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  • June 2008

    • Facebook to Ask Users to Specify Gender

      CNET  |  Jun 27, 08 3:15 PM CDT

      Facebook to Ask Users to Specify Gender

      (Newser) - 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

      New York Times  |  Jun 27, 08 8:52 AM CDT

      Yahoo Regroups, Again

      (Newser) - 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

      Associated Press  |  Jun 26, 08 1:17 PM CDT

      Internet Group Eases Rules for New Domain Names

      (AP) - 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

      New York Times  |  Jun 26, 08 9:07 AM CDT

      Al-Qaeda Stuck in Web 1.0

      (Newser) - 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  • social networking  • Middle East  • Web 2.0  • Internet censorship

    • Free Expression Comes to Domain Names

      BBC  |  Jun 24, 08 4:25 PM CDT

      Free Expression Comes to Domain Names

      (Newser) - 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

      Fort Worth Star-Telegram  |  Jun 24, 08 4:12 PM CDT

      'Dress Rehearsal' Tomorrow for American's Wi-Fi

      (Newser) - 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

      Washington Post  |  Jun 24, 08 1:01 PM CDT

      Al-Qaeda Plenty Safe, Thriving on Web

      (Newser) - 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

      Portfolio  |  Jun 21, 08 8:44 PM CDT

      For Web 'Game,' Everything New Is Old

      (Newser) - 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 »

    • Amazon Kept Laughing After Dot-Com Bust

      Economist  |  Jun 20, 08 4:45 PM CDT

      Amazon Kept Laughing After Dot-Com Bust

      (Newser) - 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  • Amazon  • Jeff Bezos  • John Donahoe

    • 'Dudes Next Door' Spread Cool Via Email

      Boston Globe  |  Jun 19, 08 7:35 PM CDT

      'Dudes Next Door' Spread Cool Via Email

      (Newser) - 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  • e-mails  • websites

    • YouTube Trying Longer Videos

      CNNMoney  |  Jun 18, 08 5:56 PM CDT

      YouTube Trying Longer Videos

      (Newser) - 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  • Los Angeles  • YouTube  • online advertising  • ad revenue  • revenue

    • Skype Pushes Video Calls

      Reuters  |  Jun 18, 08 1:06 PM CDT

      Skype Pushes Video Calls

      (Newser) - 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

      Associated Press  |  Jun 17, 08 8:50 AM CDT

      Four Japanese Busted for Copycat Stabbing Threats

      (Newser) - 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