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July 2008
- Domain-Name Rule Change 'Brand Owner's Nightmare'
  
  newser | BusinessWeek | Jul 1, 08 5:45 PM CDT
  
  The decision of an internet oversight body to allow more domain names opens the playing field to cybersquatters—who register domain names in the hopes someone else will have to purchase them later, BusinessWeek reports. No more is it a matter of simply .com or .net: Squatters may now buy up countless addresses, forcing brand names to keep a much wider-ranging eye on the web. More »
  
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  Internet • domain names • ICANN • World Wide Web • web domain • infringement
June 2008
- Google Teams Up With Family Guy Creator
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 30, 08 3:43 AM CDT
  
  In a unique advertising move, Google and Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane are creating an ad-driven internet cartoon series, the New York Times reports. Using its AdSense service, Google will place two-minute animated "webisodes" of McFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy on websites likely to draw the animator's target audience. Blended into the clips will be various ads. More »
  
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  Internet • Google • television • advertising • AdSense • Family Guy • Seth MacFarlane
- YouTube Warriors Redefine Politics
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 28, 08 9:21 PM CDT
  
  A glut of political amateurs who produce popular videos on the cheap for YouTube and similar sites is redefining campaign politics. The New York Times takes a look at the phenomenon, in which partisans with nothing but passion and a computer produce often scathing videos about McCain and Obama. The campaigns, meanwhile, are struggling to ajdust to "politics at the speed of the Internet," as one Obama adviser puts it. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • election 2008 • Internet • YouTube • Web 2.0 • political advertising
- The Next Big Web Start-Ups
  
  newser | MIT Technology Review | Jun 28, 08 6:04 AM CDT
  
  What’s next in the wide world of Web? MIT’s Technology Review lists 10 up-and-coming apps and gadgets to make communicating even easier: Pinger . Like texting, but with your voice: leave voice messages for your friends on the company’s server. Pownce . A microblogging service like Twitter—but users can send large files back and forth, too. Qik . Broadcast live to the Internet using just your mobile phone. Dash Navigation . Road-ready Internet access that lets drivers grab traffic info on the fly. Ushahidi . To help get the word out during disasters, text messages appear on a web-based map showing the texter’s location. More »
  
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  Internet • website • gadget • Web 2.0 • startup • Internet applications
- Facebook to Ask Users to Specify Gender
  
  newser | CNET | Jun 27, 08 3:15 PM CDT
  
  Facebook announced a seemingly minor change today: Users will soon be prompted to specify a gender for their “mini-feed” updates. The site has been using the awkward “themself” to avoid gender specificity, but Facebook managers say that doesn’t work so well when the site is translated into languages that ingrain gender into grammar, CNET eports. More »
  
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  Internet • Facebook • social networking • gender • gender roles • translation • Genderblind
- Yahoo Regroups, Again
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 27, 08 8:52 AM CDT
  
  Reeling after Microsoft’s failed takeover bid and bracing for a fight with financier Carl Icahn over board control, struggling Yahoo is once again restructuring itself, the New York Times reports. “Any organization change is disruptive,” said Yahoo’s president, but “the flip side of disruption is the opportunity for renewed growth.” But analysts say it’s all talk. “It changes nothing,” says one. More »
  
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  Internet • Microsoft • Yahoo • restructuring • Susan Decker
- Internet Group Eases Rules for New Domain Names
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 26, 08 1:17 PM CDT
  
  The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules today to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old addressing system. The panel, meeting in Paris, unanimously approved new guidelines to streamline review of proposed new suffixes; under the old rules, only 13 were approved in the last 8 years. More »
  
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  Internet • domain names
- Al-Qaeda Stuck in Web 1.0
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 26, 08 9:07 AM CDT
  
  At its height, al-Qaeda had mastered how to amplify the effect of real-world attacks with virtual representations—videos, audio recordings, and articles reproducing its mayhem online. But as the Web has transformed into a more social entity, the terrorist organization is " stuck in 1.0," writes analyst Daniel Kimmage in the New York Times . If America and its allies want to win the war on terror, they should look to YouTube. More »
  
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  Internet • al-Qaeda • YouTube • Middle East • social networking • Web 2.0 • Internet censorship
- Free Expression Comes to Domain Names
  
  newser | BBC | Jun 24, 08 4:25 PM CDT
  
  Domain names may soon be open for anyone to create, providing companies and individuals with unprecedented freedom to carve out their own corner of the Net, the BBC reports. The Internet's biggest shakeup in decades "will allow groups, communities and business to express their identities online,” sad the head of the independent nonprofit that assigns names. More »
  
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  Internet • domain names • Internet domains
- 'Dress Rehearsal' Tomorrow for American's Wi-Fi
  
  newser | Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Jun 24, 08 4:12 PM CDT
  
  American Airlines will offer a trial of its in-flight wireless Internet service tomorrow, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. "Gogo" will be installed on 15 of American’s 767s, and available on flights departing New York’s JFK for Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami. Free tomorrow, the service will eventually cost $12.95 on flights longer than 3 hours, and $9.95 on shorter flights. More »
  
