Porn Blogger Has To Pay While Others Get Off
We’ll try to get through this with as few inappropriate cracks as possible. The porn star/blogger Barbie Cummings, the one who a little while back opted out of illegal drug charges will still have to pay her speeding ticket.
YouTube Wins Brazilian Court Case
YouTube appears to be having a streak of good luck – first we learned that a ban in Thailand had been lifted, and now Google’s video-sharing site has won a court case in Brazil (this case had also, as it so happens, resulted in a block).
Powerset: The Robot Ninja Search Engine
Powerset, a company that focuses on “natural language search,” recently discussed its to-be-released-in-September search engine, and there’s some very interesting stuff going on. Very interesting, and very hard to understand.
Google Expands On Net Neutrality Issues
Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Google has put together a three-part blog post outlining Google’s approach to Net Neutrality, what the company feels is okay for broadband providers to do, what’s not okay, and where they have misled the public.
Wikipedia Benoit Posting Mystery
Authorities are investigating who changed professional wrestler Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to mention his wife’s death hours before police found the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.
MapJack: Google Street View For San Francisco
If you live in (or are going to visit) San Francisco, there’s a neat new website for you to use. If you live anywhere else, well . . . there’s a neat new website for you to look at. MapJack, which can be compared with Google’s Street View, only works in that one Californian city.
If You Spam Digg, Learn English
Gaming Digg.com has gone international. Or perhaps just retarded, as traffic-minded spammers shuffle in with broken English and a generally poor master plan.
China’s Brief Block On Yahoo Resolved
Google’s had its problems in China, but for a day or so, it seemed like Yahoo had been knocked out of the running entirely – the main site was inaccessible from within that country. The block has now been removed.
Pownce: Collaboration From & at the Hip
At first glance, Kevin Rose of Digg’s new startup Pownce is Yet Another Status Message Service (YASMS) like Twitter, Jaiku or Plazes. But really, its a collaboration app made for the most modern web. It’s bound for adoption because the founders can drive word of mouth and its inherent virality. And perhaps what it does is less important than the three trends it represents.
MSNBC Skips Social News Trend
Standing out for your online news offering is rapidly becoming almost impossible for publishers.