Once Again, Websites Not Liable For User Stupidity
Okay knuckleheads, you can’t rely on a website to make sure a girl’s 18. And when you get in trouble because she’s actually 14, it’s not the website’s fault, even if their age verification process is ridiculous.
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The Year in Social Media: 2008
In what will likely be my final year-end list of 2008, I have compiled one more taking a look at the year in social media. This follows my articles looking at the year in online video and the year in online music. Like with those, I dug through our archives and picked out a number of highlights from the social media industry. Not every single story is covered here. It was a huge year for social media, but you should find most of the meat and potatoes here.
January
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Israeli Military Putting Gaza Clips On YouTube
Israel is well known for both developing and buying some of the most advanced military tech in existence. Now, arms of the nation’s government have begun using two of the tech community’s favorite social media sites in order to explain and defend its recent actions.
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Social Media Sites Hitting Milestones Left And Right
This Christmas was a merry one indeed for many social media sites. Fresh stats from Hitwise show that Facebook and YouTube accomplished some impressive things, while social networks as a group attracted an unprecedented amount of traffic in the UK.
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Martin Changes Tune On Broadband Smut-Filter
In his final days as chairman of the FCC, Kevin Martin appears to have done an about face on a proposed content filter for free wireless broadband. After opposition killed the original plan, Martin has placed a new proposal, sans smut-filter, on the table for review at the next and final FCC meeting on January 15.
Perhaps it’s an attempt to end his tenure on a high note by doing something very positive for the nation—auctioning off spectrum to a wireless provider that can serve up wireless broadband to 95 percent of the country.
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Digg.com Suffers Under Regime Change
It seems all good things are corrupted or abused eventually. For Digg.com, habitually might be a better choice than eventually. SEOs, thanks to aggressive blackballing by the Digg “bury-brigade,” were perhaps the earliest and most blatantly ostracized group muscled out of the prevailing purist community there—no salesmen allowed. Marketers and PR flaks effectively excommunicated, internal drama is free is to ensue as “powerdiggers” are accused of setting up a Digg.com good ole boy network.
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The Future Of Search Marketing In 2009
The countdown is on. Only a handful of sleeps until 2009 and of course the predictions are flowing thick and fast. The experts are gazing into their crystal balls and sharing their visions for 2009 in terms of search, social, online, mobile and marketing in general.
I’ve pulled together a list of the best predictions I’ve uncovered so far and detailed them below. (if I’ve missed any – share them via our comments, and I’ll add them in).
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Google Makes Another Best Places To Work List
The company may be tightening restrictions on free food, charging lots of money for childcare, and handing out cell phones instead of proper holiday bonuses. But according to new findings from Glassdoor, good old Google remains one of the best places to work.
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College Football Picks: Oregon Or Oklahoma State, Tough Call
When it comes to the Holiday Bowl this year, the participants will be less festive then in the past. That is because both Oregon and Oklahoma State had higher expectations.
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Construction Company Cleared In Monte Carlo Casino Fire
The construction company that was working on the Monte Carlo Casino in Las Vegas has been cleared of guilt for a fire that erupted at the casino back in January.
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