Stephen C. Webster / Raw Story:
Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill — It’s too early to say for sure, but Oregon Senator Ron Wyden could very well go down in the history books as the man who saved the Internet. — A bill that critics say would have given the government power to censor …
Grant Gross / PC World:
Senator Threatens to Block Online Copyright Bill — A U.S. senator has vowed to fight attempts to pass a controversial copyright protection bill that would allow the U.S. government to shut down websites suspected of hosting infringing materials. — Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat …
Chris Nerney / ITworld:
Mark Zuckerberg’s first website at Harvard sold in online auction — FaceMash.com purchased for ,201 on Flippa; winning bidder unknown — 1 I like it! — In early October I wrote about an online auction for FaceMash.com, which was the first website started by Mark Zuckerberg when he was attending Harvard a few years back.
Doug Palmer / Reuters:
Senate panel passes bill against piracy websites — (Reuters) – U.S. agencies and officials would get new powers to go after foreign websites that sell counterfeit goods and pirated music, movies and books under a bill passed on Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Jon Lawrence / CircleID:
Russia’s Cyrillic IDN ccTLD Blasts Off, Through the 500K Mark in Under a Week — Since last Thursday’s launch of Russia’s Cyrillic script IDN ccTLD, registration volumes have smashed all expectations, much like a Soyuz rocket blasting off into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Creates “Source” Meta Tags To Help ID Original News Sources — With the amount of content published online seeming to expand dramatically every year, Google says it’s experimenting with two new meta tags that it hopes will help it identify the original sources of online content.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Facebook Sets Email Service; Facebook.com Addresses For Users — Facebook today expanded its email service, jumping into a crowded market that already includes Google (GOOG) Gmail, Microsoft (MSFT) Hotmail and Yahoo (YHOO) Mail. The company will offer a facebook.com email address to users, based on their Facebook user names.
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
GoDaddy was just testing .co default, switches back to .com — The world’s largest domain registration service, GoDaddy caused a bit of a stir yesterday when it began offering .co domains instead of .com as its default option. Well, it turns out that the move was just an experiment.
JP Mangalindan / Fortune:
‘Project Phoenix’: Aol tries to raise email from ashes — Having lost the email crown long ago to Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo, Aol wants to jump back into the fray with ‘Project Phoenix,’ a web-based client built from scratch. — Since Google (GOOG) first introduced Gmail back in 2004 …
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL Just Announced Updates To AOL Mail — AOL just put out a press release announcing updates to AOL Mail. — Weird timing, since it’s 12 pm eastern on a Sunday, which is not exactly the prime time for news. — Maybe it is just trying to get the jump on Facebook which is expected to announce its email product on Monday.