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“Every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’ social media sites…”
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
This has been quoted in RWW and Gawker—in a derisive way. One of the follow ups: “I don’t believe society understands what […]

Ethan Zuckerman

live demo

the movie can be legally downloaded via P2P, it’s an Open Source movie.
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An Introduction to Firefox’s Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
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The Pirate Bay AFK

Porn for Girls It is somewhat unclear if it’s truly a joke.

ORIGINAL SOURCEUPLOADED ON YOUTUBE A THOUSAND TIMES LATER”One year ago, someone decided to test the image and sound degradation that occurs when you upload a video to YouTube, then download the YouTube result, and upload it again. He did it 1,000 times, with trippy results.
The process is simple, analogous to the effect of photocopying a photocopy […]

Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned
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Dropbox

“Imagine going back 20 years and telling people they won’t make voice calls, but instead they’ll be sending tiny messages (SMS). It would sound insane. And these things cost $0.20 each! That’s an interesting question — why is this popular? It’s because it’s so lightweight, and it doesn’t have to interrupt you. We’re going to […]

Once again Steve Jobs has succeeded in focusing the web community’s attention on the support ofAdobe Flash technology over html5 for the Iphone andiPad (ie. iPhone OS platform). In respond to a definite rejection and dismissal of their product Adobe published this campaign:

Later in the day, the following a parody circulated on the web:

Kate Ray is a Psychology major at NYU.

You can try html 5 live streaming sans flash here.the predictions of Flash’s demise are probably a bit premature,this html5 player appears to work well on Chrome and Safari (on Mac). Mozilla, which doesn’t want to pay the Fr Fraunhoffer - or anyone else - to license proprietary media formats has left Firefox with no […]

“Big Data presents new opportunities for understanding social practice. Of course the next statement must begin with a “but.” And that “but” is simple…
Many computational scientists believe that because they have large N data that they know more about people’s practices than any other social scientist. Time and time again, I see computational scientists mistake behavioral […]

House of Buttons
very useful for any UI designer.

Michael Geist, he is the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the Ottawa Faculty of Law. His weekly columns on new technology and its legal ramifications appear in the Vancouver Sun, Toronto Star and the Ottawa Citizen. He speaks on the threat of the  Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is to Net Neutrality. He […]

Artiste, designer et ingénieur, Joshua Davis allie la programmation et la création graphique pour composer ses univers à partir de bibliothèques de formes et de couleurs. Rencontré à l’occasion du festival OFFF, il raconte comment il en est venu au code ; ce qui appartient à la technique ; ce qui lui reste pour […]