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Twitter could bar British users from reading tweets that break future celebrity super-injunctions, a senior executive from the web firm has told MPs and Lords.
link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/9050047/Twitter-could-block-super-injunction-tweets.htmlTwitter could bar British users from reading tweets that break future celebrity... more
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Amid significant pressure from tens of thousands of internet users and major web behemoths like Google, Facebook, and Reddit, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is, in its current form, Dead on Arrival:
Misguided efforts to combat online privacy have been threatening to stifle innovation, suppress free speech, and even, in some cases, undermine national security. As of yesterday, though, there’s a lot less to worry about.
The first sign that the bills’ prospects were dwindling came Friday, when SOPA sponsors agreed to drop a key provision that would have required service providers to block access to international sites accused of piracy.
The legislation ran into an even more significant problem yesterday when the White House announced its opposition to the bills. Though the administration’s chief technology officials officials acknowledged the problem of online privacy, the White House statement presented a fairly detailed critique of the measures and concluded, “We will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.” It added that any proposed legislation “must not tamper with the technical architecture of the Internet.”
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Though the administration did issue a formal veto threat, the White House’s opposition signaled the end of these bills, at least in their current form.
A few hours later, Congress shelved SOPA, putting off action on the bill indefinitely.
Sourced From Washington Monthly via The Daily SheepleAmid significant pressure from tens of thousands of internet users and major web... more
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Social networking site Facebook’s latest service Timeline has been globally rolled out. The company said Timeline had so far been available only to a few people, but now it had made it available to everybody. Timeline was announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the f8 conference in September. Here’s all you need to know about Facebook Timeline.
What is Timeline
Timeline allows users to compile and let others see everything they have shared so far, from photos, stories to shared videos and music. Some of the things a user can do on Timeline are: edit his basic info, jump to the past, view his activity log, check highlights from each month, star stories he wants to highlight, add life events, update his status, view and add photos and share his a
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How it is different from your current profile
Presently, only latest pictures or posts of users are visible, while large part of the previous posts are hidden. The only way to retrieve them is to scroll down and click on “More Stories”. Timeline on the other hand retains a user’s older posts, photos etc and also groups them datewise making it easy and convenient for viewing.
Activating Timeline
To get Timeline, a user needs to simply go to the Introducing Timeline page and click on ‘Get It Now’. Or he can wait till he receives an announcement at the top of his profile.
How it works
Once a user upgrades to Timeline, he will get seven days to review everything that appears on his Timeline before anyone else can see it. You can also choose to publish your Timeline at any time during the review period. If a user decides to wait, his timeline will automatically go live after seven days.
His new Timeline will replace his profile, however, all his stories and photos will remain there. Users, who want to see how their Timeline would appear to other people, can click on the ‘gear menu’ at the top of their Timeline, and select “View As.” This shows them how their timeline will appear to a specific friend or public.
Friends List
For those who always keep their Friends List private, Timeline is a curse as it prominently displays just how ‘popular’ you are on Facebook and who all are connected with you. There is no apparent way to turn it off, unlike earlier settings. This may be a major put-off for those who do not want to share their Friends List with all and sundry for various reasons.
Read more... http://rencadesign.com/wp/2011/12/facebook-timeline-8Social networking site Facebook’s latest service Timeline has been globally... more
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Local advertising, google local seo services, target & online internet marketing and business advertising in Montreal. Local advertisement, search web ppc advertising company for local business in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. SEO ranking tips.Local advertising, google local seo services, target & online internet marketing... more
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Internet firms and campaigners are protesting against government-backed proposals that would allow police to cut off websites without any court oversight, claiming they threaten free speech online.
link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8913367/Web-firms-protest-over-police-plans-to-cut-off-websites.htmlInternet firms and campaigners are protesting against government-backed proposals that... more
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The internet is the most important innovation for democracy of our time. With the internet citizens are empowered to be creators of information, not just passive consumers, and they’re networked so exchange happens peer-to-peer, not through some central authority.The internet is the most important innovation for democracy of our time. With the... more
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Vi segnalo un convegno che mi sembra molto interessante. E non (solo) perché sono tra quelli che parlano ;-)
Il tema sono in realtà due:
- donne e tecnologia, dal punto di vista della community delle Assistenti di Direzione (donne per cui la tecnologia non è solo uno strumento di lavoro ma anche un tool di identità)
- l’incongruenza dell’approccio quantitativo/pubblicitario al mondo dei Social, che ha logiche e metriche di successo che sono molto diverse da quelle dell’Advertising, specialmente su un target critico per il business come quello femminile.
