Twitter security lags some other sites: experts. My DuckDuckGo Twitter ad by the numbers - Gabriel Weinberg's Blog - Aurora. This is the story of how I made a micro-site in an hour to try to take advantage of a Twitter trend that was related to DuckDuckGo, my startup.
Well, related by name... The Backstory Right now #replaceawordinafamousquotewithduck is the number two organic Twitter trend worldwide. I did not start it, and am not sure how or when it originated. I first came across it eight hours ago when a tweet by @jordankanarek came across my stream. Then a few hours later, Jordan actually sent me an email with a link to the hashtag search page. When it comes to presentation, Mark Zuckerberg is no Steve Jobs - CNN.com - Aurora. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg turned to equations and graphs before announcing a new partnership with Skype.
Mark Zuckerberg appeared Wednesday to announce Facebook video chat Online, Facebookers openly mocked the Facebook CEO's presentation style One common theory: Zuck is trying, and failing, to imitate Steve Jobs Jobs, Apple's co-founder, is known for his wiz-bang press conferences. For The Moment, Visa And MasterCard Reopen Payments To WikiLeaks - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall - Forbes - Aurora.
Visa Says It's Still Not Processing Transactions for WikiLeaks - Technology - The Atlantic Wire - Aurora. Contrary to widely-circulated reports in the Associated Press and Forbes, Visa did not lift its financial blockade on WikiLeaks, a Visa spokesperson tells The Atlantic Wire.
Earlier today, headlines splashed across the web "WikiLeaks MasterCard, Visa Donations Accepted Again" after Andreas Fink, the chief executive of DataCell, an internet hosting service in Iceland that helps channel money to WikiLeaks, posted a note on his company's web site saying, "DataCell is happy to report that we are now able again to process donations to Wikileaks. " The AP and Forbes were careful to note that neither MasterCard nor Visa had confirmed the report. Now, Visa is making it clear: "We have not reinstated DataCell and are looking into how transactions are being made. " In his statement, Fink suggested that the credit card companies had made an about-face after his recent legal threats against the financial firms.
User Testing Miratech - It's hard to browse the web with an iPad - Aurora. Miratech has conducted a study to determine how web browsing differs between an iPad and a computer.
Conclusion : It’s hard to browse the web with an iPad. Our study measures web browsing on different devices, using different interfaces. We tested a representative sample of 20 users in our user testing labs. All of them were familiar with the iPad. We had them browse through five well-known French websites that all have their own iPad app. Google Realtime Search & The Aftermath Of The Google-Twitter Split - Aurora. Last Friday, Twitter quietly shutdown its “firehose” of tweet data that was being piped to Google.
Like a gas station no longer getting deliveries, Google in turn effectively had to hang a “Closed” sign on its Google Realtime Search service. What happened, and what’s next for those who depended on Google to get some of their Twitter gas? Some thoughts and advice, below. Topsy Provides Twitter Archive Search. Acorn's Steve Furber looks to ARM supercomputers. Veteran of microcomputing Steve Furber, in his role as ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, has called upon some old friends for his latest project: a brain-simulating supercomputer based on more than a million ARM processors.
Those who missed the home computing revolution of the eighties might not be familiar with Furber's work, but his impact is not to be underestimated: while working at Acorn - founded by Chris Curry, Hermann Hauser, and Andy Hopper after the former left Clive Sinclair's company following a fundamental disagreement - Furber worked with engineer Sophie Wilson on developing the ARM architecture, a chip based on which is almost certainly inside your smartphone as you read this. While Furber left the ailing Acorn in 1990, as the microcomputing boom hit a sudden slump, he has worked in the field of computing ever since. Playing the browser game for keeps - Matthew Saffer's Log. Working Together to Stop Internet Piracy. Victoria Espinel July 07, 2011 12:15 PM EDT The Administration is committed to reducing infringement of American intellectual property as part of our ongoing commitment to support jobs, increase exports and maintain our global competitiveness.
The joining of Internet service providers and entertainment companies in a cooperative effort to combat online infringement can further this goal and we commend them for reaching this agreement. We believe it will have a significant impact on reducing online piracy. We believe that this agreement is a positive step and consistent with our strategy of encouraging voluntary efforts to strengthen online intellectual property enforcement and with our broader Internet policy principles, emphasizing privacy, free speech, competition and due process.
Major ISPs agree to "six strikes" copyright enforcement plan - Aurora. American Internet users, get ready for three strikes "six strikes.
" Major US Internet providers—including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable—have just signed on to a voluntary agreement with the movie and music businesses to crack down on online copyright infringers. But they will protect subscriber privacy and they won't filter or monitor their own networks for infringement.
And after the sixth "strike," you won't necessarily be "out. " Much of the scheme mirrors what ISPs do now. Should you fear new ISP copyright enforcers? A partnership announced today between big entertainment companies and some of the nation's largest Internet service providers will not mean the end of online piracy.
To be sure, the parties involved know this. The most savvy tech users and dedicated file sharers will continue to pirate content and perhaps there isn't any way to stop them. But the hope of Hollywood film studios and the four largest record companies is that the participating ISPs, which include Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, and Time Warner Cable, can help discourage mainstream Internet users from sharing content illegally over the Web. Microsoft’s Android Shakedown - Timothy Lee - Disruptive Economics - Forbes - Aurora. Microsoft adds co-authoring to Web version of Word. One of Google's justifiable criticisms of Microsoft's Office-based cloud play was it's hard to figure out what you can and can't do with Office Web Apps -- the Webified versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote -- especially in terms of document co-authoring On July 7, Microsoft addressed one element of that criticism, making it easier (at least in theory) to co-author documents in the Word App when accessing it via SkyDrive.
(SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage offering for consumers, is one of the distribution vehicles for Office Web Apps.) Users already were able to coauthor documents in Word when using Word 2010 on PCs or Word 2011 on Macs, according to Microsoft. But the Office Web Apps versions of Microsoft's Office apps only include limited functionality at this point. And not all of the Office Web Apps are at the same "version" level -- meaning that what you can do in Word Web App may not be the same things you can do in PowerPoint Web App. A Walk in the Woods with Mark Zuckerberg - NYTimes.com - Aurora.
iPhone 5 redesign likely says WSJ, but have you met the iPad HD? The Wall Street Journal now seems to be confirming what our sources told us back in April about the iPhone 5 (or whatever Apple decides to call it). According to the report (which closely mirrors some of the chatter we'd been hearing previously), the new device will be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4, and is expected to launch sometime in the fall. The report says that orders are being placed with suppliers in China, meaning that production lines will likely start rolling soon. The report also calls out the fact that the new phones will be utilizing Qualcomm chips in place of Infineon parts — something we reported at Engadget in January of this year.