links for 2007-01-24

“A customer of Goneo had, in the course of an automated domain change procedure, claimed in a statement to the Web hoster to be the owner of google.de, Goneo CEO Marc Keilwerth explained.”

“Looks like we’ve nailed the culprit. We received this frank confession via email…”

“In accordance with DeNIC policies, the registry sent emails to the registered owner of google.de to verify if there was any objection to the ownership transfer. Google failed to respond to the inquiry within the required time limit, which DeNIC interpret

The full text of Paul Dacre’s “subisitariat” speech.

An interesting question: Where is the Met’s DPA registration?

Year-end 2006 figures from comScore Media Metrix show that Yahoo News had the most traffic among the ‘big four’ American news sites. Yahoo News averaged 31.4 million unique visitors a month in 2006.

“The ‘Tivo-ization’ of households now give kids unprecedented freedom over the handling of their TV diet, so much so that young kids often don’t understand the traditional way of watching shows with a set geography and time.”

The Guardian has an interview with Tom Steinberg of MySociety and its “stable of politely subversive websites”.

Luxembourg-based ews aggregator Wikio has closed a first round of funding of $5.3 million led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Gemini Israel Funds. Wikio claims 1m users per month.