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The German company that is the subject of an intellectual property lawsuit from social networking firm Facebook has said the case is without merit. Facebook's
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complaint, filed in a California federal court, accuses Studivz of copying the look, feel, features and services of Facebook. It is also seeking compensation, to be determined at a trial. Studivz said it had not been served with any court papers and that the Facebook claims were without merit. German-speaking Studivz is a social networking platform for students based in Berlin, Germany. The name is an abbreviation of the German expression Studentenverzeichnis or Studienverzeichnis, which means students' directory. In April 2008 it reportedly had about 10 million members, mostly in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In its complaint Facebook states: "As with any counterfeit product, Studivz's uncontrolled quality standards for service, features and privacy negatively impact the genuine article." But Studivz argues Facebook is suing
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Sunday morning is proving a popular time for watching pornographic movies, a video on demand site has found. Analysis of viewing figures shows peak demand
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for FilmOn's "naughty movies" was around 1116 GMT on Sunday. By contrast, internet analysts Hitwise found that usage of video sites peaked on Sundays but more traditional adult sites experienced a dip. Sundays, it said, was the top day for visits to internet shopping and social networking sites. Explaining the film viewing data, Alki David, founder of FilmOn, said: "The data applies to both men and women and it certainly poses the question about what has happened to the traditional 'day of rest' in Great Britain." 'Extreme distraction' The figures for January were uncharacteristically high, given the slump that typically follows the holiday season. But Mr David was unsure why adult content was favoured. "I have no idea," he told BBC News. "It may have to do with the Winter and the oncoming depression. Cheap entertainment seems to be
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Yahoo users will soon have one place where they can manage all the services they use on the popular website. The company has begun a mammoth re-engineering
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project that will unify the disparate services Yahoo runs. It hopes the project will transform the site into a vast social network where Yahoo users can quickly find and communicate with each other. The project should also aims to make it easier for web developers to use Yahoo data and services for their own ends. Monkey magic "We are literally in the process of rewiring Yahoo from the inside out," said Ari Balogh, chief technology officer at Yahoo in a speech at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. By re-engineering its internal workings it hopes to tear down the walls between its web sites and services so each user only has to visit one place to view and manage everything they do at Yahoo. Yahoo has built up its online presence using both home-grown services and by acquisitions. Recently it has bought photo-sharing site Flickr
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help in viewing these files, please see our help section Date 27-May-2008 Speakers: Lawrence M. Sanger PhD, co-founder of Wikipedia and founder of Citizendium Andrew Keen , prominent critic of the Internet as a means of acquiring knowledge, author of 'The Cult of the Amateur' (2007) Description: US-based panel speakers Lawrence M. Sanger, PhD and Andrew Keen discuss issues of legitimacy, credibility, regulation and censorship on the Internet. Topics addressed include: What role do truth, trust and expertise have to play in the creation and dissemination of knowledge and news through the Internet? What (or who) should we believe and why? Is the Internet's role in shaping knowledge creation and dissemination broadly a force for good? Doesn't participation educate? Doesn't such an array of easily accessible knowledge and information have
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San Francisco's Web 2.0 Expo conference brought together thousands of people responsible for crafting the future direction of the internet, and the world
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of applications - or apps - was front and centre. Everyone from Microsoft to Yahoo to MySpace was on a mission to woo developers to create exciting applications for their devices. Jennifer Pahlka of Techweb, one of the conference's co-chairs, said the carrot these big Silicon Valley companies were dangling to entice developers to get involved was that of openness and allowing people to devise programmes without constraints. "Yahoo was talking about opening up advertising platforms, Mozilla was talking about opening up the mobile web and John Zittrain from Oxford University was talking about openness to drive innovation and creativity so we don't go into this closed system where every application has to be approved by someone else," said Ms Pahlka. "So I think open versus closed and who gets to define what is open and what isn't is a b
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RWW is the Premiere Media Sponsor for the Defrag Conference , happening 3-4 November in Denver Colorado. You can register for Defrag here . Entering the
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code "rww1" will get RWW readers $200 off of the early bird price. Highlights from Defrag this year will include a discussion about Strategic Intuition, a presentation from Esther Dyson called 'The Quantification of Everything', a discussion about whether collaboration is changing how we consume and interact with analysis, and much more. Sorry you're not seeing this cartoon earlier, but I had to update my Facebook status, upload and tag my Flickr photos from yesterday, answer three LinkedIn questions and stay on top of my Twitter feed. There's something seductive about the social web, and the way it drives us to be always updating, always staying on top of our friends' updates, and always painfully aware that we could and should be doing more. I'd discuss more, but I need to go join a Seesmic chat... Do you remember what was happening
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Web 2.0 Summit Day Two LIVE from San Francisco Follow Web 2.0 Summit in progress: Click on the icons above for Twitter , Facebook , Photos and other links.
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Keynote video is coming soon ( 2007 available now ) and Speaker presentation slides will also be posted soon. News & Coverage See all > Web Meets World Web 2.0 Summit has once again reached capacity for the fifth consecutive year. Thanks to everyone who requested an invitation to the 2008 edition. . See the full list of innovators and issues that will be making an onstage appearance in just a few days. Recent additions to the speaker line-up include: Shai Agassi, Better Place The commercial web is now a teenager—it's been fifteen short years since Marc Andreessen released the Mosaic browser. To put this in perspective, television as a commercial medium reached its fifteenth birthday in 1956—the year Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national TV. National news broadcasts were still in their infancy, "As The World Turns" debu
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Visually impaired tester Hazel Dudley uses the Jaws voice system to find out how easy it is to surf price comparison sites. Her ratings are personal and
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do not represent a scientific appraisal of the site. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced a new standard to make sites more accessible to older and disabled people. Version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) will apply to text, images, audio and video. It also covers web applications and is said to give developers more flexibility than the old guidelines. According to the consortium, WCAG 2.0 should also be easier to understand and use. The guidance is designed to address barriers encountered by people with visual, hearing, physical, cognitive and neurological disabilities and older people with access needs. WCAG 2.0 explains how to make content: Perceivable - including descriptive text for images, audio captions, flexibility of layout and colour contrast Operable - making sites usable with keyboards an
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