#IranElection: Yahoo May Have Turned Over 200k Usernames to Iranian Authorities

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins | October 9th

[Editor’s Note: According to an update we’ve been alerted to by the editors of ZDNet, they now would like to consider the original post retracted.  From the original post is a note from Larry Dignan: “I’m ending this

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FTC vs. the Blogosphere Day 3 and 4 Roundup

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins | October 8th


We skipped a day on the FTC blogola round-up, not because there wasn’t a lot of posts on the topic, but because, well, other stuff was worth saying, and we didn’t

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Zynga’s CafeWorld Gets 8.6 Million Users in One Week

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins | October 8th

One of the fastest growing applications on Facebook has been FarmVille, a Zynga production. Farmville’s growth is soon to be overshadowed by a new Zynga application, CafeWorld.

Farmville grew to 11 million daily active users

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Why Matt Cutts is Wrong on the FTC Rules

John Furrier | October 8th

In the midst of the whole FTC blogger disclosure debacle, Matt Cutts came out pro-FTC, as we noted Tuesday in our FTC blogger roundup. Cutts proudly put forth his disclosure up on his website:

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Boing Boing Stands Up to a DMCA Takedown Request, Thanks in Part to Their Canadian Hosting Company

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins | October 8th

With all the lack of intestinal fortitude with regard to DMCA requests and various judges’ orders to reveal identities of anonymous bloggers and commenters, it’s heartening to see examples of guts in the

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Rich Cleland Pulls a 180° on Blogger Liability

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins | October 8th

Rich Cleland, a man that I’ve put out numerous requests for comment to without response as well as someone I’ve tried unsuccessfully to research background on this week, has been more prolific in his comments to

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Cloud Collision: The Effects of Larry Ellison’s War on Terminology

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins | October 7th

As I’ve stated several times here before, I’m not an IT guy (at least not anymore).  It’s been around ten years since my last IT certification was valid or I had my hands in the day

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AP’s New Business Model Heralds: Meh

Jeff Nolan | October 7th

It’s odd that so few of the stories about the AP and charging for content point out that the AP itself is a cooperative owned by a group of newspapers. Therefore, when the AP talks about

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Interview: TOMS Shoes Founder Blake Mycoskie on Entrepreneurship and Social Responsibility

socialnerdia | October 7th

After befriending children with no shoes in Argentina, Blake Mycoskie decided he wanted to help. He started TOMS Shoes in 2006 with a simple idea: For every pair purchased, TOMS gives a pair of shoes to

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FTC vs. the Blogosphere Day 2 Roundup

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins | October 6th

Yesterday, the FTC officially launched their assault on the free speech of bloggers and social network users, and the reception in the blogosphere was mixed.

You can read our continuing coverage of what’s

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