'net news

May 6

• Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries (irishtimes)

May 4

• researchers hijack botnet; score 56000 passwords in an hour (arstechnica)

April 27

• buying a house by email (NYTimes)
• In developing countries, web grows without profit (NYTimes)
• Why you have to engage in social media, even if you don't want to
• time magazine pwned by 4chan (techcrunch)

April 25

• wikipedia lawsuit could put it on the wrong side of fair use (arstechnica)

April 22

• simulated brain closer to thought (bbc)
• big entertainment wants to party like its 1996

April 21

• no, YouTube's fine

April 20

• flash coming to TVs (arstechnica)
• Fun with YouTube's audio content id
• IFPI site under attack by pirate bay supporters (torrentfreak)

April 19

• first mac botnet (macworld)
• us military issues ipod touch (newsweek)
• xhtml 2 vs html 5
• why hollywood is slow about movies online (slate)
• youtube is suffocating under bandwidth costs (slate)

April 16

• flexible cell phone
• Pirate Bay Verdict: pirates with either way (Wired)
• infinite photograph (National Geographic)

April 13

• phone line saboteurs
• Should online scofflaws be denied web access? (NYTimes)
• hyperlocal news (NYTimes)
• amazon nuking GLBT sales : glitch or troll? (arstechnica)
  • more (tehdely.livejournal)

April 12

• w3c.org new look (beta)
• facebooking students underchieve on exams (telegraph UK)

April 10

• silly geo
• get rich slow

April 3

• Piracy law cuts internet traffic
• Cyber-crime rising, report warns

April 2

• building your personal brand
• behind the scenes at netflix (boston.com) (BTW, this is the town where I went to high school.)

April 1

• warner bros acquires the pirate bay

March 30

• The genius behind google chrome's V8 engine
• Skype on iphone / ipod touch

March 29

• Is Facebook growing up too fast? (NYTimes)
• why facebook will go asymmetric
• Vexing computer worm to evolve on April Fool's Day (AFP)
• most common passwords

March 28

• Vt. Web site provider mops up after Silicon Dairy's demise
• Canadians find vast computer spy network
• Americans spend 8 hours/day on screens

March 26

• Google checkout is evil ...

March 24

• white space and design

March 20

• Experts see shortfall in cybersecurity
• day one of Pwn2Own (arstechnica)

March 19

• confickr worm (NYTimes)
  • hunt for patient zero

March 17

• pentagon official warns of cyber attack risk (washington post)
• all eyes on cybersecurity at midpoint of federal review (arstechnica)

March 16

• push vs pull : why email sucks

March 13

• how Google ad auction works

March 12

• torrent droid and bar-scanning videos
• google's new behavioral ads
  • how behavioral advertising works
• google voice
  • one number to ring them all
• BBC makes its own botnet

Mar 11

• trends : dedicated topic url - an example : http://www.twittershouldhireme.com/ (created March 9)
• Norton cover-up and pifts.exe
• "sixth sense" wearable tech demo

Mar 9

• Life online: The Web in 2020 (SIRC - Social Issues Research Center)
• sex, lies, and photoshop (NYT)
• color scheme designer v3

Mar 7

• darknets and P2P (arstechnica)
• is twitter the next facebook or google? (slate)

Mar 5

• welcome to twitpay
• 20 sites that brought css into the mainstream
• design :
  • an example of 'net brand/design doc : skype
  • Men/Women wage gap (NYT) - the interactive graphic is what interests me here, as an example of a "webpage design" that couldn't work in print.

Mar 3

• Surveillance Self-Defense (EFF)
• Z-payment for facebook apps? (ars technica)

Mar 2

• Copyright, Fair Use, and News (NYT)
• Google's Marissa Mayer (NYT)
• Facebook Targeted by Hackers (BBC News)
• antitrust against google? (techcrunch)

Feb 27

• Google's Business Model: YOU are the Product

Feb 26

• Facebook democracy?
• college blanket music licenses?
• pirate bay trial - day 9
• Google and Facebook battle for your friends

Feb 25

• Sorry to burst your bubble, dudes
• Amazon Web Services public data sets
• on netbooks from arstechnica
• congress twitters during obama speech

Feb 24

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ning

Examples for ning websites:-

• http://www.classroom20.com
• http://connect.state.gov
• http://www.futureofeducation.com/

Feb 23

• Serious Hardware Problems
• http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/02/icann-releases-new-gtld-guidelines.ars
• http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3628/what-does-wikipedia-mean-for-the-future-of-expertise
• http://www.wired.com/print/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-03/mf_netbooks
• http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/22/kindle-oreilly-ebooks-technology-breakthroughs_oreilly.html

Feb 19

• http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/facebook-rules/
• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/technology/internet/19facebook.html
• http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2009/02/11/Two-Lawyers-Fight-Cyber-Bullying?print=true

Feb 18

possibly interesting sites

• http://www.recovery.gov/
• http://www.medpedia.com/

Feb 17

• pirate bay
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay
  • http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/18a34a28-fc91-11dd-aed8-000077b07658.html
  • http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/17/pirate_bay_half_charges_dropped_report/
• do we need a new internet?
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/weekinreview/15markoff.html?_r=1&em
• moot
  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/16/AR2009021601565.html?hpid=sec-tech
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
  • http://4chan.org