"Google takes on Wikipedia with 'knol'
Government-Sponsored Cyberattacks on the Rise
jbrodkin writes "A new McAfee report finds that 120 countries, notably the United States and China, are regularly launching Web-based espionage campaigns. Government-sponsored cyber attacks against enemy countries are becoming more common, targeting critical systems including electricity, air traffic control, financial markets and government computer networks.....
10 web trends
by Loïc Le Meur
A very good post about 10 web trends, I would have insisted more on Facebook but it's an interesting recap.Google is watching you Internet: The American search engine is under simultaneous investigation by the US and European anti-trust authorities. Both are probing whether its acquisition of DoubleClick, whose technology puts adverts on the web, is against the public interest
Google and Its Enemies
by Jonathan V. Last
State Dept. Tries Blog Diplomacy
Credit Where Credit Is Due
A book from a major publisher includes a plagiarized Wikipedia article. How free is free content, anyway?The Cultures of Texting In Europe and America
Ponca City, We Love You writes "The cultures of text messaging are very different in Europe and North America, according to an internet sociologist named Danah Boyd. Americans and Canadians have historically paid to receive text messages, but 'all-you-can-eat' data plans are beginning to change that....New system to end disputes between Google and newspapers
Costly legal disputes among online publishers and search engines about the use of content may soon be just a memory thanks to the new access protocol ACAP, a system endorsed by the European Commission which allows content permissions to be automatically communicated to middle-users, such as search engines.Powering-Up Communication
Struggling to police ever more diverse communities, law enforcement agencies are turning to handheld translation devices.Saudi Arabia,the Internet and the Blogosphere
by Munir Umrani
CHICAGO, USA -- Mshari Al-Zaydi, the English language, Arab-owned international daily Asharq Al-Awsat’s opinion page Editor, notes in a post in the December 10, 2007, edition that, "According to the prevalent circulating information; internet technology was first introduced in Saudi Arabia in January 1999, despite the fact that the first application of the World Wide Web technology dates back to 1992 after it was released by the US Department of Defense in 1983."
8 Important Consumer Trends for 2008
Source: TrendWatching.com
Facebook: UK, Norway and Sweden most active
10 million Europeans have their own profiles on booming social exchange websites such as Facebook. The most active European web users have not wasted any time create groups of their own
World views on free press mixed
A BBC World Service poll shows global opinion divided on the importance of press freedom and social stability
Wikipedia ban for disruptive professor
The academic world has been sceptical of Wikipedia since its launch in 2001. Now the controversial website is suspicious of academics, following a scandal in which a world-renowned computer scientist has been banned from editing the online collaborative encyclopaedia
Safety of Social Networking vs. Knowledge Sharing?
Pretty much everyone has MySpace.com or Facebook.com, Linkedin, OpenSocial and other accounts. Let's face it, social networking sites are wonderful resources for finding new friends, establishing business relationships, exchanging ideas and information and generally expanding your personal reach.The Hub
Proving that new media is an important part of spreading the word about human rights, Witness.org has launched The Hub. Witness.org uses audio and video to expose human rights violations. The Hub offers a place for you to upload audio and video and create communities based on issues of note. ...Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Rarely Updates His Blog
Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has not been blogging as frequently as had been anticipated when his blog launched over a year ago. Earlier this month he posted an entry titled "A Guideline for Islamic Governance." This was only Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's third post of the year on his blog called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Personal Memos. Vnunet has an entry on the Iranian leader's slothful blogging style. Ahmadinejad claims he is still spending a staggering 15 minutes per week on his blog despite the lack of posts.Beacon: The Eye of Facebook
Facebook first took a beating when its Beacon service was ruining Christmas by broadcasting information about gifts Facebook users had just purchased to all of their Facebook friends. But this was just scratching the surface of larger invasion of privacy issues with Beacon. We blogged earlier that Facebook's Beacon remained a problem because it was continuing to gather information about Facebook users even after they provided a way for people to keep details about their purchases from hitting Facebook's news stream.Overhyped, but blogs are here to stay
10 Technologies That Will Change The World
ABC News has an interesting article on which recent technologies would change the world. From Wii, iPhone to private space tourism… click on the image to start reading.
