Facebook Announces Plans To Take Over The Internet w/Pages
Mar 11, 2010 Industry
The Open Graph API will allow any page on the Web to have all the features of a Facebook Page – users will be able to become a Fan of the page, it will show up on that user’s profile and in search results, and that page will be able to publish stories to the stream of its fans.
Free wireless broadband plan is déjà vu all over again
Mar 11, 2010 Industry
The NBP will ask the government to “consider use of spectrum for a free or very low cost wireless broadband service.” That’s odd, we thought, since the FCC and Congress have been considering such an idea for years.
Digg: Saying Yes to NoSQL; Going Steady with Cassandra
Mar 11, 2010 Industry
Digg is committed to the use & development of open source software & we’re keen to avoid the cost of proprietary large-scale storage solutions. We were inspired by Google & Amazon’s broad use of their non-relational BigTable and Dynamo systems. We evaluated all the usual open source NoSQL suspects. After considerable debate, we decided to go with
11 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Watch on Webcam
Mar 11, 2010 Industry
It’s a fact that everyone loves the PuppyCam, except for those few people with an abnormal hatred of puppies. (And, frankly, we don’t speak to those people.)
Intel’s Core i7-980X Launches with a Bang
Mar 11, 2010 Industry
The new Core i7-980X Extreme Edition (codenamed “Gulftown”) is a six-core CPU that promises a whole new level of performance.
EFF: Ending the EU Data Retention Directive
Mar 11, 2010 Industry
The German Constitutional Court issued a much-anticipated decision, striking down its data retention law as violating human rights. It was an important victory for Europe’s Freedom Not Fear movement, which was formed to oppose the EU Data Retention Directive. But it was also a reminder of the political work which remains to be done to defeat it.
Tracking When, Where and How People Have Sex in Real-Time
Mar 11, 2010 Industry
Part Twitter, part Google Maps, IJustMadeLove.com is the brainchild of Cyprian Cieÿkiewicz, a 26-year-old programmer in Poland who got the idea for the site in May. While driving home one night, he started wondering what it would take to create a Web site with flashing notifications representing where people have exchanged bodily fluids.
Google Launches Google Reader Play for Apple’s iPad
Mar 11, 2010 Industry
Google Reader Play is a full-screen treatment that shows you an image, video, or text from websites that are popular on Google Reader. You can navigate from page to page with right and left arrows at the sides of the screen, or by selecting a site from the assorted options below. You don’t even have to be signed in to use it.
When a Family Tragedy Turns Into a YouTube Sensation
Mar 11, 2010 Industry
It seems an ever-more common scenario: a death is captured in a photograph or video. The images are uploaded onto the Web. Within days, thousands, if not millions, of strangers have pierced their way into a family’s grief—gawking at the final moments of a life that were never meant to be public.
Screw Facebook: Suicide Machine to live on… in open source
Mar 11, 2010 Industry
Mortally wounded by legal assaults from Facebook, the “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” is no longer helping users of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and MySpace automatically dump their friends and wash their hands of those services. However, those behind the site are planning a last great act of defiance: Soon they’ll be giving away their code.