How Wikipedia works: Building the world?s most expansive encyclopaedia
from The Next Web by Mez Breeze
Top 5 uTorrent Tips From BitTorrent Inc.
from TorrentFreak by enigmax
With around 150 million active users each month, uTorrent is by far the most used BitTorrent client in the West. But, despite finding the client incredibly useful, millions of users only use uTorrent?s most basic features.
It?s inevitable: When, why, and how Facebook will take on Google in search
from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski
Top 10 Movies That Ran Successful Social Media Campaigns
from social media vb by JohnSouza
For big companies that have deep pockets, using social media for reach and profit is the new ?guaranteed? success they?ve been looking for.
U.S. Internet giants, including Google, Facebook, Amazon and Yahoo, form new lobbying association
by Robin Wauters
Study reveals that social search is largely about food, and Italian leads the pack [Graphic]
from The Next Web by Brad McCarty
uTorrent Increases Privacy and Counters Mass-Monitoring of Downloads
from TorrentFreak by Ernesto
Privacy is in short supply on the Internet, especially on BitTorrent networks. Those who fail to take measures to hide their IP-addresses leave a prominent trail of information behind them.
Watch Apple?s iPhone 5 face off against all five of its predecessors
from The Next Web by Josh Ong
10 Tips and Tricks for Powerful Twitter Search
from Mashable! by Amy-Mae Elliott
13 Free iPhone Apps to Make Life Easier
from Mashable! by Jennifer Shore
The 10 Best Tech Rivalries of All Time
from Mashable! by Todd Wasserman
8 Annoying Things Brands Do on Twitter
by Stephanie Haberman
5 Ways to Use Pinterest for Your Job Search
from Mashable! by Brie Weiler Reynolds
Meet 6 companies battling to be the first from Asia to crack the US
from The Next Web by Jon Russell
This hacker is porting the original Google Maps app to iOS 6, shows it can be done [Video]
from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski
Megaupload Readies for Comeback, Code 90% Done
from TorrentFreak by Ernesto
New Study Affirms Less Copyright Restrictions Benefit the Economy, Amid Renewed Calls for SOPA 2.0
from EFF.org Updates by Trevor Timm
A new study from Australia presents the latest evidence that loosening copyright restrictions not only enables free speech, but can improve an economy as well. The study, published by the Australian Digital Alliance, indicated that if Australia expanded copyright exceptions like fair use, along with strengthening safe harbor provisions, the country could potentially add an extra $600 million to their economy.
Apple vs. Samsung: something doesn?t quite fit!
from open Democracy News Analysis – by Andrea Filippetti
The patent war between Apple and Samsung made a great deal of headlines over the past weeks. This article argues that both have much to gain from this big fuss, while the losers seem to be consumers and patent law itself.
The iPhone 5 Gets Unboxed
by Christina Warren
Google expected to take back display advertising lead from Facebook this year
by Emil Protalinski
Watch What Happens When an iPhone 5 Is Glued to the Ground
by Annie Colbert
Facebook Plugin Offers Another Way to Control Privacy
by Charlie White
The 10 Best Things About iOS 6
by Samantha Murphy
Email Etiquette: 8 Tips for a More Civilized Inbox
by Amy-Mae Elliott
The 41-Year History of Email
by BrandSpeak
Samsung Adds iPhone 5 to Patent Lawsuits
by Todd Wasserman
Google Will Overtake Facebook in U.S. Display Ad Revenue This Year [REPORT]
by Seth Fiegerman
iOS 6 Upgrade Has Its Share of Troubles
by Chris Taylor
Twitter?s Advice to Journalists: Tweet Your Beat, Use Hashtags
by Lauren Indvik
Arr! The Complete Guide to Celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day
by Christine Erickson
Facebook, Google Create Lobby Group for Internet Titans
by Alex Fitzpatrick
Twitter CEO: Apple Is Our Mentor, Facebook Our Opponent
by Chris Taylor
iPhone 5 review roundup: Deceptively thin, delightfully fast
by Josh Ong
Mediatwits #56: iPhone 5 Not Insanely Great; Social Media Is B.S.
from MediaShift
Welcome to the 56th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, with Mark Glaser and Rafat Ali as co-hosts. This week we try to pierce the heavy-duty hype coming from Apple around its new iPhone 5, as well as the hype about social media marketing. First, we discuss the iPhone 5 and how it has only incrementally improved on the last generation of phones. Engadget’s Nicole Lee and Buzzfeed’s Matt Buchanan give their take, and discuss how it stacks up against offerings from Nokia and others. Is Apple only good at making breakthroughs with entirely new product lines?
United States: Occupy Wall Street, One Year Later
from Global Voices Online by Kimberly Shiller
This post is part of our special coverage #Occupy Worldwide.
September 15-17, 2012, marked the first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Many similar scenes that transpired at the start of the movement last year recurred this time around: hundreds of arrests were reported on Saturday 15 during the demonstrations that culminated on Monday 17 in the area surrounding the stock exchange. Occupy created three hashtags on Twitter?#S15, #S16 y #S17?alluding to the three days that marches, concerts and religious ceremonies took place throughout southern Manhattan.
Meet the Internet Radio Fairness Act, a law that could be a massive financial boon to Pandora
from The Next Web by Alex Wilhelm
Governments paying for Wikipedia edits?
from FP Passport by Joshua Keating
CNet’s Violet Blue reports on a Wikipedia conflict-of-interest scandal:
Roger Bamkin, trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation UK, whose LinkedIn page describes him as a high-return-earning PR consultant, appeared to be using Wikipedia’s main page “Did You Know” feature and the resources of Wikipedia’s GLAM WikiProject (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) initiative to pimp his client’s project.
Bamkin’s current client is the country of Gibraltar.
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