Cartoons Cartoon: Deworming Okay - have we all had a good long laugh at the digital cognoscenti who managed to get themselves infected by that Google Worm last week? Are we done yet? Apparently not. *Chortle.* *Guffaw.* Okay, now I'm done. I'm painfully aware, though, that whatever laughs I'm having at the expense of those folks are going to come back at me in spades. The… Play Rob Cottingham View comments
News SocialToo Dumps Auto DM Support One of the biggest complaints we hear from Twitter users is the increase in Twitter auto direct message spam. You know, those "thanks for following me" DMs that include a link, almost as an afterthought, offering you a free gift, the ability to earn a ton of cash, or the opportunity to check out a new product. Well, we're a bit sick of them… Lidija Davis View comments
Facebook Facebook is Not Having a Good Month While Facebook has been busy working on its new constitution in an effort to appease its increasingly anxious community over the past few days, the second application of dubious intent made its way onto the troubled site in the space of a week. The bad guys, it seems, have perfect timing. Trend Micro reported Thursday that a rogue Facebook… Social Lidija Davis View comments
Features Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Principles, Amazon Public Data, Times Open, And More... In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look into Facebook's controversial new "principles", check out the latest OpenID trends, cover Amazon's public data initiative, analyze Wikipedia's possible future as a development platform, investigate the future of 'touch' apps, and more… Richard MacManus View comments
News Amazon Caves to Author's Guild; Muzzles Reading Robots "Gather 'round children, it's time for story time with RoboGrandma - just make sure my batteries are charged!" This kind of blatant intellectual property violation will no longer be committed by the Amazon Kindle. The company today announced that it has given in to demands by the Author's Guild and will let publishers choose whether or not to… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments