Is there really a need for a law to prohibit employers from asking employees and job applicants for the passwords to their personal Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts? It would seem so, from the sheer number of state legislatures which are...
Yet another Federal Trade Commission proposed consent order underscores how limited the agency's authority is, when it comes to the business practices of online services and ad networks. In this case, an ad network engaged in "browser history...
Been a 'lotta talk about how Twitter gave a LinkedIn an unintentional boost when it cut LinkedIn off. Is Twitter now going to give App.net a similar boost, via the IFTTT?
Notes on a talk by Seattle lawyersDavid Brenner and Bruce Goto about how to mitigate risks posed by reliance on cloud services.
A witness-by-witness accounting of a webcast of a September 13, 2012 Congressional hearing about the progress of SEC rulemaking to implement the JOBS Act. Witnesses included Naval Ravikant of AngelList, Rory Eakin of CIrcleUp, and Alison...
Kickstarter is now having to confront the problems that come when projects fail. This post credits Kickstarter for addressing the issue, but thinks the company's first response is a misstep.
This article follows up on a prior blog post which reviewed various states' attempts to construct a statutory definition of a social media website. The prior article praised Illinois's effort, but this article performs deeper analysis and...
This article shares information about a new contest in the Seattle area for small businesses. The contest, called Spark Business, focuses on participating startups' levels of engagement in social media networks. The article looks at the...
This article compares two efforts by state legislators to regulate employers' access to employees' accounts on social networking websites (one in Maryland and one in Illinois). The artilce points out that one of these efforts is basically...
This article compares Twitter's current privacy policy with the privacy policy that the company had in place prior to a recent revision. The article points to several changes in this document as evidence that Twitter is becoming a more mature...