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Internet News

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. ~Jon Stewart

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February 2008
- Advertisers Lukewarm on Social Sites
  
  Wall Street Journal | Feb 5, 08 3:15 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Facebook and YouTube are runaway success stories when it comes to attracting Internet users, but they lag in attracting ad dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports. Advertising on social networking and video-sharing sites is relatively new, and therefore most vulnerable if economic worries lead to advertising cutbacks. Firms also worry about their ads appearing next to unsuitable content. More »
- Video Sparks Hacker War vs. Scientology
  
  Guardian (UK) | Feb 4, 08 4:04 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - After the Church of Scientology removed a video of Tom Cruise calling his religion a “blast” from YouTube, the Internet world declared war. Hackers have been furiously shutting down and “Google bombing” Scientology's website while free-speech protesters gather and pranksters send white powder in envelopes to LA-area Scientology locations, the Guardian reports. More »
- Facebook Graffiti Proves Worthy
  
  Los Angeles Times | Feb 3, 08 6:50 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Most blog posts, Flickr pics, and YouTube vids are junk, a Los Angeles Times blogger laments, but Facebook has drummed up a cyberspace winner called Graffiti. The online painting tool has had more than 8 million users and sparked fine submissions in Dell’s “ReGeneration Contest," which asks artists to "explain what green means to you." More »
- Zuckerberg Spills the Beans About Facebook Finances
  
  All Things Digital | Feb 1, 08 12:12 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg got talkative with the Facebook staff yesterday. The boy CEO shared intimate details of the privately-owned company’s finances to an all-staff meeting with an open phone-in line—“It was really unbelievable,” marveled one. The numbers indicated a fall from break-even grace for the company in 2008, when it will have a negative cash flow of $150 million, reports All Things Digital. More »
January 2008
- Look Who's Trying Out Waterboarding
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jan 31, 08 12:38 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - As the debate over waterboarding continues unabated, it has occurred to more than one cocky—or conscientious—young man that anyone can see for himself what it feels like, and whether it constitutes torture. The Wall Street Journal talks to several who've tried it—using friends with no special training. One 26-year-old reports he was shocked at how quickly blind panic overtook him. “It’s almost like the ideal way of torturing someone,” he concludes. “This is torture 2.0.” More »
- MySpace to Open Platform to Developers
  
  Associated Press | Jan 30, 08 1:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Following the lead of rival Facebook, social networking giant MySpace will launch the MySpace Developer Platform next week, giving programmers deeper access to its site--possibly including the ability to tap into MySpace user data, AP reports. MySpace already informally allows programmers to develop widgets for it, and hopes the new platform will help developers make more money through the site. More »
- Sex Convicts May Face Internet Ban
  
  CNET | Jan 29, 08 6:45 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - New York's 25,000 convicted sex criminals will be banned from Facebook and MySpace if a bill unveiled today becomes law, CNET reports. Dubbed E-Stop, the legislation requires sex convicts to submit online identities and screen names so participating sites can block them. Those who committed a sex crime over the Internet would have usage controlled by the state's parole board. More »
- Fashion Lovers Grow Weary of Waif Look
  
  Newsweek | Jan 27, 08 7:16 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Fashion blogs, "Ugly Betty", and other pop staples are nudging the fashion industry to use more real people as models, Newsweek reports. So are YouTube, reality TV, and a slew of designers who make affordable lines for Target and H&M. "People would like to see somebody up there (on the catwalk) who reflects how people on the street really look," one casting agency topper says. More »
- From Clerk to Rogue Trader to Facebook Laughingstock
  
  New York Times | Jan 25, 08 11:14 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - You don’t need a fancy education to lose $7.2 billion and become an Internet laughingstock. In the clubby world of French banking, Société Générale traders are usually the Gallic equivalent of Ivy League MBAs, but Jérôme Kerviel, a lowly biz school grad, worked his way up from shy clerk to secretive junior trader, the New York Times reports. Clearly, this man deserves the Nobel Prize for Economics. More »
- Tonight May Be Game Over for Scrabulous
  
  TechCrunch | Jan 22, 08 2:44 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Scrabulous—the wildly popular Facebook app based (without permission) on Scrabble—may have to fold up its board tonight. Hasbro and Mattel, which jointly own the rights to the board game, have set the deadline for the online game to either shut itself down or sell itself to Electronic Arts, which owns the online rights. More »
- Gawker Draws Facebook's Ire
  
  Portfolio | Jan 16, 08 8:51 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Gawker.com and managing editor Nick Denton are well-known for poking fun at media types, but managers of Facebook say he went too far yesterday, Portfolio.com writes. Gawker posted an item lampooning the daughter of American Law Media founder Steven Brill, poking fun at the 25-year-old’s weight alongside screenshots and other content lifted from her Facebook profile. More »
- Cruise Out to Save World in Wacky Video
  
  ABC News | Jan 16, 08 9:00 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The latest Tom Cruise thriller is a Scientology testimonial video circulating online in which the weirdly intense actor promotes the faith as the way to save the world, and urges fellow Scientologists to "educate to bring a new reality" to non-believers. "When you drive past an accident," Cruise says, with the Mission: Impossible theme throbbing in the background, "you have to do something because you know you're the only one that can really help." More »
- Amateur MTV Journos to Cover Election
  
  Boston Globe | Jan 12, 08 7:37 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - MTV is banking on enthusiastic amateurs to make it the go-to source for hip election news. The "Street Team"—51 mostly-under-25 journos armed with laptops, digital cameras, and camcorders—have been deployed to recapture eyeballs and cachet lost to bloggers, Comedy Central, and YouTube, while "redefining journalism," MTV's president says. More »
- Hasbro Attacks Fabulous Scrabble Clone
  
  Fortune Magazine | Jan 12, 08 6:00 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Hasbro, maker of the classic board game Scrabble, is moving to shut down Scrabulous, a widely popular—and virtually identical—online knockoff. It's currently the ninth most popular application on all of Facebook, with 2.3 million users. Scrabulous’ developers estimate their app brings in about $25,000 a month, about which Hasbro is none too pleased. More »
- Daily Traffic Doubles for YouTube and Friends
  
  paidContent.org | Jan 10, 08 5:47 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Daily traffic for online video sites such as YouTube has doubled over the past year, paidContent.org reports. A study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 15% of their sample of adults said they had visited an online video sharing site “yesterday” or the day before; last year, 8% of responders answered "yes" to that question. More »
- Colleges Turn to New Media to Recruit Students
  
  Boston Globe | Jan 7, 08 4:35 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - If MySpace and Facebook are where the high school kids are, then that’s where college recruiters are headed. Schools competing for today’s tech-savvy teens are reaching out to them through podcasts, online videos, virtual campus tours, live chats, blogs, and social networking profiles, reports the Boston Globe —and those stuffy old admissions officers are increasingly in touch with prospectives via IM and text.