Facebook unleashes wave of new development with JavaScript client library  —  Guest post: John Potter, ZDNet’s chief of development, explains the significance of Facebook releasing a JavaScript Client Library.  —  At 5 PM PST on Friday night, Facebook announced the release of a JavaScript Client Library.

Source:   Between the Lines
Author:   Dan Farber
Link:   http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7722

Federal Court Doesn’t Quite Recognize Copyright in C&D Letter  —  Techdirt has a post on a rather triumphal press release put out by a law firm claiming that “[t]he US District Court for the District of Idaho has found that copyright law protects a lawyer demand letter posted online by the recipient.”

Source:   joegratz.net
Author:   […]

Facebook Extends Platform to the Web  —  I surely did not see this coming anytime soon but Facebook just released their JavaScript client library than enables developers to extend their applications to their own websites.  Rather than building your applications strictly within Facebook …

Source:   All Facebook
Author:   Nick O’Neill
Link:   http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/01/facebook-extends…

Freed From the Page, but a Book Nonetheless  —  PRINTED books provide pleasures no device created by an electrical engineer can match.  The sweet smell of a brand-new book.  The tactile pleasures of turning a page.  The reassuring sight on one’s bookshelves of personal journeys.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Randall Stross
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/business/27digi.html

Dozier Internet Law: Federal Court Recognizes Copyright Rights In Cease And Desist  —  US District Court decision threatens common practice reports Dozier Internet Law.  —  Glen Allen, VA (PRWEB) January 24, 2008 — The US District Court for the District of Idaho has found that copyright law protects …

Source:   PRWeb
Link:   http://www.prweb.com/releases/DozierInternetLaw…

Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter  —  from the free-speech?  dept  —  Back in October, we wrote about a law firm that was claiming a copyright on the cease-and-desist letters it sent out, and insisting that it was a violation to repost them.

Source:   Techdirt
Author:   Michael Masnick
Link:   http://techdirt.com/articles/20080125/18070575.shtml

Anonymous Hackers Shoot For Scientologists, Hit Dutch School Kids  —  Dutch schoolchildren may be the first collateral damage of an online war being waged against the Church of Scientology by a motley crew of internet troublemakers who call themselves Anonymous.

Source:   Wired: Threat Level
Author:   Ryan Singel
Link:   http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/anonymous…

The shy Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook  —  Yesterday morning I woke up early.  Was sitting in the hotel lobby at 7 a.m. trying to check email when someone tapped me on the shoulder.  It was Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, which now has 68 million active users (people who’ve signed on in the past […]

Belt-Tightening In Corporate IT Spending Will be Good For Web 2.0  —  The outlook for corporate IT spending is gloomy, with growth expected to slow from 7 percent last year to 4 percent this year.  The $500 billion that U.S. corporations spend every year on hardware and software accounts for about half of all capital […]

Smartphones Patented… Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute After Patent Issued  —  This past Tuesday, the US Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent on “a mobile entertainment and communication device.”  Reading the patent, you realize it describes the quite common smartphone.

Source:   Techdirt
Author:   Michael Masnick
Link:   http://techdirt.com/articles/20080124/16382062.shtml