Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99% | Threat Level Protesters volunteering for the internet and information boards of the Occupy Wall Street protest work and broadcast from their media center in Zuccotti Plaza on Oct. 2, 2011. Photo: Bryan Derballa for Wired.com “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a team of activist-geeks redesigning social networking for the era of global protest. They hope the technology they are developing can go well beyond Occupy Wall Street to help establish more distributed social networks, better online business collaboration and perhaps even add to the long-dreamed-of semantic web — an internet made not of messy text, but one unified by underlying meta-data that computers can easily parse. [bug id="occupy"]The impetus is understandable. Now it’s time for activists to move beyond other people’s social networks and build their own, according to Knutson.
Welcome to Zug: the sleepy Swiss town that became a global economic hub | Business Nestling beside a lake overlooked by snow-dusted mountains, Zug seems for all the world like just another cute, affluent Swiss town. You could wander its cobbled Altstadt, sample its culinary speciality, a liqueur-drenched Kirschtorte, even stay on to see one of Zug's renowned sunsets, without ever imagining you were at a cardinal point of the global economy - or in a town that, for years, was the hideout of the world's most wanted white-collar criminal. According to the government of the canton, or region, of which Zug is the capital, there are 27,000 companies on its commercial register - one for every man, woman and child in the town, leaving a few hundred to spare. A Zug-registered firm is building the strategically critical gas pipeline that will link Europe with Russia via the Baltic. About 3% of the world's petrol is traded, either as crude oil or refined product, through Zug and the neighbouring town of Baar. In addition, Zug offered Rich a much-needed bolthole after 1983.
Il passe un an déconnecté… Puis revient sur Internet Temps de lecture: 2 min Le 30 avril 2012, à 23h59, Paul Miller s’est déconnecté. Complètement. Il a débranché son câble Ethernet, coupé son wifi, échangé son smartphone avec un portable moins intelligent. Miller avait décidé de revenir à la vie réelle en quittant le monde virtuel –un monde auquel il appartenait complètement, puisqu’il était journaliste spécialisé en technologie sur le site The Verge. «J’abandonne l’une des cinq plus importantes innovations technologiques de tous les temps pour un peu de paix et de calme», avait-il écrit la veille. Un an plus tard, pourtant, Paul Miller est de retour sur le Net. «Mon plan était de quitter Internet et ainsi de trouver le “vrai” Paul, entrer en contact avec le “vrai” monde, mais le vrai Paul et le vrai monde sont déjà liés inextricablement à Internet. Paul Miller a d’abord profité de son existence déconnectée: il a lu des livres tangibles, se concentrant pendant plus de 10 minutes sur un seul texte.
Escalation in Digital Sleuthing Raises Quandary in Classrooms - Technology By Marc Parry The spread of technology designed to combat academic cheating has created a set of tricky challenges, and sometimes unexpected fallout, for faculty members determined to weed out plagiarism in their classrooms. In the latest development, the company that sells colleges access to Turnitin, a popular plagiarism-detection program that checks uploaded papers against various databases to pinpoint unoriginal content, now also caters directly to students with a newer tool called WriteCheck, which lets users scan papers for plagiarism before handing them in. Meanwhile, faculty members at some colleges are adopting a reverse image-search program called TinEye, which lets them investigate plagiarism in visual materials like photos and architectural designs. Cheating is nothing new. One expert on plagiarism, Rebecca Moore Howard, worries that the widespread adoption of antiplagiarism programs is putting professors in the role of police officers. Student Use of Software Ms. Ms. David E.
Honest Hyperbole and Free Speech - Adam Liptak Here was a typical Twitter message: “15% of Cincinnati’s Fire Dept browned out today to help pay for a streetcar boondoggle. If you think it’s a waste of money, VOTE YES on 48.” Mr. Miller, 46, a mechanical engineer, said he expected a debate. What he got instead was a legal action from supporters of the streetcar project under an Ohio law that forbids false statements in political campaigns. In the end, Mr. “I’ve got to second-guess myself every time I sit down in front of a computer,” he said. Last month, at a Supreme Court argument over a federal law that makes it a crime to lie about military honors, Justice Elena Kagan asked about laws like the one that had ensnared Mr. It turns out there are at least 17 states that forbid some kinds of false campaign speech, according to a pending Supreme Court petition in a case involving a Minnesota law. At the argument last month, Solicitor General Donald B. Mr. But Mr. According to Mr. The case about Mr. Is it possible that some of Mr. Mr.
