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Screw Facebook: Suicide Machine to live on… in open source

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:39:31 +0000

Mortally wounded by legal assaults from Facebook, the “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” is no longer helping users of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace automatically dump their friends and wash their hands of those services. However, those behind the site are planning a last great act of defiance: Soon they’ll be giving away their code.

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Summary Box: Huge ‘botnet’ only slowed by takedown (AP)

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:39:19 +0000

AP – BOTNET AMPUTATED: An Internet provider thought to be helping spread malicious software was taken down, apparently cutting criminals off from millions of personal computers under their control.

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Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales (AP)

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:39:18 +0000

AP – In a victory for the concept album, Britain’s High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band’s original records.

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2nd mistrial declared in case against NJ blogger (AP)

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:39:15 +0000

AP – A New York judge has declared a second mistrial in the case against a New Jersey blogger charged with threatening federal judges.

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Pink Floyd wins UK court battle with EMI label (Reuters)

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:39:13 +0000

Reuters – British rock band Pink Floyd on Thursday won a court battle with EMI in a ruling that prevents the record company from selling single downloads on the internet from the group’s concept albums.

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When a Family Tragedy Turns Into a YouTube Sensation

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:43 +0000

It seems an ever-more common scenario: a death is captured in a photograph or video. The images are uploaded onto the Web. Within days, thousands, if not millions, of strangers have pierced their way into a family’s grief—gawking at the final moments of a life that were never meant to be public.

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Google Launches Google Reader Play for Apple’s iPad

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:42 +0000

Google Reader Play is a full-screen treatment that shows you an image, video, or text from websites that are popular on Google Reader. You can navigate from page to page with right and left arrows at the sides of the screen, or by selecting a site from the assorted options below. You don’t even have to be signed in to use it.

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Tracking When, Where and How People Have Sex in Real-Time

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:41 +0000

Part Twitter, part Google Maps, IJustMadeLove.com is the brainchild of Cyprian Cieÿkiewicz, a 26-year-old programmer in Poland who got the idea for the site in May. While driving home one night, he started wondering what it would take to create a Web site with flashing notifications representing where people have exchanged bodily fluids.

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EFF: Ending the EU Data Retention Directive

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:39 +0000

The German Constitutional Court issued a much-anticipated decision, striking down its data retention law as violating human rights. It was an important victory for Europe’s Freedom Not Fear movement, which was formed to oppose the EU Data Retention Directive. But it was also a reminder of the political work which remains to be done to defeat it.

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Digital mirror: fashion brands convey glamour online (Reuters)

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:29 +0000

Reuters – With videos of catwalk shows, pictures of glamorous models and a catalog of chic products, luxury brands are creating “digital mirrors” online as they turn to the internet to tap into growing e-commerce demand.

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