Archive for: November 9, 2007

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The future of Pandora might be in jeopardy thanks to the ongoing royalty-rate battle, but the Internet radio station is forging ahead--first with the announcement of several new features, and now with the addition of a second major carrier to its mobile offerings.

AT&T customers with one of eight select phones will be able to access Pandora, under a deal announced Friday. Those phones include the Samsung SYNC, a717, and a737; the Motorola V3xx and RAZR 2; the LG trax; and existing LG CU400 and CU405 models.

Pandora's mobile offering works much like the Web version: Subscribers type in a favorite artist, and Pandora scans its database to create playlists of similar music, which will be accessible on phones and via the Web. Subscribers can create and store up to 100 stations, according to Pandora. AT&T users can get a free, five-day trial, and then it costs $8.99 a month.

Pandora kicked off its mobile service in May with Sprint. It is available on the FUSIC phones by LG, A900 and A920 by Samsung, and 7500 and 8400 by Sanyo and all Sprint Power Vision phones. Sprint offers a free, 30-day trial and a $2.99 a month subscription thereafter.

God bless the folks who have time to read application code. We do a lot of digging in our daily pursuit of tech news, but rooting around deeply in an app is a job unto itself. Evan DeBiase of The Evan Series blog found the following bit of code in the iTunes 7.5 upgrade:

rental-content
rental-bag
rbsync
source-rental-info
dest-rental-info
getvodaccountselectionlist
GET VOD ACCOUNT SELECTION LIST
supportsRentals

Rental? Whaa? Rumors have been floating about an Apple plan to implement a video rental system via iTunes for over a year now. Download Squad also notes that a user found a way to report problems with video rentals in a previous build of the software way back in September.

But Apple made no mention of the service when 7.5 released; it would have coincided perfectly with the new video-friendly Nanos.

Poor Alicia Keys. All she ever wanted to do was spread the gift of music to the public, and now her MySpace page is under siege. A group of researchers at Exploit Prevention Labs found that when users click on just about any part of the singer's profile, they're redirected to co8vd.cn/s, which The New York Times believes to be a Chinese malware site. A pop-up then appears, prompting them to install a codec to view a video. Click 'yes,' and, well, you're in trouble.

The researchers have found similar hacks on pages for French funk band Greements of Fortune and Scottish rock band The Dykeenies.

"Security and functionality exist in an inverse relationship," Exploit Prevention Labs' chief technology officer told the Times. "The more functional you make anything, the less secure it tends to become."

MySpace contacted the paper after the original story ran, and not surprisingly, passed the buck, suggesting that the fault--at least in part--lay with users who fell for phishing e-mails. "Individuals who try to phish our members are violating the law and are not welcome on MySpace," a spokeswoman told the Times. "We have blocked and removed the source of this phishing attempt and restored the profile."

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Are Facebook Social Ads illegal?

A University of Minnesota law professor wrote in a blog post this week that inserting users' names and photos next to ads for products they recently used or endorsed could violate privacy laws in states such as New York and California.

"Users are only asked in general if they want to share information, not if they want their name and picture to be featured in an ad for some product," wrote William McGeveran. Companies need to obtain "written consent" before using a person's image or likeness, according to privacy statutes.

"I don't see how broad general consent to share one's information translates into the specific written consent necessary for advertisers to use one's name (and often picture) under this law," McGeveran wrote. He has "little doubt" that Facebook will appropriate user information for the "benefit of Facebook and advertisers alike."

Social Ads, which debuted on Tuesday, will allow companies to create their own Facebook pages, and then allow users to add company information and updates to their own profiles and mini feeds.

Facebook's chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly, told the NYT blog that McGeveran's interpretation was far too broad. Users choose to link themselves to a specific product, and this could be interpreted as the digital version of written consent, he said.

"While none of this may be illegal, it does have ominous implications," Hugh D'Andrade of the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote in a recent blog post. "The personal data we now use to keep in touch with friends will soon help corporations target us more effectively. What's to stop this wealth of data from creeping ...

Let's face it--the Web is replete with social networks. But in the States, the space is largely dominated by two or three names. The key to launching a reasonably successful social network the last couple of years is finding an effective niche. Take comics: The topic makes perfect sense.

Most comic readers are also big Internet readers. A few sites have already latched onto this concept, the most notable of which is ComicSpace. This social network has managed a reasonable amount of success, recently merging with another comics site and picking up investment capital in the process.

In fact, I'd suggest that the site's owner, Josh Roberts, didn't foresee the amount of steam the site would pick up. It wasn't initially designed to deal with a huge amount of traffic, it seems; if you've ever felt yourself frustrated by MySpace, you'll almost certainly find ComicSpace's UI downright maddening.

Still in beta, Heavy Ink has design working in its favor right out of the gate. The site is actually a storefront first--and though, so far as I can tell, it doesn't appear to offer anything that you can't already find on Amazon, Heavy Ink is currently offering all merch for 20 percent off and eschewing the shipping costs on any size order.

When you sign up for an account, you automatically join the social network. You can friend other users, share ratings, and leave comments on other profiles--pretty standard social-networking fare.

The other key difference between Heavy Ink and ComicSpace is that, at least in my experience, the latter is largely driven by independent fans and creators. Although Heavy Ink does stock works ...