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November 2007
- Expect Less Privacy, Intelligence Official Says
  
  newser | Associated Press | Nov 11, 07 3:40 PM CST
  
  Americans need to redefine their idea of privacy, Deputy Director of National Intelligence Donald Kerr said today, as Congress reviewed an August FISA revision that allows warrantless eavesdropping. “Protecting anonymity isn't a fight that can be won,” Kerr says, arguing that, after giving information away on MySpace, or to “some green-card holder at an ISP,” people shouldn’t worry about government surveillance. More »
- School Shooters Connect Online
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Nov 10, 07 6:40 AM CST
  
  The internet may be a training ground for teenage killers who were previously considered to be desperate loners, suggests the Times of London. Helsinki police believe that Pekka-Eric Auvinen, the Finnish 18-year-old who murdered eight fellow students before shooting himself Wednesday, had spoken in online message boards with Dylan Cossey, the Philadelphia teen arrested last month for planning an attack on his school. More »
- The Internet Didn't Kill the TV Show
  
  newser | New York Times | Nov 9, 07 4:19 PM CST
  
  With Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube, and widespread speculation that the dearth of material created by a long TV writers' strike will send more viewers online, there are still some economists who think Internet video could stimulate rather than stifle TV viewing. The key is not to think of the online/on-air conflict as a zero sum game, Melissa Lafsky writes on the Freakonomics blog at the New York Times. More »
- Finnish School Shooter Dies; Toll Now 9
  
  newser | Reuters | Nov 7, 07 4:50 PM CST
  
  The teen who killed eight in a Finland school today has died in a hospital after a self-inflicted gunshot. Five boys, two girls and a woman identified as the school's principal were killed in the rampage in Tuusula, 40 miles north of Helsinki. "He was moving systematically through the school hallways … shooting through the doors," one witness told Reuters . More »
- Facebook Ad Plans Raise Privacy Issues
  
  newser | Valleywag | Nov 7, 07 12:49 PM CST
  
  As the advertising industry prepares to harness the personal data of 50 million Facebook users, new privacy concerns are whipping through cyberspace. Valleywag reveals that Facebook employees not only have access to users' profiles and inboxes, but can alter them. And they do—frequently enough that management had to tell developers to "knock it off." More »
- Finland School Shooting Linked to YouTube
  
  newser | CNN | Nov 7, 07 11:20 AM CST
  
  At least eight people are dead at a high school in Finland where an 18-year-old opened fire today, CNN reports, and the killer seems to have left warnings of the spree on YouTube. Suspected gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, in critical condition at a hospital north of Helsinki, posted a video earlier today titled "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007." More »
- Targeted Ads Come to Facebook
  
  newser | CNET | Nov 6, 07 6:49 PM CST
  
  Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new ad-selling strategy today that will allow companies to create their own pages on the social networking site and zero in on customers based on their profiles. Users can sign up with advertisers they like and share information about them in their network. Advertisers also will get detailed information about the people who see their ads to hone their marketing. More »
- New Web TV Show May Benefit From Writers' Strike
  
  newser | Reuters | Nov 6, 07 12:52 AM CST
  
  Just as Hollywood writers go on strike, the Emmy-winning creators of "thirtysomething" and "My So-Called Life" are launching their new show, which will air not on TV but online, in eight-minute weekly webisodes. "Quarterlife" will focus on six twentysomething artist friends living in a big city, and characters and fans will be able to interact on quarterlife.com to form a social networking community. More »
- 'Old Farts' Invade Facebook
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Nov 3, 07 1:00 PM CDT
  
  Facebook has matured from an e-frat house where co-eds post pics of their hedonistic exploits to a cyber-cocktail party where the well-heeled gather to display baby pictures and taunt each other like, well, school kids. “I am so telling Rupert,” a columnist teases the Journal’s Matthew Rose, after discovering Mr. Murdoch’s future employee playing Scrabble on the site. More »
- Facebook to Join Google's 'OpenSocial' Alliance?
  
