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How Widespread is Corruption at Wikipedia?

Salon has an article, Revenge, ego and the corruption of Wikipedia, about a rogue making edits.

Conspiracy Behind the Closing of the Google Affiliate Network

Jonathan Goodman started up a new podcast recently, and one of his first shows was The Google Affiliate Network Consp

DOJ says it doesn't need warrants to grab email and chat content

I think it's safe to say this topic will have some folks up in arms.

Ebay and the FBI Lay Down the Hammer on Cheating Affiliates

Interesting story on Business Insider: 

The Black Hats target the REAL Black hats in a DOS attack on Silk Road

From the BBC this morning, news that a Drug Dealing website has been taken offline in a DOS attack.

Was it Hackers or Governments?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22381046

Code Found In YouTube App Confirms Future "PayPerView" Channels

Analysis of code found in the new YouTube Andro

Clinton Political Strategist Targets Google in Fresh Wave of Microsoft Ads.

Microsoft has hired a former political pollister for Hillary Clinton to wage a smear campaign against Gmail.

Is Google Racist?

Harvard University computer scientist LaTanya Sweeney was upset to see a Goo

Apple Users rebel against Google Cookies

Just saw this on the BBC. Storm in teacup? Or Teacup spilling moment?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21229980

Facebook Graph Search Privacy Shocker

Now that users have started to get access to the beta search function, the fun has just begun...

WordPress.org Bullying Open Source Developers

WordPress.org has long been against themes that haven't been licensed under the GPL.

Facebook's Privacy Issues run amok

A Crofter small holding in the outer Hebrides looks more appealling day by day...

Facebook's New Search Engine Will Rival Google

The tech press has been wild with speculation this last week of an imminent "big" launch by Facebook. Will it be a new ad platform, a smart phone or a search engine?

BS: Duplicate Images = Duplicate Content

Since Bing and the Goog

Breaking the Glass Ceiling

Back in the day Threadwatch was more like a men's club.  There were like 5 women regulars?  Something pathetic like that.

Yahoo and Ebay to merge

rumours are a foot : http://internet.seekingalpha.com/article/39120 that Yahoo and Ebay are to merge.

The big thing here for Yahoo is that a) they get a massive user base b) Paypal

Ebay Vs Google Round 3 - Ding Ding

So after the recent spat between Google and Ebay, things do not seem to be getting anymore friendly.

Google Scraping & Spamming

Wow Google what a great algo you've got and what a really terrific user experience you're providing when you occupy 9 out of the top 10 results for a query with your own sites [

Bad Blood Between eBay and Google

Google announced they were holding a let freedom ring party to promote Google Checkout during the eBay live conference. In (un)related news, eBay announced they were pulling their US AdWords ad budget. Google responded by canceling their freedom party.

Google Reader Losing People's Feeds

TechCrunch points to a Google Groups thread where some members are reporting that Google Reader Lost their feeds