Google Adding Blogs to Universal Search
eWeek reports that Google is going to add blogs to its Universal Search alongside images, news, books, maps and videso. Google has been running Google Blogsearch as a seperate search engine. eWeek says Google will make the move to include blogs this week (which is nearly over) or next week.Google takes on Wikipedia with 'knol'
Google is building its own version of the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, which consistently ranks among the most visited websites in the world.knolcats: i’m in ur pedia, innovatin ur ass
It its never-ending bid to own every inch of your brain, Google has just announced the beginning of its competitor project to Wikipedia. You knew this was coming. You did really, because every time you search for something, you get a Wikipedia page, right? You thought Google wouldn’t notice… There have been some short posts by Esther and Henry at Crooked Timber, and all of us want to hear what Siva will say, since he’s made it his new project to worry about precisely this.
For my part, I find it to be an interesting confirmation that something has changed with respect to innovation on the internet. While it is comforting to suggest that innovation takes place democratically on the Internet because any little guy with an innovation can suddenly become huge and all of a sudden capture billions of eyeballs, or whatever, its pretty clear that Google is turning out to be to the Internet what IBM was to mainframes and Microsoft was to PCs. Which is to say, a monopolist. Only it’s in a totally unregulated environment, where the de facto ideology is that we live in a world of unconstrained free competition; we fool ourselves that this isn’t a monopoly because their tag line is “don’t be evil.”
Long vs. Short Articles as Content Strategy
Information foraging shows how to calculate your content strategy's costs and benefits. A mixed diet that combines brief overviews and comprehensive coverage is often best.
Slate Yes, Google Is Trying To Take Over the World
The Hamburger Kunsthalle Presents "A Love. Max Klingers Impact on Modern Art"; Max Klinger, Sirene (Triton und Nereide), 1895
Rapid rise seen in internet's role in espionage
More than 100 countries are believed to be using the internet for espionage, says McAfee, the information technology security company, in a report released today...
Analysis: New Internet security threats - A new survey of Internet security threats says the biggest problem faced by U.S. companies and government agencies is the growing sophistication of cyber-criminals and spies, who are making increasing use of highly targeted social engineering techniques known as "spear phishing" and exploiting holes in custom-built Web sites.
Q & A with David Weinberger on Web Leadership
This Wednesday, December 5 at 6:30pm, David Weinberger will lead a discussion on "Is the Web Changing the Nature of Leadership?" as part of his Web of Ideas series in the Berkman Center's conference room.
Top 6 Bizarre Online Gaming Incidents
Going Beyond Google
8 Bad Decisions When Starting a New Website
Top 10 Places to Get Movie, Music and Game Reviews Online
Diffusion of the internet : a cross-country analysis
Source: World Bank Policy Research Working Papers
New report ranks US teens 29th in science worldwide
Why this information could be a useful tool in improving science education.Not buying the e-book hype: Once again, the industry has misread what readers want
Journalists in Iraq: A Survey of Reporters on the Front Lines
Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism
World 'losing' war against fakes and piracy
The international community is losing the war against counterfeiting and piracy, a booming global industry that is increasingly under the control of organised crime, according to senior officials speaking at a conference in Rome
Search finds Google bottom of league
Google is bottom of a league table on openness and accountability, and needs to sharply improve transparency towards customers and staff, according to a report to be...
Web 2.0: welcome to the global village
With its blogs, podcasts, wikis and other so called 'social networks', version 2.0 of the web has propelled the surfer to the crest of the wave. Could this be a virtuous version of globalisation?
Japan's Bloggers: Quiet Giants of the Internet
Although English speakers outnumber Japanese speakers by more than 5-1, slightly more blog postings are written in Japanese than in English, with as much as 40 percent written via cell phone
