Snapchat: The King of Millennial Micro-Moments All Facebook In 2015, Snapchat put the world on notice that the app is an advertising force to be reckoned with — maybe the advertising force to be reckoned with. NamedAdweek‘s hottest digital brand, Snapchat commanded a reported $750,000 for brands to place ads, and the millennial darling reported more … Read more
The Most-Edited Wikipedia Pages Over The Last 15 Years FiveThirtyEight » Features by Andrew Flowers Wikipedia will turn 15 years old tomorrow. The free online collaborative encyclopedia has grown explosively: from fewer than 500,000 English-language articles in 2005 to more than 5 million in 2015. And as the site has grown, so have the edits to … Read more
Twitter’s Policy Reboot: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly EFF.org Updates by Wafa Ben Hassine January 12, 2016 Update: It is important to note that some of the language that was added to the Twitter Rules on December 30, 2015 is not entirely new and was recycled from other Twitter Help pages, such as the … Read more
181,000 drones have been registered with the FAA in just 14 days The Next Web by Matthew Hussey Over the holidays, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) made drone owners register their vehicles. Since that announcement, more than 180,000 drones have been added to the FAA’s database, says CNN. Dutch reject ‘encryption backdoors’ BBC News | Europe | World Edition The … Read more
IETF approves HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow The 451 HTTP error code, first proposed in 2012 as a tribute to Ray Bradbury’s classic novel is now an IETF standard and is the preferred error message for a server to send to a browser when content is blocked for legal … Read more
Top 10 Media Publishers for Nov. 2015: Billboard Dominates Twitter Engagement All Facebook In November, U.S. media publishers accounted for 1.4 billion total social actions (likes, comments, shares, retweets, dislikes), with 687 million from Instagram, 632 million actions from Facebook, 51 million from Twitter, and 13 million from YouTube (excluding views). The media publishing industry represents … Read more
Bitcoin’s Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg and Gwern Branwen WIRED has determined that Bitcoin’s creator is probably Dr. Craig Steven Wright. Twitter warns of state-sponsored attacks for first time AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Some users receive notice that state-sponsored hackers may have tried to obtain sensitive … Read more
Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating the Achievements of Women in Technology EFF.org Updates by Annelyse Gelman Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Please join us in commemorating the life of Ada Lovelace by celebrating the achievements – past and present – of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Snowden for drones: The Intercept’s expose on US drone attacks, … Read more
Davet şöyle: Yarın Kadıköy‘de İstanbul Hackerspace’de Kadınlar Makinesi etkinliği olarak Ada Lovelace Day kutlanacak. Ada Lovelace bilgisayar bilimleri için gerçekten çok önemli bir kadın. Çoğu çevrelerde ilk bilgisayar programcısı olarak da bilinir. İlgisini çeken tüm kadın arkadaşlarıma haber vermek isterim. Gelin hep birlikte duyuralım! 🙂 https://istanbulhs.org/ada-lovelace-gunu/ https://www.facebook.com/events/622747604444860/ https://twitter.com/kadinlarmakines Who was Ada? http://findingada.com/about/who-was-ada/ Bilgisayar programcılığı Ada ile … Read more
Ada Lovelace?ın yolundan giden kadınların katılımının teşvik edileceği ?Kadınlar Makinesi? etkinliklerinin ilki GNU/Linux temasıyla 15 Ağustos 2013 Perşembe akşamı 19:30?da İstanbul HackerSpace?te başlıyor. Etkinliğe bilgisayar ile katılmak sizin için avantajlı olacaktır. Etkinlik Tarihi: 15 Ağustos 2013, 19:30 Konuşmacılar: Nermin Canik, İlden Dirini Etkinlik Kontenjanı: 25 kişi Kayıt için root@istanbulhs.org adresine e-posta atmanız gerekmektedir. İstanbul HackerSpace … Read more