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...update field sounds like a self-conscious Carrie Bradshaw type who asks her boyfriend what he's thinking every time he's silent for more than five minutes. "I don't even know how to fill it in," Katie Tichacek says of the revised update box. An active Facebook user, Tichacek describes herself as "totally a status person - I like a quick and dirty read-through of what people are doing." Until yesterday, she was changing her status regularly with updates about what she was eating, reading or working on or where she was traveling - but with the new home...
...police people's Web activity. Introduced by Sarkozy's Culture Minister, Christine Albanel, the bill seeks to enlist Internet service providers (ISPs), entertainment-industry organizations and French legal authorities in an effort to identify and dissuade illegal downloading of copyrighted music and video. A monitoring agency would send Web users who illegally download media a cease and desist notice. Should two warnings go unheeded, ISPs would be forced to cut Web access for one to 12 months - and add the user's name to a blacklist of pirates, where it would stay for the duration of the ban. (See pictures...
Wikipedia, the online open-source encyclopedia, will now allow users to drag and drop their favorite articles into book-form as part of a new partnership with a German company called PediaPress. Wikipedia and PediaPress began working together in 2007, but only earlier this year did the web-to-print service begin creating books out of German Wikipedia articles. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the venture “is doing brisk business: it sold more than 1,000 German language books in its first month of operation.” Heiko Hees, Managing Director of PediaPress, said...
...subscription porn. Would you elaborate on what this means?BGE: Imperfect substitute means it’s not quite as good, or at least it’s different. So what’s different about it? It tends to be less organized; a free-site user would have to spend more time searching for the desired material. Maybe a user of a free site wouldn’t be able to get the same variety of choices. On the flipside, a paid service has problems too, starting with the fact that a consumer has to pay for it, which...
This Deal, Just For You. Morgans Hotel Group - which includes the Royalton in New York City and St. Martins Lane in London - has a new, more streamlined and user-friendly website. With full-screen pictures of the properties, you can see exactly what you're getting, and the calendar allows you to change dates easily, showing you immediately which rooms, at what price, are available. A related list of local restaurants, boutiques and things to do pops up as well - if you book a room in London during the end of March, for example, the site recommends that you check...