Well, I haven't posted in a while. So in honor of my return to the Wide
World of User Created (read: Stolen) Content, I give you an add for the
new version of Google Reader.
I
had actualy stopped using Good Reader, because of the layout and bad
design, but with this new update I'm switching back from newhutch.
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From MSNBC:
Social networking Web site Xanga.com
will pay $1 million -- the largest penalty ever issued for
violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act -- for
repeatedly allowing children under 13 to sign up for the service
without getting their parent's consent, the Federal Trade Commission
announced Thursday.
In its complaint, the
FTC alleged that Xanga, a rival to the popular MySpace.com, allegedly
permitted creation of 1.7 million accounts by users who submitted
birthdays indicating they were under 13. Collecting personal
information from anyone under 13 without parental consent is a
violation of the children's protection act, or COPPA, which was passed
by Congress in 1998.
See full article here.
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Oh how I love you, land of the rising sun.
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In case you didn't know.
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I found this
map to be very interesting. It maps Google's traffic over the
course of a day. You can see the ebbs and flows of it. It's also
interesting that some parts of the North America, Europe and Japan
never go dark. Tokyo's pixel doesn't even
dull.
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Sorry for the problems here.
My e-mail posting ability has been non-functional for a while, and it seems that all the test posts I tried are coming in all at once. Damn broken Xanga.
I'm deleting them as they come in, but if you see random crap on here, please ignore it.
I'm not sure if all of my readers are aware of Google
Books. The theme that Google claims to maintain over all of
it's projects is access to the worlds information. This can be seen in
Google Web Search, Google Maps, Google News, Google Reader, and so on.
Google Books is another manifestation of this.
Google has been given access to several
notable libraries, and has used this access to scan books. Up
until now Google Books has displayed only snippets from books. However,
just
recently Google opened up all public domain books for free
use. Which means anything written before 1923 is fair game.
Quite frankly, it's a veritable Library of Alexandria free and online, and it's ever growing.
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