• Just An Online Minute... Privacy Issues Still Dog Google/Click Deal
    Google's plan to acquire DoubleClick might have gotten the nod from the Federal Trade Commission, but European authorities seem troubled by the deal's implications for people's privacy.
  • Just An Online Minute... HBO Dips Toe Into Broadband Waters
    Starting tomorrow, Time Warner's HBO will make a slate of its programs available on broadband on a test basis in parts of Wisconsin. The service, HBO on Broadband, which will only be available to subscribers, is expected to offer around 600 titles each month, including some of the channel's most popular old shows like "Sex and the City" and "The Sopranos."
  • Just An Online Minute... ScrabbleWars: P For Piracy, Or E For Extra Exposure?
    It's been one week since news first broke that Scrabble owner Hasbro was complaining to Facebook about Scrabulous, the online version of the game that's available as an application on the social networking site....
  • Just An Online Minute... Study: User Faith In Web Sites (But Not Engines) Up
    Are Web users losing faith in search engines? A study released today by the University of Southern California's Center for the Digital Future suggests the answer may be yes.
  • Just An Online Minute... The Cruise Clip That Won't Die
    This week, just as an unauthorized new biography of Tom Cruise debuted, so did a video of the actor proclaiming the virtues of the Church of Scientology. After initially surfacing on Gawker's Defamer.com, YouTube and other sites, the video was briefly removed -- but then reappeared.
  • Just An Online Minute... MySpace's Problematic Safety Plan
    After weathering years of accusations that sexual predators use MySpace to find young victims, the site has announced a purported safety agreement with 49 states. But some aspects of this agreement will be very difficult to implement. What's more, they raise significant First Amendment concerns.
  • Just An Online Minute... Online Video Rentals No Sure Blockbuster
    Netflix said today it's going to offer most subscribers the opportunity to stream as many videos as they want from its roster of 6,000 movies and television shows available for online viewing.
  • Just An Online Minute... Facebook Continues To Face Privacy Challenges
    In an interview set to air Sunday night, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg told "60 Minutes" that Facebook's controversial Beacon program "is going to be a really good thing."
  • Just An Online Minute... Musicians Find Free Tracks To Success?
    About 28,000 people who downloaded "Niggy Tardust," the Saul Williams record produced by Trent Reznor, opted to pay $5 for the album, the Nine Inch Nails frontman said on his site. The rest of the 154,000 downloaders took Williams and Reznor up on their offer to take the album for free.
  • Just An Online Minute... ISPs Poised To Become Censors?
    An AT&T exec said Tuesday that the company is still toying with the idea of implementing a filtering system that would potentially prevent people from accessing or sharing copyrighted material.
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