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Google to be Sued Over Name?

Google to be Sued Over Name? 05/18/2004 08:42 AM

Google Sued For Age Discrimination

Google Sued For Age Discrimination 07/25/2004 12:54 PM
Search Engine Journal Jul 25 2004 5:13PM GMT

Google sued over copyright

Google sued over copyright 03/23/2005 11:01 PM
Globe and Mail Mar 24 2005 3:21AM GMT

Google and Yahoo sued over gambling ads

Google and Yahoo sued over gambling ads 08/04/2004 04:27 AM
ZDNet UK Aug 4 2004 8:22AM GMT

Google sued by start-up over code

Google sued by start-up over code 07/01/2004 03:23 AM
ZDNet UK Jul 1 2004 8:16AM GMT

Google Sued for Libel After Man Ego
Surfs

Google Sued for Libel After Man Ego
Surfs 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
SERPs as editorial content: "...he was told by friends and family that typing "Mark Maughan" into a Google search engine delivered "alarming, false, misleading and injurious results" about him and the business."

Could Google News be sued for libel?

Could Google News be sued for libel? 06/05/2004 02:34 AM
CyberJournalist.net Jun 5 2004 5:27AM GMT

Planet API: Searching Thousands of
Public ASP.NET / ASMX / C# / VB.NET
webservices / Webmethods from Around the
Planet

Planet API: Searching Thousands of
Public ASP.NET / ASMX / C# / VB.NET
webservices / Webmethods from Around the
Planet 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
The Chatbot! Cyber Community has released Planet API. Planet API ( http://www.PlanetAPI.com/ ) features thousands of public ASP.NET / ASMX / C# / VB.NET webservices / webmethods. [PRWEB Mar 10, 2004]

Now Google Getting Sued For Blocking
Trademarked Terms

Now Google Getting Sued For Blocking
Trademarked Terms 12/12/2003 03:10 PM
A few months back, France fined Google for selling ads based on trademarked terms. I was surprised, because in my own experiments with Google ads, I've had a few ads that were rejected because they (according to Google) contained trademarked terms. Personally, I don't see how buying a keyword is, in any way, a violation of trademark. The point of a trademark is to protect the company from having someone else appear to be you. You can't sell Bob's Cola and put a Coca-Cola label on it. However, if someone is looking for Coca-Cola, there's nothing wrong with suggesting they might also want to look at Bob's Cola, as well. Anyway, now it looks like Google may get hit from the other side as well. They've been fined for selling ads based on trademarks, and now, apparently, they're going to ge t sued for blocking ads based on trademark complaints. The pending lawsuit apparently says that Google is banning ads on terms that aren't trademarked as soon as anyone complains. That is, Google doesn't check to see if there's an actual trademark - they just ban the ad as soon as there's a complaint. The group that's going to sue says they've brought together over 3,000 complaining advertisers who have had ads blocked. As mentioned, I've had my ads blocked too, but this seems like a ridiculous lawsuit. Where in the law does it say that Google has to sell you ads for whatever you want? They have the right to reject ads for whatever reason they want. It is their system, after all. If people believe they're blocking ads unfairly, then isn't that an opening for competitors to better serve advertisers by offering them something that Google doesn't?

Google Says Sued Over Orkut Code
(Reuters)

Google Says Sued Over Orkut Code
(Reuters) 06/30/2004 10:29 PM
Reuters - Google Inc. said late on Wednesday that it has been sued by Affinity Engines, which alleges that Google's Orkut social networking site is built with code stolen from its company.

Google Sued Over Search Advertising
Practices

Google Sued Over Search Advertising
Practices 01/29/2004 03:49 AM
American Blind and Wallpaper Factory alleges that Google infringes on its trademarks by allowing competitors to bid on certain keywords for high placement in paid search results. Google search partners, including AOL, also are targeted in the suit.

Google sued over Orkut bug replication
feature

Google sued over Orkut bug replication
feature 07/02/2004 06:16 PM
Your bugs are our IP

Google and Overture Sued by Geico Over
Keyterm Trademarks

Google and Overture Sued by Geico Over
Keyterm Trademarks 05/19/2004 12:15 AM
Search Engine Journal May 19 2004 4:49AM GMT

Google sued over alleged Orkut code
theft

Google sued over alleged Orkut code
theft 07/01/2004 12:31 AM
Social networking software company Affinity Engines is suing Google, accusing them of stealing code which is used in their orkut.com social-networking venture. Google denies the allegations, but will the suit harm them as they prepare for their IPO?

Google sued by Digital Envoy over
GeoTargeting Technology.

Google sued by Digital Envoy over
GeoTargeting Technology. 04/09/2004 04:06 PM

Us the Planet 0.1

Us the Planet 0.1 02/11/2004 09:51 PM
A theme with a map of the Earth.

My Planet 0.01

My Planet 0.01 10/30/2003 09:22 PM
A simple news feed aggregator.

The Planet is Down

The Planet is Down 03/31/2005 12:49 PM
Blogs all over the place are down this morning because The Planet / Server Matrix experienced a UPS failure. A...

