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Cartoon: This User Has Been Suspended | RWW
Anyone who’s run afoul of Facebook’s, um, fluid rules for user behaviour can tell you it’s like a Kafka novel. (Remember the one where nobody would friend the giant cockroach? Shudder.)
Here’s one of the latest lucky contestants: Social Media Today, a Web venture with an active presence on Facebook, was posting URLs twice a day, until one day they discovered they’d run afoul of the site’s rules and had their ability to post links blocked.
10 Musical Instrument iPhone Apps | Mashable – Amy-Mae Elliott
10 Photoshop Tutorials on YouTube | Mashable – Matt Silverman
Opinion: Apple iAds another marketing strategy | The Drum – Alan Kohler
Soon the iPhone, and presumably the iPad, will carry advertising embedded in their applications. For ABC fans it sounds like a nightmare, and it’s great news for the ABC itself, since its app will remain ad-free. But in fact it’s great news all round: it means high-quality commercial publishing may yet live, not die under the benign, democratic, jackboot of Google.
