February 18th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in Book, Facebook, Future of the Internet, Web 2.0 platforms | 12 Comments
Some thoughts on the Facebook terms of service privacy storm: Facebook and other social networks have an especially tricky time in this zone, since so much user data is relational. You upload a photo of you and me; I tag it with your name. I leave Facebook — does your name disappear from the photo […]
February 17th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity, news | 2 Comments
John Markoff’s article in the NYT about Internet vulnerabilities and projects like Stanford’s Clean Slate has been getting a lot of attention, including a thoughtful response from David Isenberg. David’s right that a lot of the ideas in the NYT piece echo my book’s thesis. Here’s my reply to David: Suppose that we agree on […]
February 12th, 2009 | by yvettewohn | published in news | 2 Comments
–by Yvette Wohn Assuming that most people who visit this site are interested in the thoughts of Jonathan Zittrain, I will try to keep readers up to date on the latest JZ-related news. (Those who wish to see more random updates of our cyber professor may want to follow him on Twitter.) On Feb. 18, […]
February 9th, 2009 | by zittrain | published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity, kindle | 7 Comments
Amazon has just introduced its second-generation Kindle book substitute. As a reader, I’m intrigued — I can download a bunch of books and apparently use it for days without a charge. Looking at the overall IT ecosystem, I’m also intrigued, but for opposite reasons. The downloading takes place over an “EVDO modem with fallback to […]
February 6th, 2009 | by elisabeth | published in Future of the Internet | 3 Comments
—By Elisabeth Oppenheimer FOI readers may have noticed the story (or experienced the phenomenon!) last weekend about a Google malfunction, where Google temporarily labeled all sites as potentially dangerous and placed interstitial screens with warnings if any were clicked upon in the search results. Since 2006, Google has teamed up with the FOI-approved (and JZ-cofounded) […]
