This Week in Review: Twitter?s ongoing war with developers, and plagiarism and online credibility
from Nieman Journalism Lab by Mark Coddington
[Since the review was off last week, this week’s review covers the last two weeks.]
Prominent Academics Respond to the TPP
from EFF.org Updates by Carolina Rossini
We asked several academics to let us know their thoughts about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The TPP is a secretive, multi-national trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement, and it will do so in a way that will have extensive negative ramifications for users? freedom of speech, privacy, access to information, and ability to innovate. Their responses are below.
Can a Reddit Fundraising Platform Magnify the Internet?s Generosity?
from Mashable! by Joann Pan
Jury in Apple v. Samsung “Skipped” Prior Art Because It Was Bogging Them Down
from EU Pundit by Andis Kaulins
Facebook, YouTube and Google dominate the mobile Web in Asia: Opera
from The Next Web by Jon Russell
Apple unsuccessful with Samsung patent lawsuit in Japan
from The Next Web by Jon Russell
Here?s Samsung?s own (lengthy) hands-on video with the Galaxy Note II
from The Next Web by Josh Ong
Google Map Maker gets the Google+ treatment so you can ?map with your friends?
from The Next Web by Robin Wauters
Rojadirecta: The Government Reverses Course and Returns Domains Without Explanation. Again.
from EFF.org Updates by Julie Samuels
The government has decided to return two domain names it improperly seized and held in its possession for well over a year, without so much as an explanation. This time, it was Rojadirecta.com and Rojadirecta.org, Puerto 80?s popular sports streaming sites, which the government seized back in February 2011.
Anti-Pirates Caught Spying on Thousands of Torrents
from TorrentFreak by Ernesto
The Myth of Search Engine Optimization
from social media vb by joycearoda
Just as Time magazine has but one back cover to sell, Google has but 10 top spots for the keywords you want. If you have the means to purchase your place on that page, and you deem it to be a productive use of your marketing dollars, then you should do it.
The Google Alphabet: An Autocomplete Snapshot From A to Z
from Mashable! by Amy-Mae Elliott