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  Internet • American Airlines • Wi-Fi • business class • in-flight • Boeing 767
- Al-Qaeda Plenty Safe, Thriving on Web
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 24, 08 1:01 PM CDT
  
  Americans might think of al-Qaeda as a cave-dwelling group of primitives, but the terror group operates one of the most sophisticated propaganda operations on the web, the Washington Post reports. Al-Qaeda releases documentary-quality videos every 3-4 days through tightly secured channels. “It’s beautifully crafted propaganda,” said one expert. “You’re left shaking your head and saying, ‘Yeah, I guess they’re right.’” More »
  
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  Internet • al-Qaeda • Osama bin Laden • propaganda • cyberterrorism • terror websites
- For Web 'Game,' Everything New Is Old
  
  newser | Portfolio | Jun 21, 08 8:44 PM CDT
  
  Won’t these Internet startups ever learn about business plans? That's backward thinking, says prolific venture capitalist Joi Ito, who has a stake in the new website PMOG. “People make fun of the idea," he told Portfolio . “There are few sites, however, that have a critical mass where they usually don't figure out a business model.” More »
  
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  Internet • Internet advertising • Web 2.0 • venture capital • multiplayer games • Internet startups
- Amazon Kept Laughing After Dot-Com Bust
  
  newser | Economist | Jun 20, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  Yahoo, eBay, and Amazon emerged from the dot-com bust as a mighty triumvirate, but only Amazon has kept its mojo in the decade's latter stages, the Economist reports. Yahoo, the oldest of the lot at 14, shooed away Microsoft, surrendered part of its business to Google, and failed to stay current. It survives, “but on the web’s equivalent of life support." More »
  
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  Internet • Google • Yahoo • eBay • Jerry Yang • Jeff Bezos • John Donahoe • Amazon
- 'Dudes Next Door' Spread Cool Via Email
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jun 19, 08 7:35 PM CDT
  
  Binoculars that can be discreetly filled with alcohol and a giant burger that requires the use of five napkins exemplify the "dude next door" cool that Thrillist.com promises with its daily emails, Meredith Goldstein writes in the Boston Globe . The 3-year-old site has 300,000 subscribers, say its founders, who hope to rival female-centric DailyCandy.com. (Just think "gadgets and beer" rather than "eyebrow tweezers," Goldstein notes.) More »
  
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  Internet • men • websites • e-mails
- YouTube Trying Longer Videos
  
  newser | CNNMoney | Jun 18, 08 5:56 PM CDT
  
  YouTube is testing some long-format videos for its site, anxious to increase the amount of ads they can display per view, CNN Money reports. The site has only a few videos longer than an hour, but is reaching out to independent directors at the Los Angeles Film festival this week. More »
  
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  Internet • Google • YouTube • Los Angeles • online advertising • ad revenue • revenue
- Skype Pushes Video Calls
  
  newser | Reuters | Jun 18, 08 1:06 PM CDT
  
  The newest version of Skype is designed to make video calls easier and more widespread. Skype 4.0, which begins public testing today, detects bandwidth and attached devices to make it simpler to use a computer to add video to calls, Reuters reports. Skype's president says that the resolution of the video is high enough that users can make real eye contact. More »
  
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  Internet • telecom • Skype • IP telephony • VOIP
- Four Japanese Busted for Copycat Stabbing Threats
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 17, 08 8:50 AM CDT
  
  Threats of copycat violence posted on Japanese websites have led to four arrests in the wake of seven fatal stabbings in Tokyo this month by a crazed attacker, AP reports. “I'm going to do it, too. I’m going to kill 100 people,” wrote one man. Last week's killings, in which a man drove a truck into a crowd before stabbing bystanders, followed warnings he had posted on the Internet. More »
  
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  Internet • Japan • arrest • stabbing • death threats
- Web's Growth Shows No Sign of Pause
  
  newser | GigaOm | Jun 16, 08 2:21 PM CDT
  
  Internet traffic continues to grow at an astonishing pace, GigaOm reports. A study by Cisco Systems has found that world network traffic will increase 46% from 2007 to 2012. By 2012, the annual bandwidth demand is estimated to become 522 exabytes—a billion gigabytes. More »
  
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  Internet • Cisco • Cisco Systems • bandwidth • growth • bandwidth usage • Internet infrastructure
- McCain's Web Connection Slow to Load
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 16, 08 11:16 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama, 46, is a known BlackBerry addict; John McCain, 71, has admitted he's a computer "illiterate." Needless to say, there’s a gulf between their online campaign operations. “It’s the difference between a horse and buggy and a NASA space ship,” one analyst tells Politico. Whereas Obama’s site embraces a Web 2.0 approach, McCain “is still a command-and-control, top-down candidate.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Internet • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • cyberpolitics
- Mourning Russert, We Mourn an Era
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 16, 08 9:16 AM CDT
  
  For those who still see politics as important and noble, Tim Russert was like a high priest presiding over a Sunday morning mass that drove the week's news cycle, writes David Carr in the New York Times. But as much as Russert was a key Beltway player, that mass was losing relevance fast—and his passing may be its death knell. More »
  
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  Internet • media • Tim Russert • Meet the Press • Sundays

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