June 1st, 2010 |
by Jennifer |
published in
Android, Facebook, Future of the Internet, Generativity, censorship, cybersecurity, iphone, kindle, news | 1 Comment
Google launches Government Requests tool. Google is now making public information on the requests it receives from government agents to remove content from its search results or reveal private user data. The Government Requests tool currently displays the number and type of requests by country for the last six months of 2009. In a bit [...]
February 16th, 2010 |
by elisabeth |
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Web 2.0 platforms, censorship, iphone | Comments Off
AppMakr Transforms App Store Landscape, Enables Anyone To Make Their Own iPhone App. Gagan Biyani raves about AppMakr, a product that allows anyone to make a simple RSS-based iPhone app for $199. The company will even submit the app to the App Store. (So, for instance, Biyani put together an app that aggregates all of [...]
January 27th, 2010 |
by elisabeth |
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Future of the Internet, Generativity, censorship, iphone, kindle, ubicomp | 3 Comments
The Extraordinaries Haiti Earthquake Support Center. A followup post on the Extraordinaries’ efforts to use ubiquitous human computing to help find missing people after the Haiti earthquake — a positive vision inspired by JZ’s nightmare scenario of crowdsourced secret police work. Did they succeed? “Yes and no”—but, as they detail, there’s obvious potential for future [...]
November 15th, 2009 |
by jz |
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censorship, filtering | 4 Comments
“The first generation of Internet controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China’s famous ‘Great Firewall of China’ is one of the first national Internet filtering systems.” That’s it. Its presence on a poster advertising the OpenNet Initiative’s academic book Access Controlled was enough to deem it prohibited by UN security forces [...]
