Wikipedia, Other Sites Going Dark Tomorrow to Protest SOPA
Wikipedia, Reddit, and Boing Boing and many other sites are staging global blackouts tomorrow to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. Specifically, Wikipedia, which has been a very vocal opponent of the restrictive set of bills, polled 1800 users and with their support has chosen to take down its English pages all day [...]
Read MoreCan the Wikipedia of Search, Blekko, Challenge Google?
Today, Blekko opens up to the public. They’ve been in private beta since July and are finally opening the doors to the masses. Of course, just because Blekko is a search engine, comparisons are immediately being drawn with Google. In reality, it’s like comparing apples to oranges. blekko is a better way to search the [...]
Read MoreIndependence Day Mayhem: YouTube and iTunes Hacked
While everyone else was enjoying their Fourth of July weekend, barbecuing, going to the beach, and watching the fireworks, a few dubious hooligans were causing trouble. Reports came in that both YouTube and the iTunes app store were victims of holiday hacking. YouTube fell prey to enterprising members of 4chan, the group best known for [...]
Read MoreDeath of Aiyana Jones Spurs Social Media Outrage
The Twitter trending topics included the usual suspects like Justin Bieber, Glee and a few unusuals like actress Stacey Dash and the movie Coach Carter. But something else was trending slowly with users expressing every emotion from outrage to sorrow to even gasps of horror. The tweets ended with a hashtag: #AiyanaJones. (Jerean Blake also [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 2-19-2010
Gaming Foursquare I guess you can’t really game a game, can you? One man, armed with the Foursquare API and a little coding knowledge, aimed to show potential flaws in the Foursquare checkin system. He checked in at a bunch of locations repeatedly, taking over mayorships across the globe. He mostly targeted well-known landmarks. Being [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 11-27-09
At Web 2.0 Expo “There’s a #Hashtag for That”, Google tests a new search results page and shuts down Grand Central all in one breath, AOL becomes Aol, Wikipedia bans Volvo’s IT Department, and Autotune your Facebook Status Updates.
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