Io ci vado (ovvio). Se volete ci vediamo là. E se ne discute.
Ecco i dettagli (vi incollo parte della press release, che facciamo prima):
CPMvsLIKE. L'INFLUENZA DELLE DONNE NEL SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
Dibattito nell’ambito della Settimana Della Comunicazione.
TheGoodOnes presenta l’esperienza di Secretary.it, la più ampia community di Assistenti di Direzione, influenzatrici nel loro network sociale e decision maker per la selezione di prodotti e servizi, uno spaccato significativo dei processi di conversazione delle donne on-line.
Per conoscere la community, per comprendere il valore della social influence, per pensare in termini di non-impression, per considerare l’engagement come indicatore del successo delle campagne di social marketing.
Giovedì 6 ottobre 2011 alle ore 18.00. Blend Tower, Piazza 4 Novembre, n.7 Milano
Relazionano:
Jessica Alessi - Fondatrice Secretary.it
Emilio Vignapiano - Head Social Marketing Mondadori
Marco Muraglia - CEO Starcom Italia
Alessandra Niada - Head Mkt&Comm Best Western Italia
Marco Marozzi - Fondatore TheGoodOnes
Intervengono:
Patrizia Martello - Partner MemethicLab
Cosimo Palmisano – CEO Ecce Costumer
Roberto Venturini – Digital Planner
Modera: Federico Pedrocchi – Giornalista di Scienza Radio24 / Progetto Triwù
Maggiori info su http://thegoodones.eu/Vi segnalo un convegno che mi sembra molto interessante. E non (solo) perché... more
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Veteran Television Executive Jim Romanovich comments on what Prospect Park’s acquisition of All My Children and One Life to Live means for daytime TV.Veteran Television Executive Jim Romanovich comments on what Prospect Park’s... more
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A missing dot in an email address might mean messages end up in the hands of cyber thieves, researchers have found.By creating web domains that contained commonly mistyped names, the investigators received emails that would otherwise not be delivered.
link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14842691A missing dot in an email address might mean messages end up in the hands of cyber... more
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Ye Gods! My head is still pounding from Friday night. After working for years right across the street from 111 Minna I finally had an excuse to go in. I definitely would have to recommend the place for people to visit if you want to get the hipster vibe of San Francisco.Ye Gods! My head is still pounding from Friday night. After working for years right... more
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As a radiologist or radiologist technician, you have probably seen some pretty interesting x-rays. From broken bones to impaled objects, people come in to be x-rayed for any number of accidents. It is probably more rare to see extremely unusual x-ray images, so that's where the internet and this list come in. These are 25 of the most unusual x-ray images on the web, and some are truly bizarre.
link:http://radiologydegree.com/25-most-unusual-x-ray-images-on-the-web/As a radiologist or radiologist technician, you have probably seen some pretty... more
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Specialty Film Researcher Jeremy Juuso shares a great tip for finding the answer to film industry questions on the internet.Specialty Film Researcher Jeremy Juuso shares a great tip for finding the answer to... more
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News of the World has come under fire for allegedly hacking the phone of murdered school girl Milly Dowler. As technology offers more ways, both ethical and unethical, to obtain information, where should the press draw the line when it comes to gathering information?
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When companies try to artificially control the way their digital products get used in today's connected society, we all lose.
Published 10:00, 24 June 11
When society was arranged as a series of intermediaries serving disconnected clients, distinguishing clients from non-clients was a key element of business. But in a meshed, massively connected society, simulating that world using artificial control mechanisms simply does harm.
First, some links to explore:
Disastrous Implications of New Apple Patent for Blocking Cellphone Video
What an amazingly dangerous world Apple are exploring here. They want to create a system that allows a cinema to switch of video cameras in consumer devices without the involvement of the owner of the device. The scope for abuse, together with the quantisation of analogue freedoms (explained in the last link below), makes this breathtakingly poor judgement.
