CISPA Debate Will Happen Behind Closed Doors
from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick
The Life and Times of a TV Show Piracy Release Group
from TorrentFreak by Andy
In recent decades TV shows have become woven into the lives of hundreds of millions of people but it?s only been during the last few years that they?ve done so from the online space.
Anonymous takes control of North Korea?s Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites
from The Next Web by Jon Russell
Egypt’s Key Bloggers Face Absurd Legal Charges, Harassment
from EFF.org Updates by Jillian C. York
Alaa Abd El Fattah is under threat again. The Egyptian blogger, who spent more than a month in prison in 2011, missing the birth of his first child, has found himself the target of a new case. Last week, Abd El Fattah went voluntarily to the office of the prosecutor after hearing from the media that there was a warrant for his arrest for inciting ?aggression? against members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The New Lingo You Need to Know for Facebook Home
from Wired Top Stories by Christina Bonnington
Facebook Home is a new way to experience Facebook on your Android handset. And when Zuck introduced this latest push into mobile, he threw out a whole bunch of terms we’d never heard before. Here’s what they mean.
Facebook introduces Home, a launcher for Android devices that puts people ahead of apps
from The Next Web by Ken Yeung
A Tour Of Facebook?s Home On Android
from All Facebook by Justin Lafferty
A Brief History of ‘Facebook Phone’ Rumors
from Mashable! by Amy-Mae Elliott
Using Crowdsourcing to Counter the Spread of False Rumors on Social Media During Crises
from iRevolution by Patrick Meier
My new colleague Professor Yasuaki Sakamoto at the Stevens Institute of Tech-nology (SIT) has been carrying out intriguing research on the spread of rumors via social media, particularly on Twitter and during crises. In his latest research, ?Toward a Social-Technological System that Inactivates False Rumors through the Critical Thinking of Crowds,? Yasu uses behavioral psychology to under-stand why exposure to public criticism changes rumor-spreading behavior on Twitter during disasters. This fascinating research builds very nicely on the excellent work carried out by my QCRI colleague ChaTo who used this ?criticism dynamic? to show that the credibility of tweets can be predicted (by topic) with-out analyzing their content. Yasu?s study also seeks to find the psychological basis for the Twitter?s self-correcting behavior identified by ChaTo and also John Herman who described Twitter as a ?Truth Machine? during Hurricane Sandy.
Round Up: All of Google?s jokes for April Fools? 2013, from Google Maps treasure hunting to YouTube closing
South Korea and United States Are Planning Cyberwar Scenarios
from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick
Reselling Digital Goods Is Copyright Infringement, Judge Rules
from Wired Top Stories by David Kravets
A federal judge is declaring as unlawful a one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of pre-owned digital music files.
China’s lamest Facebook clone yet
from FP Passport by Isaac Stone Fish
You?ll never browse alone: Liverpool FC rolls out free WiFi for fans at Anfield stadium, a UK first
from The Next Web by Paul Sawers
Google?s Blink Q&A: New rendering engine will replace WebKit on all platforms in 10 weeks with Chrome 28
from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski
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