Yesterday I testified before a joint House/Senate Science & Technology committee of the Georgia General Assembly. SB 59 would make it illegal for a social networking site like MySpace to give minor children access without permission from a parent. It would also give parents surreptitious access to their children's pages. [...]
The International Herald Tribune reports that “Silicon Valley company [VeriSign] is undertaking a $100 million expansion of a crucial part of the system that speeds Web users to their destinations” in order “[t]o keep up with the growing strains put on the Internet by both legitimate users and online attackers”. [...]
Richard Stallman is regularly identified as a "fair use" advocate in the press and online, but a post from Robin Good on his blog suggests that the label is off the mark, to say the least. Sounds like Squealer has started editing the Seven Commandments, er, I mean, Four Freedoms… [...]
Thomas Friedman tells us the world is flat, but national policies still matter for companies of all sizes looking to innovate and compete in the global marketplace. Yesterday we released a paper today entitled "National Policies as Platforms for Innovation: Reconciling a Flat World with Creative Cities." We announced it [...]
According to MSNBC, “News Corp.'s Web network MySpace has been in talks for several months with online auction company eBay Inc. about a partnership” which would allow “MySpace users [to] buy and sell items from each other using eBay's online-commerce technology and its PayPal payment system.” In a different story, [...]