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Illustration: Martin Venezky In November 1, 2008, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin. None of the list’s veterans had heard of him, and what little information could be gleaned was murky and contradictory. In an online profile, he said he lived in Japan. His email address was from a free German service.
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin | Magazine
Yesterday we wrote about “EJ,” a woman who had her San Francisco apartment burglarized and vandalized by someone who rented her home for a week via Airbnb. There was some confusion about how Airbnb was and is dealing with the situation. See the updates to that post above, and CEO Brian Chesky’s post here on TechCrunch later yesterday talking about the situation.
Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry | TechCrunch
This weekend The Telegraph reported that Twitter had revealed the name, email address and telephone number of Ahmed Khan, a UK council whistleblower accused of libelling his local authority using a number of anonymous twitter accounts and blog Mr Monkey . The council in question, Tyneside, took the case to the legal superior court of California, which in turn issued a subpoena to Twitter on April 14th 2011. According to Khan, what Twitter handed over was “just a great long list of numbers” and ordered it to hand over 30 pieces of information relating to several Twitter accounts, including @fatcouncillor and @ahmedkhan01 .
The Truth About That ‘Landmark’ Twitter Case - Twitter
You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster ( @msuster ), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners . Read more about Suster at his Startup Blog , BothSidesoftheTable. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the proliferation of startups in the past 2 years. It seems almost incomprehensible that only 2.5 years ago we read the “ RIP Good Times ” presentation from Sequoia. But what does this all mean? Are we headed for a long era of innovation in which startups are the new norm?
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by Alex St. John, President and CTO of hi5, on the state of the social gaming market. When Facebook recognized that early social media games were getting a free ride on their network, they shut down the free viral channels these games relied on for audience, started charging market prices for advertising, and demanded a cut of all commerce transactions (see “ Facebook Credits ”). This changed the economics of social games dramatically. Reaching a large audience easily and for free ceased to be a benefit of developing social media games.
Social Gaming Market Reaches Its Final Stage…and It’s Not Looking Pretty
Blackmail story
Bloggers vs wikipedians
A blogger code of confidentiality
Bloguing vs lifestreaming
The end of digg-likes?
Google SV WIFI collect
Murdoch = GOOG
foursquare story
NEW YORK—While millions of young, tech-savvy professionals already use services like Facebook and Twitter to keep in constant touch with friends, a new social networking platform called Foursquare has recently taken the oh, fucking hell, can't some other desperate news outlet cover this crap instead? Enlarge Image Hip city-dwellers nationwide are embracing the new, come to think of it, haven't we used this photo for some other tech piece?
New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget I
Blogging Is Still the Foundation In A World of Streams - louisgr
The blog is the foundation and center for who you are - either as an individual, or a brand. While I believe the best bloggers in the world are participating outside of their blog, on Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook and everywhere else, to only participate in those areas leaves a gaping hole. The world of lifestreaming and real-time is fun, but it can be as deep as a soap opera in a world that still demands insightful documentaries and news reporting. In August of 2007, I said there was a new reality and that " Your Blog Is Your Brand ". Most of you weren't reading me back then, but it holds as true now as it did two years ago. Fellow blogger Jeremiah Owyang added his thoughts on the issue last week, asking, Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams?
Paris Diary: The International Geek Brotherhood... - SVW
Posted by Tom Foremski - December 7, 2009 [ I'm in Paris all this week as part of the Traveling Geeks , a collection of journalists, bloggers, and PR people meeting with French startups and also attending LeWeb , France's premier Web 2.0 developer and business conference. ] I took the EuroStar train from London on Sunday afternoon and in less than 3 hours I was in the middle of Paris. That trip always amazes me and it is so much nicer, (and greener) than flying. When I arrived it was raining off and on but that didn't matter because I was back in Paris after a ten year break.
Apple bans Ulysses, again . Apple, energized by its campaign against porno , required Rob Berry, a graphic novelist, to redact the lovely lady lumps and other human bedanglements in his interpretation of James Joyce's novel, " Ulysses ," called "Ulysses 'Seen'" before he could offer it in the iTunes store . This, of course, is the problem with all censorship, from international country-wide filtering to a single company's ill-advised big brothering of its customers. For every highly offensive sex act (sex is dirty, after all) that the little people are spared, tons of legitimate content is junked along with it. In this case, Apple managed to make itself look magnificently asinine, by in effect echoing one of the seminal American court cases of free speech vs. censorship, the Ulysses obscenity trial of 1933. A company dedicated to communications and self-branded as the herald of the future looked to be standing on the side of narrow-minded, thin-lipped Babbits of nearly a century ago.
Apple Bans Cartoon Ulysses: This Week in Online Tyranny
Some Things Need To Change - Mozilla Firefox
Yesterday as I was leaving the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany someone walked up to me and quite deliberately spat in my face. Before I even understood what was happening, he veered off into the crowd, just another dark head in a dark suit. People around me stared, then looked away and continued their conversations. Generally at events people come up to me to talk about their startups. My reaction varies depending on how much sleep I’ve gotten and how many times I’ve been pitched in the previous hour.Vers la fin de l’actualité « Cratyle.net
La crise du journalisme est l’ébranlement d’un monopole. Le mouvement est déjà largement discuté , mais ses causes et ses effets n’ont pas fini d’ébranler notre manière de voir le monde. C’est que le monopole était bien plus profond qu’on ne l’a souvent écrit. Ce n’était pas le seul monopole du choix, de l’ordonnancement et de l’interprétation d’information; car l’information n’existe simplement pas sans être choisie, ordonnancée et interprétée. C’était le monopole de la construction de l’information, c’est-à-dire de la construction du fait d’actualité , c’est à dire finalement la construction du concept même « d’actualité ».Between our high traffic, our wacky insane number of edits, new software features, and the ever-growing amount of stuff on Wikipedia and friends, the demand on our servers is always going up. Our stack has several layers , from the MySQL database backend to the geographically distributed Squid caches, but the heavy lifting of all that wiki page formatting and editing logic is handled in (at last count) 156 Apache/PHP servers running MediaWiki . We last did a major expansion of these application servers in mid-2007, which ended up holding us a lot longer than we’d originally anticipated. In the last couple of weeks we’ve finally started hitting up against some capacity limits at peak times — especially Mondays, around the afternoon in North America and evening in Europe — making everything horribly slow.
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L’influence, l’influence sur le web, concept largement débattu par de nombreux blogueurs . Sans revenir sur le débat, l’influence des blogueurs se vend comme un service, proposé par de nombreuses agences : Influence, AdRider, BlogRider, Buzzparadise, YoutoYou, etc. Ces agences tissent des liens contractuels avec des blogueurs (généralement dans un contrat proche d’un contrat de mise en régie), pour autant que ceux-ci disposent d’une audience relative importante et une thématique “grand public” - le classement “top des blogs” de Wikio donne une idée assez précise de ce que sont les intérêts des internautes (hélas), et illustre donc les thématiques les plus porteuses : High Tech, Gadget, Mode, Buzz, etc. Vendre de l’influence, c’est vendre du temps passé. Je ne connais qu’Heaven/Influence à titre personnel, ayant été en régie chez eux dans une vie passée avec un blog chiant et défunt depuis.