Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Twitter Investor Defends New ‘Tweet’ Usage Rules — Twitter is taking heat in the tech blogosphere (here and here) over its new guidelines about how others can use the words “Twitter” and “Tweet.” Now some well-known technology investors are also saying “Hey, Twitter, enough of this.”
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Hey, Twitter, Enough Of This Crap About “Here’s How You Can Use The Word Tweet” — Twitter has issued new rules about how the rest of us can use the words “Twitter” and “Tweet,” MG Siegler of TechCrunch tells us. — And the rules are right out of a handbook on how to take yourself way too seriously.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Do Twitter’s Application Naming Rules Spell Bad News For TweetDeck? — MG earlier wrote a post about Twitter’s rules regarding its trademarks, logos and so on. — Here’s what struck me, going over the guidelines: … The reason why this struck me as odd is because one of the most popular desktop …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Demand Media’s IPO Is On Deck, With Amended Filing — Demand Media, which posted its S-1 regulatory filing August, filed an amended version today that is likely to allow it to move quickly to an initial public offering. — The new version for the online content company has updated financial information for the third quarter.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Amid criticism, WikiLeaks shifts focus — When WikiLeaks launched with little fanfare in early 2007, its founders touted it as a unique collaboration that would rely on the same anyone-can-edit software and sense of community that made Wikipedia such a success.
Dumplings from this Panda!:
In Response to The Digg Blog Post — Digg has responded publicly to the post I made yesterday and I appreciate their willingness to address this. I feel obligated to give my feedback/response – not in the expectation that digg will further address it. — Defending my post yesterday …
Dumplings from this Panda!:
Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners? — Digg recently published a blog post titled “Digg’s Algorithmic Mystery Tour” on October, 15th. While a Digg blog post is a normal thing, a post about the algorithm was very surprising to me. Why did Digg, which never bothers …
New York Times:
WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Chased by Turmoil — LONDON — Julian Assange moves like a hunted man. In a noisy Ethiopian restaurant in London’s rundown Paddington district, he pitches his voice barely above a whisper to foil the Western intelligence agencies he fears.
Payvand Iran News:
Tehran’s Unplugged Internet Plan — Source: Khashayar Nouri from mianeh.net — Authorities want separate network that looks like internet but is confined and controlled within country. — Plan to create a separate internet for Iran could leave web users confined to a closed domestic network, cut off from the rest of the world.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Piracy domain seizure bill gains support — A proposed law allowing the government to pull the plug on Web sites accused of aiding piracy received a sizable political boost yesterday. — Dozens of the largest content companies, including video game maker Activision, media firms NBC Universal and Viacom …