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metapavlin

A Year After the Closing of Megaupload, a File-Sharing Tycoon Opens a New Site - NYTime... - 0 views

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  • A Year After the Closing of Megaupload, a File-Sharing Tycoon Opens a New Site
  • Kim Dotcom opened his new file-storage Web site to the public — one year to the minute after the police raided the mansion he rents in New Zealand.
  • Megaupload
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  • the file-sharing business he had founded.
  • Mr. Dotcom faces charges in the United States of pirating copyrighted material and money laundering and is awaiting an extradition hearing in New Zealand. But on Sunday, he said his focus was on the new site, which was already straining under heavy traffic within two hours of its introduction.
  • including one that he would not start a Megaupload-style business until the criminal case was resolved.
  • Megaupload, knew its users were illegally uploading copyrighted material — and indeed sought to encourage the practice
  • conditions of the site do explicitly forbid uploading copyrighted material.
  • terms and
  • “This is us being innovators and executing our right to run a business.”
  • “Every pixel on the site has been checked for all kinds of illegal — potential legal challenges. We have a great team of very talented lawyers that are experts in intellectual property and Internet law, and they have worked together with us to create Mega.”
  • The service competes with online storage sites like Dropbox and Google Drive.
  • “We are still here. We are still breathing,” he said. “Consider what has happened to us a year ago — that is probably the least likely event that anyone would have expected.”
Katja Kotnik

Me and my data: how much do the internet giants really know? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • Google is not only the world's largest search engine, it's one of the top three email providers, a social network, and owner of the Blogger platform and the world's largest video site, YouTube. Facebook has the social contacts, messages, wallposts and photos of more than 750 million people.
  • The site also lists my most recent sent and received emails (in both cases a "no subject" conversation thread with a colleague).
  • The big relief comes when I note Google isn't tracking the internet searches I've made on my work account
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  • only around 29% of the information Facebook possesses on any given user is accessible through the site's tools.
  • The Facebook extended archive is a little creepier, including "poke info", each instance of tracking cookies they possess, previous names, and full login and logout info
  • Looking through anyone's list of searches gives a distressing degree of insight into odder parts of their personality.
  • how much do the internet giants really know?
  • sell us stuff
  • picked up by hackers
  • how much the internet giants know about us.
  • Google isn't totally unhelpfu
  • Every event to which I've ever been invited is neatly listed, alongside its location, time, and whether I said I would attend .
  • One piece of information – a supposed engagement to a schoolfriend, Amy Holmes – stands out. A Facebook "joke" that seemed faintly funny for about a week several years ago was undone by hiding it from any and all Facebook users, friends or otherwise (to avoid an "… is now single!" status update). The forgotten relationship helpfully explains why Facebook has served me up with badly targeted bridalwear adverts for several years, and reassures me that Facebook doesn't know quite everything.
  • This is the core of the main comfort
  • despite their mountain of data, Google and Facebook seem largely clueless, too – they've had no more luck making any sense out of it than I have. And that, for now, is a relief.
donnamariee

Technology and productivity: The hollow promise of the iEconomy | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Apple is the most creative, innovative and envied technology company of our time,
  • spring of 2000,
  • Cisco and its ilk as the internet transformed the economy.
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  • If fact there is little sign in the data that machines are displacing humans any faster than usual
  • Perhaps because of uncertainty, though that’s a poor explanation for a phenomenon occurring globally.
  • How to put a price on the contribution of Facebook or Twitter to the Arab spring?
  • IN THE battle between David Einhorn and Apple over the latter's $137 billion cash hoard lies a deeper lesson about the outlook for the economy. Mr Einhorn, an activist investor, says Apple clings to its money out of a “Depression mentality”. Perhaps. But the more mundane explanation is that Apple, like many of the world's big companies today, is generating more cash from its existing product line than it can usefully plough back into new projects.
  • Today, we all know Apple’s products, and a lot of us own one. Yet it is hard to identify the impact they or any of today's social-media giants have had on productivity. I was at first delighted with the convenience and freedom to read documents, check Twitter and search the web on the iPad mini I got in December, but it occurred to me recently that this was at best an incremental improvement over doing it on my BlackBerry or laptop. It also provides me with many more ways to waste time. As Tom Toles, the Washington Post’s cartoonist, puts it:
  • No doubt some of those YouTube videos were being watched over Apple products. Not that I blame Apple for Penney’s culture (after all, Google owns YouTube), but it is a reminder that the social-media revolution has been a mixed blessing. Yahoo at one time stood atop the Internet but the ability of its workers to do their job from anywhere may be backfiring on productivity
  • are genuine benefits of social media and the related hardware. In its first few decades the computer/internet revolution re-engineered business processes, enabling companies to interact with each other and customers in more ways at lower cost than ever, producing measurable, bankable results. Now, it’s leading to brand-new consumer products, many of whose  benefits are unmeasured or unmeasurable.
Jernej Prodnik

