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India to make “online viral video” a crime

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A young woman has been given police protection after a video clip of her undressing in a bedroom was circulated on the internet, the short film been taken by an MBA student who decided to release it to his [...]

[ More ] February 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Digital News |

Facebook’s ad vetting systems questioned

Facebook says that it has removed ads for a get rich quick scam that appeared on the site for weeks before being noticed by staff. Users still report that some of the ads remain on the site and are being re-published at a rate faster than the site can review. The ads appear [...]

[ More ] February 24th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

The Gazelle Web Browser by Microsoft

Microsoft research has released a paper about a Web browser it calls Gazelle. This web browser is constructed in such a way so as to to act like an operating system with the browser protecting resources and sharing across Web sites.
According to Microsoft no existing browsers is like Gazelle, this includes browsers based on new [...]

[ More ] February 23rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

YouTube allows publishers to invite others to annotate their videos

YouTube has introduced a new feature for publishers to invite others to annotate their videos. People can now send a special link to their friends so that friends can easily add their own comments to videos. YouTube’s  editor now has a link that you can share with your friends - or the to the world. [...]

[ More ] February 23rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

How to deal with Conflict within the Social media space

Sharlyn Lauby authors a blog at hrbartender.com - http://www.hrbartender.com
recently on Mashable she posted an interesting article that speaks about how to deal with social media conflict. When you encounter conflict in a work environment, you can go into that person’s office, have a private chat, talk out the matter then go out for a beer. [...]

[ More ] February 23rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Web Talks |

NZ government officials delay the Controversial Copyright Law

With the widespread protests against New Zealand’s copyright law that was suppose to come into existence this month, government officials recognize that something is wrong. The government is hoping that ISPs can come up with a “code of practice” to help deal with copyright infringement online. The delay is for another month to allow ISP [...]

[ More ] February 23rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

Twitter replaced Facebook as the hottest and coolest company in Silicon Valley

Feb 2009 was a month for twitter. Recently Twitter closed a $35m (NZ$68.1m) round of venture capital investment at a valuation of about $250m during the economic crisis. Secondly a research from Pew internet and American Life Project revealed that 11 per cent of Americans have used a service such as Twitter, Third, in a [...]

[ More ] February 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Digital News |

Trade Me profits up for Fairfax NZ

The New Zealand publishing business Fairfax reported a 29 per cent decline in profit in the six months to December 31 in Australian dollar terms, but online auction business Trade Me posted a 17 per cent increase in profit in New Zealand dollar terms.
Source NZ Herald

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[ More ] February 23rd, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News |

Social media Marketing In Plain English

Social media marketing is specifically using social networks, blogs, social media to facilitate word of mouth marketing. Its not the same as word of mouth marketing. Its always great to visually view what someone is trying to say so i thought this video might help.

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[ More ] February 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Web Talks |

Google Changes its Display URL Policy

The Google AdWords blog has announced the new display URL policy will take effect this week of February 24th. The new policy, which was reported by Barry Schwartz
at the Search Engine Round table about a month ago, will disallow multiple display domains per ad group.

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[ More ] February 23rd, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Digital News |