Planet Sun

Planet Sun 04/21/2004 10:39 PM
Several people have pointed to Planet Sun, a rather good aggregation of all the known Sun bloggers. It’s done by David Edmondson, whose own uncollected thoughts is well worth visiting. Also worthy of note in recent days is Mike Duigou on Complexity, which totally captures the mental pain consequent on confronting a big new hairy URI. (But that whole Java.net space is organized in a weird way that I don’t quite get; hmm...). Also, Planet Sun is a clever name... for the next such project how about Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun? [For the under-40s, that’s a druggie-Sixties-music reference -Ed. (Yeah, but a great tune! -Tim)]

Annotating the planet

Annotating the planet 03/14/2005 05:45 PM

When I finished making the interactive version of my neighborhood tour, along with a screencast, it was clear that Google Maps is every bit as revolutionary as my first instincts told me. Not because Google invented a new geospatial engine or compiled better data. They didn't. But simply -- and yet profoundly -- because Google Maps is a framework we can all use to annotate the physical world.

In the very near future, billions of people will be roaming the planet with GPS devices. Clouds of network connectivity are forming over our major cities and will inevitably coalesce. The geoaware Web isn't a product we buy; it's an environment we colonize. There will always be markets for proprietary data. But the real action will be in empowering people to create their own services, with their own data, for their friends, family, and business associates. Google Maps isn't just a service, it's a service factory.

Radical openness is the key. It's been only two weeks since it launched and already the colonization has begun. Thanks to open XML data formats and open Web programming interfaces, people have figured out how to animate routes, create custom routes with their own GPS data, and display GPS data in real time.

Microsoft could have enabled these same kinds of things years ago. Its TerraServer has been up and running since 1998. But despite Steve Ballmer's infamous monkey-dance chant, developers haven't flocked to TerraServer. What's Google's secret? Web DNA and no Windows tax. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

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Hacking the planet

Hacking the planet 08/05/2004 02:23 PM

Minding the Planet

Minding the Planet 08/02/2004 01:58 PM
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Planet Broadband

Planet Broadband 07/07/2004 04:19 PM
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Planet of the Anklebiters

Planet of the Anklebiters 04/18/2005 08:37 AM

« Otava curled up on the couch and looking adorable at six months. »

Since the weather was abnormally lovely over the weekend we spent most of it outdoors with Otava. On Saturday, we were taking a rest on a bench in the woods when a pair of small dogs walked by and, of course, started growling at Otava. After a few hilarious minutes of growling on one side and bewilderment on the other, the micro-dogs trotted on. After they had gone I chuckled for a few minutes as it hit me that George Lucas had seen this dog when he thought, "Aha! That's what an Ewok should look like!" I always wondered why the Ewoks growl in the movies and now I know. The Ewoks are just small dogs who are still short and annoying even on two legs. Gee, talk about a planet best avoided. Planet of the Anklebiters.

Sunday we went down to the rocks, a.k.a 'beach', on Suomenlinna and there were quite a few swans floating around near to the shore. Otava somehow got the bright idea that he should try and catch one of them. He stood watching them from a rock for a while and then dove to the next rock in hopes of getting closer to his desire. When he pulled himself up, the male swan arched his neck and hissed menacingly towards Otava even though it was far enough away to feel safe from this amateur canine. We were very amused but Otava sulked for most of the rest of the afternoon. I'm hoping that the pictures I took of him and the swan turn out well as it really was pretty funny. :)

Roving about the Red Planet

Roving about the Red Planet 09/04/2004 06:51 PM
US News Sep 4 2004 10:21PM GMT

Wi-Fi Planet Roundup

Wi-Fi Planet Roundup 12/03/2003 02:42 PM
Check out a roundup of announcements made at Wi-Fi Planet...

First Planet Roller win

First Planet Roller win 03/14/2005 04:49 PM

Planet SST has converted from PlanetPlanet to Planet Roller. OK, so "Students and former students of the Hasso-Plattner-Institute" is not a big planet, but it is a start.

Planet Spreadsheet

Planet Spreadsheet 05/05/2004 02:19 PM

Here's a good piece from Wired News on the always excellent Future of Music Conference, held this weekend in Washington, DC.

(Sadly no one from Creative Commons HQ was able to make it this year, but plenty of our friends did. Check out Siva Vaidhyanathan's guest spot on our chairman's blog for his take on the event.)

