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State of California takes aim at ‘risks’ of Twitter, bans Facebook friends

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 26 February 2010
  State takes aim at ‘risks’ of Twitter, bans Facebook friends February 26, 2010 |  3:55 pm The Internet can be a wild place, with all the damage one can do from an office cubicle on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and the like. So the state of California on Friday unveiled a “Social Media Standard” to ensure that its employees [...]
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Facebook’s Walled Garden a Gulag?

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 16 February 2009
On February 4 Facebook revised their Terms of Service, removing a clause stating that user content would no longer be under license to Facebook. Well, now the terms indicate that anything you ever upload or share to your facebook profile — regardless of whether your account is active — is Facebook’s property to do whatever they [...]
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Internet Radio Bill Passes House Unanimously, Senate Next

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 28 September 2008
Great news for WOOZradio, Pandora and all other net radio broadcasters. Though this bill doesn’t entirely spell things out re: the future of net radio (at least in terms of WOOZ and our streaming via Live365) it is a positive step toward a solution that will keep net radio alive after many contentious months following [...]
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