Internetni praktikum

Predavanja zvenečih svetovnih znanstvenikov le 'klik' stran Intervju z urednikom portala Davorjem Orličem 24. februar 2013 ob 07:00 Ljubljana - MMC RTV SLO "VideoLectures.Net so v resnici mala univerza, ki je vsem dostopna in na kateri lahko vsak kaj najde," Davor Orlič pojasnjuje idejo za inovativnim, uspešnim in nagrajenim projektom IJS-ja.

Spletni portal, nekakšen znanstveni YouTube, ki ga ustvarja manjša ekipa sodelavcev na Inštitutu Jožef Stefan, poznajo vsi, ki se navdušujejo nad dodatnim znanjem, izobraževanjem in informacijami z najrazličnejših znanstvenih področij. Njegov izjemen prispevek k omogočanju kroženja znanja so prepoznali tudi v Združenih narodih in Unescu, saj so jih pred dnevi razglasili za najboljši produkt desetletja v kategoriji "e-znanost in tehnologija". Na portalu so namreč vsakomur dostopni videoposnetki predavanj odmevnih znanstvenikov, raziskovalcev in direktorjev, kar pomeni, da lahko kar v svoji sobi prisluhnemo, kaj je v zadnjem predavanju povedal Noam Chomsky ali Tim Berners-Lee, ki je zasnoval svetovni splet. Tako lahko vsak, ki ima dostop do spleta, prisluhne znanju s Harvarda, Oxforda, MIT-ja, pa tudi z ljubljanske univerze.

O projektu in njihovem poslanstvu smo se pogovarjali z urednikom portala Videolectures.net Davorjem Orličem.

Why I'm quitting Facebook By Douglas Rushkoff, CNN February 25, 2013 -- Updated 1502 GMT (2302 HKT)

(CNN) -- I used to be able to justify using Facebook as a cost of doing business. As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior. I can no longer justify this arrangement.

Today, I am surrendering my Facebook account, because my participation on the site is simply too inconsistent with the values I espouse in my work. In my upcoming book "Present Shock," I chronicle some of what happens when we can no longer manage our many online presences. I have always argued for engaging with technology as conscious human beings and dispensing with technologies that take that agency away.

The New Westphalian Web The future of the Internet may lie in the past. And that's not a good thing. BY KATHERINE MAHER | FEBRUARY 25, 2013

But 30 years ago, humanity gave birth to one of the most disruptive forces of our time. On Jan. 1, 1983, the implementation of TCP/IP -- a standard protocol to allow computers to exchange data over a network -- turned discrete clusters of research computers into a distributed global phenomenon. It was essentially the work of three men: two engineers to write the protocol, and one to carry out the plan. It was a birth so quiet no one even has a photo of the day; a recent post by one of TCP/IP's authors, Vint Cerf, was able to turn up only a commemorative pin.

Only about 5% of retailers currently have the interest or the ability to market to specific customers based on their location, according to Ingle. Most of what brands are interested in is more generalized information about their customers. But in a rapidly evolving and increasingly mobile marketplace, the brands that arrive late to the location-based targeted advertising game may be left out in the cold.

Your smartphone holds a treasure trove of information about you, and cell phone companies are looking for ways to turn that into profit.

"An interesting transformation is happening in wireless, in which consumers are no longer customers -- they're the product," said Dan Hays, principal in PricewaterhouseCooper's communications and technology practice. "The trick is for operators to find out how to make money without violating their relationships and trust with their users."

When it comes to developers working with Facebook, "share and share alike" is the new policy.

No one rides the Facebook express for free.

"If you use any Facebook APIs to build personalized or social experiences, you must also enable people to easily share their experiences back with people on Facebook," Facebook said in a blog post announcing the change.

Google was recently slapped with two fines

They provide false assurances that, in the normal course of things, our privacy is not being invaded on the Internet, that our personal data is safe, and that we are anonymous in our online—and offline—activities.

not a single incident, but a slow, unstoppable process of profiling who we are and what we do, to be sold to advertisers and marketing companies

technology puts adverts on the web, is against the public interest.

It is sad that huge and well-resourced companies are buying up the market share of others instead of building up their own capacity

Google holds information about the private activities of its users that the intelligence agencies would die for

his description of modern slaves cum “hostages” is particularly applicable to our relationship to the internet.

Moreover, much of non-work related internet use is actually work insofar as it generates wealth for others.

as well as networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, that we are held hostage.

“Location Based Browsing

Location Based Browsing”,

At the moment, the four leading monsters are Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. Yet 18 years ago, Apple was weeks away from extinction, Amazon had just launched, Google was still three years away from incorporation and Facebook lay nine years into the future.

We understand pretty well the factors that determine the fortunes of companies that make things people buy – which is why, for example, one can predict thatApple won't be able indefinitely to sustain its huge profit margins on its iDevices.

This leaves Facebook, a company that has one billion products (called users) and earns its living by selling information about them to advertisers.

a ring that can confirm your identity online

passwords are both inherently insecure and increasingly impractical.

YubiKey, a tiny USB stick that implements highly secure “one time pad” cryptography to log in to Google services

y 2016, the internet is forecast to grow to 12.4% in the UK, contributing some £225bn to the overall UK economy.

Certainly the past 15 years have seen London, in particular, generate some incredible homegrown successes including ASOS, JustEat, King.com, Mimecast, Moshi, Net-a-Porter, Playfish and Skype. It is the US giants Apple, Amazon, eBay, Google and Facebook, which currently generate more than £15bn of annual UK revenues combined.

Understanding the internet's role in our economy and society is so fundamental now that we cannot afford to operate blindly. If we are in a global economic war for talent, resources and income, perhaps we need to establish the internet age-equivalent of Winston Churchill's 1941 creation of the Central Statistical Office (the precursor to the Office for National Statistics), and build a transparent central statistics body for relevant economic internet related data.Government can and does have an enormous impact on the economy.

ou're not paying for your presence on the web, then you're

just a product being used by an organisation bigger than you

When you use a free web service you're the underclass. At best you're a guest. At worst you're a beggar, couchsurfing the web and scavenging for crumbs. It's a cliché but worth repeating: if you're not paying for it, you're aren't the customer, you're the product.

After three days he found it: the boundary between 'real life' and 'online' has disappeared

If my grandchildren ever ask me where I was when I realised the internet was over – they won't, of course, because they'll be too busy playing with the teleportation console

If Web 2.0 was the moment when the collaborative promise of the internet seemed finally to be realised – with ordinary users creating instead of just consuming, on sites from Flickr to Facebook to Wikipedia – Web 3.0 is the moment they forget they're doing it. When the GPS system in your phone or iPad can relay your location to any site or device you like

Five-year-old runs up £1,700 iPad bill in ten minutes

"Danny was pestering us to let him have a go on the iPad. He kept saying it was a free game so my husband put in the passcode and handed it to him.

"He was crying, as the rest of the children were telling him we could have bought a house with the amount he had spent.

rejected an international treaty to crack down on digital piracy, a vote that Internet freedom groups hailed as a victory for democracy but that media companies lamented as a setback for the creative industries.

European legislators

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, which has been signed by the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, South Korea and a number of individual E.U. members.