  newser | Fortune Magazine | Nov 2, 07 4:49 PM CDT
  
  The day after MySpace announced it was joining a Google-led alliance meant to let applications written for one social networking site be used on others, it looks like lone outsider Facebook could join up, too. That's according to Fortune Magazine , which reported that Facebook and Google representatives met yesterday and that a board member said Facebook is open to the OpenSocial standard. More »
October 2007
- Meebo Joins Facebook as Platform
  
  newser | Fortune Magazine | Oct 31, 07 4:34 AM CDT
  
  Meebo, an instant-messenger startup, is following in the footsteps of Facebook by allowing certain hand-selected developers to create new widgets for its pages. Unlike Facebook, however, it plans to lure developers by offering them half the revenue gained from the features they create and will sell the ads itself, instead of leaving the task to the more code-oriented developers. More »
- Google Talking With Verizon
  
  newser | Reuters | Oct 30, 07 11:51 PM CDT
  
  Google is in talks with Verizon Wireless, the number-two U.S. mobile carrier, about putting Google applications on its phones, Reuters reports. The Google-powered phones are expected to meld several of its applications into a single package for Verizon customers, including Google Maps, News, YouTube and Gmail. Google shares rose 2.3 percent on Tuesday to $694.77. More »
- Your First Friend Lied About His Age
  
  newser | Newsweek | Oct 30, 07 9:00 AM CDT
  
  He was your first friend. And now Tom Anderson, MySpace’s co-founder, is a liar, Newsweek reports. Tom's profile says he's 32, and he claims to have been 27 when he launched the social networking site. But public records reveal he'll be 37 next month. Could Tom have made the same fortune sans the kiddie cred? More »
- Online Video Site Hulu Launches
  
  newser | NewTeeVee | Oct 29, 07 8:39 AM CDT
  
  The beta version of Hulu, a new online video venture between NBC and News Corp., launches this week. Challenging YouTube, the service allows users to embed and share existing video, but won’t support user-generated content. Instead, Hulu will focus on distributing ad-supported versions of movies and 90 NBC and Fox TV shows through deals with AOL, Comcast, MSN, MySpace, and Yahoo. More »
- Dancin' Toddler Takes On Prince
  
  newser | ABC News | Oct 26, 07 8:54 PM CDT
  
  Baby's got moves. And now he's got a lawyer, too. A YouTube video of an 18-month-old rocking out to the Prince song "Let's Go Crazy" has ignited a legal fight involving the music industry, a ticked-off mom and Prince himself. The lawsuit—prompted when YouTube pulled the video at the request of music honchos—could help define copyright laws, says ABC News. More »
- Apple Debuts User-Generated Ad
  
  newser | New York Times | Oct 26, 07 4:28 PM CDT
  
  Apple's next iPod Touch commercial was born in the mind not of some slick ad exec but of a British university student with a little free time. Eighteen-year-old Apple devotee Nick Haley married kickin' music with animations of the Touch's features last month and posted the result on YouTube—where it got noticed by Apple execs who remade it in HD. More »
- Federal Court Gives Porn Biz a Break
  
  newser | Wired | Oct 25, 07 12:53 AM CDT
  
  A federal appeals court threw a wrench today into the government’s efforts to stop child porn. The Cincinnati-based court struck down a 1998 law requiring porn producers to keep records of people depicted in their materials. The Justice Department argued the law helped authorities clamp down on kiddie porn, but the appeals judges ruled 2-1 that it trampled on first amendment rights. More »
- Web 2.0 Forum Will Let Users Vote on Q & A
  
  newser | Wired | Oct 19, 07 2:02 PM CDT
  
  Disappointed with earlier web-based candidate debates, Wired is touting 10 Questions, a project launched Wednesday that invites users to submit video questions for the hopefuls, vote up or down the questions submitted by others, and then—when candidates submit video answers—vote up or down the candidates' answers, too. More »
- Media, Tech Firms Team Up on Copyright
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Oct 19, 07 10:16 AM CDT
  
  In an unusual truce, eight media and Internet companies are banding together to combat the explosion of copyrighted material posted on the web, the Wall Street Journal reports. The group, led by Disney and Microsoft, has framed a set of guidelines; copyright holders in the group agree not to pursue Internet companies for infringement if they're followed. There’s one wrinkle: Google, YouTube’s parent, is conspicuously absent. More »
- Don't Buy Latest Dot-Com Hype, Mag Warns
  
  newser | Economist | Oct 18, 07 3:15 PM CDT
  
  While Facebook and other online social networks are growing like digital weeds in Silicon Valley, their popularity may be more a product of hyperbole than actual developmental potential, the Economist argues. But major internet speculators Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft don't seem to care, as each bids billions to buy Facebook, whose 2007 revenue may be only $100 million. More »

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