Tag: Web
Cyberspace Is Not A Playground for Sex Offenders
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo believes "The playground is in cyberspace,"...children now head to the internet after school---followed, in some cases, by sex offenders".
However, thanks to a...
Penthouse Promotes Christian Dating
For some reason, this really creeps me out."Christian dating web site BigChurch.com's motto is "Bringing people together in love and faith." A pointed quote from the Old Testament ("A man will leave his father and...
Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit
Tech bloggers are a bit like navel-gazing, neurotic, trying-so-hard-to-be-cool-that-it-hurts high school kids, aren't they? "Oh poor me! I'm just, like, way too popular for Facebook. Oh my god, 5,000 friends? That...
1.5 Million Americans Have Now Donated to Obama
When you actually think about the fact that one and a half million people have given money to Barack Obama...it really puts his campaign into perspective: an internet perspective." [1.5 million —] that's how many...
Webby Award Winners: Teh Internets Finezt?
The 12th Annual Webby Award winners have been announced and the internet's most webtastic winners include: the formidable, satire-free news institution The New York Times, the satirical news site The Onion, satirical...
Make Unusable Time Usable?
Are these tech bloggers joking? Do they really expect us to fill every available moment of the day with quantifiable tasks? Here's a theory: don't "use" all of your time -- take a break! "Blogger Steve Rubel...
BBC Exposes Risk of Identity Theft on Facebook
Facebook users appear to be not only a very trusting bunch, but also avid adopters of add-on application that clutter up their profile pages while stealthily stealing their personal information.The BBC spent a...
Broadband 2.0 Poised to Reshape Web, TV
Imagine speeds of 50-100 Mbps instead of 1-3 Mbps like today. Image YouTube 3D, or downloading movies in seconds, or the need for multiple-terabyte drive space.Imagine broadband 2.0. According to...
The Web 2.0 economy hangs in limbo
It was only a matter of time before the Web 2.0 community started to feel the burn of the US recession. This comes at a particularly bad time. as many newer Web 2.0 companies are still trying to figure out how to...
Did Clinton Campaign Sabotage Twitter?
According to blogger Warner Crocker, a spokesperson for Fox News has apparently discovered that the Clinton campaign, in an act of web 2.0 campaign maliciousness, is to blame for the technical glitches and problems...
Curse of the “Pod”
Remember a few years back, when podcasting was supposed to be the future and saving grace of radio, tv, video, and human civilization?It's funny how quickly web slang and buzzwords come and go out of style. I don't...
Israeli Jailed for Facebook Photo
Further proof that there is no such thing as privacy on the internet.Be wary, be warned, and be careful, soldier."Israel has sentenced a soldier to 19 days in jail for uploading a photograph taken on his military...
Podcast: Web 2.0 is in the 'AIR'
This is a good podcast, at least the explanation of the differences between Web 3.0 (context aware applications) and semantic web. It talks about Adobe's Air platform, which lots of people are probably using, but haven't realized what Air is all about.
"Viral media" might really be "Tree media" - Study
Finally, someone has done it (and published it in a prestigious journal like PNAS).Apparently, current models of information spread online have assumed the "viral" form (i.e. information spreads like an epidemic,...
Webcam Your Way into Velvet Revolver
Aspiring bedroom rockers' hearts must be racing after Slash suggested that the Velvet Revolver boys might build a website to audition wannabe Scott Weiland replacements.So break out the angsty grunge growls, boys and...
