Internetni praktikum

Mailbox is a free iPhone app that aims to change the way you use email.

an overflowing inbox is deeply inefficient and it's important to scuttle the unimportant stuff away to stop it from distracting you from the crucial bits.

A quick swipe right and emails that you don't need but shouldn't be deleted are swept into an archive, symbolised by a green tick.

Uporaba tovrstnih naprav nudi obilo zabave njihovim uporabnikom, vendar pa se uporabniki premalo zavedajo tudi potencialnih nevarnosti.

Pri neprevidni uporabi pametnih mobilnikov je predvsem ranljiva otrokova zasebnost zaradi razkrivanje lokacije prek telefona, še hitrejše objave in širjenja fotografij, prav tako pa lahko mladi prek mobilne naprave dostopajo tudi do zanje neprimernih vsebin.

več kot dve tretjini slovenskih staršev najbolj skrbi, da bi želela kakšna odrasla oseba prek telefona navezati neprimerne stike z otrokom.

Google's Eric Schmidt: drone wars, virtual kidnaps and privacy for kids

and parents explain online privacy to their children long before the subject of sex

Dark side of the web

The internet has quietly infiltrated our lives, and yet we seem to be remarkably unreflective about it.

All of which might lead a detached observer to ask: if the internet is such a disaster, how come 27% of the world's population (or about 1.8 billion people) use it happily every day, while billions more are desperate to get access to it?

THE WEB ISN'T THE NET

YouTube is the closest thing we have to a traditional TV model in online video.

YouTube is nothing like television, and everything like the internet.

too many videos on YouTube, and not enough ad dollars chasing them

Television is being pushed aside by mobile internet gadgets, a UK survey of young people's technology suggests.

Among seven to 16 year olds, 61% have a mobile phone with internet access.

Talking, texting and accessing the internet are now reached through the mobile - with more than three-quarters of secondary-age pupils now using mobiles to get online.

Kukiji, piškotki ali tudi kolački (angl. "cookies") so majhne datoteke, ki jih pošlje strežnik obiskane spletne predstavitve v računalnik obiskovalca. Na tej osnovi ob naslednjem obisku prepozna obiskovalca (natančneje, njegov računalnik). Ko se obiskovalec vrne na spletno predstavitev, od katere je že prejel piškotek, strežnik prikliče informacije o tem uporabniku: kdaj je stran že obiskal, po katerih straneh oziroma vsebinah je brskal, na katere oglase je kliknil; skratka, prikliče podatke o njegovem gibanju po spletni predstavitvi. Če pa kukije uporablja oglaševalski posrednik, ki servisira oglase na več spletnih mestih v svoji mreži (na primer Httpool ali Central Iprom) v svetovnem spletu, pa se zbira bistveno več podatkov, in sicer gibanje uporabnika po vseh spletnih predstavitvah, ki so v mreži.

is strictly controlled by Google."

to allow European users of its Windows operating system to choose among competing browsers, according to a Reuters report citing three anonymous sources.

A recently discovered flaw in the HTML 5 coding language could allow websites to bombard users with gigabytes of junk data, with a number of popular browsers being open to the vulnerability

When I joined, five years ago, it was because I wanted an easy way to check on whether my journalism students were correctly spelling the names of classmates they were quoting in their news stories. To this day, that's pretty much my peak Facebook experience.

Founded by Zuckerberg and several other Harvard students in 2003, the site laboured for several years behind MySpace, the social-networking phenomenon of mid-decade

Indeed, Zuckerberg himself gave away the game back in January, telling a live audience that if he had it to do over again, he never would have allowed users to keep their information private.

Web pages can include embedded links or ’hyperlinks’, so simply clicking the link will take you to that page. Following a trail of links is called ‘web surfing’.

The web is also traversed by ’spiders’ (or software robots) that follow links and collect information that can be used by search engines such as Google. Not all web users are human!

As websites are becoming more sophisticated than static pages, web developers are using many more versatile tools. These include CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), scripting languages such as JavaScript and PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), and Adobe Flash.

The internet has always revolved around social networking, but the explosion of a fresh generation of communal sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook is taking the phenomenon into new and unchartered territory.

One of those applications called iLike - pigging-backing on Facebook's global network - has already attracted more than 6 million members, and is growing by 1 million every few days, making it one of the fastest growing companies of any kind ever

A new generation accustomed to instant networking, and unashamed about living more of their lives online, is bound to change the organisations they work for and maybe the way they are governed, or at least the way their governments communicate with them

Freedom of expression has long been regarded as one of the fundamental principles of modern democracies, in which civil liberties are honoured and regarded as a prerequisite for individual development and fulfilment.

It is this classic liberal argument that is still used by civil liberties' campaigners on the internet, like Hatewatch, which argues that those "hate speak" groups, such as neo-Nazis, must still speak freely, if only to expose and discredit themselves

It is not simply a case of "same old issue, new technology" with free speech and the internet. With its low start-up costs and global reach, the internet enables almost anyone in the West, in theory, to speak and be heard around the world, as well as hear others' speech.

long maintained tight control over the flow of information within its borders

foreigners

unfettered mobile access to the web

IF YOU think money can't buy you friends, think again. In the online world, it’s possible to purchase a crowd of fans.

To decide whether a follower is human, Mr Camisani Calzolari used various criteria, including the number of posts from a fan’s Twitter account and the use of correct punctuation in tweets. According to this research, by June 2011 nearly half of Twitter followers of computer maker Dell—about 700,000—were bots.

On close inspection, a significant proportion of Mr Romney’s followers appeared to be fake profiles.

Why has the Internet changed so little?

The Internet Age was meant to change everything - internationalism, commerce, journalism, government - all would be transformed, made equal and boundless by the click. It's time to admit this has simply failed to happen, and what is more interesting than the bad forecasting is the reason that they seemed so tempting in the first place.

More generally, the global medium of the internet would shrink the universe, promote dialogue between nations, and foster global understanding. In brief, the internet would be an unstoppable force: like the invention of print and gunpowder, it would change society permanently and irrevocably.

changes to Facebook's privacy settings represents a failure of communications