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European standoff over search engine data - International Herald Tribune

BERLIN: For more than a year, European data privacy officials have been battling with U.S. Internet search engines, trying to get them to conform to European restrictions on the storage of personal information gleaned from the Web.

Now, as the U.S. titans Google, Microsoft and Yahoo continue to retain personal data beyond the six-month time limit established this year by the European Commission, regulators say their patience is running thin.

Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web?

While the article generated many positive comments, one reader said the disabled should 'get a grip' and maintained they 'have no more right to demand that others provide for their needs than I, as a diabetic, have a right to demand that sugar no longer be used.' Should Web sites and software makers do more, or does the reality of today's economics dictate that the blind/disabled will continue to struggle and learn to live with it?

The Internet Is Changing the Scientific Method | Wired Science from Wired.com

A view that slightly contradicts the Newsweek piece on collaboration and user generated content - at least it gives a different view.

'Second Skin' documentary a bleak look at life of online gamers | Geek Gestalt - A blog by Daniel Te

Sad, or just removing themselves from uncomfortable realities? Some interesting observations here.

Virtual practice makes perfect for new soldiers - 08 Mar 2008 - NZ Herald: New Zealand National news

How about making all fighting virtual, rather than real - not just the training. Just think of the lives that would be saved.

Apple unveils details of development kit - Telegraph

Changes ahead?

Is User-Generated Content Out?

In short, the expert is back. The revival comes amid mounting demand for a more reliable, bankable Web. "People are beginning to recognize that the world is too dangerous a place for faulty information," says Charlotte Beal, a consumer strategist for the Minneapolis-based research firm Iconoculture. Beal adds that choice fatigue and fear of bad advice are creating a "perfect storm of demand for expert information."

Terrorist use of the Internet

Lawmakers in the United States and elsewhere should not to try to censor Islamic extremists' use of the Internet, says a new report from a global think tank.

3 Guys in a Garage Launches $100 Challenge for Investor Leads

A digital media incubator called 3 Guys in a Garage has launched an innovative social networking challenge to gain leads to potential investors. It s banking on the power of social networks and word-of-mouth to finance its new media ideas. Here is a way for you to get involved as a virtual venture capitalist, by using your networks to help us find investors. We ll give $100 for each referral that leads to investment. Our goal is 100 referrals that lead to $500,000 investment.

Judge Rules Against Deep-Linking of Content

"What's unusual in the SFX case is that a copyright holder is trying to prohibit a direct link to its own Web site. (There is no evidence that SFX tried technical countermeasures, such as referrer logging and blocking anyone coming from Davis' site.)" - For example, Crooks and Liars uses this to prevent deep linking.

Starbucks pulls free iced coffee promotion

File this under tech-novice, though not quite as big a gaff as Liebermann's Web site being 'hacked' when he really just hadn't paid the bills for the domain registration.

Phony clicks on online ads rise

Well said: "The motives for click fraud vary. Most often, Web-site owners repeatedly click the ads on their own sites to generate money for themselves. In other cases, advertisers target the ads of their rivals to drain their marketing budgets."

The Mother of all Marketing Shticks - The Death of Software

SalesForce.com as a leader in the 'web-OS'? Perhaps, now that they've added 'offline functionality' -- grin.

Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online

Interesting use of eye tracking software, even if the story is a little sensational.

Salesforce.com keeps up pace

Salesforce.com continues to prove the viability of web hosted apps, with hints of more to come.