Net@night 190

Net@night Episode 190

Net@night 190: Ze Frank

The future of .ly when Libya goes offline, Facebook redefines relationship status, Nordstorm takes a look at HauteLook, and Ze Frank talks about star.me and more.

Guests

• Ze Frank
  • founder of Star.me
  • Color War link
  • Young Me / Now Me

Topics

• What happens to .ly domains when Libya goes offline?
  • There'll be no interruption, according to Borthwick. "For .ly domains to be unresolvable the five .ly root servers that are authoritative *all* have to be offline, or responding with empty responses," he writes. "Of the five root nameservers for the .ly TLD: two are based in Oregon, one is in the Netherlands and two are in Libya."

• Facebook broadens relationship status

• Nordstrom Agrees to Acquire HauteLook for $270M

• A record 29M people were logged into Skype at the same time Monday

Picks of the Week

SITE OF THE NIGHT

• Twistory
  • Add your tweets to your fave calendar

• Techcrunch: twistory-puts-your-tweets-in-your-calendar-lets-you-export-them-for-a-fee

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

• LinkedIn launches series of 6 videos in 1980s fashion to talk about why its site works

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Sponsors

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Production Information

• Edited by: Tony
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