"our button-pushing lifestyle"
Who uses MySpace anyway?
“MySpace was a good acquisition at one point… but the truth of the matter is they were not able to sustain or be competitive with other companies, notably Facebook. They weren’t able to be competitive because News Corporation knows nothing about technology.”
“When mainstream, traditional media companies buy technology companies they don’t do very well - often they do terribly, and often they collapse.” – Michael Wolff, author of the Rupert Murdoch (owner of News Corp.) biography
Twitter and high politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department contacted the social networking service Twitter over the weekend to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that could have cut daytime service to Iranians, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
“We highlighted to them that this was an important form of communication,” said the official of the conversation the department had with Twitter at the time of the disputed Iranian election. He declined further details.
Az iráni választási bizottság képviselői az internet cenzúrázásánál hatékonyabb eszközöket keresnek, és találnak.
Az iráni választási bizottság képviselői a választás hitelességét bizonyító tényeket prezentálják, a hitetlenkedők belátják tévedésüket és leborulnak a tények előtt.
Internet in Iran
In a 2007 report, the OpenNet Initiative said that “the Islamic Republic of Iran has installed one of the most extensive technical filtering systems in the world”. Iran requires all internet providers to go through state-controlled gateways, and internet providers must employ filtering software. Reformist party websites, photo-sharing site Flickr, foreign blog hosting sites and social networks such as Facebook are often blocked in Iran.
Sophisticated users are able to route through alternate pathways or proxies to bypass government controlled gateways. Information about open proxies is being passed around on micro-blogging service Twitter to allow Iranian internet users unfettered access to the internet, but this is often a cat-and-mouse game. Government censors block the proxies as soon as they become aware of them.
az egyik első digitális fényképezőgép.
"Iran restored cell phone service Sunday that had been down in the capital since Saturday. But Iranians still could not send text messages from their mobile phones, and the government increased its Internet filtering in an apparent attempt to undercut opposition voices. Social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter were also not working."
Banksy. via newsimg.bbc.co.uk
Hello, my name is Simon. I’ve got a good idea for a website. I have good ideas for websites all the time. Every single one of my ideas would make lots of money.
everything.com
This would be a website where instead of having to look all over the internet for what you want, it would all be in the one place. This would effectively end the need for search engines so I would have to be careful that google representatives do not kill me in my sleep.
everything.com
This would be a website where instead of having to look all over the internet for what you want, it would all be in the one place. This would effectively end the need for search engines so I would have to be careful that google representatives do not kill me in my sleep.
A világ legcukibb robotos kísérlete. Arról, hogy hogyan viselkednek az emberek egy ilyen robotocskával. Legalábbis New Yorkban.
Itt van máris egy e-mail, pont erről, hogy mennyire átalakulnak a kommunikációs csatornák - és velük a társadalmi hálózatok, a régi közvetítők pedig (akiket kiadóknak hívtak) kereshetnek új munkát.
“the times they are a-changing fucking dramatically”
újrakezdem
Úgy tűnik, jó lenne újrakezdeni itt is gyűjteni a kedvenceimet. Manapság már ugyan nagyon könnyű megosztani a Readerben gyűlő dolgokat másokkal, de egy csomó minden kimarad belőle, amit máshogyan találok. Szóval a legegyszerűbb az, ha elküldöm ide, és akkor erre is fel lehet iratkozni RSS-ben.
Csodás dolog látni, hogy az emberek elkezdik használni ezeket a csatornákat… Az elején elég szkeptikus voltam, hiszen minek osszak meg bármit, ha csak ketten nézik meg. De lassan elterjed az RSS, a Reader, a Twitter, és tényleg szuper dolog, tényleg úgy érzem, hogy valamiféle kommunikáció jön létre…