Spotify pushing labels to lower costs, open up free service to phones | The Verge - 0 views

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spotify labels service political political economy of the internet internet www

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  • Spotify, the popular music subscription service, is due to meet in the coming weeks with its major counterparts in the record industry to renew their licensing agreements. The Verge has learned that managers at Spotify are expected to ask for substantial price breaks from the music labels as well as the rights to extend its free pricing tier to mobile devices.
  • The Stockholm-based Spotify has already started negotiations with Warner Music and will begin talks with Sony and Universal in the coming weeks, according to several music industry sources. (A Spotify spokesperson declined to comment on this story.) These negotiations with music’s "big three" labels will likely go a long way to determining whether Spotify reaches profitability, a crucial threshold as it increasingly competes with Apple and other cash-rich players in the digital music market.
Katja Kotnik

Who controls the internet? | Jemima Kiss | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • Have you ever noticed that wherever you are in the world, every telephone keypad looks the same?
  • would mean internet companies paying hefty fees to local telecoms companies, reigniting historic tensions between US internet giants and incumbent telecoms firms across the world.
  • With the world's internet population predicted to reach 3.4 billion by 2016, there is everything to play for.
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  • "It's the absolute antithesis of the internet where the participating parties on the edge of the network pay for access to it," he said.
  • "Freedom to innovate on the network has been largely a consequence of its economic model and its openness."
  • Mueller says: "We're all 'prepared to fight t
  • We're not building the kind of new institutions we need to govern the internet and keep it free."
Katja Saje

What will the internet look like 40 years in the future? | Emily Bell | Technology | Th... - 1 views

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  • So many early predictions about the internet and world wide web turned out to be wrong. It was going to be a goldmine with limited use – in fact, it has turned out to be almost the exact opposite: a sprawling society, rather than a market, with unlimited use.
  • We might, however, be on the brink of an age where internet technology does indeed change many aspects of our lives: engagement in politics, constructing and conducting relationships, culture, knowledge. The dizzying prospect is that everyone is potentially part of the network, rather than on the receiving end.
Blaž Gobec

Gigafida - Rezultati iskanja - 0 views

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  • aj treh urah možje s saki krenejo skozi trstičevje k »ta veliki« Češljenci. Ni še povsem čas, a se me usmilijo. Boštjan i
  • režo z brega na breg. Počasi, v spremstvu navodil »kdo kaj in kako bi bilo treba oziroma zakaj ne dvigneš mreže više« nadzornikov z brega, jo vlečeta k skupni točki in nato se začne veselica. Velik nasmeh, ko v divjem plesu opletajočih se rib roka s pravim prijemom umiri »kapitalni primerek«. In nato riba v vedro, iz vedra v zabojnik, iz zabojnika z avtom do vode pri Sitarcah, kjer bo om
Blaž Gobec

Splet stresel umazani Harlem Shake | Objektiv - 0 views

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ipraktikum praktikum internetnipraktikum internet

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  • ilijonov ogledov. Obstajajo seveda tudi slovenske različice. Najbolj gledana je ta čas tista s premierjem Janezom Janšo na ekranu. Internetna norija je Filthy Franku prinesla še večjo pop
Mateja Žnidaršič

A truly world wide web? | Media | MediaGuardian - 0 views

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  • In its early, idealistic days the web was heralded as a force for democratic change. According to the early web revolutionaries, the medium opened up the world of publishing to everyone, regardless of nationality, race or location.
  • the network continued to grow organically, expanding to take in an ISP, a shopping site and a small businesses portal.
  • The BBC also plays an important role. As with its wider new media activities, the corporation's public service role has increased in importance as commercial competitors have fallen by the wayside.
mancamikulic

Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy? | Technology | The Guardian - 1 views

