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Twitter has just announced a change to their terms of service and in an effort to keep users in the know, sent out an email notification with links to the new ToS.  This is impressive since most sites post new terms of service without ensuring that users know about potentially… Continue Reading »

Ning has just added apps so social network creators can make their social networks function better.  Here are some examples of the new Ning apps: the Sellit app allows a site creator to build in a store, a Wordpress app that shows Wordpress.com blog posts, and Ustream.tv and Qik for… Continue Reading »

The company that intends to buy the controversial site Pirate Bay has found itself in some serious trouble.  The Swedish stock market, known as AktieTorget, has kicked them off the exchange, claiming they misled investors. Sweden’s Economic Crime Bureau has launched an investigation into possible insider trading after noticing a… Continue Reading »

Over the long holiday weekend Facebook began having serious issues.  News feeds stopped updating and displayed entries that were days old.  Popular apps like Farkle started loading slowly or returning errors.  Uploaded pics didn’t always display and the site as a whole started running slowly and returning random “endpoint” errors. … Continue Reading »

The NFL has announced that beginning this season, players, coaches, and league officials will be banned from tweeting or posting Facebook updates starting 90 minutes before games and until all post-game interviews are completed.  The ban extends to anyone who represents a player or coach on any such accounts as… Continue Reading »

*UPDATED BELOW When word broke that eBay was considering selling Skype, Google was the first company to come to mind for many.  Google Voice would be a great fit with the VoIP enabled Skype and hopes became high for a nifty solution and good home for the unit, but Google… Continue Reading »

The New York Times offers up the interesting tale of Evernote, the company that offers users an electronic shoebox of sorts to store data in.  The story looks into the company and how its “freemium” concept is about to turn the corner. Evernote offers users, for free, a way to… Continue Reading »

Welcome to this week’s “Who’s on Crack” where we pick apart the stories from the past week that refuse to have any relation to reality.  With announcements just around the corner to fill up the holidays, things are getting zany, even silly.  Clearly, more than a few companies appear to… Continue Reading »

It’s something a lot of people were wondering.  How will Twitter monetize itself?  Wonder no more. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced Thursday that the popular micro-blogging service plans to offer paid accounts to businesses by the end of the year.  Users of the accounts will have access to stats and… Continue Reading »

A Missouri woman is the first person to be charged with a felony under the state’s new cyberbullying law.  The 40-year old woman is accused of posting a teen girl’s photo, email address and cell phone number on the “Casual Encounters” section of Craigslist.  The section is meant for adults… Continue Reading »