Philip Trippenbach La vie privée, un problème de vieux cons MaJ : au vu de son succès, cet article est devenu un livre, au titre éponyme, La vie privée, un problème de « vieux cons » ?, qui peut être commandé sur Amazon, la Fnac, l’AppStore (pour iPhone & iPad), et dans toutes les bonnes librairies… Sommes-nous aussi coincés et procéduriers au regard de notre vie privée que la société de nos grands-parents l’était en matière de sexualité ? Dit autrement : assiste-t-on aux prémices d’un bouleversement similaire, d’un point de vue identitaire, à celui de la révolution sexuelle ? C’est la thèse esquissée dans un très intéressant article consacré aux bénéfices sociaux, personnels et professionnels du partage des données par les utilisateurs de réseaux communautaires et sociaux type « web 2.0« . « Au début, les gens avaient très peu d’inhibitions, et adoptaient des pratiques très risquées. Ce qui n’a pas empêché la libération sexuelle d’avoir lieu, et de profiter, in fine, à l’ensemble de la société. Big Brother, un truc de vieux ? Jean-Marc Manach
What Is Sony Now? Sir Howard Stringer remembers when 2011 was going to be wonderful. “This was the first year of the payoff,” he says, “and next year was going to be the second.” As chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Sony (SNE), Stringer had spent six years trying to return the Japanese icon to its former glory and open a new era of growth. Sony expected an annual operating profit of at least $2 billion, its best in three years. A batch of new products was headed for store shelves, including its first tablets, a compact 24-megapixel camera, and a portable PlayStation player. Sony was also preparing to launch a global network that would connect the company’s movies, music, and video games to all its televisions, tablets, PCs, and phones—an iTunes-like digital platform. The feeling of imminent triumph ended abruptly on Mar. 11. He considered returning to Tokyo but decided against it. There’s more to Sony’s problems than acts of God and currency traders.
Pew Internet & American Life Project | The Mobile Difference Overview Cast a glance at any coffee shop, train station, or airport boarding gate, and it is easy to see that mobile access to the internet is taking root in our society. Open laptops or furrowed brows staring at palm-sized screens are evidence of how routinely information is exchanged on wireless networks. But the incidence of such activity is only one dimension of this phenomenon. The role of mobile internet access in evolving digital lifestyles is the cornerstone of the second typology of information and communication technology (ICT) users developed by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Motivated by Mobility: Five groups in this typology – making up 39% of the adult population – have seen the frequency of their online use grow as their reliance on mobile devices has increased. For 39% of the adult population, mobile and wireline access tools have a symbiotic relationship. The second typology is based on a December 2007 survey of 3,553 American adults.
Mythes et réalités de la génération Y Alexis Mons lance un clash intergénérationnel sur son blog : “Il ne manque pas de billets et d’alerte pour nous dire tous les jours que les petits jeunes arrivent, pensent et font différemment, sont nativement digitaux, sinon ont muté du cerveau. Il est en tous les cas certain que toute marque ou organisation qui ne s’intéresserait [...] Alexis Mons lance un clash intergénérationnel sur son blog : “Il ne manque pas de billets et d’alerte pour nous dire tous les jours que les petits jeunes arrivent, pensent et font différemment, sont nativement digitaux, sinon ont muté du cerveau. Derrière la mythologie, il est bon parfois de descendre sur terre et de constater par soi-même …” > Lire la suite et commentez sur le blog d’Alexis Mons
Ten years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse Windows XP's retail release was October 25, 2001, ten years ago today. Though no longer readily available to buy, it continues to cast a long shadow over the PC industry: even now, a slim majority of desktop users are still using the operating system. Windows XP didn't boast exciting new features or radical changes, but it was nonetheless a pivotal moment in Microsoft's history. It was Microsoft's first mass-market operating system in the Windows NT family. It was also Microsoft's first consumer operating system that offered true protected memory, preemptive multitasking, multiprocessor support, and multiuser security. The transition to pure 32-bit, modern operating systems was a slow and painful one. In the history of PC operating systems, Windows XP stands alone. The success was remarkable for an operating system whose reception was initially quite muted. It faced tough competition from Microsoft's other operating systems. In the end, none of the objections mattered.
Shindig - an Apache incubator project for OpenSocial and gadgets Vie privée : le point de vue des “petits cons” Nombreux sont ceux qui pensent que les jeunes internautes ont perdu toute notion de vie privée. Impudiques, voire exhibitionnistes, ils ne feraient plus la différence entre vie publique et vie privée. Et si, a contrario, ils ne faisaient qu’appliquer à l’internet ce que leurs grands-parents ont conquis, en terme de libertés, dans la société ? Dans « La vie privée, un problème de vieux cons ?« , je dressais un parallèle entre la façon désinhibée qu’ont les jeunes internautes de se dévoiler sur le Net et la révolution sexuelle, et me demandais si ceux qui sont gênés par cette façon décomplexée de s’exprimer ne seraient pas un peu coincés. Au-delà des problèmes d’inhibition des « vieux cons« , il est difficile d’aborder la question sans essayer de regarder de plus près comment, et pourquoi, les jeunes qui ont grandi avec le Net évoquent ainsi leurs vies privées dans des espaces publics. La vie privée ? Dans l’arène publique, ou via une interface technique. Une génération « rock’n roll »… 1.