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  • glasses that can shoot video, take pictures, and broadcast what you're seeing to the world
  • They weren't due to get them until last Friday
  • Google Glass is the most hotly anticipated new arrival in "wearable computing"
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  • from "mainframe" computers
  • Google's idea is that you need only speak to operate it
  • "OK, Glass, take video!"
  • The only other way to get that point of view is to strap a camera to your head.
  • And yet people are already beginning to fret about the social implications of Glass
  • the question of privacy
  • how will we behave in groups
  • David Yee, the chief technology officer at a company called Editorially
  • Yee's worry was that the young person might be filming everything
  • Joshua Topolsky
  • have tried out Google Glass
  • This is the company that has repeatedly breached the boundaries of what we think is "private".
  • forgetting that sometimes deadly enemies have mutual friends
  • use of personal data without an individual's clear consent.
  • So how comfortable – or uneasy – should we feel about the possibility that what we're doing in a public or semi-public place (or even somewhere private) might get slurped up and assimilated by Google?
  • Oliver Stokes
  • ou could inadvertently become part of somebody else's data collection – that could be quite alarming
  • Now it's going to be able to compute what it is you're looking at.
  • Song Chaoming
  • nalysing mobile phone records
  • how your smartphone is able to show where you are on an onscreen map
  • Google probably knows what you're going to do before you do.
  • Where the five million are the wearers of Glass – and the one monitor is Google
  • Social media
  • Twitter
  • we're more used to the snatched photo or video that tells a story
  • Google doesn't want to discuss these issues.
  • this is a live issue,
  • One of the reasons they're doing Explorers is to get feedback on these things
  • how will we behave with each other?
  • hows data such as your speed, altitude, and even ski-resort maps
  • Concentrating on what was in front of me wasn't hard
  • they do it without letting others realise you are doing anything
  • we get too deeply involved with our technology
  • she pointed out how smartphones change us:
  • Topolsky
  • It brought something new into view
  • the more I used Glass the more it made sense to me; the more I wanted it."
  • how text messages or phone calls would just appear as alerts
  • Glass makes you feel more powerful
  • Hurst
  • is likely to be annoying
  • here's where the problems really start – you don't know if they're taking a video of you.
  • body language change
  • model seems to require voice control
  • how much are we going to share with others
Meta Arcon

Internet Marriages on Rise in Some Immigrant Communities - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • With a red embroidered veil draped over her dark hair, Punam Chowdhury held her breath last month as her fiancé said the words that would make them husband and wife. After she echoed them, they were married.
  • Normally one of the most intimate moments two people can share, the marriage had taken place from opposite ends of the globe over the video chat program Skype
  • These are called proxy marriages, a legal arrangement that allows a couple to wed even in the absence of one or both spouses.
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  • Such convenience has also raised concerns that it will facilitate marriage fraud — already a challenge for immigration authorities — as well as make it easier to ensnare vulnerable women in trafficking networks.
  • All people applying for American citizenship through marriage must first be interviewed by officials from the Homeland Security or State Department who are charged with rooting out fraud. Officials said that if the spouses were to explain they had been married thousands of miles apart over the Internet, it would quite likely raise a red flag.
Katja Saje

Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier; Big Data by Victor Mayer-Schönberger an... - 1 views

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manipulation privacy data intrusiveness malevolence benefit danger

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  • Successful technologists are the new "ruling class". In this digital world order, money and power are concentrated in the hands of a few.
  • Each technological innovation produces the potential not just for cyber-crime, but for manipulating the way we lead our lives.
  • imagine you take a driverless taxi. Without explanation, it lingers in front of billboards during your journey or forces you to a particular convenience store if you need to pick up something. Is that very different to search engines reading your mind through your click-habits or Amazon telling you, often accurately, what you really want to read next?
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  • The amount of raw data about all our lives continues to rise exponentially.
  • benefit and danger will depend on the use to which the information is put and the safeguards that protect us from technical malfunction and human malevolence.
mancamikulic

Internet celebrates its 30th birthday - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • his January 1 is the internet's 30th birthday.
  • on January 1 1983.
  • ''flag day''
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  • Engineering
  • Chris Edwards,
  • he importance of what they were doing.
  • ''The internet means there is nowhere and no one in the world you can't reach easily and cheaply.''
  • Donald Davies
  • 1960s
  • s a military project
  • developed at prestigious American universities and research laboratories
  • PS and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) technology
  • change mass communications
  • January 1 1983
  • the Internet was born
  • Tim Berners-Lee
  • he invented in 1989, known as the World Wide Web
petra funtek

Internet v resnici ni čudežno orožje za rušenje diktatorjev - 0 views

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internet zgodovina kritiki miti tehnologija

