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  • June 2008

    • The Next Big Web Start-Ups

      newser  |  MIT Technology Review  |  Jun 28, 08 6:04 AM CDT

      The Next Big Web Start-Ups

      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

    • Surfers Beware: Danger Could Lurk at .hk, .cn

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 4, 08 3:57 PM CDT

      Surfers Beware: Danger Could Lurk at .hk, .cn

      A study by antivirus software firm McAfee warns Web surfers to be cautious of sites on certain domains, the AP reports, with corner-cutting registration companies often skipping security precautions. The domains .hk, .cn and .info were found to be riskiest. More »

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      Internet  • fraud  • website  • identity theft  • spam  • web surfing  • Internet fraud

  • May 2008

    • Bored at Work? Site Disguises Classic Lit

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  May 30, 08 2:08 PM CDT

      Bored at Work? Site Disguises Classic Lit

      Business world got you down? Want to escape into a classic poem or short story? The New Zealand Book Council has made a website to help you: ReadatWork.com. The site brings up a fake Windows desktop with folders and PowerPoint files, the Wall Street Journal reports. Click on them, and you get classic literature disguised as a business presentation. More »

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      literature  • website  • reading  • novel  • corporate culture  • office  • poetry

    • Online Friending Grows Stranger

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  May 18, 08 6:00 AM CDT

      Online Friending Grows Stranger

      How many online friends is too many? Facebook insists users can only have 5,000—and that's not enough for some, discovers Stephen Levy in Newsweek. "Who am I to say no to friendship?" asks one user who spends 12 hours a day on Facebook and has a waiting list of 500 would-be pals. Levy even discovers a mere potato on MySpace with 2,695 friends. More »

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      Internet  • Facebook  • social networking  • MySpace  • website  • Friendster

  • April 2008

    • 50 Ways to Hock Your Lover

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 26, 08 12:08 PM CDT

      50 Ways to Hock Your Lover

      Diamonds really are a girl's best friend, especially when auctioned off to sympathetic sisters on ExBoyfriendJewelry.com. EBay offers goods without much backstory, but the founders of the gem-hocking site put a personal twist on swapping, selling, and auctioning artifacts of toxic relationships, the New York Times reports. More »

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      divorce  • eBay  • website  • love  • jewelry  • break-up

    • Joie de Vivre Sapped, French Turn to Web

      newser  |  Der Spiegel  |  Apr 25, 08 7:20 PM CDT

      Joie de Vivre Sapped, French Turn to Web

      French website Vie de Merde is receiving all the misery it can handle, Der Spiegel reports. Since its February launch, France’s answer to group therapy (translated "life is shit") has posted 2,400 tales of woe. Another 40,000 are waiting in the wings, says its founder. More »

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      France  • depression  • website  • therapy  • voyeurism

    • Traffic On the Rise at AOL's Content Sites

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 25, 08 7:14 AM CDT

      Traffic On the Rise at AOL's Content Sites

      It's been a while since AOL was associated with rising numbers, but a jump in traffic to its content sites shows the company's transition to an ad-supported business is on track, the Wall Street Journal reports. The company redesigned its news, sports, and health sites and created some new ones after its 2006 decision to make its service free. More »

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      Internet  • Internet advertising  • website  • AOL  • Time Warner

    • Lieberman Campaign, Not Opponents, Crashed Site

      newser  |  The Stamford Advocate  |  Apr 10, 08 1:37 PM CDT

      Lieberman Campaign, Not Opponents, Crashed Site

      The FBI found accusations by Joe Lieberman’s campaign that challenger Ned Lamont’s supporters crashed the Connecticut Senator’s Web site on primary eve in 2006 to be unfounded, reports the Stamford Advocate after obtaining federal documents. Instead, it was probably Lieberman’s camp itself that brought down a misconfigured site with overuse. The senator’s campaign had accused its opponents and requested investigation. More »

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      politics  • website  • campaign  • Joe Lieberman  • cyberpolitics

    • Pizza.com Name Sells for $2.6M

      newser  |  Baltimore Sun  |  Apr 4, 08 8:55 AM CDT

      Pizza.com Name Sells for $2.6M

      The domain name pizza.com sold at auction yesterday for $2.6 million, netting a tidy little profit for a Baltimore man who bought 14 years ago for $20, the Baltimore Sun reports. Seller Chris Clark held onto the name over the years, making sure to keep up with the $20 annual registration fees. Then he read that vodka.com recently sold for $3 million, and "I thought, 'Why don't I just try to see what the level of interest is?'" he said. More »

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      Internet  • website  • domain names  • pizza  • web domain

