Cyberculture agenda: Historic switch- Firefox from Google to Yahoo… Creative Commons at 12 years…

Firefox to switch default search from Google to Yahoo  Mashable! by Karissa Bell Yahoo will soon be the default search engine on Firefox browsers. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: why only an anthropologist can tell the story of Anonymous  Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow   BitTorrent Users are Avid, Eclectic Content Buyers, Survey Finds  TorrentFreak Each month 150-170 million Internet … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Aaron Swartz was no criminal…”Porn stars use their assets to discuss net neutrality…

Aaron Swartz was no criminal  Boing Boing by Dan Purcell Dan Purcell, one of Swartz’ lawyers, writes about the spiteful and unreasonable charges that led to his suicide—and MIT’s gutless support of his prosecutors. Read the rest Porn stars use their assets to discuss net neutrality  Mashable! by Adario Strange The debate over net neutrality and the fight … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: ‘Newsweek’ Claims Bitcoin Creator…

  ‘Newsweek’ Claims Bitcoin Creator Is 64 and Lives With His Mom Some have suggested that Satoshi Nakamoto, the man who developed the idea for Bitcoin, worked for a government agency; others have suggested that “he” was actually a group of people. One researcher posited that Nakamoto was “probably” a blogger named Nick Szabo; another report pointed to a connection … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “How to build your own Twitter bot army…Twitter Can Detect HIV Outbreaks in Real-Time…

Is Google Hummingbird Good For Everyone? Google Hummingbird is the new search algorithm used by the Google search engine. It was released with a bit of controversy as a result of its new stringent search and SEO requirements. One of the major components of Google Hummingbird is that it efficiently breaks down queries that are sent … Read more

Kickstarter passes $1 billion in pledges… Cyberculture agenda…

Kickstarter passes $1 billion in pledges, with more than half pledged in the last 12 months   Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has passed $1 billion in pledges nearly four years after it made its debut on April 28, 2009. More than half of the $1 billion was pledged in the last 12 months alone, a testimony … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Hyperlinking is Not Copyright Infringement…”5 PayPal Alternatives …

  Hyperlinking is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules The European Union has been expanding since its creation in the 1950s and is now comprised of 28 member states, each committed to EU law. One of the key roles of the EU?s Court of Justice is to examine and interpret EU legislation to ensure its uniform application across … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: PEW research on “Couples, the Internet, and Social Media

  Couples, the Internet, and Social Media How American couples use digital technology to manage life, logistics, and emotional intimacy within their relationships Love And Religion On Facebook   A Complete, Interactive History of Bitcoin In less than a decade, Bitcoin has gone from concept to niche cryptocurrency, and recently it has made significant inroads into … Read more

…on the 11th to fight mass surveillance.. Cyberculture agenda.

Join Boing Boing, Reddit, and websites all over the world on the 11th to fight mass surveillance In two days, the Internet will erupt in a protest to rival the uprising against SOPA: in Aaron Swartz‘s memory, websites everywhere will add code from TheDayWeFightBack.org to their templates, helping to flood Congress — and the world’s … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “The rise of cryptocurrencies.. “Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft disclose new data about number of NSA requests received…

The Facebook Decade: A Review of the Social Giant’s Disruptive History As it reaches its first decade of existence, Mark Zuckerberg‘s creation stands as the premiere social network in the world. With 1.23 billion current monthly active users, the online juggernaut’s user base far surpasses that of the entire Internet in 2004. How’s that for growth?   … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Pew’s Social Media Update 2013… HADOPI’s failure…

  Social Media Update 2013 As of September 2013: 71% of online adults use Facebook 18% of online adults use Twitter 17% use Instagram 21% use Pinterest 22% use LinkedIn Some 73% of online adults now use a social networking site of some kind. Facebook is the dominant social networking platform in the number of … Read more

After Zynga support, “Bitcoin break the $1,000 valuation mark again…Aaron Swartz’s father… Cyberculture agenda..

Support from Zynga helps Bitcoin break the $1,000 valuation mark again The price of Bitcoin is back over US$1,000 after gaming giant Zynga became the latest company to adopt the virtual currency….   Aaron Swartz’s father, Bob Swartz, discusses his son’s death It’s been nearly a year since my friend Aaron Swartz killed himself, Foursquare details how it rewards … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: That’s what I have observing, too: “Teens abandoning Facebook

Study: Teens abandoning Facebook Teenagers are leaving Facebook. Why? Because their parents are on it. [Graudian] Euroteens embarrassed to be seen on Facebook But their parents insist they use it, so their personal lives can be scrutinized by the olds. They’d prefer to be on Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat. “Facebook is basically dead and buried,” says Daniel Miller, who led … Read more

Geçen hafta @SosyalKafa da Güneş Eser ile Bitcoin’i konuşmuştuk (@netdcom) #SosyalKafa:

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Cyberculture agenda: “a master list of the 10,000 worst passwords…Amazon’s drones…

Worst passwords   (click to embiggen) Mark Burnett, whose work has been featured here before, has used lists of leaked passwords to compile a master list of the 10,000 worst passwords (with accompanying wordcloud, see above); an astonishing 91 percent of all passwords used appear in the top 1000. Here’s the top 100, with their relative frequency: NSA tracks … Read more