This month
Disruptions: Facebook Users Ask, 'Where's Our Cut?' - NYTimes.com
A lot of cafes and small restaurants will let people hang out because they attract other people,” said Yannis M. Ioannides, a professor of economics at Tufts University. “What is unusual and new is that Facebook takes access to information about these people to make its business more powerful.” He added: “The proprietor of a cafe doesn’t use personal information about me and my friends to make money.”
January 2012
Small But Digital - The MidiBus
Facebook: Upgrading to OAuth 2.0 | Straylight Run
openphoto/frontend - GitHub
OpenPhoto works similarly to Flickr, Smugmug and other photo sharing services with one major difference: you retain ownership and give OpenPhoto access to use them. All photos, tags and comments are stored in your personal cloud accounts with companies like Amazon, Rackspace or Google. This means you can easily switch between OpenPhoto services, use more than one at a time or stop using them altogether while retaining all of your photos, tags and comments.
Insane Entitlement: EMI Sues Irish Gov't For Not Passing SOPA-Like Censorship Law | Techdirt
wtf?major record label EMI (in the process of being acquired by Universal Music to make it the largest record label by far) is suing the Irish government because it feels the Irish government is taking too long to pass a SOPA-like law that would require ISPs to censor the internet and block access to sites it doesn't like.
mypermissions.org
December 2011
AjaXplorer
AjaXplorer
Strategies for Public Occupation - at the Storefront for Art and Architecture | Blogs | Archinect
P2P (peer-to-peer) Occupation studies the propagation of a 'shadow' Wi-Fi network that circumvents official telecommunication networks to offer a safe and public internet for citizens. Such an occupation works by introducing existing software that converts existing telecommunication devices into Wi-Fi access nodes.
China Hacked Into Networks Of Huge Hotels To Gain Access To Companies All Over The World
One of iBahn's largest clients is Marriott International, which holds meetings for multinational companies. By breaking into iBahn's network, China may have been able to see millions of corporate emails whether they were encrypted by iPass or not.
Where Have All the Photojournalists Gone? - Technology - GOOD
Role in the society and possession, access to a skill not owned by others. The uniqueness of the skills being diluted, the initial value disappear, and then the ecosystem changes."If what makes a photographer better isn't clear, then I don't think photographer jobs should be preserved just because they have up until this point. People thought the profession of photography was threatened when autofocus was introduced, but photographers who lasted proved that knowing the technical elements of a camera was the least important part of their value."
Most longhouses in Dudong areas have Internet access | BorneoPost Online | Borneo , Malaysia, Sarawak Daily News
“There are about 190 longhouses in Dudong, including the smaller ones, and from my knowledge, through my visit there (to about 135 longhouses), they can access the Internet.
BrandFolium Blog: Photopoll - Instant Feedback Made Beautifully Easy
iFixit: The free repair manual
What is Web Accessibility? | Think Vitamin
Web accessibility can sometimes be a controversial topic, but a fiery dialogue is a healthy sign of just how much people really care. While opinions may vary on specific issues, one thing is clear: Equal access to information is paramount in the digital age.
WordPress Themes | Graph Paper Press
November 2011
Scholarpedia
Cargo
Why Johnny Can’t Opt Out: A Usability Evaluation of Tools to Limit Online Behavioral Advertising
We present results of a 45-participant laboratory study investigating the usability of tools to limit online behavioral advertising (OBA).We tested nine tools, including tools that block access to advertising websites, tools that set cookies indicating a user’s preference to opt out of OBA, and privacy tools that are built directly into web browsers. We interviewed participants about OBA, observed their behavior as they installed and used a privacy tool, and recorded their perceptions and attitudes about that tool. We found serious usability flaws in all nine tools we examined. The online opt-out tools were challenging for users to understand and configure. Users tend to be unfamiliar with most advertising companies, and therefore are unable to make meaningful choices. Users liked the fact that the browsers we tested had built-in Do Not Track features, but were wary of whether advertising companies would respect this preference. Users struggled to install and configure blocking lists to make effective use of blocking tools. They often erroneously concluded the tool they were using was blocking OBA when they had not properly configured it to do so.
October 2011
September 2011
Why install time permissions suck. Why we wanted access to contacts in the Walmart app on Dion Almaer's Blog
Interestingly, on webOS, things are the other way around – any app can display the “People Picker” allowing the user to select a single contact to pass to the app, but there’s no way for an app to gain permission to read all contacts.
WebOS plus avancé qu'Android.




