Kunena Site Syndication http://www.foothillwebdesign.com/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:58:16 -0500 Kunena 1.5.8 http://www.foothillwebdesign.com/components/com_kunena/template/default_ex/images/english/emoticons/rss.gif http://www.foothillwebdesign.com/ Kunena Site Syndication http://www.foothillwebdesign.com/forum/3-current-events-and-politics/8-craigslist-pulls-adult-ads#8 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy ews/2010/09/craigslist-unexpectedly-pulls-adult-services-listings.ars After months of pressure from state attorneys general, Craigslist pulled its adult services listings offline over the Labor Day weekend. Visitors to the site were greeted with a black bar with the word "censored" in white text (as seen to the right) where the link to the adult services listings would normally be. The adult services listings have been a perpetual source of concern for law enforcement, including numerous state attorneys general, who have said that listings facilitate prostitution and that children are often victimized by the ads. Craigslist originally had an Erotic Services section, but shut it down in May 2009 in response to pressure from law enforcement. The company had previously attempted to stave off criticism by verifying listings over the phone and working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, but decided that having an entire section of the site devoted to the sex trade was a bad idea. More... (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy ews/2010/09/craigslist-unexpectedly-pulls-adult-services-listing) Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:10:39 -0500 http://www.foothillwebdesign.com/forum/3-current-events-and-politics/7-abercrombie-a-fitch-sued-over-muslim-scarf#7 SF Gate: Abercrombie & Fitch Sued Over Head Scarf (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/02/BATJ1F7BVC.DTL) (09-01) 17:51 PDT MILPITAS -- A federal civil rights agency sued Abercrombie & Fitch on Wednesday on behalf of an 18-year-old woman who said she applied for her first job at the company's store at the Great Mall in Milpitas and was turned down because she wore a Muslim headscarf. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission went to court against Abercrombie & Fitch last year over a similar incident in Tulsa, Okla. In Wednesday's suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the agency again accused the Ohio company of discriminating on the basis of religion. "This retailer that targets a youth market is sending the message that you cannot aspire to their 'All American' brand if you wear a head covering to comply with your faith," said William Tamayo, the agency's regional attorney. Company representatives could not be reached for comment. In court filings in the Oklahoma case, which is pending, lawyers for Abercrombie & Fitch denied discriminating and said allowing the employee to wear a hijab, or headscarf, "would have created an undue hardship" for the company's business. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/02/BATJ1F7BVC.DTL#ixzz0yOkPXHf0 Which should prevail, religious head garb or company dress code? Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:34:11 -0500 http://www.foothillwebdesign.com/forum/2-ecommerce/6-mashable-article-sell-etsy-items-on-facebook#6 Mashable: Facebook Application Lets Retailers Import and Sell Etsy Goods ( http://mashable.com/2010/08/18/pavyment/) Payvment’s Facebook application is designed to help retailers set up e-commerce shops on the 500-million-member social network. Today, the startup is releasing a new export tool to let Payvment users import their entire Etsy inventories and sell them via their Facebook Pages. The Etsy-to-Facebook (Facebook) import tool is a product of the company’s just-released API. The Etsy tool is the first to market, but Payvment plans to use the API to launch additional retailer-friendly import tools for online product catalogs. more... ( http://mashable.com/2010/08/18/pavyment/) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:13:52 -0500 http://www.foothillwebdesign.com/forum/4-general-discussion/5-cmon-lets-chat#5 Welcome to the General Discussion Forum! Please make a post and check out the cool forum software that is available for your website. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:15:37 -0500 http://www.foothillwebdesign.com/forum/3-current-events-and-politics/3-welcome-to-the-current-events-and-politics-forum#3 Welcome to the Current Events forum. This forum is for discussion of news, current events and politics. Please share your ideas and be respectful of others. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:55:56 -0500 http://www.foothillwebdesign.com/forum/2-ecommerce/2-welcome-to-foothill-web-design#2 Hello and thank you for visiting! Please share your ideas here. This forum is for discussion of all ecommerce-related topics. If it has to do with online sales, talk about it here. :) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:53:57 -0500