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Zynga’s CastleVille Has Stormed CityVille — But Can It Last?

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 21, 2011 at 9:20 am PT

Can swords and knights keep up the social gaming giant’s momentum or not?

The Turducken-Free All Things D Thanksgiving Reader (And Watcher)

Liz Gannes in Social on November 24, 2010 at 12:10 pm PT

Hold the Turducken! Even without that freakish Thanksgiving treat, the Web is full of fun diversions on every topic, including the thankful, enhanced-patted-down long weekend of consumption Americans have ahead of us.

YouTube’s Secret “News Experiment” Explained! (Warning: Not Really That Secret)

Peter Kafka in Media on June 18, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

Is YouTube getting into the local news business? No, not really. But it is working with a San Francisco TV station to showcase its “YouTube Direct” platform. And that’s the answer to a weird semi-mystery that surfaced yesterday.

Microsoft Sees a Window in Google's China Woes

Andrew Browne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 18, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Chinese officials are masters of divide-and-rule, a tactic they’ve put to good use to enhance their bargaining position with the foreign business community. So there was some eye-rolling among the more seasoned Western business executives in Beijing, earlier this year when Bill Gates weighed in on the Google vs. China imbroglio by criticizing Google and offering a sympathetic assessment of the Chinese position in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Exposed “Skank” Blogger Threatens Google With Privacy Suit, Is Happy to Talk About It

Peter Kafka in Media on August 24, 2009 at 7:36 am PT

What do you do if you’re a blogger who thinks your privacy has been unfairly violated? If you’re Rosemary Port, you threaten to file a high-profile lawsuit, then go to newspapers and TV networks to talk about it. That’s the strategy Port is pursuing now that she’s been outed as the “skank blogger”–the person who used Google’s Blogger service to anonymously insult former model Liskula Cohen.

On the Internet, Everybody Knows You’re a Name-Caller: Google Unmasks the “Skank” Blogger

Peter Kafka in Media on August 19, 2009 at 8:21 am PT

Want to call someone a “skank” on the Web while remaining anonymous? Might want to rethink that: Following an order from a New York court, Google has outed a woman who insulted a former model using the company’s Blogger service.

Hyperion Unveils 'Kernl' Web Publishing Initiative

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 18, 2009 at 1:02 pm PT

Hyperion is taking a stab at online publishing with the launch of Kernl, an “e-imprint” it will use to quickly release combinations of text and video. Kernl looks like a Web video player, with standard viewing and sharing options, but also includes tabs with related text and links. It debuts Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America”–which, like Hyperion, is owned by Walt Disney–with a segment on job-hunting.

Who Is Megan McAllister?

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 21, 2009 at 12:59 pm PT

Police have arrested a suspect in the latest Craigslist killing incident, but his fiancée, who has defended him in messages to news outlets, is getting nearly as much attention online. The suspect, Philip Markoff, a 23-year-old Boston University medical student, was arraigned Tuesday and ordered held without bail, according to the Associated Press.