New developer tools in Firefox 10 and 11

Seeded on Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:10 AM EST (Web Designer Depot)

Seeded by Aaron Gustafson (Clipped by Michael Sautter)

Looks like Firefox has some nice (and let’s hope lightweight) dev tools releasing soon.

technology, web-design, tools, web-development, firefox, browsers

Europe proposes a "right to be forgotten"

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:30 PM EST (Ars Technica)

Seeded by Blitzen

a "right to be forgotten" that will allow people to demand that organizations that hold their data delete that data, as long as there is no legitimate grounds to hold it. It's not 1995 anymore The 1995 Directive was written in a largely pre-Internet era; back then, fewer than …

politics, online, internet, eu, privacy, european-union, social-networking, european-commission, data-protection-directive, right-to-be-forgotten

Occupy Wall Street Builds Facebook Alternative - Forbes

Seeded on Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:03 PM EST (Forbes)

Seeded by Blitzen

"We don’t want to trust Facebook with private messages among activists,” said developer Ed Knutson to Wired. “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook…but, we’re making our own Facebook.”

technology, internet, government, law, facebook, twitter, privacy, rights, social-media, social-networking

If the feds can shut down Megaupload, why do we need SOPA?

Seeded on Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:06 PM EST (Ars Technica)

Seeded by James Andre

For more than a year, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America have argued that existing laws were insufficient to deal with the problem of "rogue sites" hosted overseas.

politics, internet, copyright, sopa, dmca

Dodd to Internet: You And Your Blackout Can Drop Dead

Seeded on Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:47 PM EST (MotherJones.com)

Seeded by James Andre

SOPA and PIPA are on the ropes, thanks in part to a recent flurry of Internet activism. Tomorrow, a number of sites, including Reddit and Wikipedia, plan to "blackout" their sites in protest—i.e., go inactive.

politics, internet, censorship, piracy, sopa, protect-ip

Is our Internet freedom and development at stake or is the Internet usage freedom being abused?

Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:36 PM EST

By Cris Guhman

The world today is on the wide web. There are millions of people around the world that can't live without the Internet.

Continue reading this entry ...

us-news, internet, congress, google, facebook, piracy, www, petition, sopa, pipa

End Piracy, Not Liberty – Google

Seeded on Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:14 AM EST (Google)

Seeded by Cris Guhman

Now, this is Google asking you:

us-news, congress, google, liberty, piracy, sopa, pipa, stop-online-piracy-act

Hard to compete with Free: €20 for unlimited voice, text, and 3G data

Seeded on Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:01 PM EST (Ars Technica)

Seeded by Blitzen

This last week, Free dropped a nuke on the wireless business, too. For €19.99, subscribers can get unlimited calls to mobile and fixed line phones in France (and to fixed line phones in 40 other countries). They get unlimited text messages.

business, internet, tv, mobile, open-source, cable, verizon, broadband, bell, at-t

Radical web address shake-up begins

Seeded on Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:19 AM EST (Telegraph)

Seeded by Michael Sautter

A digital land rush begins today as companies bid to create their own suffixes to replace “.com” and “.co.uk” at the end of web addresses.

technology, domain, domains, tld

Facial Recognition: Beating Surveillance Cameras

Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:43 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

Seeded by newsguru

Big Brother is watching you, though probably not in the ways most of us would imagine. Sure, the cameras at banks or airport checkpoints may be on the lookout for robbers or would-be terrorists, using facial recognition technology to match pictures to existing ones.

google, security, airport, privacy, tech, private, criminals, homeland-security, banks, science

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