Media
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Microsoft to throw their hat, I mean, tablet into the ring. Aggregations of daily minutiae like status updates into larger trends = weirdly irresistible. A facebook intern has posted a striking image that visualizes (facebook) friendships around the world. For the first time…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Chatroulette was more popular than the iPad and Justin Beiber, who woulda thunk? Google visualizes a year in search. Someone is now selling the Wikileaks cables on Amazon. Reviewers are pissed. This robot can debone a ham, so you’d better hope…
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Wikileaks Update
The ACLU suggests that prosecuting Wikileaks might not be feasible, or even constitutional under US law. More on this. Basically, if the US can try Wikileaks under the Espionage Act, then they can try any media outlet who publishes classified…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Rumor has it the iPad 2 is coming in February. Google expands into yet another underserved sector: eBooks. And shows off a new tablet prototype. Facebook changed their profile page again. These miniature cities made of old computer parts are beautiful.
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The Internet saw this one coming: FBI finally realizes that a Barbie doll with a built-in camera might be used by child predators. Some neat techie talk about WikiLeaks’ hosting problems adds a new dimension to the ordeal. Data caps…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Wikileaks witch-hunt: Lieberman wants new legislation targeting it, and Amazon & Everydns.net are being big cowards about the site. Silver lining: At least Wikileaks has cool new digs. Potentially terrifying but important: Open Data project lets you see what information…
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Internet Facelifts
The New York Times takes a look at Nick Denton’s decision to redesign the sites of Gawker Media. A video highlighting the changes (and some very bad music) can be viewed here.
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Browser wars, again? Chrome is gaining in popularity, Firefox is complaining about being manipulated by the big guys, and permanent best-kept-secret Opera reached 150 million users. Google is about to start a bookstore featuring access to content from any device.…
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The Year of the Tweets
“…but time goes all stretchy in the Twittersphere, just as it does in those folk songs in which the hero spends a night with the queen of the faeries and then returns to find that 100 years have passed and…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Today’s tech links left me with some questions: Does the Internet need more benevolent editors or should the would-be experts pipe down and let the crowd speak for itself? Everyone’s wondering: Is Google buying Groupon? 8-ball says “most likely.” Who would pay…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The US government doesn’t like it when we steal things on the Internet, so it petulantly revoked a handful of domains. Comcast levies bandwidth fees on a company that delivers streaming Netflix content, threatening net neutrality yet again. Also in Netflix:…