Chrome EULA Concerns, TwitAds, Startup Advice, QuikieProfits, Facebook Anthem - Freeline 9-4-08

Tech blog Gizmodo has found some potentially disturbing language embedded in Google Chrome’s licensing agreement. According to section 11.1 of the Chrome EULA, Google has the right to reproduce, edit, or translate anything you do within the confines of their browser. Google has since removed all offending passages from the licensing agreement.

In other news, personal advertising has come to Twitter, thanks to TwitAds. TwitAds is a new online venture that allows you to place ads in your Twitter account. To start, a user has to list how many followers that he or she has, and how much he or she wants for an ad. If the bid is accepted, the brand new ad will appear in the top left hand corner of your Twitter page. While it isn’t designed to make users rich, TwitAds could be a nice and effective way to procure a little extra spending money.

Jason Calacanis has written a great article designed to help you make the most out of your venture capital presentation. In “How to Demo Your Startup,” Calacanis lists the ten things any business owner must do when making a first impression, from avoiding the use of PowerPoint presentations to arriving fifteen minutes early for the meeting. While he considers the pointers to be more of a “loose guide” than a rule, these tips are perfect for anyone who wishes to start a potential business partnership on the right foot.

As many regular viewers of the Free Line know, putting your email address on your webpage is a good way of getting spammed. Unfortunately, the alternatives really aren’t that much better. It’s hard to build a following online when you have countless hoops people have to jump through just to email you. Lucky, the folks at QuikieProfits are here to help. The team has created a nice little tool deigned to fool spammer-run software robots. Simple to use and completely free, the QuikieProfits email tool is perfect for those who wish to add some much needed security to their email addresses.

YouTube user LLP81 has posted an interesting video mocking Facebook and its users. In Facebook Anthem, a parody of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire, a frustrated singer vents on what bugs him most about Facebook. No Facebook fad goes unmentioned in the video, from so-called useless quizzes to Facebook apps and more. Extremely well-done, you might just not look at Facebook the same way again.

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