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Technology Review: Redesigning the Web for Touch Screens

Published on 16 May, 2010 in Links View Comments

A new crop of touch-based devices is changing the way users interact with Web pages.

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Our Digital Future (4+ important articles to read)

Published on 27 February, 2010 in Writings View Comments

In the past few weeks The Guardian has published a few articles that I generally refer to as ‘Our Digital Future’. These are important takes on the future of digital consumption, archiving, and rules, which, in my opinion, everyone should read and consider.

Why did Ofcom back down over DRM at the BBC?

Cory Doctorow tells us that… the corporation is endangering its own future by letting the Hollywood studios set the rules for its HD broadcasts.

Why 2010 will be the year TV and the web really converge

Steve Plunkett explains how milestones such as Project Canvas will bring together broadcast television and online media.

Is copyright getting in the way of us preserving our history?

Victor Keegan on The issue of copyright is a global nightmare for anyone interested in digital preservation.

and also:

Ducks, Nazis and Disney: well, that’s one way to get a TV transition

Cory Doctorow asks in part 2 of his article: Is crippling our sets, and handing over our cultural regulation to a foreign cartel, the best way to get viewers switched on to high-definition?

*** Update: a new article has been added.

John Naughton writes in The Observer:

The Google Three, Italy and Silvio Berlusconi

The web may be global but sovereign states still make up the rules.

– Let me know what you think.

The Social Map of Haiti

Published on 5 February, 2010 in Inspirations View Comments



If you want to find an up-to-date map of Haiti, then there is only one place to go. It is not Google Maps or any of its competitors. It is the admirable OpenStreetMap.org (OSM), which is being updated even as I write by volunteers all over the world.

(via Meet the Wikipedia of the mapping world at The Guardian)

The Google Apps Team phasing out IE6

Published on 3 February, 2010 in Media+Tech View Comments

“In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.”

- The Google Apps Team (via hannahkc)

The dark side of the internet | Technology | The Guardian

Published on 27 November, 2009 in Links View Comments

"In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography"

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Social Technology Profile Tool

Published on 6 September, 2009 in Media+Tech & Writings View Comments

A survey of data which shows how participation varies among different groups of consumers, globally.

Developed and researched by Forrester on what they call – Social Technographics – the tool can help identify the level of technological involvement by different groups of users across an identified 6 levels of participation: Creators, Critics, Collectors, Joiners, Spectators and Inactives. A brief explanation on the different types can be found here.

Taming the Information Monster

Published on 14 June, 2008 in Media+Tech & Writings View Comments

It seems that the big 4 [Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM] are suffering from an overload of internal internet usage.

People are not working — they are emailing, twittering, facebooking, and googling, while at work — and the big information conglomerates are in need to do something about it.

Now these companies that created the big information beast will find ways to sell their solutions to other companies. Smart asses.

Link: NY Times

The truth is out there

Published on 12 February, 2008 in Writings View Comments

The truth about social networks and webmails is starting to come out.

Few days ago Zephoria (aka Danah Boyd) wrote about her friend Bob who had bad encounters with Google:

Earlier this week, Bob received a notice that there was a spam problem in his Orkut community. The message was in English and it looked legitimate and so he clicked on it. He didn’t realize that he’d fallen into a phisher’s net until it was too late. His account was hijacked for god-knows-what-purposes until his account was blocked and deleted. He contacted Google’s customer service and their response basically boiled down to “that sucks, we can’t restore anything, sign up for a new account.” Boom! No more email, no more calendar, no more Orkut, no more gChat history, no more Blogger, no more anything connected to his Google account.

Yesterday an article in the NY-Times told us that Facbook

…offers users the option to deactivate their accounts, Facebook servers keep copies of the information in those accounts indefinitely. Indeed, many users who have contacted Facebook to request that their accounts be deleted have not succeeded in erasing their records from the network.

Here is a video that tell us the truth about Facebook, from the research I did myself, most of it is true. Frightening.

and here is one that tell the truth about Google. Scary!