    • Roomie Site Can't Match by Gender, Sex Preference

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 4, 08 7:10 AM CDT

      Roomie Site Can't Match by Gender, Sex Preference

      Roommates.com is violating fair-housing laws by asking users their gender, sexual preference, and whether they have children, and using that information to match them,  a US Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. Judges said such questions would be illegal if a real estate agent asked them over the phone and don't "magically become lawful when asked electronically," the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      Internet  • civil rights  • website  • housing  • discrimination  • Craigslist  • classified ads  • liability

  • March 2008

    • Search Feature Riles Retailers

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 24, 08 1:31 PM CDT

      Search Feature Riles Retailers

      Google has some other companies up in arms with a new feature that keeps the search engine front and center even when results are coming from a merchant’s website, the New York Times reports. Google’s new search-within-search feature brings up a search box that keeps the user with Google—which often shows ads from that site's competitors at the same time. More »

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      Google  • website  • online shopping  • Google Apps  • online search

    • Website Offers Post-Mortem Security

      newser  |  San Francisco Chronicle  |  Mar 14, 08 2:50 PM CDT

      Website Offers Post-Mortem Security

      Think of it as a safe deposit box for the dearly departed: A website in California allows subscribers to store digital versions of important stuff—wills, photos, credit card numbers, bicycle lock combinations, you name it—so beneficiaries don't have to scramble after the funeral, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Sounds farfetched, but AssetLock.net soon expects to have 1 million American and international clients. More »

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      Internet  • death  • website  • Internet security  • encryption  • will

    • Hookers Today Depend on Tech for Success

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 12, 08 4:44 PM CDT

      Hookers Today Depend on Tech for Success

      Eliot Spitzer's woes are shedding light on the new world of the oldest profession. Prostitutes and escort services use online social networking to find business, IMs to record the time spent with a client, and the web to make payment simpler and more private, reports the AP. New technology also widens the divide between "indoor and outdoor" prostitution, says a sex industry expert. More »

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      Internet  • Eliot Spitzer  • prostitution  • website  • instant messaging

    • A Brothel Manager's Guidebook

      newser  |  Slate  |  Mar 12, 08 12:19 PM CDT

      A Brothel Manager's Guidebook

      There are important lessons to be gleaned from Eliot Spitzer’s shenanigans. Namely: how to effectively run a brothel for the well-to-do. Using cached pages from the now-defunct Emperors Club website, Josh Levin lays out a business plan in Slate. Keep out the riff-raff: 92% of the club’s clients were CEOs Peddle the best product: The ladies boasted detailed, degree-laden CVs Set fair prices: A three-diamond prostitute is less talented than a seven-diamond prostitute, but she’s also one-third the price More »

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      Eliot Spitzer  • prostitution  • website  • prostitution ring  • prostitute  • brothel  • Emperors Club  • entrepreneurs  • online crime

  • February 2008
  • January 2008

    • Sir Paul Denies Heart Surgery

      newser  |  NME  |  Jan 31, 08 4:00 PM CST

      Sir Paul Denies Heart Surgery

      Sir Paul McCartney has publicly denied claims that he was hospitalized for heart surgery, NME reports. Earlier this month, the Sun reported that the legendary former Beatle had undergone a coronary angioplasty. But today, McCartney reassured fans and friends on his website that he had simply been tested for a "minor irregularity," and that he was in fine health. More »

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      heart disease  • heart attack  • website  • Paul McCartney  • Beatles  • false statements  • angioplasty

    • Thailand Axes Anti-Monarchy Website

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jan 6, 08 6:32 PM CST

      Thailand Axes Anti-Monarchy Website

      A Thai ministry has shut down a website critical of the country's monarchy, the AP reports. Postings on Sameskybooks.com questioned news accounts that all citizens mourned the king's sister, who died Wednesday, and criticized officials. "I think we're one of the few sites posting remarks against the monarchy," Thanapol Eiwsakul, who ran the site, told a Thai newspaper. "This is the price we are paying." More »

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      Internet  • politics  • website  • Thailand  • Internet service providers  • monarchy  • freedom of expression  • web hosting

    • Retail Scores Big on Unused Gift Cards

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jan 5, 08 8:20 PM CST

      Retail Scores Big on Unused Gift Cards

      Retailers are likely rubbing their hands with glee after shoppers snapped up $97 billion in gift cards this year, up from $83 billion in 2006. Why the excitement? The industry makes billions each year from “breakage," or gift card money that is never spent. Lost, discarded, or under-used cards amounted to $7.8 billion in “free money” last year, the New York Times reports. More »

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      website  • retail  • holiday shopping  • Maine  • gifts  • bills

  • December 2007

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