ICANN's Boondoggle
The group that oversees Internet domain names is shaking things up for no good reason. For details, check out www.mass.confusion.
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The Law of Online Sharing
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will eventually have to deal with the fact that all growth has limits.
A Cloud over Ownership
Online services set content free from the physical world's constraints—including those that have defined the very idea of possession.
It's Good to Be the Mayor
Foursquare and other location-based social games on mobile phones can be compelling, but only when they harness the energy of countless offline games we're already playing.
Start Me Up
Online crowd-funding, supported by social technologies, provides a new business model for book publishing.
Google Misses You
Facebook has corralled 500 million people into an exclusive club that's out of Google's reach. There's no way Google will stand for that.
Down the Tubes
How free streaming video threatens the porn industry.
True Match
How does the matching algorithm of the popular dating service suggest potential mates?
A Note on the Type
Font designers imagine a better-looking Web.
Personalized Campaigning
Fattened voter databases will be among the 2008 presidential race's most enduring legacies.
