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According to a German court in Hamburg, Google’s YouTube can be held liable for damages when it hosts copyrighted videos without the copyright holder’s permission. This case centered around three music videos by classical crossover soprano Sarah Brightman, but this ruling will likely have far-reaching consequences for YouTube’s operations in Germany. YouTube will now have [...]
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Continue ReadingOne of the few ways you can personalize your facebook page without learning FBML is to add boxes. I guess they are removing them to make room for more ads. // If they were making way for better friend finding and friend management I’d be all for it. But I doubt that’s what they have [...]
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Just over four months ago, at Chirp, our Twitter developer conference, I talked about how “Twitter is too hard” and what we’re doing to address that. One major area of difficulty I highlighted was getting Twitter on your phone. We did iPhone user tests and confirmed that even though there was a plethora of third-party [...]
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Given the opportunity, Twitter CEO Evan Williams will happily extemporize at a high level about the ideas that drive his company (which is now up to 145 million users). Williams contended tonight that the medium of Twitter is (gasp!) actually well-suited to handle information overload. Alltop RSS
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According to All Facebook, Facebook is currently testing a new “Subcribe to” feature that will notify subscribers when another user performs (as yet unspecified) actions. On the face of it at least, this would seem to be Facebook’s way to directly “follow” a user and/or possibly Pages. First of all, Facebook tries/tests a lot of [...]
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Continue ReadingSince 1997, when asked, I have provided access to college students (both Graduate and Undergraduate) to many of the events which I have been associated with. In keeping with this tradition, General Admission tickets for the upcoming #140conf: Boston are now available for the first 250 students who click on this link. Note: This offer [...]
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Billboard Magazine is best known for charts that rank the most popular music and musicians, which the weekly industry magazine started publishing in 1913 as a list of the most popular sheet music. Since then, topping the Billboard Hot 100 has become a coveted milestone for musicians, but the Billboard brand has lost some of [...]
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There was a flurry of activity today at the YBCA Theater in San Francisco as Apple unveiled a whole slew of new products and services to the public. With all of that information to remember, it’s no surprise that Steve Jobs may have let something slip out that he perhaps wasn’t intending to say. While [...]
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Continue ReadingGoogle is trying to ensure that you never leave GMail. Besides GMail being a fantastic email service, Google has continuously added features to keep you engaged. We have chat in GMail and various widgets like Google Calendar to add functionality. We also recently saw a cool revamp of the Contacts application which really did need [...]
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