It sends what you are listening to your account, this way it will "know" you... - Stephane Bourzeix via twhirl
Last.fm can optionally build a profile directly from a user's music played on their personal computer. Users must download and install a plugin for their music player, which will automatically submit the artist and title of the song after either half the song or the first four minutes have played, whichever comes first. When the track is shorter than 30 seconds (31 seconds in iTunes) or the track lacks metadata (ID3, CDDB, etc), the track is not submitted. To accommodate dial-up users, caching of the data and submitting it in bulk is also possible. - Joe Dawson
à la villette ce soir. oula, l'atterrisage est après 1h du mat.(j'ai pensé à faire un groupe paris sur friendfeed mais bon on en est pas là...) - Philippe Semanaz
Are you seriously advocating that US/European companies should go around breaking the laws of other countries on the basis of superior morality? - Adewale Oshineye
Adewale, the concept that American law isn't globally supreme and that America companies should ignore laws in other countries seems to be the norm amongst some unfortunately. - Duncan Riley
@Duncan - great response on the TC Comments.. Oh how I wish comments on the article could be posted on FF as well. - Jez Arnold
companies operating in other countries must respect the laws of those countries. it's a choice; if i choose to enter/operate in another country i choose to play by that country's rules. as a US cit (born and bred), i can't say we have superior morality. we're a youngish sort of country, in our self-absorbed-college-kid-in-a-coffee-shop stage, thinking we're the first to Really Get It. this, too, will pass. - hisherness
Jez Michael picked the wrong country for the argument, probably because he cant tell them apart. It's one thing arguing this in relation to a 3rd world dictatorship, but with India, WTF? Particularly given American censorship laws as well - Duncan Riley via twhirl
Yup. Think if you are going to do business in a country, you have to conform to the laws of that country. If you don't want to stick to the laws, you shouldn't do business in that country. Make the moral choice before you sign up. - Chris Nixon
Well, the one countries law is the other countries crime. Don't know too much about US law, but what about those sentenced go back to the US and seek civil litigation there? Hard to take an undisputable stance on this one. - Martin Spindler via twhirl
i agree with Duncan.. besides i dont think google really sacrificed security by disclosing data about a person. And i dont think no organization has the right to keep information that might help uphold the law.. Google gave up the data because it was required for investigating a criminal act under the law, not because some politician asked them to.. - Azeem
To me the issue is enforcability of the law in our jurisdiction. If India had a reciprocol agreement to recognize US Law or if Google has a physical presence in India and are under Inidian jurisdiction then they should abide by their law. However, if Google, has no obligation to observe Indian law, then they have no business just voluntarily complying. - Chuck Ross
I must agree, going to the beach would be a tough job for any of us. My heart goes out to Robert Scoble. He is living the internet/social networking version of "Dirty Jobs" - ron k jeffries
جداً این بشر چطور می تونه این همه کار با هم انجام بده:0 - shandiz
Wow, your tweet makes my day seem really boring compared to yours ... ok "beach trip with a bunch of Swiss geeks" really takes the cake! - Susan Beebe
I'm getting loopy. After seeing Susan's comment I thought it was "beach trip with a bunch of Swiss cakes" which doesn't sound too bad at all. http://www.littledebbie.com/pr... - Vince DeGeorge
