Communications Improves Childrens Literacy
Douglas: The more forms of communications children use the stronger their core literary skills; http://j.mp/8FDmeg
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Gerrit Eicker
Google Public DNS
Google is launching its own public DNS resolver called Google Public DNS; http://j.mp/4vDK8m
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Schmidt vs. Murdoch
Schmidt: We send news publishers 1 billion clicks a month from Google News, 3 billion from search; http://j.mp/5gkDCN
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Sochi 2014
Sochi2014.ru is the first Olympic emblem that also forms a web address, a digital games logo; http://j.mp/87oH3s
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Technology Pioneers 2010
The World Economic Forum has selected 26 companies: Twitter is one of the Technology Pioneers 2010; http://j.mp/8OwGJ9
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Google vs. Facebook
Digital identity war: Facebook Connect integrates with Yahoo, Google Friend Connect with Twitter; http://j.mp/8zUBN1
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Yahoo: “We have good news to share with everyone who uses Yahoo! and Facebook – in the first half of 2010 we will open the door between two of the Internet’s largest online communities. You will be able to see your Facebook friends’ activities on Yahoo! and share Yahoo! content – ratings, photos, article comments, and more – directly on your Facebook stream. We’re doing this by deeply integrating a service called Facebook Connect across Yahoo! properties worldwide, which we announced today.”
Google: “Today, we’re bringing Twitter and Friend Connect even closer together. Now you can join one of over nine million Google Friend Connect sites using your Twitter login. Once signed in, your Twitter profile will be automatically linked and you can tweet your new site membership, share discussions from the comments gadget, and invite your friends via Twitter.”
VB: “What’s interesting is the timing of Google’s announcement. It comes on the same day Facebook announced a massive integration with Yahoo’s properties, handing the social network an additional way to reach 500 million people. A big win. Yahoo users can use their Facebook log-ins to see what friends are doing on its properties and share that activity with their social network. – Google, however, doesn’t really have a large sharing platform. It has Orkut and Google Reader, but those haven’t found the same traction as Twitter or Facebook have with audiences closing in on half a billion users. It also wants to prevent the growth of closed or unfriendly ecosystems. So it’s turning to Twitter in a reactive move against its emerging competitor Facebook.”
TC: “So will Twitter integration help Friend Connect spread the way Facebook Connect is? Probably not since Twitter has nowhere near the 350 million users that Facebook does, but this is a nice addition that certainly can’t hurt. We’ve been saying for months that Twitter should have its own ‘Connect’ platform, which is sort of does in some ways, but this takes it a lot closer.”
RWW: “Identity is a very important matter online, particularly as everything becomes more social. Online identity is your address book, it’s your wallet, it’s your reputation and it could become a lot more. … Facebook and Twitter are becoming big Identity providers. Google and Yahoo! have wanted to be leading Identity providers themselves but today cried Uncle with a big nod to the supremacy of the two leading social networks. … Those small players, people working on things like OpenID, ActivityStreams, the distributed social graph and other components of distributed, independent and interoperable social networking – those players may have been sold down the river by today’s deals between Yahoo and Google and Facebook and Twitter. … The short-term trade of giving more control to two big social networks, in exchange for traffic and ad money, may not serve anyone well in the long run.“
Gerrit Eicker
Darpa Network Challenge
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, Darpa has announced the Darpa Network Challenge; http://j.mp/5tLF9q
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JIM 2009
Das Internet bleibt für Jugendliche vor allem Kommunikationsmedium, so die aktuelle JIM-Studie (PDF); http://j.mp/7baoRA
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JIM: “Im Alltag von Jugendlichen werden Fernseher und Internet in nahezu identischem Umfang genutzt. Und das, obwohl drei Viertel der 12- bis 19-Jährigen einen eigenen Computer und nur noch 60 Prozent ein eigenes Fernsehgerät haben. 90 Prozent sehen mindestens mehrmals pro Woche fern, ebenso häufig wird das Internet genutzt. Ihre tägliche Nutzungsdauer für das Fernsehen schätzen die Jugendlichen mit 137 Minuten sogar noch etwas höher ein als die Zeit, die sie mit dem Internet verbringen (134 Minuten). Zur Information über das aktuelle Zeitgeschehen, Bundespolitik, Sport und Stars bleibt das Fernsehen vor dem Internet Medium der ersten Wahl. … Das Internet bleibt für Jugendliche vor allem Kommunikationsmedium, knapp die Hälfte ihrer Nutzungszeit verbringen sie in sozialen Netzwerken, halten Kontakt über Instant Messenger, schicken Mails oder chatten. Dabei hat sich vor allem die Organisation und Darstellung in den Online-Communities im Vergleich zum Vorjahr deutlich erhöht. Allerdings hat nach Angaben der Jugendlichen nicht einmal die Hälfte die Privacy-Option aktiviert, die eingestellte Informationen nur einem selbst definierten Nutzerkreis zugänglich machen. Und das, obwohl immer häufiger persönliche Informationen, Fotos und Filme im Internet hinterlegt werden.”
Gerrit Eicker
Squad
Real time code editing and sharing: Squad is a web-based collaborative code editor; http://j.mp/7wVQQL
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IP-Adressen und Datenschutz
Breuer: Ist Google Analytics illegal? Die IP-Adresse und die deutschen Datenschutzbeauftragten; http://j.mp/8I3GPG
Schmidt: “With dwindling revenue and diminished resources, frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame. Much of their anger is currently directed at Google, whom many executives view as getting all the benefit from the business relationship without giving much in return. The facts, I believe, suggest otherwise. – Google is a great source of promotion. We send online news publishers a billion clicks a month from Google News and more than three billion extra visits from our other services, such as Web Search and iGoogle. That is 100,000 opportunities a minute to win loyal readers and generate revenue – for free. In terms of copyright, another bone of contention, we only show a headline and a couple of lines from each story. If readers want to read on they have to click through to the newspaper’s Web site. (The exception are stories we host through a licensing agreement with news services.) And if they wish, publishers can remove their content from our search index, or from Google News. – I certainly don’t believe that the Internet will mean the death of news. Through innovation and technology, it can endure with newfound profitability and vitality. Video didn’t kill the radio star. It created a whole new additional industry.”
TC: “Not even Google can save much of the dying print newspaper business, but it can help them build up their digital revenues. And that’s the subtext of Google’s message to newspaper publishers: Don’t shoot the gift horse that feeds you. (To mangle three well-worn phrases together). Those 4 billion clicks a month are a gift. While they might not add up to expense-account lunches all around at Per Se, they are nourishment nonetheless.”