The powers behind craigslist.org appear to have decided that withdrawal is the best strategy to deal with recent controversy around the “adult services” section of the site.
Last week, Craigslist shut down “adult services,” which normally features paid advertisments for sex. “Adult services” was recently the subject of legal threats from 18…
Must include at least one number. Must be longer than six characters. Cannot have more than four sequential characters from your previous seven passwords. The rules for password creation vary wildly from site to site, an effort to protect users from those who would hack their identities.
These protective measures don’t go very far, according to…
There were no reporters present in Laurel, Miss. when a jury handed down a $131 million verdict against Ford after an Explorer rolled over, killing a young man who was on track to play baseball for the New York Mets. Hours after the verdict, there was no coverage of a case that involved a high profile victim, a major corporation, and the…
Google Wave is far from dead, and developers, early adopters and enterprises will be glad to hear it. Today Google announced it will expand on the code it has already open sourced, building Wave into a functional application that will allow users to run wave servers, host their own waves and build bigger and better applications with the real-time…
As far as Web services go, Twitter is pretty easy to use. Fill out a brief profile, follow some people and go, right? Well apparently not. Developers at the company have been fretting over the fact that some people still think Twitter is “too hard” to use.
But the solution has proved easy. By simply releasing mobile apps named “Twitter,” the…
Facebook’s goal for its new Places feature may be even more ambitious than we realized. Facebook wants to be the central platform for location data across all Web services, a company spokesman said today at a New York Times developer conference.
The statement reinforces the image of a world where the majority of the population is catalogued in…
Microsoft’s new mobile OS has shipped to handset makers and will be appearing on phones in time for the holiday season, the company announced today.
The stage is set for Microsoft to either rock the mobile world with a mainstream alternative to the iPhone and Android platforms, rebounding after a string of failures a la Bing, or flop in its…
Billboard is best known for charts that rank the most popular music and musicians, which the weekly industry magazine started publishing in 1913 as a list of the most popular sheet music. Since then, topping the Billboard Hot 100 has become a coveted milestone for musicians, but the Billboard brand has lost some of its critical cache in recent…
A study of 1,089 official and unofficial law enforcement Twitter accounts shows about 21 percent don’t tweet, nine percent tweet personal opinions about crime or criminal justice, and three percent have tweeted in a way that could be interpreted as racist or sexist.
Furthermore, the vast majority of agencies did not include legal disclaimers or…
A an industry group made of dozens of high-profile technology companies including Apple, Microsoft and Nokia, announced “significant progress” on its recommendations on how the Internet should be regulated.
It will be interesting to see in what ways how the recommendations from the Information Technology Industry Council will differ from the…
You can watch a live stream of Apple’s fall event tomorrow, the company has announced – but only if you’re using an Apple device.
Apple will broadcast the event using its internally-developed HTTP Live Streaming Protocol, which requires either a Mac running Safari on Mac OS X version 10.6, an iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or higher or an…
Japanese social gaming giant DeNA is offering support for American game developers who want to bring their games to the Japanese market, where it says the amount of money to be made is “astronomical.”
DeNA and Yahoo! Japan partnered in April to launch a social gaming platform, Yahoo Mobage. Now the company is officially inviting American game…
Facebook is dominating social media in almost every country where it hasn’t been banned, and the six-year old site shows no signs of slowing down. It’s creeping across generations, replacing things like the phone book and introducing tools the masses had no idea they needed. It’s also indoctrinating the world into adopting the Mark Zuckerberg…
Ever skip a headline in your RSS reader because you don’t feel like investigating whether it’s worth your time? It sounds lazy, but time is scarce and the proliferation of content on the Web means that vaguely intriguing headline could turn out to be a waste of a minute (or more!) that you could have spent looking at something awesome.
Today a…
“Talking about the weather” has become synonymous with idle chatter. But admit it – everybody loves to talk about the weather. It’s amazing, it endlessly affects our lives and anyone can have an informed opinion about it.
That’s why The Weather Channel is announcing the official launch of iWitness Weather, an online community on weather.com…
YouTube is negotiating with the major American movie studios that could
launch a global pay-per-view video service by the end of the year, The Financial Times is reporting.
This could be the video service’s big break more than four years after being acquired by Google. The combined power of YouTube’s popularity and Google’s dominance in search…
The new Android 2.2-compatible version of Cyanogen, a hacker-created extension for the Android mobile operating system, was released this weekend. The new version of the popular mod is already being downloaded by scores of Android users who want more from their phones.
Android owners who “root” their phones can install CyanogenMod 6.0 to boost…
The Google-owned social network Orkut is not well-known in the U.S., but it’s extremely popular in India and Brazil – that is, until Facebook started catching up. But Orkut just announced a new feature that makes it look pretty good.
“You’re not always the same person. Why should it be any different on the Web?” That’s the title of the Orkut…
The piracy rates for apps on the iPad may be much higher than on the iPhone, if one developer’s report is any indication.
Developer Vladimir Roth said 50 percent of copies of the game Aqua Globs HD were pirated on the iPad, compared to an estimated five percent on the iPhone. Those figures come from comparing app downloads to the number of users…
Microsoft announced new features today to Docs.com, a Facebook-integrated Web app that lets users create multi-author Word docs, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations for free.
The new features themselves are not earth-shattering, but they show how the team behind Docs.com continues to improve and innovate. The question is, how far…