Google Italy Attacks Web Democracy with Google Convictions Italy today attacked the very basis of the read/write Web we focus on here at ReadWriteWeb when it convicted three of four Google employees on trial for failing to comply with the Italian privacy code. In essence, Italy just said that website owners are legally responsible for all content posted to their site, whether or not they have any part of… Mike Melanson View comments
Google 2 Ways to Sync Google Buzz with Twitter Have you ever wanted to sync your Google Buzz "status updates" from Google's new social networking service over to the popular microblogging network Twitter? At launch time, that isn't possible using Buzz's interface. It doesn't allow you to sync your native Buzz posts to Twitter manually or automatically and you can't reply to others' Buzz updates… Social Sarah Perez View comments
Never Mind the Valley Never Mind the Valley: Here's Washington DC The words "fat cats in Washington" have been uttered in every corner of the nation from Texas to the Bay, yet DC's tech scene is anything but sluggish. Companies like AOL, Nextel, MCI and Uunet found early success in the region and since then, a slew of young entrepreneurs have emerged to follow suit. Some of the companies include LivingSocial… Dana Oshiro View comments
Analysis Wordpress.com Founder Matt Mullenweg: The Cloud is Marketing Speak The Wordpress.com network went down last week. In the wake of the outage, we started looking at what infrastructure Wordpress.com uses to serve its 10 million blogs. Wordpress.com is run from data centers in Chicago and San Antonio. Layered Technologies (LayeredTech) manages most of the Wordpress.com infrastructure. According to LayeredTech… Alex Williams View comments
Google Despite Tough Talk, Google Still Censoring in China On January 12 Google claimed that hackers from China had attempted to break into its infrastructure, in order to access the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Because of those hacks, along with other malware attacks on Gmail accounts and ongoing concerns about the Chinese government limiting free speech on the Web, Google said in its… Richard MacManus View comments