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The Data Portability Workgroup has been receiving more press in the tech blogosphere than just about any other industry organization lately due to a large number of high profile new members such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook. There have been a number of questions regarding the concepts of portable attention data and the general viability [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Podcast: A Conversation with DataPortability's Chris Saad", url: "http://mashable.com/2008/01/23/podcast-dataportability-chris-saad/" });

The Wall Street Journal is citing as their source “those familiar with the matter” that eBay CEO Meg Whitman is planning an exit within the next few weeks.  As the story goes, she’s begun making preparations for the succession planning, and recently taken to delegating more responsibilities to her lieutenants. The current odds-on favorite for [...]

Earlier this month, Google changed up the way the referral portion of the Google AdSense program works. After some rather angry comments from well known bloggers, they have changed it again, and it still doesn’t make a lot of sense.The earlier change made stipulated that if you lived outside of North America, Latin America, [...]

Wanna watch lots of previews and excerpts of liberal, communist propaganda by way of YouTube? Look here.PBS, or the Public Brainwashing Broadcasting Service, announced plans recently to expand the supply of its trademark leftist content on the uber-popular video host. InformationWeek reported that it would grow the current list of some 700 clips to one [...]

Cyber security is pretty important these days. Hack attacks can be very disruptive. Just ask Romania.So we here in the US should feel at least somewhat more secure in knowing that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved “eight new mandatory critical infrastructure protection (CIP) reliability standards to protect the nation’s bulk power system against [...]

Everyone has their eyes on the upcoming Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 700 MHz wireless auction, and not just the folks in the tech world, but also stock brokers and wealth managers. At the close of business on Friday, Google stock closed at $600.25 a share (down to $598.30 in after hours trading), so people [...]

Earlier this week we wrote about a site named GlobalPandora that allowed non-U.S. residents to again access the custom radio site Pandora. Well, it was nice while it lasted.Visitors to the site are now greeted with following:Apparently Pandora did not take kindly to the ease with which foreign users were again able to access [...]

I’ll posit that to be a low-end prediction.Yes, $50bn is a large number when compared to the sum of last year’s sales. When you look at the stretch of 2007, the ad industry on the whole had yet to attain $25bn by the close of the fourth quarter. That effectively put advertisers’ investment in text [...]

In a highly unusual move for any political group today, the Greens EFA party of the European Parliament have publicly expressed their support for file sharing on the Net.The party has taken the highly progressive step of speaking out on the part of consumers who have been treated as criminals by various media industries. [...]

Not too long after Google’s Blogger service went down, down, down… LinkedIn suffers an outage as well. What’s the deal? Throw in the fact that Technorati has been having uptime issues as well, there’s a trifecta of error messages going on today across some pretty major sites. No word on what’s [...]