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February 2010

DevelopmentMarketing

Censoring the Yelp?

Yelp.com is being dragged into Los Angeles federal court in a class-action lawsuit for unfair business practices, initiated by a Long Beach-based veterinary hospital. The plaintiff, Cats and Dogs Hospital, requested Yelp to remove a negative review from its site, and says Yelp not only refused to remove it, but demanded payments of $300 a month to obscure or remove the bad review.  The negative reviews allegedly stateL "Dr. Perrault is the rudest vet I've ever been to" and "my…
February 25, 2010
DevelopmentMarketing

Legal Woes for Google in Europe

In the afterglow of Google’s legal and social moral issues with China came a surprise for many: on February 23, an Italian court convicted three Google executives -- Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer and former CFO George Reyes -- of privacy violations for not acting quickly enough to remove a video of teen youth bullying an autistic boy. (more…)
February 23, 2010
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Privacy and Monetization Trends in Social Networking

Tired of getting all those updates on Facebook about people’s Mafia Wars status or what kind of new digital farmland they’re acquired at Farmville? Facebook hears ya, baby. After growing privacy concerns and complaints, the social networking site has finally extended privacy controls to enable members to assign different levels of access to individual applications. Users now have the option to limit distribution of nearly everything they share, including cause posts, photos, greeting cards and videos. (more…)
February 22, 2010
MarketingTips

Auto Post Your Blog Posts to Facebook

While doing a little work on The Modlins' blog, I stumbled across a video tutorial on How to Add Your Blog Feed to Your Facebook Profile that is great advice for, well, anyone who blogs and facebooks (is that a verb yet?). With just a few clicks and one copy-paste, Facebook will give you a new Note whenever you publish a blog post. Learn how after the jump (or watch the video tutorial...) (more…)
February 21, 2010
DesignDevelopmentPress / News

Updating the Code Aurora Forum

Mobile World Congress was this past week, and as part of our contribution to that, and to the world at large, we at Ninthlink had the privilege of freshening up the look of the Code Aurora Forum, "the go-to-source for the mobile open source community." The old site (picture after the jump) had all the info, including GIT repositories and WIKIs full of knowledge for the latest in the open source world, from Google's Android and Chromium OS to Qualcomm's…
February 19, 2010