2009: The Big Picture
The Big Picture by The Boston Globe: 2009 (http://j.mp/5S0pe0) and the whole decade in photographs; http://j.mp/7GLJtG
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Gerrit Eicker
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AdLocal
Location-based advertising is poised to become a huge growth area: AdLocal goes USA via Cirius; http://j.mp/7apIvt
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Gerrit Eicker
Web Trends 2009
Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data, Real-time, Personalization, Mobile Web, AR, Internet of Things; http://j.mp/5v5PRQ
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WordPress.com Twitter API
Post and read WordPress.com-blogs via the Twitter API: Microblogging comes home; http://j.mp/5K7yla
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Redesigned
Brand New: The best and worst new and redesigned identities from around the world of 2009; http://j.mp/5uPIW7
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LinkedIn 3.0
LinkedIn updates its iPhone app: follows the Facebook app design, adds more communication abilities; http://j.mp/4CRspZ
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Privacy Theater
Khare: Our social networks have traded away our privacy for mere privacy theater; http://j.mp/PrivacyTheater
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The Internet is Making Society Better
Pew survey: The Internet is making society better. But the current decade rates as worst in 50 years; http://j.mp/7Fuj7p
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Pew: “As the current decade draws to a close, relatively few Americans have positive things to say about it. By roughly two-to-one, more say they have a generally negative (50%) rather than a generally positive (27%) impression of the past 10 years. … Happy to put the 2000s behind them, most Americans are optimistic that the 2010s will be better. Nearly six-in-ten (59%) say they think the next decade will be better than the last for the country as a whole, though roughly a third (32%) think things will be worse. – There are a number of recent changes and trends that are viewed favorably. In particular, the major technological and communications advances are viewed in an overwhelmingly positive light. – Clear majorities see cell phones, the internet and e-mail as changes for the better, and most also view specific changes such as handheld internet devices and online shopping as beneficial trends. There is greater division of opinion, however, over whether social networking sites or internet blogs have been changes for the better or changes for the worse.“
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Paywalls
Media, news in particular, goes paywalls in 2010: media businesses need to try something new; http://j.mp/paywalls
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Frohe Weihnachten!
Fröhliche Weihnachten! Merry Christmas! Vrolijk Kerstfeest! God Jul!
Khare: “As long as the same information that social networks piously prohibit their own customers from using is being bought and sold on the open market by giant marketing companies, social networks are only pretending protect your privacy. … Last week’s headlines brought news that RockYou had accumulated 32,603,388 identities over the past few years – and negligently stored them in plaintext in an incompetently protected database. … After all, the advent of social networks’ partner APIs was supposed to make impersonation and scraping obsolete. … In an ideal world, a third party developer shouldn’t have to store any personally-identifiable information (PII). In many jurisdictions, PII is akin to toxic waste, because of the regulatory burdens and civil, even criminal, liability for acquiring and disposing of it. … If PII is so hard to protect, then the only way for social networks to protect their users’ privacy must be to prohibit partners from accessing contact information in the first place. … Naturally, I prefer to think of myself as one of the ‘good guys.’ I prefer to believe that privacy protection is a competitive advantage that users (citizens!) really value. Until this outrageous RockYou breach, I didn’t fully realize how irrelevant that is. … If the industry expects self-regulation to forestall government regulation, well, here’s what I think it would take: An immediate ban on all of RockYou’s applications by all of their partners, pending a public audit of all of their apps. That’s taking a page from the audit provisions of LinkedIn’s ToS and adding sunlight by publishing the results.”