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How Will Google’s New Privacy Policy Affect You?

If you were hanging around the internet yesterday afternoon, you probably noticed some hubbub around Google’s new, unified Terms of Service Agreement. Let’s step back from the emotion (and one writer’s opinion), and take a cool-headed, analytical look at what the new policies might actually mean for you:


September 20, 2011
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Could Qwikster Make Mad Bank With His Twitter Handle?

Sunday night’s announcement from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings that the company was to be split in two was a bombshell that quickly became a joke. According to Reed, Netflix will continue to stream content, while a new company called Qwikster would handle DVD distribution. Unfortunately Netflix/Qwikster haven’t acquired the Qwikster Twitter handle from weed-smoking gangstaz, Jason Castillo.


August 11, 2011
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Facebook Terms Of Service Deciphered For Dudes

Facebook’s constantly evolving Terms of Service are too long and complex for most people to be bothered to read. So the dudes at Slacktory re-wrote the entire thing in bro-speak, yo. You can, like, understand it and stuff now.


April 4, 2009

AT&T’s Lame New Terms of Service Hate Mobile Video From Sling and P2P

That AT&T’s new terms of service for wireless frowns on snagging video over P2P isn’t surprising, but the fact that it effectively prohibits Slinging video to phones is mildly shocking and definitely lame.