Online Interactions

From ReadWriteWeb: Starting next month, Meebo will be rolling out ads in the IM service that invite users to access quizzes, polls, long-form video and other resources. Users will be able to opt-in to sponsored …

Steve Matthews over at Stem Legal has written a very useful article on managing your online reputation. He writes: Online reputation management isn’t a question of blogging gone badly, or someone posting drunken pictures in …

BBC News has an interesting article on the increasing use of YouTube videos as criminal evidence. Source: law.librarians

Here’s another nifty new Google tool: Google Translate. It can translate selected text or an entire web page. I could see this being really useful for viewing foreign laws on the Web when English translations …

I’ve been reading a lot about Twitter lately. NYT explains: For anyone unfamiliar with the latest trends in technology, “Twitterers” send and receive short messages, called “tweets,” on Twitter’s Web site, with instant messaging software, …

E-Mail Is Out With Today’s Younger Web Users reports Information Week. For most of us in the business world, e-mail is an integral part of our work lives. But for the millenials — the generation …

The New York Times has an interesting piece on the increase in spam in the last six months. According to the NYT: – Spammers are “conscripting vast networks of computers belonging to users who unknowingly …

From WSLL @ Your Service: Keep Track of Competitors and Clients Looking for a free and easy competitive intelligence tool? Trackengine.com is a free service that can be used to track changes made to websites. …

Boing Boing reports that Judge Richard Posner is coming to Second Life. [What is Second Life?] From the New World Notes blog: … Judge Richard A. Posner of the United States Court of Appeals for …