Internet Use/New Technologies
09 January 2013
CES: Vint Cerf Says Nobody's Too Old for Tech; young people today are 'born mobile' Computerworld
Vint Cerf, known as the father of the Internet, says technology has not only changed the way we communicate but it's changing the way we live our lives.
New search engine sets out to prove Google isn't the best option for finding things on tablets Washington Post
The makers of Blekko believe they've built a great alternative to Google, but they're also realistic. They know their two-year-old Internet search engine won't ever supplant Google as the most popular place to search on laptop and desktop computers.
Library of Congress saves 500 million tweets per day in archives Computerworld
The Library of Congress is now storing 500 million tweets per day as part of its efforts to build a Twitter archive, and has added a total of about 170 billion tweets to its collection.
Horses to the rescue of Korea's Internet-addicted teens Reuters
Four months ago, the parents of a teenage South Korean girl were at their wits' end over her addiction to surfing the Internet for pornography.
Vint Cerf’s futuristic wine cellar - and what it means for you Ars Technica
Vint Cerf is a dapper man, pulling off a three-piece suit like no one else in the tech world. So of course he has a wine cellar -- and it's better than yours, assuming you even have one. (I don't.)
08 January 2013
How Much of the Web Is Archived? Truth Is, We Don't Really Know The Atlantic
Here's the challenge: new Internet is being made all the time. Oftentimes, these new pages are added to existing networks on Tumblr or Facebook or Twitter or Livejournal. But other times, someone fires up a web server that's off the standard map, and it the web's crawlers, try as they might, may not find that page for a while, if ever.
03 January 2013
The superhighway of information has a toll Financial Times
The Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other down-on-their luck newspapers, emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy after four years this week. Its first move will probably be to sell off the papers cheaply and focus on cable television.
There's No Avoiding Google Wall Street Journal
Google Inc. is challenging Facebook Inc. by using a controversial tactic: requiring people to use the Google social network.
More Facebook Changes, Aimed at Users on the Go New York Times
The only thing constant about Facebook is that it keeps changing. Just when you think you've figured out the interface to the world's biggest social network, the engineers there update it again.
Internet Explorer ends the year on a high, Windows 8 slow to get noticed Ars Technica
Internet Explorer finished 2012 with its highest market share since August 2011. In spite of a few close calls, Firefox maintained its lead over Chrome, holding on to second place for the full year.
Internet culture: #mutatis #mutandis The Economist
Your correspondent speaks his mind on Twitter, often at too great a length and too colourfully. Those with a sensitive disposition are advised to give his message stream a wide berth. Yet it was a surprise to receive a request recently from a follower to begin annotating tweets to allow said follower to filter "controversial" topics more easily.
30 December 2012
The writing is on the paywall – but the end of print is not quite nigh The Observer
Transition. It's a soothing word and a calming concept as the old year ends. Change may frighten some and challenge others. Change is a leap in the dark. But transition means going surely and sweetly from somewhere present to somewhere future. Unless, that is, it is newspapers' "transition" to the world of cyberspace, an uncertain and highly discomfiting process - because, frankly, it may not be a process at all.
22 December 2012
How the internet became a closed shop: A borderless frontier has morphed into a set of gated communities The Age
A little over a decade ago, just before the masses discovered the digital universe, the internet was a borderless new frontier: a terra nullius to be populated by individuals, groups and programmers as they saw fit. There were few rules and no boundaries. Freedom and open standards, sharing information for the greater good was the ethos.
Gangnam Style hits one billion views on YouTube BBC News
Gangnam Style has become the first video to clock up more than one billion views on YouTube.
19 December 2012
Europe: 72% Of Homes Are Now Broadband-Connected; Online, News Reading Is Users' Favorite Pastime TechCrunch
It's official: Europe is fast approaching a point at which broadband is becoming ubiquitous among consumers, and with it is coming a surge of popularity for online news, social media, and e-commerce. Today the European Commission released details for how European countries have been adopting broadband, and what they are using it for. The top-line figures: in 2012 72% of households now have a broadband connection. And in a survey of what it is that people do online, the most popular activity is newsreading, at 60%.
DARPA wants to build 100Gbps wireless military network CNET
Defense researchers are looking to update the wireless platform currently used for military communications to deliver 100Gbps connections.
18 December 2012
New computing devices will allow touch, smell, says IBM The Australian
Future computing devices will push further into the senses by developing capacities to mimic the ability to see, smell, touch, taste and hear, IBM says in an annual forecast.
15 December 2012
Searching for porn using Google Images? It might be about to get harder... The Independent
Using Google to search for pornographic images? Of course you're not. But if you were, in the US, the task is about to get a little more difficult after Google altered the algorithm for their image search database.
On Facebook, Bad With the Good New York Times
... Posting bad news on a social media site eases the pain for the bearer of bad news and the recipient, because knowing what to say to someone who has just told you bad news can be one of the most socially fraught situations. "If you put the news on Facebook, you're also maximizing the recipient's comfort, so they can process the information on their own time," said Dr. Janet Sternberg, assistant professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University. "It's really hard to break bad news without crying or falling apart. But we can share painful news in less painful ways."
14 December 2012
Australian phone, internet spend among highest Australian Financial Review
Australians spend more per person on phone and internet services than people in almost any other country, according to a global study by the United Kingdom's media and communications regulator.
13 December 2012
No jokes, no kittens. Pope presses send on his first tweets The Guardian
In the beginning - more than a week in advance - was the press conference at the Vatican, announcing to a packed chamber of religious correspondents the coming event. The pope was joining Twitter, Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, revealed on 4 December The move into new media was borne of the holy father's desire to "encounter men and women wherever they are, and begin dialogue with them".
UK is a nation of data-hungry net shoppers, says survey BBC News
Internet shopping is more popular in the UK than in any other major country, a survey from regulator Ofcom suggests.
Google Zeitgeist 2012: The top searches on the world's top search engine PC World
You've seen the top queries from Yahoo,Ask and Bing, now it's time to see what the world was like in 2012 as reflected through searches on Google, the world's most popular search engine. Google's end-of-the-year lists focus on trending topics that had the highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in 2012 such as PSY's Gangnam Style, Hurricane Sandy, the third-generation iPad, and HBO's "Game of Thrones."
Gangnam Style tops Australia's Google list ABC News
Korean pop star Psy's YouTube hit Gangnam Style has topped Google's list of Australia's most popular new search terms.
11 December 2012
What Britons Googled most this year The Guardian
Like the Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year (2012: omnishambles), Google's annual Zeitgeist list of the year's top UK internet search terms is becoming a handy barometer of what is on the nation's mind.
