Tag: LICENSE

A new site called JustSpotted provides Web surfers with the latest geographic locations of over 7,000 celebrities, based on user-submitted sightings and aggregated data from social networking sites. Set to launch on Tuesday, the site was originally designed with licensed software from Twitter, which would've allowed the company to automatically filter out every tweet pertaining to high-profile ...

A significant, yet stealthy, change to social networking site Facebook's Terms of Service (TOS) agreement has some of the Web site's users up in arms, reports FOXNews. As do many sites of its ilk, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stipulated in the original TOS that the site was entitled to use patrons' information or images, so long as their profiles remained on the site. Now, however, ...

Remember when we told you that the government of Pennsylvania was telling any eBayers in the state who sold goods for others to get a license? Yeah, well, apparently they weren't kidding. A woman there opened a consignment shop on the online auction house so that she could stay home and treat her daughter with cancer. Now she faces a $10-million fine for doing so without an auctioneer's license. ...

You know those people -- maybe even you -- who sell other people's stuff on eBay? Well, apparently you or they will need to get an auctioneer's license from now on, at least in Pennsyslvania. The law has actually been on the books for a while, but is garnering attention because it is only now being enforced. Two people who run online auctions for others are under investigation by the state ...