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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Fri/fakespace.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Fri/fakespace.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 116ef91..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2006/11.27.06/Fri/fakespace.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -Friends? We don't need your stinking friends. We bought our friends cheap at [FakeYourSpace][1]. FakeYourSpace is new service that will create friends you to list on your MySpace, Facebook and other social networking sites profiles.
For $.99 cents a month you can buy "hotties" both male and female to add to your profile as friends and what's more they even post 2 comments a week. Oh and fear not, those comments will be germaine because you'll be the on writing them.
FakeYourSpace claims to make it "easy for any regular person to make it seem like they have a Model for a friend." Which is really all we want right -- the illusion of friends?
When I worked in a coffeeshop in college we found that starting off the morning by "seeding" the tip jar with a few dollars universally led to bigger tips, so will seeding your MySpace profile with models lead to more models finding your page?
[Update: In the time it took to write this, FakeYourSpace seems to have disappeared, the site now leads to generic, "this domain is for sale" page. Damn, I knew it was too good to be true. What is the world coming to when you can't even buy some decent looking friends?]
[1]: http://www.fakeyourspace.com/ "FakeYourSpace"
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* U.S. companies will have to [track all e-mail, IM and other electronic documents][1] created by their employees thanks to new federal laws that take effect today. The rules will require companies involved in federal litigation to show all "electronically stored information." Even better, making backups by re-burning a CD-RW could be considered "virtual shredding."
[1]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061201/ap_on_hi_te/storing_e_mails "Law requires Companies to track e-documents"
* Here's a shocker: Movie Studios are demanding that [Apple add more restrictive DRM][2] before they will sell their movies through iTunes. Among other things the studios want Apple to "reduce the number of devices that can use a film downloaded from iTunes."
[2]: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6c6aa286-7f08-11db-b193-0000779e2340.html "Movie studios want more DRM"
* On the brighter side of the DRM fight, Russian site [AllofMP3 is fighting back][3] against the U.S.-Russia trade deal which essential calls for the demise of AllofMP3. A lawyer for AllofMP3 told Ars Technica, "Legality is not decided by a legislative branch or an executive branch. It's decided by a court." It's nice to see AllofMP3 fighting the good fight, but personally I'd just head to the Bahamas, no legal hassles, better weather...
[3]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061130-8330.html "Ars Technica on AllofMP3"
* And finally, more good copyright news: [The Internet Archive][5] has [won an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act][4] which will allow them to continue archiving the internets.
[5]: http://www.archive.org/index.php "The Internet Archive"
[4]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/internet_archive_copyright_reprieve/
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Stylefeeder is the shopaholics friend, rather than trying to maintain a wishlist on Amazon, Yahoo and others, you can keep everything in one place. Stylefeeder offer and nice bookmarklet that sits in your browser's toolbar. When you're on a site that has something you'd like to buy, just click the bookmarklet and it will be saved to your Stylefeed.
The bookmarklet features a nice piece of javascript that lets you select any image on the bookmarked page to use for that bookmark. It's so dead simple even your grandmother could use it.
Stylefeeder helps you create a wishlist or just track products your interested in. Stylefeeder has all the features you'd expect from a social bookmarking site such as tags, ratings, RSS feeds and groups.
Unlike a lot of more traditional social bookmark sites, Stylefeeder is decidedly not geek-oriented, in fact the Leica camera I bookmarked looked decidedly out of place on the front page, sandwiched between a kimono dress and a yoga outfit.
Once you add a page to your stylefeed you can keep track of it via RSS, share it with a group if you're a member or email it to a friend. There's also an OPML feed, which means if you're tech savvy you could pull your Stylefeed content into just about anywhere.
For those that want to display their wishlist on a blog or MySpace page, Stylefeeder offers some cut-and-paste code that will embed a nice flash widget on whatever page you would like. You should be aware that some blog sites block Flash plugins, LiveJournal comes to mind, so the widget may or may not work depending on the service you use.
In my cursory browsing I noticed that so far Stylefeeder's users aren't making heavy use of the comments feature which is a bit disappointing since half of what I look for when I'm shopping online is user commentary on a product. Perhaps as the site grows users will start taking advantage of the comments feature.
Stylefeeder does has a nice feature called Watchlist that lets you track what other users bookmark. This allows you in effect to use other Stylewatchers as personal shoppers, just find someone whose taste you like and every time they add a new product you'll get notified.
The one thing Stylefeeder doesn't feature that I would like to have seen is some kind of price tracking. Since [reviewing Offertrax for Monkey Bites][2], I've grown semi-addicted to the idea of tracking prices via RSS. Stylefeeder is decidedly more fun and better looking than Offertrax, but Offertrax has a feature set that's tough to beat.
[1]: http://www.stylefeeder.com/ "Stylefeeder.com"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/11/offertrax_an_in "Monkey Bites on Offertrax"
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The fundamental change in the contract is that it now allows the U.S. government sole control over .com price increases and sole control over whether or not VeriSign gets to renew the contract in 2012.
The international community has been pushing to turn this authority over to ICANN who oversees the internet, but the U.S. rejected that idea. As part of the contract VeriSign must recognize the authority of ICANN, but answers only to the U.S government, effectively neutering ICANN.
Currently the U.S. also oversees ICANN but that is schedule to end in 2009. What has irked many countries about the new contract is that it extends U.S authority three years past the point that internet is scheduled to be turned over to an international body. The new contract furthermore adds the option for the U.S. to extend that authority even longer should it choose to renew VeriSign's contract in 2012.
Although somewhat better than the original VeriSign contract revealed earlier this year, today's official announcement is unlikely to make many outside the U.S. very happy. As the UK newspaper [The Register rather sardonically puts it][2], "a decision with global implications was again decided by a few Congressmen in Washington."
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=governmentFilingsNews&storyID=2006-11-30T194653Z_01_N30191458_RTRIDST_0_VERISIGN-AGREEMENT-UPDATE-1.XML "VeriSign Contract Officially Accepted"
[2]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/usg_approves_dotcom_contract/ "The Register on VeriSign Contract"
[3]: http://www.verisign.com/ "verisign"
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If the Wii offering is any indicator, these sites should prove popular with fans of the represented brands.
Yahoo's Wii site is chock full of geeky fan goodness with everything from flickr photos showing people hooking up their new Wii, to del.icio.us links with various tips, sites and sale prices, to panel with questions and answers from the ever-growing Yahoo! Answers.
The design of the site is clean and simple, something Yahoo seems to be getting better at and it unifies the many diverse offerings that Yahoo often has a hard time bringing together in a cohesive way.
The buyers guide for instance, integrates Yahoo Shopping, EBay Auctions and Yahoo maps to create a nice one-stop destination for anyone looking to purchase a Wii (never mind that every retailer lists the Wii as out of stock).
Of course the primary focus is on content from Yahoo's offerings, which leaves the Video section for instance, a bit lacking, I imagine users would be better served by aggregating YouTube Video rather than relying on Yahoo's paltry offerings, but I don't image that will be happening any time soon.
What's interesting about the Wii portal and future plans is that Yahoo isn't asking permission or partnering with the brand companies in anyway. Yahoo says they hope brand companies will want to work with and support the Yahoo sites, but as Vince Broady, head of entertainment, games and youth properties at Yahoo, tells Variety, "we don't believe we have to have the participation of the brand owners."
If you're a fan of Nintendo's new Wii console you'll enjoy Yahoo's new site, and it will be interesting to see where this brand-universe strategy takes Yahoo.
[1]: http://wii.yahoo.com/
[2]: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954662.html?categoryid=18&cs=1&nid=2570
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