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Job Creation and Innovation in Jeopar...
Two bills being voted on next week in the House of Representatives contain language that could censor the Internet in ways you would never imagine.
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate are well meaning, but if passed, will be destructive to internet freedoms we’ve [...]
ICANN Top Level Domain Release Won...
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, just approved extending top-level domain names. Currently, there are 22 general top-level domains and, with this historical vote, that number will now increase to as many as our imaginations can create.
What this means is that for the first time ever you can have a website addres [...]
Why You Should Opt-Out of the Interne...
Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission took the first steps towards creating a Do Not Track feature to allow internet users to opt-out of having companies obtain data on their online surfing habits. This mechanism is being designed in the spirit of the Do Not Call registry that regulates the activities of telemarketers.
On the surface this [...]
The Primitive Internet of 1981
A friend sent this to me on Facebook and it struck me. We talk about how things have changed so much in our lifetimes, but we usually reference things like 8 track tapes and vinyl records switching to compact discs and bytes on an iPod. Did you realize that the patent for the compact disc was filed in 1966 and the first one wasn’t prod [...]
Internet Statistics to Make Your Head...
Jesse Thomas’ video on the State of the Internet shows the amazing amount of users on the internet and how we’re using it. We’ve come a long way from 1995 when Newsweek declared that the internet would fail.
My takeaway from this is that it’s a great reflection of how connecting online has become a basic daily activity [...]
Augmented Reality Promises to Change ...
I’ve seen other videos on what’s happening with augmented reality, a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with (or augmented by) virtual computer-generated imagery – creating a mixed reality.
But after seeing this video in a great post by Jeremiah Owyang, I had to pass i [...]
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