Craigslist cuts off Listpic, cites bandwidth issues, TOS violations
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Blog: Third party Craigslist browsing service Listpic has been cut off from accessing Craigslist.org.
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Plus: Most email over holidays will be spam. [News.com Extra]
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Blog: A blog post at Consumerist.com offering tips on buying from Dell draws a nasty cease-and-desist letter from the company's attorney -- and then a chastened apology from a Dell manager.
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A web site known as a BitTorrent tracker, popular among fans of peer-to-peer networking, has closed down for good, apparently the result of the movie industry cracking down on the illegal sharing of copyrighted material over the internet.
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Also: USPS service kiosks taking pictures of customers. [News.com Extra]
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TORONTO - One of the internet&#39;s most popular file-sharing websites has suddenly closed up shop, likely a high profile victim of the lawsuits launched last week against those operating servers using the BitTorrent network.
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Plus: eBay outlines policy on racist language. [News.com Extra]
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS  Contact: Karen Norphon, +1-703-683-5004 x121, for Hands Off the Internet   WASHINGTON, June 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gov.
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Homeland Security pulls down a website link for travelers with watchlist problems after 27BStroke6 points out security flaws. But TSA won't say whether the site was legal. In 27B Stroke 6.
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A new, optional log-on service from America Online that makes it harder for scammers to access a persons online account will not be available for Macintosh
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Before heading over to the Web 2.0 conference at the Palace Hotel in SF this morning, I couldn't resist doing some more digging into alternate user interfaces for news reading based on the NY Times keywords.  One thing I learned the hard way is that when you access the Times site from a script (not through a browser) if you try to read an article that's too old (not sure what the time limit is) it tries to redirect you to a login page (which is pretty pointless considering that there's no human being around to log in). I hit this problem yesterday, and then hit it again this morning, but couldn't remember what the problem was. So by writing it up this time I hope to remember.  No doubt some debunked hack journalist posing as a tech industry mogul will slander me for this, but the asshat asshole has no idea how blogging works, and who the fuck cares what he thinks anyway. "cheesecake"
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A curious network performance reduction noticed by many Windows Vista users of the 2CPU forum that became the talk of Slashdot last week has been identified as having been caused not by DRM, as Slashdot users expected, but by a curious prioritization "feature" of Vista that's intentionally biased toward Media Player at the expense of network and system resources.
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As listings migrate to the Web, the broker's traditional fee is threatened.
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Plus: File sharing growing like a Weed. [News.com Extra]
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We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.  Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms for feeds that you might like, based on what you and others like, there would only be a future for SYO if it were a thriving and growing community, and it isn't.  Normally, I'd leave a site like that running indefinitely, but this one needed its own server, and I wanted to cut my server expenses now that my S3 bill is going up, serving some very big JPEGs and generally being the back-end for a community that is growing, the people using FlickrFan. If there's a big demand to bring it back, we can -- but that's going to require cash flow to go with it. At this point, I don't think it's a good investment for me. Still diggin!
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A Web site that ranks and displays news, blog and other items based on recommendations from its visitors has responded to efforts to manipulate the rankings by dropping its list of most active users.
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Popular Web sites like MySpace and Photobucket has banner ads containing malicious code that could lead to the compromise of a computer.