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Twitter Launches Service for Discovering New Music

Uses Twitter activity to “detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists” and delivers them on the iOS app or the web. Last week we mentioned how Twitter was rumored to have...

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Friday, April 19th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Pirated Indie Game Devs Get Full Pirate Bay Support To Crack Steam

Like the sea, online file-sharing is too great a force to be held back in any meaningful way for any sensible length of time. Despite this almost inevitable eventuality, the world’s largest media companies...

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Friday, February 15th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Appeals court to activists: Nope, you can’t see what else the Feds have on you

On Friday, a federal appeals court in Virginia ruled (PDF) that three activists involved in a WikiLeaks investigation have no right to find out what companies the government sought information from other than Twitter....

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Saturday, January 26th, 2013 Net News No Comments

French court orders Twitter to identify racist and anti-Semitic users

For months now, the French-language twittersphere has lit up with a rash of racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic tweets using the hashtags #UnBonJuif (a good Jew), #SiMonFilsEstGay (if my son is gay), and #SiMaFilleRamèneUnNoir (if...

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Thursday, January 24th, 2013 Net News No Comments

You Asked It! Connects Twitter Users Through Questions

You Asked It! site, created by Maarten Schenk of Yes It Can Be and Trendolizer, allows users to answer random questions collected from Twitter. At any given point during the day, thousands of people ask...

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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012 Net News No Comments