By Adam Thierer, Berin Szoka, & Adam Marcus As noted in the first installment of our “Privacy Solution Series,” we are outlining various user-empowerment or user “self-help” tools that allow Internet users to better protect their privacy online-and especially to defeat tr...

Lately I’ve been feeling pretty depressed every time I had to drive around the city here in Novosibirsk for one simple reason: watching totally empty billboards everywhere constantly reminds me of recession wherever I go. No, I don’t want to say there are no outdoors ads here - it’...

And the award for Most Hilarious Online Ad Ever goes to... This embedded Vimax ad. Is she happy? Is she shocked? Is she terrified? A little bit of each? Just to clear up any confusion, this is an add for penis-enlarging medicine, not a suggestion to bring a black dude home....

Over the last week we spoke quite a lot about how fair (or unfair) stealing of music and video content is - the usual never-ending topic that will always have enough supporters of both points of view (yes, stealing, and no, totally fair) on absolutely any blog or social media site where a discussion...

Some of you may remember the service Twittad - the one that lets Twitter users to sell their profiles to advertisers for them to use any graphical file as a background for our profiles for a certain time period. On the launch date the bloggers that reviewed the startup argued that the idea would har...

At these hard times it is absolutely fascinating watching the largest advertisers making their strategic decisions on how they will handle their marketing, especially now that we are all wondering if internet advertising will still remain healthier than other mediums and if it has any chances of gro...

News out of Europe that France is about to take a hard line on copyrighted media (movies and music). According to news reports. a new measure approved by the French Cabinet would kill the Internet connection to those caught downloading illegally . 'There is no reason that the Internet should be a l...

Peddling fake purses and perfume out of the trunk of a beat-up Citroen is bad enough. But the French draw the line when it happens on the Internet. So, a A French court yesterday ordered online auction giant eBay to pay $61 million in damages to the French luxury goods company LVMH, in the latest ro...

(Image credit: Tom Foremski/Silicon Valley Watcher) Remember this piece of news, not so long ago? Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo in what analysts regard as a response to the seemingly unstoppable rise of Google. The emergence of Google has been staggering for observers and threatening for established ...

Interesting to read that Microsoft's new strategy for beating Google is all about paying for results. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced the company's "Live Search Cashback" service this morning at an annual conference for online advertisers at MS headquarters. The service rewards people who us...