Technology
2010-09-02 14:00:36 ~ Read Write
Egypt's Got Facebook Cops: This Week in Online Tyranny
Egypt has created a special security department to monitor Facebook. Allegedly, the "main task of this group is to monitor Facebook content like groups, pages and chat and to publish reports countering online criticism of current Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak or his son Gamal." But it's extremely unlikely that the secret police powering it will not collect user information, as well as seek out and punish those who use the social network for free speech and political reasons. Egypt's relations[...]
2010-09-02 12:55:12 ~ Read Write
Don't Track Me: Anti-Google Video Plays on Times Square
Twice an hour, an animated version of Google CEO Eric Schmidt can currently be seen giving away free ice cream to little kids in return for their private information on a 540 square foot screen hovering over New York's Times Square. The cartoon was produced by a "Inside Google," a project of the non-partisan Consumer Watchdog group, that wants to draw attention to what it perceives as Google CEO Eric Schmidt's "lack of regard for our online privacy."SponsorEric Schmidt is "Out of Control"The re[...]
2010-09-02 12:55:10 ~ Read Write
One Week Later, Digg VP Talks v4 Launch, Backlash & Future
The Internet was in flames last week as popular social news curation site Digg.com launched the latest iteration of its platform, unleashing a groundswell of outrage and protest from a majority of the site's loyal users. A week later, Digg has begun to respond to its passionate community, making rapid changes and bug fixes as its exhausted back-end infrastructure struggles to keep up. Today I spoke with Digg's VP of Product Keval Desai about the launch, the company's reaction to the negativity f[...]
2010-09-02 11:50:37 ~ Read Write
Sock It To Me With Socat
We've all been there. You want to isolate an issue with a server running on a port but want something quick and easy to verify if it is a host firewall problem or something else. Perhaps you are dealing with someone on the other end of the network that says it is a firewall problem. How you prove otherwise? SponsorLuckily, there is socat. While there are other network Swiss army knives out there such as Ncat and Netcat, you might find socat worth a try. Socat is available for most Linux and[...]
2010-09-02 11:50:33 ~ Read Write
Skype Doubles Down with 10-Person Video Chat
Skype announced today that the latest beta version of Skype 5.0 would up the ante in terms of group video chat, as well as introduce a more stable and sleeker experience for its Windows users.When the company first introduced group chat in May, it limited the number of participants to five, but now it has doubled that number to 10.SponsorThis limitation was one of the primary things we focused on when we looked at the new feature, which we immediately compared to free, Web-based services like Ti[...]
2010-09-02 10:50:22 ~ Read Write
Google and AOL Renew Search Agreement for Another 5 Years
Google and AOL just announced that they have renewed their global search alliance for another five years. Google will continue to power search on all of AOLs properties. For the most part, the new agreement just reinforces the existing contract, but the two companies also plan to expand their current alliance to cover mobile search and AOLs videos will now be syndicated on YouTube. According to the latest data from Web analytics firm comScore, AOL currently accounts for 2.3% of the search market[...]
2010-09-02 10:50:19 ~ Read Write
10 Things You Need to Know about Apple's New Social Network, Ping
Ping, Apple's new social network, is the standout feature in iTunes 10, the most recent update to Apple's music management application. Within Ping, you can find and follow your favorite bands and your friends as well as recommend or leave notes about the music you listen to. Ping adds a new layer to iTunes - a social layer focused on discovery, not only of new tracks you'll want to buy (as is the obvious goal), but it also lets you discover news from artists you care about, including concert up[...]
2010-09-02 10:50:17 ~ Read Write
5 Plugins for Outlook Users with Gmail Envy
The announcement of Google's Gmail Priority Inbox likely made more than a few enterprise knowledge workers stuck with Microsoft Outlook and drowning in e-mail quite envious of Gmail. That is, if they weren't envious already. Marshall also took a look at a few plugins and services that are turning e-mail into a platform, including the incredible Rapportive.Lucky for Outlook users, there are actually several plugins to extend Outlook's functionality and ease that Gmail envy. E-mail addons have be[...]
2010-09-02 10:50:16 ~ Read Write
Tablet Computers Will Thrive Because They Are Shareable
"...a tablet is, crucially, a more shareable computer. A laptop, with its fragile hinge-ware and space-gobbling keyboard, is just not comfy to share. A tablet is easier to bring to the caf�, easier to hand across the table or along the sofa, easier to seize in the heat of the moment, easier to hold up in triumph, easier to set aside when you need to meet someone's eyes.How big a market is that? Anyone who says they know is lying."-Google's Tim Bray, co-creator of XML and now Android Developer [...]
2010-09-02 10:50:14 ~ Read Write
Texting: It's Not Just for Teenagers Anymore
Lately, the discussion about texting has mostly focused on teenagers, who now often send hundreds of text messages per day. While voice calling is still the primary use of cell phones for adults, almost three quarters of all adults in the U.S. now send and receive text messages. According to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the average adult texter sends and receives 10 messages per day, but a minority (4%) now sends more than 200 messages every day.SponsorAbout 50% of [...]
