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...Gist: In his latest book, the Stanford professor and Wired columnist rails against the nation's copyright laws - regulations he believes are futile, costly and culturally stifling. Citing "hybrid" economies like YouTube and Wikipedia (both of which rely on user-generated "remixes" of information, images and sound), Lessig argues in favor of what he calls a "Read/Write (RW)" culture - as opposed to "Read/Only (RO)" - that allows consumers to "create art as readily as they consume...
Typosquatting Web sites usually display ads related to the topic of the intended Web site. If the user clicks on one of the ad links—which often include the Web site the user was originally trying to reach—then the typosquatter will receive revenue...
...knowledge of the science behind a hot, flat, and crowded world is relatively deep, and he expresses moving concern about America’s role in fostering responsible economic growth in emerging markets. But all of this becomes diluted in Friedman’s attempt to make his message user-friendly. His chapters feature a preponderance of italicized, monosyllabic words, saccharine metaphors (“we are all sailing on the Mayflower anew”) and a cut-and-paste frenzy of recent news articles that make some of the chapters read like a LexisNexis power search. The book...
...advertising front, the company continues to win over the hearts and minds of advertisers and users. While AdWords (in which relevant ads are matched to search queries) was the company's first eureka moment, it is expanding in many other directions, from trying to monetize videos on YouTube, to a new, roll-your-own display ad program that launched today. "We see a lot of opportunities in display," said co-founder Sergey Brin, who cautioned that, as with many things Google, the program might take some time to find its way. "Let's not forget that when we first...
...Although the new business will be separate from Facebook, Moskovitz wrote in a letter to his co-workers that the company will “feel like a natural extension of Facebook’s product and purpose.” Facebook will be the default option for identifying users on the new site, and the user interface will be similar to Facebook’s to facilitate easy navigation. In his statement to his co-workers, Moskovitz wrote that his experience at Facebook will stay with him even after he departs. “Facebook has been my passion...