Corvillus

Private Infringer (a character in the story) has to deal with Major Restrictions (another character in the story) trying to stop him from committing the Digital Millenium Copyright act. This is the second chapter in the series, in which Private Infringer must assert his rights against stupid intellectual property laws and media companies. The series [...]

Over at MSNBC, they have an article on how people are making real money from online contextual advertising. Examples mentioned include:

PodCastDirectory.com, making $40,000 a year in advertising revenue.
Freeweblayouts.net, making $100,000 a month.
SeatGuru.com - $10,000 to $20,000 a month.

Google was also mentioned to be making $997 million from AdSense in the second quarter of 2006.WP: Ad [...]

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Sound like Microsoft to you? Well, this time it’s not Microsoft that’s using this strategy, it’s News Corp, with their social networking site MySpace. After the recent addition of MySpace Video, now MySpace has added new functionality to their site that is broken in Flash 8, which requires the beta version of Flash [...]

Next time you’re on Facebook, you better think twice about putting those incriminating photos of yourself in those inebriated states. You might also want to keep your wall clean of all the jokes and discussion about those parties you’ve been to.
“I’ve set my profile to ‘friends only’, nobody I don’t specifically invite can access that.”, [...]

In America, the government had given over $200,000,000,000 in taxpayer and customer money to the telecoms in order to upgrade the existing network of the country. If this money had been spent as was originally promised, Americans would have 40Mbps+ to the home. Instead, they have terrible connection speed compared to the world (they aren’t [...]