In Death of a Blog, Guest Author Jean of Cycle Write Blog and Third Wave Cycling Blog shares her experience of giving birth to a blog and bringing it to an end prematurely. Last year, she was guest author of this post Blogging and Cycling: It’s Like a Drug. Continue reading
Category Archives: Social networks
Pinterest Updated Terms of Service
The Pinterest Updated Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Privacy Policy will go into effect for all users on April 6, 2012. Noteworthy changes include: Continue reading
Pinterest Copyright Opt-Out
On Monday, February 20th The Official Pinterest blog entry was focused on copyright. Web sites are now able to opt-out of having their images pinned by Pinterest’s users by inserting code into their headers. (It works much the same way robots.txt does in keeping search engine spiders from crawling your site.) Continue reading
Social Networks Update
Social media has evolved rapidly and we have seen the emergence of social networks that did not exist months ago. According to comScore in 2011 social networking sites reach 82% of the world’s online user population. Social networks and mobiles have combined to turn people into social media addicts. You’re on Facebook. You’re on Google Plus. You’re on Twitter. So let’s explore what’s happening in those social networks. Continue reading
Facebook, Google, Yahoo and India’s Laws
India, the world’s largest democracy is the third country after Brazil and Germany expecting that Twitter, Facebook and Google will block objectionable content or Government will take action on it. Indian regulations oblige Internet companies to remove material that is “grossly harmful” or “ethnically objectionable”. Some web giants may be allegedly committing the offence punishable under section 292 (sale of obscene books etc), 293 (sale of obscene objects to young person etc) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC. Continue reading