As of 06:00am EST, the website at demonoid.com and demonoid.cc are showing the following message:
The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.
eBay, in a startling, unforeseen move, pulled their entire advertising budget from Google’s U.S. network. eBay ads will no longer be shown in Google’s AdSense program. It us unknown how this will effect AdSense publisher earnings.
The removal of all eBay advertising from Google began when Google attempted to crash eBay’s user conference, in Boston, this week. eBay is holding their annual user conference, this week, in Boston. Google, in an effort to promote their Google Checkout program, unveiled plans for the Google Checkout Freedom Party. The event was intended to try to convince eBay – via lobby from eBay users – to start accepting Google’s Checkout, a direct rival of eBay-owned PayPal (eBay has banned Google Checkout from their system, stating that it has yet to prove itself in fraud protection). All attendees of eBay’s user conference were given special invitations to attend Google’s Checkout Freedom Party, for free food, free drinks, and free massages.
Wow, I get a day or two behind, and look what I miss. Lycos – one of the Big Names in Internet – and Qumana – one of the Big Names in blogging – have joined forces to present the Lycos-Qumana Blog Editor, and the Lycos-Qumana RSS reader. Through the Lycos-Qumana alliance, Lycos is also offering easy one-stop blogging through their Tripod service.
Want more hype? Try this one on for size. Wired News (a service of Lycos) bloggers are now posting more efficiently thanks to Lycos-Qumana.
According to Fox News, the NY Times, and many others, a company (owned by former beatles Sir Ringo Starr, and Sir Paul McCartney, as well as Yoko Ono (John Lennon’s widow), and the estate of George Harrison) called Apple Corps, has filed a lawsuit against Apple Computers, in a London court.
In the 1970’s, when Apple Computer was first formed, the Beatles’ company sued the fledgling computer company, and won quite a bit of money, as well as the following judgement: Apple Computer’s name and logo would be used to sell computers only, and not be used as a music company.
I received an e-mail, today, from the (former) Journal Home administrator (I’m a JH member). According to the e-mail:
From the “what will they think of next” category comes Pigeon Blogging.
Reuters reports that in August, a flock of pigeons – fitted with mobile phone backpacks – will be released over San Jose, California.
The birds will be used to monitor air quality/pollution, according to New Scientist Magazine (from the Reuter’s article). Each bird will carry a GPS tracking device, air pollution sensors, and a basic mobile phone (what do you want to bet, it’ll be a Nokia). The pollution sensor, in combination with the mobile phone, will send text messages back – in real time – to a special “pigeon blog” that will be publically accessible on the Internet.
As announced on the Houston Democrats blog, the Texas Progressive Alliance (TEXAdS) has launched.
The Texas Progressive Alliance features seventeen of the best blogs in the Lone Star State, and its mission is to advance the cause of progressive issues and candidates. It also features an advertising network for those who wish to deliver their message to over a quarter of a million Texas progressive, weekly — the readers of the following blogs:
Boing-boing has put out a call for MSN, Yahoo, and AOL to publically release the data they submitted to the Justice Department.
You may remember that recently, the United States Justice Department subpoenad Google, MSN, Yahoo, and AOL to release user search data. All but Google complied in some form or fashion. Boing-Boing has requested that MSN, Yahoo and AOL publically release the data submitted to the Justice Department. EFF (Electronic Fronteir Foundation) co-founder John Gilmore has stated:
Technorati Tags: Boing-boing, MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Justice Department, Google, EFF, John Gilmore
Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. has died at age 78, on Monday.
God grant you rest, Coretta Scott King. Your will, zeal, and fire will be missed. Tell your husband, when you see him, that millions upon millions say “thank you.”
Bush, today, had a press conference regarding the accusations of illegal wiretapping, etc… Of course this was also used to spin the war toward the Bush line (if such a spin did, in fact, exist). My thoughts? I have only two, and they are directly resultant of comments Bush made during his question and answer session.
1) Bush stated “We are at war, with an enemy, who wants to hit us again.” In short, Mr. President… Duh. When have we ever been at war with an enemy that did not want to hit us, again?
Technorati Tags: press conference, illegal wiretapping, war
