Dane Glasgow is moving on.

See also my previous post on this topic.

A few days ago I mentioned Arizona trying to stop Zillow from providing zestimates within their state.

Here’s an update from John Cook’s venture blog:

UPDATE 4/24/07: The bill, including the amendment in support of Zillow, was defeated today by a vote of 32-22 in the Arizona House of Representatives. A spokesman for the Arizona house said that the bill was defeated because it dealt with increasing fees, though he said it was likely that sponsors would re-introduce the legislation along with the amendment related to Zillow.

By the way, John Cook is worth reading if you’re into tracking US ventures, especially on the west coast. He works for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and blogs regularly on entrepreneurial happenings.

In the US, the Communications Decency Act says it’s the person who created the content. In Canada, as far as I know, that question hasn’t been settled conclusively yet. There is now a lawsuit underway that should shed more light on it. From the Globe and Mail:

The hosts of the speed-of-light world of Internet blogs and interactive websites that publish anonymous commentary should be forced to pay when reputations are damaged, says a former Green Party staff member who is suing three such sites.

Google, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia and openpolitics.ca, a Canadian political website based in Toronto, are being sued in Vancouver in a libel case that could change the way Internet opinion is monitored and published.

This case is critical to track for anybody who is thinking about hosting user-generated content on a Canadian-based website. Which would be just about anyone doing a Web 2.0 service.