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NewYorkCountryLawyer writes “According to commentator Therese Polletti at Dow Jones MarketWatch, ‘the RIAA’s tactics are nearly as bad as the actions of mobsters, real or fictional. The analogy comes up easily and frequently in any discussion of the RIAA’s maneuvers.’ Among other things she cites the extortionate nature of their ’settlement negotiations’ pointed out by Prof. Bob Talbot of the University of San Francisco School of Law IP Law Clinic. His student attorneys are helping private practitioners fight the RIAA, and the the illegality of the RIAA’s use of unlicensed investigators. She goes on to cite the fact that the RIAA thinks nothing of jeopardizing a student’s college education in order to make their point, as support for the MAFIAA/Mafia analogy.”
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whoever57 writes “Ed Felton is showing a scan of the summary from a Sequoia voting machine used in New Jersey. According to the paper record, the vote tallies don’t add up — the total number of Republican ballots does not match the number of votes cast in the Republican primary and the total number of Democratic ballots does not match the number of votes cast in the Democratic primary. Felton has a number of discussions about the problems facing evoting, up to and including a semi-threatening email from Sequoia itself.”
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Filed under: World wide web, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
Ping.fm is a new service that lets you update a bunch of social network/messaging sites all at once. Instead of logging into Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Facebook, and Tumblr and manually posting updates, you can just visit Ping.fm and write a single message which will be sent to each site. So far, it sounds a lot like HelloTXT, right? Well, it is, but Ping.fm has a few features that make it a lot more useful than HelloTXT.
First of all, you can post updates via email. When you sign up for a Ping.fm account you’ll be assigned an email address. Just send a message to that address and the message will show up on all of your linked accounts. You can also enable an IM update option. Right now you need to have an AOL Instant Messenger account to use the IM posting option. But you don’t have to use the official AIM client. As you can see in our screenshot, Pidgin works just as well, as should Adium, Trillian, Meebo or Digsby.
Ping.fm is still in private beta, but we’ve got 100 invites to giveaway. Just enter the code dls on the signup page.
[via Mashable]
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Due to another company trademarking “G-Mail” in Germany, similar to Google’s “Gmail” in the US, the search engine giant lost an appeal to use “Gmail” in the European Union. G-Mail symbolizes “Giersch Mail” in Germany, where Daniel Giersch runs an electronic postal delivery service — if that’s not email, we couldn’t say what it is.
As a result, Gmail is now known as Google Mail in Europe. Google’s email service is also known as Google Mail in the UK, where another company trademarked “Gmail” shortly after Google launched the service.
And the moral of the story is: The next time you launch any product or service, make sure to trademark the name before. As for Google, the company “got caught slippin” — as we say in the hip hop world — so too bad, so sad.
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Enterprise companies fall into two camps; those who are competent in the social media space, and those who aren’t. Mzinga aims to bring competency to enterprise social engagement. I caught up with Aaron Strout on Mzinga in the hallway at a rockin SXSW, and he gave us the low down on what enterprise users need to know now about managing their social face in the future.
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coondoggie writes “A group of international cyber cops is ramping up plans to fight on the internet crime across borders. The unit, known as the Strategic Alliance Cyber Crime Working Group, met this month in London and is made up of high-level on the web law enforcement representatives from the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. One of the main goals of the group is to fight cyber crime in a common way by sharing intelligence, swapping tools and ideal practices, and strengthening and synchronizing their respective laws.”
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I Don’t Believe in Imaginary Property writes “A peering dispute between Telia and Cogent is causing routing and connectivity problems for many internet users. Cogent shut down their connections to Telia over what they described as a ‘contract dispute’ over the size and location of their peering points. Telia attempted to route around the problem, but Cogent blocked that, too. This has caused a lot of trouble for sites which are not multi-homed. Groklaw, for example, is on a Cogent network (MCNC.demarc.cogentco.com), so any Europeans connecting via Telia can’t get through.”
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