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  • Pokazal je, da internet ne prinaša samo pozitivnih učinkov – da ni čudežno orožje za širjenje demokracije in rušenje diktatorjev, da osvobajanje podatkov še ne prinaša odgovornejše politike, da nas elektronsko druženje lahko tudi razdvaja in da se na družabnih omrežjih ne širi samo napredna politika, ampak tudi nacionalizem, rasizem, ksenofobija in režimska propaganda.
  • Nove informacijske in komunikacijske tehnologije so zelo močna orodja, ki lahko prinesejo marsikaj dobrega. A le, če jih bomo v takšne namene uporabili – ljudje.
Miha Naprudnik

The Future by Google's Eric Schmidt: Cyber wars, terrorism and ethnic cleansing - RT News - 0 views

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  • Cyber-terrorists targeted by government drone strikes, online identities, which are taken hostage and held for ransom, and parents, who explain online privacy to their children long before the subject of sex. That’s how Google’s boss sees the future.
  • ome hackers already take over a user's computer and encrypt its hard drive, locking them out.
  • By hacking more and more e-mail accounts, cyber-criminals expose the online life of others.
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  • Online communication between terrorists could make it hard for them to hide.
  • Speaking about online IDs, Schmidt underlined the growing importance of online privacy. Parents would have to speak to their children about the perils of digital life much earlier than any conversation about the birds and the bees.
  • Schmidt also shared his views on the good side of being online in future, saying that the rise of the connected world, especially through mobile phones with data services, would reduce corruption and undermine repressive regimes.
Miha Naprudnik

Controlling the web - Fault Lines - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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  • SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, were meant to crack down on the illegal sharing of digital media. The bills were drafted on request of the content industry, Hollywood studios and major record labels. 
  • The US government says it must be able to fight against piracy and cyber attacks. And that means imposing more restrictions online. But proposed legislation could seriously curb freedom of speech and privacy, threatening the internet as we know it.
  • Can and should the internet be controlled? Who gets that power? How far will the US government go to gain power over the web? And will this mean the end of a free and global internet?
Miha Naprudnik

The internet drugs market has spun out of our control - Telegraph - 0 views

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internet drugs market

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  • An inquest heard last week that the gifted student had bought a drug over the internet that is used for lethal injections on America’s Death Row, and taken her own life.
  • What has been described by the coroner as a “matter of public concern”, though, is that she found a dark side of the internet that gave vent to such feelings, and offered tips on suicide and the drugs that would kill her.
  • Teenage party invitations now come with links to internet drugs sites.
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  • The sprawling internet has become the modern day Wild West. A badlands existing outside of normal rules and controls.
mancamikulic

Why the Internet Is About to Replace TV as the Most Important Source of News - Derek Th... - 1 views

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  • "There are now signs that television news is increasingly vulnerable
  • But the larger story is the rise of the Web, which has surpassed newspapers and radio to become the second most popular source of news for Americans, after TV
  • TV channels get affiliate fees
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  • Radio is supported by some donations and public financing.
  • As this Mary Meeker slide shows, we spend more time engaging with mobile devices than reading print, but print publications still get 25-times more ad money than mobile.
  • For younger people, the Internet is the new cable news.
  • For advertisers, cable news is still cable news.
  • An equal share said they saw news headlines from Facebook
Sandra Hribar

Study: Facebook Is Your Frenemy - Megan Garber - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Facebook is terrible. But Facebook is, at the same time, wonderful. We love it, we hate it. We love to hate it, hate to love it, etc. It is our best friend. It is our worst enemy. Facebook may be friending the world, in other words, but it is also frenemy-ing us, one click at a time. This, according to new research from the Skype-like service Rebtel, which regularly surveys its users about their habits. The company recently queried U.S. users aged 18 and older, garnering responses from 1,632 mobile device owners. Among its questions: What social networking sites cause you the most stress? Which have the most negative effect on your mood? Which have the most positive?  The survey's major finding was unsurprising: Most social networks seem to have very little negative effect on those users' overall moods or stress levels. However: Of the users who did implicate social networks in stress and general mood changes, the overwhelming majority of them pointed their collective fingers at one network in particular: Facebook. Asked "what social network causes you the most stress?," 18.4 percent of Android users and 21.4 percent of iPhone users replied, "Facebook." By comparison, the next-most-named network, Twitter, was called out by only 5.9 percent of Android users and 4.4 percent of iPhone -- and the next-most-named, LinkedIn, clocked in with 4.0 percent and 3.2 percent of users, respectively.
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