Von Dutch And Ed Roth Collections Go To Auction

Last Updated on Friday, 11 November 2011 03:05 Written by External Post Friday, 11 November 2011 03:05

Art from the legends of Kustom Kulture featured in Bonhams’ upcoming
Classic California Sale in Los Angeles.

This weekend at the famed Petersen Auto Museum in Los Angeles, Bonhams
will once again have the distinct pleasure of offering significant works from Kenneth Howard a.k.a. Von Dutch and Ed Roth a.k.a. Big Daddy at their Classic California Sale.Included are motorcycles, original artwork, firearms and personal items…
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Facebook Implements ‘Download Your Profile’ Option

Last Updated on Thursday, 7 October 2010 04:00 Written by External Post Thursday, 7 October 2010 04:00

eldavojohn writes “Facebook is rolling out some new changes (including groups) that are supposed to liberate user control. But something that might interest Slashdot readers even more is that they now allow you to download all your information from
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Google To Pay $8.5 Million In Buzz Privacy Settlement

Last Updated on Saturday, 4 September 2010 11:00 Written by External Post Saturday, 4 September 2010 11:00

eldavojohn writes “Google’s Buzz service will cost the company $8.5 million in settling a class action lawsuit related to the privacy debacle from the days after its release. Ars reports: ‘In the proposed settlement submitted to the court this week,
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Facebook Posting Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Homework

Last Updated on Friday, 3 September 2010 07:00 Written by External Post Friday, 3 September 2010 07:00

eldavojohn writes “A Michigan judge removed a juror after a Facebook comment and also fined her $250 and required her to write a five page paper about the constitutional right to a fair trial. The juror was ‘very sorry’ and the judge chastised her
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Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files?

Last Updated on Saturday, 31 July 2010 06:40 Written by External Post Saturday, 31 July 2010 06:40

eldavojohn writes “Gizmodo’s got an interesting scoop on a list of IPs acquired from Peer Block revealing who is downloading the Facebook user data torrented this week: Apple, the Church of Scientology, Disney, Intel, IBM and several major government
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Google Adds Licensing Server DRM To Android Market

Last Updated on Saturday, 31 July 2010 01:40 Written by External Post Saturday, 31 July 2010 01:40

eldavojohn writes “According to AfterDawn, Google has given app makers the option to use a license server as DRM to ensure the user has paid for an app before they can download it. Reportedly, the Market app will communicate with a Google license server
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China’s Firewall Stymies Google; Users Confused

Last Updated on Friday, 30 July 2010 09:00 Written by External Post Friday, 30 July 2010 09:00

eldavojohn writes “Massive confusion occurred last night for Google’s Chineseengine and ad services when Google’s automated reporting system claimed that everything was blocked in China. The problem was that most users experienced no outage despite
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Google Acquires Metaweb

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 July 2010 11:00 Written by External Post Saturday, 17 July 2010 11:00

eldavojohn writes “A startup called Metaweb (looks like an ontological, entity-based approach to Web 2.0 tagging) has been acquired by Google. You can find out what they’re about from a super marketing fluff video they put together. The neat thing about
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Google Considers China’s “Web Mapping License”

Last Updated on Friday, 25 June 2010 12:01 Written by External Post Friday, 25 June 2010 12:01

eldavojohn writes ‘Back in May, China rolled out new laws requiring online mapping services to be ‘certified’ by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping. The laws appear to go into effect this month. Today an AFP article outlines Google’s consideration
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Google’s Plan To Save the News Through Reinvention

Last Updated on Monday, 7 June 2010 08:20 Written by External Post Monday, 7 June 2010 08:20

eldavojohn writes ‘It’s no secret that Google doesn’t create content, but rather helps people find it. And Google News is no different. So what does the company plan to do about complaints from the news industry that profits are dropping drastically? In
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