VentureBeat reports that Facebook has removed a popular application from its third-party developer platform over potential copyright issues. The application, called Audio, allowed users to upload MP3 files and share them with their friends—yup, that’s a recipe for copyright disaster.

Facebook had already axed the app once before, according to the article. It appears that Audio [...]

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Facebook representatives have responded to inquiries about why exactly the site was totally down for about an hour and a half today—it was a bug, they say, not a hacking problem or a server outage.

“This morning, we temporarily took down the Facebook site to fix a bug we identified earlier today,” the company statement read. [...]

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Votehere.net raised more than $20 million to bring online voting to the masses.

That idea never really took root, but the intellectual property behind the Bellevue firm and its predecessor company, Dategrity, is being reborn in a new startup called Demoxi.

In a complex deal, Demoxi is acquiring about 50 patents from Dategrity, a venture- backed startup [...]

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday that he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would compete with search engines such as Google or Yahoo.

Wales said at a conference of software developers in Portland, Ore., that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web [...]

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If you’re the hottest dot-com in the Valley—as Facebook undoubtedly is—you’re going to come under occasional scrutiny. Over the past few days, it’s been circulating around the Web that the social networking phenomenon won’t let people sign up with the last name “Gay,” which has led to accusations of homophobia.

Online LGBT hub GenerationQ put it [...]

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 This article was written by Michael Horowitz, an independent computer consultant and member of CNet.com’s blog team. Below are his opinions of Mozy, not mine. I just wanted to share what other people are saying about this service. Thanks!
—Jacob M.
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For a company in the boring business of online file storage, Mozy gets more than its [...]

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Do you have the urge to tell your friends how much you like them or maybe dislike them? Now you can share your feelings about them on community Web site FriendChart, which debuted this week in beta. The site slogan is “Your friends at glance”. Interested? [...]

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This site does kind of let you look into the heart of darkness

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YouTube will launch a system in September designed to prevent pirated material from going up on the site, a Google lawyer said in court on Friday.

Google, which acquired YouTube in October, plans to generate a library of digital video fingerprints that would be used by a computer system to screen clips being uploaded to YouTube, [...]

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Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
danah boyd
June 24, 2007

Citation: boyd, danah. 2007. “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace .” Apophenia Blog Essay. June 24 . http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html
(If you have comments, please add them to the related entry on my blog. Thank you.)

Over the last six months, I’ve noticed an increasing number of [...]

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