook? Why Now?
John Battelle asks a compelling question: why Facebook and why now? Scott Rosenberg of Slate follows up with another point: that Facebook’s friends definitions are all messed up.
A Basic Lesson On Marketing To The “Wego”
Raise your hand if you have heard the term "blego." Ok, that's probably not a good experiment since I can't see you ... but it's an increasingly common word being used to describe the hyperactive egos of many bloggers.
OS Licensing for SaaS
Open Source came before, if not provided a platform for, Software as a Service. Open Source Licenses have a big loophole for the most common method of software distribution today. Tim O'Reilly addresses this while making yet another argument for open data.
Hotlinking Pictures for SEO
Michel Telendro tells me it has become a search engine optimization practice (black to gray-hat, I assume) of hotlinking images from other servers... to rank your own site well in Google Image search results.
Social Media Burnout
When the web was relatively new, I worked with a large insurance company to help them begin a monitoring program, this in the days before eWatch and other monitoring services. After the program was in place for a few weeks, the media relations manager got in touch with me to tell me how much time the effort was taking. A few months later, though, he…
