If you watched the news over the weekend, you probably couldn’t escape news of eight teenagers accused of viciously beating a 16-year-old girl, with the intention of posting a video on YouTube.
MSN Dutch Digg Clone Forgets Spam Protection
Recently (I honestly don’t know when), MSN launched a Digg clone in the Netherlands, called MSN reporter.
You can submit your story, and others can vote for it or against it. The top stories go to the MSN.nl homepage.
Now the boys at MSN haven’t really thought this through, as they store what stories you’ve voted on in… your cookie-jar!
Google Opens Writely, Forgets To Tell Somebody
Google nearly sneaked this one in us. Late Thursday, Google quietly made Writely, the online word processor the company acquired in March, available to the online populace again. As 4PM EDT Friday, there’s still no mention of at the Press Center.
SixApart Forgets Censorship Is Bad
Tribe.net founder Mark Pincus went to Harvard Business School, not journalism school. This may have been the primary reason he was unsure if using a person’s full name to recount a sordid history was really a violation of privacy, like Typepad told him.