tyranny
The Samsung Doth Advertise Too Much, Methinks
techcrunch.com
At CES, the AOL booth where we worked, did interviews, and ate lunch was just a few short feet from Samsung’s huge Galaxy Note booth, where they were giving out free shirts printed with your caricature, drawn, of course, on a Galaxy Note. There was a line around this thing...
Windows Phone 8 to provide an escape from carrier update tyranny
arstechnica.com
The availability of updates for Windows Phone 7 hasn't been everything we'd wanted it to be. Carriers have consistently blocked the roll-out of both bug-fixes and feature updates, forcing users to suffer out-of-date software. With Windows Phone 8, Microsoft plans to offer a solution. The carriers will still be involved...
Study: For Display Ads Clicks Have “Nearly Zero” Correlation With Conversion
marketingland.com
For many years many publishers and researchers have been fighting a battle against the “tyranny of the click.” They’ve been trying to argue that clicks are a poor metric to rely upon in assessing digital ad campaign performance. Digital measurement firm comScore has been a vocal... Please visit Marketing Land...
Glimpse shows you the fashions of Facebook (hands-on)
www.theverge.com
When Pinterest launched last year as part of a new wave of social curation tools it simplified sharing what you were into by "pinning" stuff from around the web to your personal site. As a Pinterest user you can see what other people are sharing and follow individuals with...
Digital news pioneer Michael Bloomberg reads 8 newspapers a day
venturebeat.com
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made billions of dollars as the founder of the disruptive digital news and data service that bears his name, prefers to get his news the old-fashioned way: On dead trees. Bloomberg reads no less than eight newspapers in print form every day, he...
DocSync brings your docs to the iPad, no matter where they’re stored
venturebeat.com
Last year at the DEMO conference, R. Paul Singh was forced to return home to find a simple document on his computer that he couldn’t access via his iPad. He couldn’t access the file over e-mail, remote desktop was too slow, and he forgot to upload it to his Dropbox...
Seven Gmail Add-ons That Make Email Suck Less
techcrunch.com
Editor’s note: Sidian M.S. Jones is the founder of OpenSourceReligion.net and does graphic design for BookLamp.org. He has a forthcoming book called The Voice of Rolling Thunder. Follow him on Twitter @SidianMSJones. I think it says a lot about the current state of email that we have so many startups...
GO Launcher comes to Android tabs, frees you from fixed grid tyranny
www.engadget.com
Got an Android tab and don't like its government manufacturer-issue UI? Then why not join the ranks of the launcher rebel alliance. GO Launcher EX for phones has been around for a while, but now it's been upscaled for Honeycomb 3.0+ slates under the GO HD moniker. It's only...
Raspberry Pi for secure activism
www.bbc.co.uk
Using the tiny device to fight tyranny across the globe...
Push Level Agreement
techcrunch.com
So now we’re in for an apparently unlimited amount of blaming Facebook for just about anything that needs a scapegoat. Take the story that crossed whatever we call the wires these days about how social readers are being destroyed by some tweaking of the Facebook engine. I followed all the...
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
www.techdirt.com
Kicking off this week's most insightful list was a comment from Chris Rhodes which was a quote from CS Lewis that apparently resonated with many of you: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live...
Kid Icarus: Uprising – review
www.guardian.co.uk
3DS; £29.99; cert 12+; NintendoWhen Kid Icarus: Uprising was teased at the 3DS's launch, it was met with a certain amount of head-scratching. The second sequel to a rather weird 1986 NES platform game (and the first Kid Icarus game since 1991), it hardly resembled a standard-bearer for Nintendo's stereoscopic...
How to Free Your Company From Organizational-chart Tyranny
www.pcworld.com
A myth lies at the heart of most corporate organizational charts that the boss is surrounded by a group of senior leaders who form the company's decision-making......
The sham that is Google’s stance with China.
www.inquisitr.com
Should we go or should we stay? That more than anything is probably the current motto that Google is using as it plays corporate games using the US Congress to try and inflict damage of any kind against its competitors but primarily Microsoft. Of course the current PR is going strongly...
Links for 2010-06-08 [del.icio.us]
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Understanding the Psychology of Twitter | Psychology Today More on the Psychology of Twitter | Psychology Today Wrapping It Up: The Psychology of Twitter | Psychology Today The Psychology of Twitter | World of Psychology elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age Lars is Learning: Welcome aboard!...
Exclusive Interview: Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyalty to Israel vs. US
www.boilingfrogspost.com
The Hirsch Conjecture, Disproved
www.readwriteweb.com
Professor Francisco Santos of the University of Santander in Spain announced that he had disproved what is known in mathematics circles as the Hirsch Conjecture. Professor Santos will be presenting his proof in July at the 100 Years in Seattle Conference, dedicated to the mathematics of Klee and Grunbaum. We...
RT @tweetmeme Confirmed, Facebook Automatically Bans Users: This Week in Online Tyranny http://bit.ly/9TEvmA
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RT @tweetmeme Confirmed, Facebook Automatically Bans Users: This Week in Online Tyranny http://bit.ly/9TEvmA
Subpoena for Anonymous Twitterers Dropped: This Week in Online Tyranny http://bit.ly/dh6nVO
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The Tyranny of Consensus
www.jilldyche.com
Microsoft Tarred as Tyranny Abettor as Google Asks Feds to Promote Net Freedom
www.wired.com
Google is urging the U.S. government to make net censorship a part of its trade and diplomatic negotiations, even as it holds out hope that China does not start blocking its uncensored Hong Kong servers, where Google.cn users have been diverted since Monday. Not unexpectedly, Google came in for heavy...
Google China: Congressional Praise; Microsoft Supports Tyranny & Google Eats Shit Cartoon
searchengineland.com
The reactions to Google’s partial withdrawal from China continue. Yesterday, there were hearings in the US Congress where representatives showered praise on Google while competitor Microsoft was said to be supporting tyranny. Meanwhile, there is a nice round-ups of reactions from China folks on the web, including a great cartoon...
Confirmed, Facebook Automatically Bans Users: This Week in Online Tyranny
www.readwriteweb.com
As we wrote a couple of weeks ago, Facebook has a "crowd-sourced" way of handling complaints. If a certain number of users register complaints against another user, that user is automatically banned and his or her profile is locked down. We were told by a public relations representative, Simon Axten,...
U.N. Passes Religious Defamation Resolution: This Week in Online Tyranny
www.readwriteweb.com
The United Nations does a lot of good in this world, as far as I'm concerned. If nothing else, it gets representatives of enemy nations in the same building, sometimes in the same room. However, the organization is sometimes troubled by a desire to be so "fair" that it elects...
This Week in Online Tyranny
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Eventually I'll test my thesis that says, "The bigger the product launch, the more social media users get banged in the tanty." (Pardon my French.) In the meantime, let's see how much ill was done by whom to people like you. Facebook account removals criticized. Jillian York wrote an extensive...
This Week in Online Tyranny
www.readwriteweb.com
When the level of evil plummets my skeptical nature always asserts itself. I wonder, for instance, if Tinhorns the world over aren't taking the week off to apply neat's foot oil to their collection of rubber hoses. We can hope not. But time will tell. And in the meantime, I...
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