Trolls Take Note: Teacher Arrested For Leaving Offensive Anonymous Comment On BlogOpen in New Window
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James Buss, a high school teacher, was arrested for an offensive and distasteful comment anonymously made on a political blog. Duncan Riley at TechCrunch has more. read more »
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eBay Changes Fee Structure To Drive Growth.Open in New Window
Avatar Posted by davemackey 295 days ago (http://www.techcrunch.com)
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TechCrunch reports that eBay is changing their fee structure - making up-front fees less or free and commissions for sold items higher. This may be an attempt to ward off Amazon's growing non-auctio read more »
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LinkedIn Joins The DataPortability Work GroupOpen in New Window
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LinkedIn has become the latest in a string of social networks to join the DataPortability Work Group which will aim to make user data portable between networks. read more »
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The Wall Street Journal Edges Towards Free.Open in New Window
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Erick Schonfeld reports on The Wall Street Journal's continued movement away from a paid model courtesy of Rupert Murdoch, but not without major internal resistance. Schonfeld also talks about reaso read more »
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Creating Proprietary Content is Like 'Writing in Sand'.Open in New Window
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Scott Gilbertson from Wired has posted an interview with Tantek Celik, creator of Microformats. The interview covers amongst other topics, methods of ensuring data portability, with specific referenc read more »
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Coke's Virtual World Web Strategy: The More Things Change, The More Things Stay The SameOpen in New Window
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Richard MacManus takes a look at Coca-Cola's past and present efforts to stay on top of internet technology trends. read more »
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Exclusive: Technorati Relaunches To Focus On Core Blogging AudienceOpen in New Window
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Michael Arrington releases an exclusive article over at TechCrunch on troubled blogging search provider Technorati. Technorati is attempting to relaunch itself with a new CEO and site that will help read more »
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Salesforce Facilitates Data Exchange Between TenantsOpen in New Window
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Mark Hendrickson reports that Salesforce, the popular CRM software as a service (SaaS) provider, will begin offering S2S - Salesforce to Salesforce - which will allow customers to share data with oth read more »
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