Closing keynote at Personal Democracy Forum
Cory Doctorow makes an excellent point in this recent talk about how all technical measures need to evaluated not only by their effectiveness for their stated purpose but also by their potential for abuse and unintended consequences.
A movie lover’s plea: Let there be light
Fascinating article that reveals how the movie industry’s control-freak paranoia that treats all third-parties as criminals has as a corollary the degradation of the movie experience for paying customers becuase projectionists turn out to be untrusted third-parties who have to be controlled with ridiculous degrees of technical measures. If it’s this hard to change lenses, imagine how hard it will be to preserve the movie in the future after the business model that’s driven the technical measures has died.
DRM is toxic to culture
It's not just that the systems of artificial control harm the business and its customers; I also assert in this essay that it's harmful to society as a whole, and that any attempt to represent human discretion using digital means is a best doomed to fail.
Topological Change
The first mechanised communications - dating back to the start of the Industrial Revolution and before - helped to create a hub-and-spoke social topology in a world that had previously been generally hierarchical. The ability to communicate to a large number of people was necessarily centralised and recognition of a client-intermediary relationship became more important. As more communications became industrialised and businesses were established that exploited that, so did society become more centralised. Many models embraced the topology: author at the hub, readers at the spokes; suppliers at the hub, customers at the spokes; government at the hub, citizens at the spokes - and more.
The Web has changed that for good. The topology is changing from hub-and-spoke to a mesh that even crosses cultures and borders. Peer-to-peer is the new order in every system that is touched by the change, from the ephemera of the music industry to the hard reality of the Arab Spring.
If your business relies on the anachronism of hub-ness to make money, that's bad news for you. When businesses have a strong and authoritarian culture, there's little to mitigate their reptilian instincts. Instead of exploring new models that fit the new society, they try to artificially recreate the friction that used to exist in their business model. They implement digital restrictions, they attempt network filtering, they try to obtain extrajudicial controls over their customers. In every case, the people harmed are not those they believe are "subverting" their business, but actually themselves and their customers.
Pioneers, Not Criminals
More than that, in plenty of cases the people framed as "criminals" are actually pioneers. Consider for example, the case of the original MP3.Com web site. It allowed music lovers - people with actual, purchased CDs - to "scan" them on their computer and then stream the music anywhere. Rather than welcoming this innovation as a way to serve customers better, the music industry found an obscene technicality on which to persecute and eliminate MP3.Com. It's taken until today for a rich and powerful company - Apple - to rediscover that innovation and announce it as part of iCloud.
As we see more and more attempts by the commercial and political giants of an earlier era to shore up their old world as it crumbles under the force of the new, we need to oppose it. The new topology simply needs a new approach, and allowing old leaders to establish new markets in the new world is akin to an abuse of a monopoly position.When companies try to artificially control the way their digital products get used in... more
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Finally the government has added another branch we can get behind. Homeland Security just added a new division that will patrol the Internet and keep America safe from all those bad people. If you have ever been on the Internet you will love this new show about the I.P.P. – Internet Patrol Police. Meet Lt. Dewayne Bradshaw of the I.P.P. and see exactly how far Uncle Sam has reached to grab that mouse right out of your hand.Finally the government has added another branch we can get behind. Homeland Security... more
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“Hacktivism” has been steadily gaining gound in the political arena, especially since the emergence of Anonymous, the online activist group that famously hacked their way into Amazon, eBay and various countries’ government websites in support of Wikileaks.
On Friday, for instance, Anonymous hacked into Iranian government servers and stole more than 10,000 email addresses, and in June the group plans to target the Iranian government again on the anniversary of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 2005 election.
The problem, though, is that the activities of such groups are more often out-right attacks than constructive activism. This weekend, however, hackers made an exception. Hackers from around the world met at “hackathon” events to tackle climate change and disaster-risk management during the semiannual Random Hacks of Kindness global conference.
Organizers hoped to end the weekend with concrete prototypes and demo applications that would address issues of climate change. If only the Earth’s climate were linked up to a central air system. ...“Hacktivism” has been steadily gaining gound in the political arena,... more
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Coldplay publica letra de nueva música del quinto disco. La música se titula 'Every teardrop' y podrá ser escuchada en la web oficial del grupo, a partir del viernes 3 de junio.º-musica-del-quinto-album-del-grupo/
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