2010-09-02 09:46:05 ~ Read Write
Hack of the Day: Speeding Up WordPress on a VPS
One of the most common suggestions to bloggers who use shared hosting is that they will be much better off with a VPS or a dedicated server. I agree in principle; however, this doesn't mean the server will run smoothly without a bit of tweaking.I'm currently in the process of moving several WordPress blogs from a dedicated server to a VPS. After moving five or six blogs, I noticed the server was slowing to a crawl, with high load after just a week of uptime. None of the blogs are particularly bu[...]
2010-09-02 09:46:02 ~ Read Write
Reddit to Mainstream Media: We Ain't "Small" [Infographic]
Social news and bookmark site Reddit has been working lately to battle against its stereotyping as the less-significant, red-headed stepchild to Digg. After Digg-founder Kevin Rose revealed Digg's July traffic numbers on his blog, Reddit administrator and programmer KeyserSosa publicly requested that the "entire mainstream media" quit with the diminutive adjectives already, as Reddit looks to have more traffic, not less, than Digg.SponsorIn July, Reddit claimed that experts were "misunderestimat[...]
2010-09-02 09:30:55 ~ Google Watch
Google Maps Now Serves Branded Map Icons for Businesses
Google, whose Place Pages aggregate information about restaurants and landmarks on Google Maps, has integrated ads directly into Google Maps by offering branded icons for, well, whatever store or franchise wants to participate.Google is letting businesses pay to sub their brand icons on the map for the standard icons. The search engine isn't saying how much it's charging.Sponsored map icons are being offered as a limited beta to companies in the U.S. with multiple locations and a well-known bran[...]
2010-09-02 08:45:16 ~ Read Write
Twitter's New iPad App Shines, but Not Perfect
Twitter has just launched its first official iPad application and the reviews so far have been glowing. The new app offers a few notable features: panes for interacting with content within a stream, media which displays inline without slowing you down and gesture support for common Twitter actions, among other things. What stands out the most about this new application is not a summary of its features, however. It's how the app fits into this growing trend that positions the iPad as the go-to de[...]
2010-09-02 08:45:12 ~ Read Write
Google Chrome Turns 2 with Version 6 Release
Google is celebrating the second anniversary of its Google Chrome browser with the release of new stable and beta versions, bringing and even cleaner and simpler user interface and increased speed and performance.As the Google Chrome Blog points out, Chrome 6 is years beyond where most imagined browser technology when it was first introduced just two years ago.SponsorThe Google Chrome Blog takes a retrospective look at how much browsers have changed over the past two years, remarking that when C[...]
2010-09-02 05:40:35 ~ Read Write
Ping: First Look at the iTunes Social Network
Part of the new iTunes 10 software, announced and launched yesterday, is a significant new social networking feature for iTunes called Ping. It allows you to comment on music, 'like' it a la Facebook, or rate it. Ping is also very similar to Twitter, in that you can 'follow' people and music stars. All of this happens inside of the iTunes application, either on your computer, iPhone or iPod Touch. We took the new feature for a spin and came away intrigued, despite some initial flaws. We do howev[...]
2010-09-01 23:20:23 ~ Read Write
Windows Phone 7 Ships; Phones Coming Before the Holidays
Microsoft's new mobile OS has shipped to handset makers and will be appearing on phones in time for the holiday season, the company announced today.The stage is set for Microsoft to either rock the mobile world with a mainstream alternative to the iPhone and Android platforms, rebounding after a string of failures a la Bing, or flop in its attempt to catch up after "missing a cycle."SponsorThe long-awaited update to Windows Mobile is expected to show up on devices from Dell, HTC, Samsung and LG,[...]
2010-09-01 22:16:52 ~ Read Write
Verizon: A High Profile VMware Service Provider with Extra Importance
Service providers are a lynchpin in VMware's strategy to extend its virtualization technology into the cloud.If the strategy works, VMware could become the leader in providing hybrid cloud infrastructures. It's a test for VMware's new foray into the cloud. And it has its risks. VMware is looking to provide an end-to-end platform that extends from the enterprise data center to the public cloud environments managed by the service providers.How the technology performs will come to define VMware's p[...]
2010-09-01 20:10:10 ~ Read Write
World Economic Forum Honors 31 Startups as "Technology Pioneers"
As I argued earlier this week, words like "disruptive," "innovative," and "transformational" can lose their punch when applied to every new company, every new product, every new feature. But there are undoubtedly plenty of areas in which innovation and transformation are not just happening and warranted, but absolutely crucial. It is with that in mind that each year the World Economic Forum selects a group of startups to honor as Technology Pioneers. The WEF announced the recipients of the 2[...]
2010-09-01 20:10:08 ~ Read Write
Billboard Magazine, Est. 1894, Tries to Boost Its Digital Cred
Billboard Magazine is best known for charts that rank the most popular music and musicians, which the weekly industry magazine started publishing in 1913 as a list of the most popular sheet music. Since then, topping the Billboard Hot 100 has become a coveted milestone for musicians, but the Billboard brand has lost some of its critical cache in recent decades, just as record companies saw their influence decline with the rise of the Internet. But it's clear Billboard knows it will lose relevanc[...]
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