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Senator Patrick Leahy (D Vermont) has introduced a bill to amend the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The amendment would require that law enforcement officers obtain a warrant to collect various forms of electronic communication stored by a third party. Along with email messages, correspondences via Facebook, Twitter, IM, etc. would be protected from search …
Quite a few webinars to choose from this week! Find something you like and sign up. Enjoy! Rankings in the Web App Sept. 12, 2 p.m. EST Presenter: SEOMoz Cost: Free Description: A live 30-minute detailed walkthrough of Rankings in the Web App. Register B2B Marketing in the Age of the Customer Sept. 12, 2 …
Yesterday afternoon, Mark Zuckerberg made his first public appearance since the IPO this spring. He sat down with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington at the Disrupt Conference in San Francisco to discuss his vision for Facebook’s future. Arrington wasted no time getting to the burning questions of how Zuckerberg felt about the loss of value in the …
Registration and hosting giant, GoDaddy, and its customers spent the better part of the working day on Monday in crisis mode. Both website and email accounts hosted by GoDaddy were offline for several hours. Although GoDaddy has no official comment as to the cause of the service disruption, self-proclaimed members of the hacker group, Anonymous, …
Twitter is all alight with the news, jokes, and jabs as websites and email accounts hosted by registration giant, GoDaddy.com go black. Judging by some of the particular twitter babble, the Anonymous hotshot is hoping to catch a little limelight from the attack they claim to have personally launched just to see how much trouble …
Mondays can really be a drag sometimes. Getting back to work after the weekend isn’t always easy. SEJ likes to start each week with funny memes because you deserve to start your week right, with some humor. For this week, we found some fun social cartoons to make your day brighter. We hope you have a …
The issue of black hat SEO is so serious that some of us have become stuffed shirts ourselves. Good thing, our friend, Adam Thompson from RYP Marketing, injected a dose of humor to the black hat/white hat SEO debacle. He sent us a funny comic about it, which we included in this week’s Friday Humor. …
David Angotti has been SEJ’s news writer for the past year. He has taken a new position as a CMO and we are very happy for him. David is a great writer, a great fact finder and a really nice guy. I cannot express how much David has helped us stay current on the latest …
At a Thursday event held in a Santa Monica airplane hangar, Amazon.com Inc. unveiled its new line of Kindle Fire HD tablets. Although they will offer features that are not available in previous Kindle models, the new HD Kindles are aimed at luring in consumers on the basis of aggressive pricing. Amazon’s pricing strategy is …
On Wednesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Google a patent that allows one or more users to log in to a computing device using facial recognition. This specific patent, which is called “Login to a computing device based on facial recognition,” allows a “computing device” to use its camera to determine the identity …
