Transcoding Is Not A Crime, Says Court In Veoh Porn Case Michael Arrington Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:56:34 -0000 Finally, a judge who may have actually visited the Internet once or twice before deciding a case. Judge Howard Lloyd, a judge on the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, threw out adult entertainment company IO Group's 2006 copyright infringement case against Veoh today. At the time Veoh had some user-uploaded porn on its service that belonged to IO Group. Despite quick takedowns from DMCA notices, IO Group sued anyway. We Need To Kill The Business Card Once And For All Jason Kincaid Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:42:47 -0000
The business card needs to die, and everyone knows it. They're clumsy, easy to lose and virtually useless as one of the last bits of information that we pass non-digitally (they kill trees, too). The cell phone market could easily put business cards out of their misery, but instead of conforming to a single standard for contact exchange, handset manufacturers offer proprietary solutions or none at all.
FriendBook, an iPhone application from Tapulous, looked like it might hold the answer. The app uses a physical "handshake" to swap information - users simply put their iPhones next to each other and shake them. Granted, this would only work on iPhones, but it could have paved the way for similar apps on other phones. But as of yesterday the fate of FriendBook is now in jeopardy due to the departure of its lead developer (and Tapulous cofounder) Mike Lee. So is all hope lost?
BackType, A Twitter For Comments Michael Arrington Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:10:39 -0000 BackType is the newest YCombinator startup to launch from their summer program. They're a blog-comment focused startup - founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Think Twitter for all comments on the web. FriendFeed Releases New Set Of Customizable Widgets Jason Kincaid Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:06:54 -0000
FriendFeed, the social activity aggregator, has released a set of customizable widgets that will allow bloggers to make sure their readers can follow all of their activities across the web. While the site has provided some widgets in the past, this set includes some new widgets to facilitate story sharing and allows for more tweaking than was offered before.
Among the widgets offered are a new profile badge, a list of the most recent items in your feed, and a "Share on FriendFeed" chiclet that allows users to add an item to FriendFeed without leaving your site. You can grab the widgets here.
Mark Cuban Joins TechCrunch50 for a One-On-One Interview with Jason Calacanis Michael Arrington Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:52:37 -0000 Mark Cuban will be joining the TechCrunch50 program on Tuesday, September 9 for a one-on-one interview with Jason Calacanis from the main stage. You probably know Mark as both the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Broadcast.com with Todd Wagner. They then sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in July of 1999 for $5.04 billion. Before Broadcast.com, Mark co-founded MicroSolutions, a leading National Systems Integrator, in 1983, and later sold it to CompuServe. More Yahoo Senior Exec Defections: Steve Boom and Todd Teresi Michael Arrington Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:09:29 -0000 The mass exodus of both execs and rank and file employees at Yahoo continues. In fact the real defections may just be getting started at a high percentage of employees vest on lucrative restricted stock units this month. Two new SVPs, Todd Teresi and Steve Boom, have now also resigned from Yahoo.
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