The Rise Of Open-Source Software Open-source software powers nearly all the world’s major companies. This software is freely available, and is developed collaboratively, maintained by a broad network that includes everyone from unpaid volunteers to employees at competing tech companies. Here’s how giving away software for free has proven to be a viable business … Read more
A journalist’s guide to open-source tools Journalism.co.uk Here are some best picks and hidden gems for image and data verification, audio transcription and other story ideas – for free Report: Female-sounding voice assistants fuel gender bias The Next Web AI-powered voice assistants from Google, Amazon, Apple, and others could be perpetuating harmful gender biases, How big … Read more
World Leaders on Instagram 2016 Executive Summary Most Followed World Leaders on Instagram What to Post? Accounts Worth Following Do they manage their own account? First, Let’s Take a Selfie About the Study Executive Summary Social Media, Smartphone Encryption, and Surrogate Motherhood Slate Articles by Gabriel Roth Happy Friday, Slate Plus members! Here at Slate’s New … Read more
Apple inventor Steve Wozniak was busted in high school for fake bomb Boing Boing by David Pescovitz From Woz’s Facebook: Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It’s All in One Place Wired Top Stories by Cade Metz By comparison, Microsoft Windows—one of the most complex software tools ever built for a single computer—is about 50 million … Read more
How Important Are Keywords In 2015? Social Media Week by Nicole Brown This article originally appeared on Convince and Convert and is written by Pratik Dholakiya. With every passing year, SEO moves further away from the realm of clear and simple guidelines to the world of blurry indicators and stringent punishments for perceived transgressions.2 Microsoft: An … Read more
New version of SecureDrop, open-source whistleblower submission system originally created by Aaron Swartz Boing Boing by Trevor Timm At Freedom of the Press Foundation, we’re excited to announce the release of a brand new version of SecureDrop, our open source whistleblower system which media organizations can use to communicate and receive documents from sources. Facebook has open sourced … Read more
Most of web users may be aware of but Friendfeed had a real role in Turkish cybersphere. I have followed many power users there. I have learnt a lot. I wonder where this bunch of power users will migrate. They already have Twitter accounts but I guess it is never the same thing… Facebook is killing … Read more
Don’t ask for your privacy. Take it back: http://resetthenet.org ************************ 8 Thought-Provoking Quotes From the Surveillance vs. Privacy Debate Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Wikipedia tweaks mobile design to put emphasis on contributors The Next Web by Owen Williams Wikimedia has been thinking hard about how to better humanize it?s editable encyclopedia, with a project kicking … Read more
Edward Snowden’s Statement to FP on His Selection as a Global Thinker Glassdoor: Twitter dethrones Facebook as the best tech company to work for, ending three-year streak Career website Glassdoor today released its sixth annual Employees? Choice Awards, a list of the 50 best places to work for in the coming year. Twitter was … Read more
Amazon’s Plan to Own Writing and Reading Advances With Goodreads Buy from Wired Top Stories by Marcus Wohlsen Amazon looked back to its roots in bookselling and forward to its future as the global overlord of all human literary output by announcing its plan today to purchase social reading site GoodReads. Amazon acquires social book … Read more
Security of Cloud Computing Users 2013 Study from Bilişim Hukuku Günlüğü by leyla keser berber Access the full Ponemon Research: http://www.ponemon.org/blog/new-security-of-cloud-computing-users-2013-study-confirms-conflicting-views-on-cloud-security-responsibility Tim Berners-Lee: The Web needs to stay open, and Gopher’s still not cool. from Boing Boing by Rob Pegoraro SXSW: The Rise of Contextual Social Networks from social media vb by rohnjaymiller Three social … Read 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
The Netherlands Passes Net Neutrality Legislation from EFF.org Updates by parker New legislation in the Netherlands makes it the first country in Europe to establish a legal framework supporting net neutrality. In addition to the net neutrality provisions, the law contains language that restricts when ISPs can wiretap their users, and limits the circumstances under … Read more
Well, it was time again to update a list of online tools I rely on. The second part will not be edited again as it was a collection of tools links I have found during my never ending web surfs and did not actually try most of them….and I hopefully I will post the 3rd … Read more
The History of File-Sharing from TorrentFreak by Guest Digital filesharing has come a long way since the early days of the floppy disk, starting with a 79.7 kB storage capacity in the early 1970s. Google Spends More on Lobbying Than Apple, Facebook, Microsoft Combined from Mashable! by Alex Fitzpatrick Internet freedom fighters listed from Boing … Read more