The spat between eBay and Google is now officially over, and is a great lesson on who can get away with what. The spat centers around Google check out that competes with Pay Pal that eBay uses, and has forbidden eBay users to use. Then there is the big eBay party in Boston, in that Google was going to throw an alternative party "let freedom ring" (tea anyone?) to show off their check out system to all the folks gathering for the big eBay bash.
This has not really been Google's day when it comes to people jumping all over them for things they have or have not done. Adding to the complex mix of everyone going off on the Privacy International report is an underreported report on Google Adsense that is being fed by Distilled.co.uk on how they have also changed Adwords/Adsense.
SEOPedia has a great summation or FAQ about how Digg works, and the influence of some of the algorithm changes that they have implemented in the last month. While there are a lot of folks who try to game Digg, and get spam to the front page, many of us smaller, single site posters like Ittoolbox, who have a great Google Page Rank overall, but lower page ranks for individual bloggers have gotten caught up in the changes.
One of the great things about Web 2.0 is that when you get tired for what ever reason of a site, it is usually simple to roll your own site to meet your needs, and probably the needs of many other people.
As the fallout continues on the Digg and AACS key, probably the most cogent statement made in this whole process is civil disobedience as performance art.
Digg over the last couple of days has found itself the center of controversy by complying with a DMCA sponsored take down notice and the posting of the AACS hex format key string (which we won't post here as no one really wants a takedown notice).
Amazon users have been reporting that newly acquired Sony Media disks are not playing in their DVD players, is this an outcome from the AACS key hacking, or did Sony forget to add the key updates to their media?
Social Engineering that gets someone in a company to give out information that they should not give out is something common, so why don't more companies doing anything about it?
Information Security is booming, it is a large business, with software and technology that can be bought off the shelf and slapped onto a network. Policies, procedures, documented steps for everyone from service desk through to management responses to incidents are fairly well established. We have ISO standards from ISO 17799 and 24001; we have rules like HIPAA, SOX, and GLB.
Got done reviewing Joost Beta 9, and it just keeps on getting better, and this time it did not bring down the network.
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