Cyberculture roundup: Between Facebook and Sex, Facebook Wins…

Brands: Apple the biggest winner in 2012, BlackBerry the biggest loser, Google passes Microsoft Between Facebook and Sex, Facebook Wins by Sarah Mitroff You do it in the morning in bed, at night on the couch, and occasionally at work. Turns out, it’s one of the hardest activities to resist. It’s not smoking a cigarette … Read more

DRM screws people with visual disabilities, Linux Drives the Open Source Car, Top 5 Mobile Apps for the Techie Traveler, Chinese Internet superpowers and more…

How DRM screws people with visual disabilities: a report from the front lines from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow ZDNet’s Rupert Goodwins is going blind. Most of us will lose a substantial fraction of our visual acuity, should we live long enough. As a service to his readers, Goodwins is documenting the way that technology … Read more

An iPhone 5 release roundup…

iTunes 11: What?s New from Mashable! by Emily Price Will the iPhone 5 Be Apple?s Best-Selling Gadget? from Mashable! by Joann Pan iPhone 5 Sells Out; Apple Delays Ship Date from Mashable! by Todd Wasserman   iPhone 5 or 4S? These People Don?t Know [VIDEO] from Mashable! by Stephanie Haberman Samsung?s weapons in battle against … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: most torrents are monitored, and much more..

New research: Most top torrents are monitored, your IP address can be logged within three hours from The Next Web by Emil Protalinski If you?ve downloaded a popular torrent in the last three years, you may have had your IP address logged and your activities monitored, according to new research. Computer scientists from the University … Read more

From US, Europe to Iran, internet freedom under threat… a cyberculture roundup

ACTA: The State of Play in the US from EFF.org Updates by maira In the last few weeks, we?ve seen surprising and significant developments with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in both the US and the EU. As we?ve noted before, ACTA is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden and extend existing intellectual property enforcement … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Pirate Bay servers going airborne; ?Anonymous-OS?; and more…

Europe: Will ACTA Treaty Pass After Protests? from Global Voices Online by Danielle Martineau [All links forward to French articles unless stated otherwise.] As of the end of the month of February 2012, the mobilization efforts of Internet users against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) [en] were still going strong. In fact, they may have … Read more

an interactive map of Arab Spring; SOPA: Hollywood vs. Internet; US gov’t pressure over Google on user data….

SOPA: Hollywood Finally Gets A Chance to Break the Internet from EFF.org Updates by corynne As promised, here?s the first installment of our closer review of the massive piece of job-killing Internet regulation that is the Stop Online Piracy Act. We?ll start with how it could impact Twitter, Tumblr, and the next innovative social network, … Read more

@sosyalkafa 1. Bölüm videoları

    Steve Jobs Özel Programı. Konuklar: Medya Derneği Genel Sekreteri Deniz Ergürel ve Naksan Teknoloji Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Bahaeddin Nakiboğlu.   Editör: Seçil Altınışık Sosyal medya sponsorumuz: Digitaliz http://digitalizagency.com/ Sosyalkafa hesapları: eposta: sosyalkafa@gmail.com twitter: @sosyalkafa FB:  http://facebook.com/sosyalkafa

Deniz Ergürel: “Lokasyon uygulamalarıyla artık hepimiz ?Büyük Biraderiz?

Lokasyon uygulamalarıyla artık hepimiz ?Büyük Biraderiz? George Orwell, meşhur romanı 1984?te karanlık bir gelecek dünyası hayal eder. Tek partinin hakim olduğu bu dünyada insanların yaptıkları her hareket ?Büyük Birader? tarafından takip edilmektedir. Orwell?in 1940?lı yıllarda yazdığı bu romanında yaptığı tahminin ne kadar doğu olduğunu bugün görüyoruz. Orwell?in tahmin edemediği ise insanların bilerek, severek ve isteyerek başkaları … Read more

for Steve Job… A massive roundup.

      Obama says Jobs visionary, great American innovator from Hurriyet Dailynews by REUTERS ‘Steve was among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it,’ Obama said. The missing piece of Apple by hahanu Your time … Read more

alleged Topiary of LulzSec bailed… a cyberculture roundup..

Teenager said to be LulzSec?s Topiary bailed by Rob Beschizz a Photo: Tim Bradshaw of the Financial Times. Jake Davis, the 18-year-old Briton accused by police of being Lulz Security spokestweeter Topiary, is out on bail. Paul Sawers writes: French copyright enforcers: ?Pirates are big spenders on legit content? by Cory Doctorow HADOPI, the French … Read more

Deniz Ergürel’den Mac OS X Lion ile ilk tanışma izlenimleri…

via Apple?ın yeni işletim sistemi OS X Lion, internetten satışa sunulduğu ilk gün büyük ilgi gördü ve tam 1 Milyon Mac kullanıcısı bilgisayarlarına indirdi. Apple?ın yaptığı resmi açıklamaya göre OS X Lion bu satış hızıyla şirketin tarihinde en çok satan işletim sistemi oldu. OS X Lion?ın bu kadar hızlı bir şekilde 1 milyon kişi tarafından indirilmesinin … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Facebook hammered for privacy issues, Blog Blame Game, Adobe responds to Apple and more…

Blog Blame Game
Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism

In many weeks, there are stark differences between the social and mainstream media news agendas. But last week, the same two stories that dominated the traditional press ? the attempted bombing in New York?s Times Square and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ? also drew the most attention in the blogosphere.

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A video (and cyberculture roundup): Know Your Meme: Challenging a YouTube Take Down with Fair Use

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQTxZ_zxAv8 The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies explains how YouTube makes it easy to dispute a wrongful copyright claim. For more information on the YouTube takedown process, visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation at http://meme.ly/DisputeYoutube For more on Fair Use in Online Video see the Center for Social Media at http://meme.ly/KnowFairUse To read more about the … Read more

an online-only publication makes it to Pulitzer, first time…

Online Journalists Make Pulitzer History from Mashable! by Jolie O’Dell Today, a cartoonist for SFGate.com, the online arm of the San Francisco Chronicle, and an investigative journalist at ProPublica won Pulitzer Prizes for their work. The reason we?ve dubbed these wins ?history-making? is because this is the first time any online-only publication has won the … Read more