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• Preventing domain expiration 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Internet users have an equally pervasive -- and oddly similar -- problem: accidental Internet domain expiration. Your Linux user group or other nonprofit group (or, hey, even your company) is relying on some vaguely defined chain of command to make sure the domain keeps getting renewed, making the assumption everything's fine as long as no disaster has yet happened (which tactic is called "management by exception" in business school -- usually just before they cue the ominous music). Somebody drops the ball, the domain everyone's relying on expires when nobody's looking, and when the dust settles you find that a domain squatter's grabbed it. Yes, there are companies that make domain snatching their core business. They do well at it, too. Too well for my taste.
• Free San Francisco Wi-Fi project dies 8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  EarthLink has backed out of a deal to build San Francisco's free citywide Wi-Fi service.
• Facebook Makes Its First Acquisition 10 months ago
  
  With Parakey buy, Facebook gains two founders of the Mozilla Firefox browser.
• Google, Viacom Lawyers Square Off on DMCA 10 months ago
  
  Does Viacom want Google to do the impossible? How hard can it be to spot Evan Almighty among the Diet Coke and Mentos stunts?
• Don't be evil: third party data dangers 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  A series of developments raise the specter that remotely stored or created documents may be subject to subpoena or discovery all without the knowledge or consent of the document's creators.
• LinkedIn to open up to developers 10 months, 3 weeks ago
  
  "I talked to LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman on Friday at the Supernova 2007 conference about Facebook’s rapid growth and potential incursion into his territory. He told me that over next 9 months LinkedIn would deliver APIs for developers ... "