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Sean Parker: Agent Of Disruption - Forbes
Pointed toward his 18-acre compound in Marin County, Sean Parker rips through the night fog on the Golden Gate Bridge in a stealthy Audi S6 that masks a Lamborghini engine, one pale hand on the wheel, the other toggling through thousands of songs uploaded on the car’s sound system. Facebook’s former president has had a busy, typical day. Over the last ten hours he’s interviewed two potential VPs for his new video startup, answered hours’ worth of e-mails about the music platform he’s backing, Spotify , and met with a potential CEO for his Facebook charity app, Causes. He’s also booking bands and wrangling vendors for his engagement party, scheduled in New Jersey the same night Hurricane Irene looks to hammer the Northeast (with Lenny Kravitz grounded in North Carolina, he eventually subs in the Cold War Kids).
Commotion, le projet d'un Internet hors de tout contrôle - LeMonde.fr
Un immeuble confortable et anonyme, au cœur de Washington, à quelques rues de la Maison Blanche . Dans une enfilade de bureaux au fond du 5 e étage, une vingtaine de jeunes gens, surtout des garçons, travaillent discrètement, dans une ambiance à la fois studieuse et décontractée. Cette petite équipe, composée d'informaticiens, de juristes et de sociologues, est en train de réaliser l'utopie suprême des hackers et des militants libertaires du monde entier : un logiciel permettant la création de réseaux sans fil à haut débit 100 % autonomes, qui fonctionneront sur les fréquences Wi-Fi, sans s' appuyer sur aucune infrastructure existante - ni relais téléphonique, ni câble, ni satellite.
from the it-would-be-quite-different dept You may have seen the stories a week or so ago about how it was the 20th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee putting up the first web page . While many, many people still confuse "the web" with "the internet," Berners-Lee's creation really did help take what was mostly a system used by a few nerds (myself include) and add the elements that made it possible to go mainstream in a big, big, big way. And while many folks are talking about just how amazingly far we've come in just 20 years, Marco Arment (the InstaPaper guy) reminds us that if Berners-Lee had sought and received a patent for the web, it would just now be coming out of patent coverage . That sets up an interesting thought experiment. Where do you think the world would be today if the World Wide Web had been patented?
What If Tim Berners-Lee Had Patented The Web? | Techdirt
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WHEN George W. Bush referred to “rumours on the, uh, internets” during the 2004 presidential campaign, he was derided for his cluelessness—and “internets” became a shorthand for a lack of understanding of the online world. But what looked like ignorance then looks like prescience now. As divergent forces tug at the internet, it is in danger of losing its universality and splintering into separate digital domains. The internet is as much a trade pact as an invention.
The internet: The web's new walls | The Economist
