Cookie Law [Podcast #55]

Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 55 for January 11th 2013, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin.

Newspaper link debacle update.  Plus – the backlash against twitterphobia!

Blacknight launches WhoOwns.it.

Google might escape the FTC but EU’s gunning for them now.  (Flashback to Google ubiquity in 2006).  EU is also concerned about how companies are using data.

Massive increase in takedowns.  Plus: more copyright madness.

Solution for luggage tracking?

Need a UK delivery address?  Check out Parcel Motel.  Also useful if you have better things to do than waiting for a delivery.

Dot Cat domains change their whois policy.

One we missed: DPC is going after high profile sites that don’t comply with the “Cookie law”.  Here’s the list.  Bonus: Michele’s Cookie Slides.

Play.com shutting down retail operations – becoming a marketplace (alla eBay?)

Microsoft Officially Ditching Messenger, Switching Users to Skype in March.

Stephen Hawking does not welcome our new robot overlords.

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