It is invite only and has a stellar lineup of speakers: FORTUNE magazine announced today that Neil Young , singer, songwriter, and musician; Philippe Dauman , President and CEO, Viacom Inc.; and Ivan Seidenberg , Chairman and CEO, Verizon Communications Inc.; are confirmed to speak at the FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH Conference, being held July 21-23, 2008 in Half Moon Bay, California. The conference will convene the magazine industry’s top technology, media, and Internet editorial talent with the leaders and influencers of the digital world to look at the future of the tech business…. Young recently released an anthology in a series of Blu-ray Discs that use Java technology to give the viewer sophisticated ways of interacting with the content. Dauman and Seidenberg will participate in a panel hosted by FORTUNE Managing Editor Andy Serwer entitled, “Titans of Digital Transformation.”… Young, Dauman, and Seidenberg are joined by an impressive slate of confirmed speakers, including: Danah Boyd , Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, Michael Dell , Chairman and CEO, Dell Inc.; Loic Le Meur , CEO, Seesmic; and Leah Jamieson , John A…. Jamieson will lead a discussion on whether our education system hampers innovation by not changing engineering curriculum to focus on more creative skills vs. technical skills. The FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH Conference is an invitation-only event which will take place at the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, California , and will be comprised of a mix of one-on-one interviews with FORTUNE editors, panel discussions, small-group roundtables, and working lunch labs.
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Fortune’s Invite only conference Brainstorm adds Neil Young plus Viacom and Verizon CEOs
Lawsuit claims GOOG is defrauding advertising customers
But a new lawsuit claims Google profits from web sites that carry no related content - just ads, and that advertising customers are losing money from this practice. Google is defrauding its advertising customers by charging them for clicks from “parked” websites that Google knows are worthless, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed today by Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California in San Jose…. and was part of an earlier $90 million settlement from Google on behalf of advertisers who were victimized by “click fraud” to which the company turned a blind eye. He is also currently representing Google customers whose ads were placed on third-party sites when they only wanted their ads to appear on Google.com. According to the lawsuit filed today, Google did not disclose to its advertisers the web addresses of the parked domains where their ads were placed and clicked on, leaving customers with no ability to evaluate, much less dispute, the validity of the clicks for which they were charged. Google failed to provide this information despite the fact that ads placed on parked domains are a constant source of invalid clicks…. The plaintiff in this case was charged for several clicks originating from parked domains, with no additional information given by Google as to the nature or specific source of these clicks beyond the designation “parked domain.”
Reddit Goes Open Source
When we say ‘open-source’ we mean specifically that the code behind reddit is available to the public for download, and we’re inviting the public to submit code to help improve the site…. In no particular order, here’s a quick list of the open source products that reddit is built and runs upon: Debian, lighttpd, HAProxy, PostgreSQL, Slony-I, various python libraries, Psychopg, pylons, Solr, Tomcat, Ganglia, Mercurial, Git, gettext (translation), daemontools, and memcached.
