WebProNews

Digg Loses Its Techie Luster

The social media site boomed to popularity with its early focus on technology, an area that has become less important to Digg's masters as they seek a broader audience.

Business Emails Can Cause Legal Problems

People are often smart enough not to put sensitive information on paper, and in the event that they do, they’ve frequently got a lighter or shredder standing by.  Employees still have a lot to learn when it comes to email, though.

Does Open License Mean Open Season?

The unattributed verbatim appearance of a Wikipedia article in a book from a major publisher sparked accusations of plagiarism, and raises more serious issues of ethics as well as the perils of publishing under open licenses.

Bloglines Adds Top 1000, More Enhancements

Bloglines did another update today, adding a new Bloglines Top 1000 section, showing off the 100 most popular blogs, along with data on which ones are moving up or down, and sidebars with the new blogs on the list and the biggest movers.

Yahoo To Cut Musicmatch Jukebox's Cord

On Monday, I wrote an article noting the demise of both Yahoo Photos and Yahoo Bill Pay.  Little did I know the follow-up would come so soon; users of Musicmatch Jukebox have been told they’ll need to switch to Yahoo Music Jukebox.

Google Bans Ads For Essay Writing Services

Google has banned essay writing services from advertising on its AdWords platform.

BlinkList Closes Eyes For Over 20 Hours

It’s nice to have a popular site, but if the popularity becomes overwhelming, the owner will (temporarily) be left without a site at all.  According to a new Royal Pingdom survey, that may be what happened to the people at BlinkList.

Another Sony DRM Debacle Happening?

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?

JPG Intros "Hotness," I Hope Yahoo Doesn't Sue Them

JPG Magazine: Blog: Introducing Hotness Well our good friends over at JPG Magazine introduced a cool new feature on their site today. it's called Hotness "because interestingness was taken" (their words). Hotness basically uses the social activity around the photos on their site, "votes, views, and more," to share with members of the JPG community some of the best shots being uploaded per an "algorithm" that they created.

SEO and the Presidential Candidates

A recent article posted on Slashdot looked at various website design points of the top 6 Presidential Candidates.