SITES OF THE WEEK

Officials in Europe and the U.S. indicated this week that online ad companies that track people online could soon face new restrictions. – Read More

The fallout from Google’s WiFi spying scandal seems to be worsening for the search giant. Today, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he would lead a 30-state investigation of the company’s collection of payload data from unsecured WiFi networks. – Read More

[from TechCrunch] – Professional social network LindedIn is adding new features to its Groups offering, which lets members create an open forum around a sp… – Read More

[from GigaOm] – Amid what appears to be an e-book price war, Om Malik argues that Amazon can easily defend its market leadership position — but not be… – Read More

“It’s hard to overstate what Apple’s done with the App Store,” said a game developer friend last night. Another IT buddy at the same dinner concurred: “It’s just an absurdly easy platform for publishers to get product into the hands of consumers. They’ve definitely earned their 30%.” Profoundly true, my friends’ comments underscore the idea [...]

Language moves on. Some of the same words consumers searched on in 2005 can have vastly different meanings when searched on today, or they might not have existed. For example, some words spelled the same might have different meanings, while other words have different meaning with slightly different spelling such as Microsoft “Kinect,” rather than [...]