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Is There a Myspace Mafia, Too? Because Leaving Seems to Have Paid Off for Many Ex-Execs.

Kara Swisher in Social on June 13, 2011 at 11:28 am PT

When the selling of Myspace winds down in the next week or so, it’ll probably attract a spate of comments about what a failure the whole social networking enterprise turned out to be. That is, unless you think of the mob of former execs who have worked at the company over time, many of whom have moved on to some more golden opportunities after leaving Myspace.

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Apple, Softbank Told to Beef Up iPhone Web Filtering

Yoree Koh, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 18, 2011 at 4:40 am PT

It may be Japan’s favorite smartphone, but Apple Inc.’s iPhone isn’t above the law. The Internet access law, that is. A Japanese government panel said Monday it requested Apple’s Japan unit and its sole official distributor Softbank Corp. to improve the iPhone filtering system to prevent users under 18 year old to access unseemly sites.

Gravity Wants to Instantly Personalize Any Content Site

Liz Gannes in Social on November 16, 2010 at 3:45 pm PT

Gravity today is unveiling its plans to be an information filtering service. The idea is to combine social and semantic understanding of users to identify content they are likely to be interested in.

Viral Video: Hotmail Updates From the Dark Ages

Kara Swisher in News on May 19, 2010 at 12:05 am PT

Well, it took Microsoft long enough to update the features of Hotmail, which the company is announcing this week. Lots of new doodads, but it’s a wonder it took so long for Microsoft to upgrade and innovate–Dear Windows Live Hotmail team, conversation views in email is not new to anyone but you–the service, although it remains No. 2 after Yahoo Mail. Google Gmail is third. Here is Microsoft’s video of it all.

Green Dam Gets the Red Light

John Paczkowski in News on June 30, 2009 at 6:39 am PT

China’s youth must face the corrupting influence of Internet porn without government guidance for a brief while longer. The Chinese government said Tuesday it will delay enforcing a new requirement that all new computers sold in the country include Green Dam/Youth Escort Web-filtering software.

New Chinese Version of Google SafeSearch Eliminates Google Entirely

John Paczkowski in News on June 25, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

Google’s mission, to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible, has once again run afoul of the Chinese government, which has a similar goal, but would much prefer that certain information stay inaccessible. And so, on Wednesday evening, Chinese citizens found themselves once again unable to use Google, Gmail, and YouTube as their government condemned Google as a purveyor of porn.

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Social Networking Returns to China

Sky Canaves, Lead Writer, China Journal, WSJ.com in News on June 9, 2009 at 12:35 pm PT

Yesterday, while China Web watchers were digesting the latest bit of news on the requirement that PCs sold in China include government-mandated Internet filtering software, the Web as we knew it a week ago quietly returned.