The Intimate Planet

The Intimate Planet 02/01/2005 09:55 PM
As usual, I'm writing this in the sky, flying from New York City to Rio de Janeiro this time. Below me, Amazonia is waking to first light. Only three days ago, I flew from London to New York. It has become so routine for me to dash across half the planet that it feels a bit like commuting. Or taking some kind of rapid horizontal elevator. While I haven't entirely lost my sense that such mobility is a miracle, most people take for granted that about 95% of the earth's locations are, at most, a day a half away from them. Now we measure distance in money not time. The rigors of the road, so daunting even 75 years ago, are less an obstacle than the cost of the ticket. Marco Polo would be stunned. As with most miracles, the functional elimination of distance became invisible to us almost as soon as it happened. The planet shrank by several orders of magnitude and most of us adapted at once. But I had an experience - or rather, two experiences - the night I arrived from London which made it seem that the earth had shrunk to a point of global intimacy. Indeed, they felt like that first mystical moment the Internet provided me many years ago, when I realized that I could type "telnet" at a terminal prompt and cause any number of hard disks to spin all over the world. In any event, I was sitting at my desk in New York on Wednesday night, writing a BarlowSpam, when Skype started to emit the old-fashioned bell tone that signals a request for a voice chat. I looked at the window associated with the request and saw a bunch of Chinese pictograms where the name should be. Some kind of Asian chatspam, I figured, and I ignored it. A few minutes later, it rang again. The name of the caller was "Kitty11_3". There was also a text chat box on the screen, also from kitty11_3 which read, "I need a friend." I was skeptical. I figured that "Kitty," or whomever, was probably looking for "friends" to come see her "relax" in her web-cam equipped "bedroom." But I took the call. A delicate Asian-sounding voice came from someplace in Cyberspace. "Will you talk to me?" she said. "Why?" "I want to practice my English." "Why me?" "Because your name is John. I think that anybody named John speaks English." I remained skeptical, but further conversation convinced me that she was telling the truth. She really had no idea who or where I was and had plucked me at random from all the Skype users named John. Kitty11_3 turned out to be a 22 year old girl from Hanoi, who, like her father, works for the state-owned oil company. She had managed to get five of her neighbors in the Hanoi suburb where she lives to go in on a DSL line and WiFi which she had set up herself. Her boyfriend is off in Korea getting a master's degree in telecommunications. She has three sisters, and her real name is Vu My Dung. Here is a picture of her family (at her eldest sister's wedding.): She's the one in red on the right. We talked for a long time, in voice, text, photographs, and URLs. I sent her to my home page, so that she could find out more about me. Then I helped her set up an account on Tribe.net, so that people could find out more about her. She sent me a picture of her boyfriend and the dreams they made together. Her spoken English did indeed need practice, but she wrote English with correct lucidity. We talked a lot about politics and economics in Viet Nam. She said she made the equivalent of about 100 dollars a month, that her family was very poor but middle-class by Vietnamese standards, and that they love each other so much that they feel very lucky anyway. Her father had been in the army, making me think that, had things gone a different way, I might have been put in a position to kill him, thus eliminating the possibility of this conversation. I reflected that there are some who visit this blog who even now would think me cowardly and unpatriotic for having refused to be put in that position. Toward the end of this conversation, I got another invitation to converse from the mystery person with the Chinese ideograms for a name. This time they were accompanied by a text chat box referring to its initiator as "Christine". I answered in text, while continuing my conversation with "Kitty." As soon as Kitty and I signed off, I "rang" "Christine." She was, believe it or not, also a twenty two year old from Asia who wanted to practice English. My suspicion that this might be some kind of a scam had dissipated with getting to know Vu My. Still, I began to think my name might be on some list of easily-distracted English speakers, possibly with a penchant for young Asian women, but they both swore to me that there was no such list and that they had parachuted onto my desktop entirely at random. I believe them. They both seem utterly without guile, and they gave every evidence of being genuinely surprised at what their random troll through Skype's waters had fetched up. Christine is Christine Zhang, a business student in university in Shenzhen,Guangdong Province, just north of Hong Kong. Christine speaks extraordinarily clear English, though her writing needs some practice. (I suspect that Vu My has an advantage with writing in that her language is phonetic.) We went through the same rapid process of getting to know each other. She told me that she dreams to go to Harvard Business School, which she thought was a long shot for someone from a provincial Chinese university. It didn't seem so ridiculous to me. She is obviously very smart and possesses...

Animal Planet

Animal Planet 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
I hate watching Animal Planet, I shouldn't be crying because of some woman dumping 13 puppies into the trash and seeing the two puppies that...

Explore the Red Planet

Explore the Red Planet 04/09/2004 03:59 PM
Explore the Red Planet
http://link.abpi.net/l.ph p?20040406A7

NASA's M2K4 Web site launched an interactive program giving any citizen of cyberspace the chance to drive NASA's Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, across the red planet. Explore Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum, without the 300-million-mile trek.

Red PLanet Rovers

Red PLanet Rovers 12/31/2003 05:06 AM
Do you want the full details of the 2 Rovers headed for Mars this site has the full skinny [Space.com]...

Planet Darkside

Planet Darkside 04/18/2004 12:20 AM
Planet Darkside Makes First File Release

Planet Simpson

Planet Simpson 04/08/2005 05:13 PM

Have sex, save the planet

Have sex, save the planet 05/04/2004 05:05 AM
Rainforest needs you - so get naked

Welcome To Planet Pixar

Welcome To Planet Pixar 05/26/2004 09:29 PM

"Minding the Planet"

"Minding the Planet" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

Planet Rise 0.80

Planet Rise 0.80 07/11/2004 06:26 PM
A theme based of the exploration of the stars.

Planet Ketchup!

Planet Ketchup! 08/09/2004 03:21 PM
the best reason to kill a tomato
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