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Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube – The order raised concerns that the online video viewing habits of tens of millions of people could be exposed.
GAWKER CUTS STAFF PAY RATE FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE QUARTER (Karion/RADAR) – Karion / RADAR: GAWKER CUTS STAFF PAY RATE FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE QUARTER — Who ever said the future of media was going to feel great? With the current traffic success of Gawker—70+ posts a day, amazing SEO results, and relentlessly hammered-home top stories to maximize numbers—comes a downside.
What comes next in this series? 13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28... (Marissa Mayer/The Official Google Blog) – Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog: What comes next in this series? 13, 33, 53, 61, 37, 28... Late one night in the summer of 2000, I found myself answering user support emails in response to two new features we had just released, Advanced Search and Preferences (at the time catchily called “Language, Display, and Filtering Options” :)).
Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime – Google has just released a lengthy blog post to announce that it has finally put its privacy policy on its homepage. The search giant has been repeatedly questioned over the last few months over its lack of a readily available privacy policy, which until now has been buried in the “About Google” section of [...]
This Week on CrunchBoard – Here are some of the jobs listed on CrunchBoard over the last week: Fulltime Senior AJAX/PHP Web DeveloperDriverSide - San Francisco, CA QA EngineerGx5 - Anywhere Software Support SpecialistK&L Wine Merchants - Redwood City, CA GoodBarry .NET Web Development NinjaGoodBarry - San Francisco, CA Head of Web Design & Front-End DevelopmentGlobal Campus - London, UK Quality Assurance CowboyJanus Health - San [...]
Google Closing Dallas, Denver Office (Philipp Lenssen/Google Blogoscoped) – Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google Closing Dallas, Denver Office — Google is closing its office in Denver and Dallas, as someone at Friendfeed posted today. “Employees have to choose relocation or severance,” a former Google employee (according to her blog's about page) wrote, adding that the reason was consolidation; “Someone decided the ROI wasn't there.”
Department of Civil Disobedience: Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form – The recent court order directing Google to hand over data to Viacom about every YouTube video ever watched strikes many people as an absurd overreach of the law into the privacy of anyone who has ever used YouTube (i.e., almost everyone on the Internet). Google should definitely keep fighting the ruling if it can. [...]
Jobs 2.0 - Pity whoever has to follow Steve Jobs at Apple. (Brian Caulfield/Forbes) – Brian Caulfield / Forbes: Jobs 2.0 — Pity whoever has to follow Steve Jobs at Apple. — Not every great company stumbles into oblivion after the departure of a visionary founder. The problem: Jobs has left once before, and until he came back, it looked like Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) would be one of those companies.
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2008 (Microsoft) – Microsoft: Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for July 2008 — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: July 3, 2008 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: July 8, 2008 — This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on July 8, 2008.
Streamzy: A Fresh Face For Seeqpod’s Streaming Music – We’ve seen a number of music sites like Seeqpod and Grooveshark that leverage user-uploaded music scattered across the web to offer free, on-demand jukeboxes. These services manage to skirt legal repercussions by only serving content that is hosted on other sites, which makes them harder to sue (though some have tried). Streamzy, a [...]