Saturday, December 25th, 2010 03:07 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tips and Tricks by Reda Cherif
At the same time that the Internet grows, it Achilles’ Heel gets more exposed too. Therefore, the fact that the Internet is growing is neither good news, nor bad news. That’s purely factual.
Tags: blogs, communication, data management, google, internet, media, open source, wikileaks
Friday, December 10th, 2010 10:10 pm GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs by Cecilie Mourits-Andersen
Germany has emerged as the most skeptical among the European nations in terms of the online privacy of citizens. But what is it about Europe’s biggest economy that makes it particularly critical towards online companies’ collection of user data?
Tags: germany, google, privacy, social media
Monday, November 8th, 2010 09:45 am GMT -5 in Content, News Briefs, Tubes by Gabrielle Tang
RockMelt offers a completely new way to browse the web now, integrating your social networks to your browsing experience.
Tags: browser, chrome, communication, facebook, firefox, google, internet, marc andreesen, mosaic, mountain view, mozilla, open source, rockmelt, search, social media, social networks, twitter, web, youtube
Sunday, November 7th, 2010 03:06 pm GMT -5 in Content, Tubes by Reda Cherif
My trip to Cuba was an amazing opportunity to compare the two systems – the Free West and The Tropical Communism- through the prism of Digital Age, Web 2.0 and Social Networks.
It is so different and so similar at the same time.
Tags: blogs, censorship, communication, computation, data management, facebook, google, internet, media, network neutrality, New York Times, social media, social networks, technology
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 08:16 pm GMT -5 in Tubes by Martimott
Finally touching the future (that we all have seen in the futurist films): One of the best websites (ever!) has just been launched, and this time, there is no friend of mine involved. Its name is Qwiki.
Tags: google, information experience, Qwiki, Wikipedia
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 10:24 pm GMT -5 in Content, Tubes by Jose L. Leyva
What can Google do to fight Fidel and Raul Castro’s totalitarian regime? Can Google, or an army of innovative journalists bring change in Venezuela? Something that the local media moguls haven’t been able to do? What is the power of digital media in the recovery of Haiti?
Tags: democracy, google, innovative journalism
Friday, October 8th, 2010 02:12 pm GMT -5 in Code by Michael Cervieri
In less than 20 years the peer production and transparency found in Open Source is firmly entrenced in the mainstream and is affecting much more than just software.
Tags: android, biomedical, copyright, drupal, FOSS, GNU, google, law, license, mpaa, open source, oracle, peer production, research, riaa, sdk, tcc-lecture
Monday, October 4th, 2010 01:15 am GMT -5 in Content, Tips and Tricks, Tubes by Reda Cherif
Little by little, Blumenthal’s arguments started to convince me…I was seduced. Actually, I believe i wanted to be convinced.
Tags: blogs, communication, computation, confused, facebook, google, internet, media, network neutrality, social media, social networks, technology, twitter
Monday, September 20th, 2010 01:56 am GMT -5 in Tubes by Gabrielle Tang
Rumors have been flying all over the Internet about Facebook’s secret phone project. Facebook has attempted to deny them but people continue speculating. What is the social networking giant really doing with all that genius?
Tags: android, facebook, google, iphone, joe hewitt, matthew papakipos, OS, phone, privacy, technology
Thursday, February 18th, 2010 07:06 pm GMT -5 in Tubes by Michael Cervieri
A meta-web is forming that connects the bits and bytes of our online social actions in new and startling ways. The social search start-up Aardvark shows us how five years from now the 2010 Web will appear quaint.
Tags: aardvark, google, photosynth, search, synaptic web