Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
What is SOPA and PIPA?
- PIPA – the Protect IP Act
- SOPA – the Stop Online Piracy Act
How Does This Affect You?
Blog Sites could be blocked or shut down - the internet will become a hunt for any possible copyright violation. These acts make it the blog owners responsibility for everything that is displayed on their site, including the comments of visitors.
Less Innovation - These acts are stopping developers from coming up with the next big thing in the online market that could change how we use the internet. If these acts were in affect when the internet was started many of the most popular sites would not have come into fruition. (No Facebook, YouTube, MediaFire, SoundCloud, Twitter, DropBox etc…) as any website can be targeted as a place where online piracy could take place.
Legal Action Over A Child Singing A Song - It is quite oblivious that none of the people on sites like YouTube have been given permission from record label execs to sing their favourite song, and then proceed to post it on a video sharing site.
The site the child will have posted the video on will be put under pressure to resolve this issue, or face their site being put on the blacklist. This child, and her family, could also very well face legal action with either the site or the record label the song that was sung has copyrighted.
The U.S. Government Hope They Will Spark Global Change – The U.S. government officials and private corporations aren’t only concerned about how these bills will work out in America, they are hoping that they will have the influence to get other nations to follow suit with these acts passing. That means if these acts pass, then the next country this could be coming toward may be yours.
[VIDEO] Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian On SOPA: “The Fight Isn’t Over”
Read Tech Crunch’s full coverage of SOPA
Google Will Protest SOPA on its Homepage
Like many businesses, entrepreneurs and web users, we oppose these bills because there are smart, targeted ways to shut down foreign rogue websites without asking American companies to censor the Internet. So tomorrow we will be joining many other tech companies to highlight this issue on our US home page.
Vodafone have launched the Pocket WiFi™ and is essentially a small portable WiFi router that you can connect to the Internet with no need for wires. The advantage of the Pocket WiFi™ is that it links multiple WiFi enabled devices at any one time such as your laptop, iPod touch, iPad, Wii Console…
Its currently limited to only five devices at the same time and the speed of the connection may be slower than current “un-wired” plans from the major ISPs (especially if you stream music or video).
Vodafone also claims compatibility with Mac, Linux and Win 7 computers and offers the Pocket WiFi™ at a cost of $39 AUD per month + $5 per month modem charge and includes 8 G/B’s of downloads er month.
Full specifications and product manual is viewable here – official Pocket WiFi™ manual.
Today’s “WTFIGD” (WTFisGoogleDoing) comes from SEO consultant Rob Ousbey after he identified live updates of search results for each keystroke he made during a Google search.
Google confirmed (to TechCrunch) that the above video is in fact real. Sources familiar with Google product developments could not say whether this functionality would be rolled out imminently however production roll-out may be on the cards.
For those who don’t understand the ramifications of this on the internet world, they are hugely significant. As this is the first documented evidence that this functionality exists its clearly being rolled out to only a few internet users to test its application and user experience. Stay tuned for more search engine news!
The internet search behemoth Google (that is both a noun and a verb) recently announced the new and improved way it will be indexing the internet and decided to name it after an addictive substance and before you ask, no not crystal methamphetamine nor Justin Bieber but “Caffeine”.
Allegedly, “Google Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index”, and goes on to say, “it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.“
The main change to the way web pages used to be indexed and served as search results to a user can be explained in a simplified way as below”
“Our old index had several layers, some of which were refreshed at a faster rate than others; the main layer would update every couple of weeks. To refresh a layer of the old index, we would analyze the entire web, which meant there was a significant delay between when we found a page and made it available to you.
With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally. As we find new pages, or new information on existing pages, we can add these straight to the index. That means you can find fresher information than ever before—no matter when or where it was published.”
As Google is aware that the majority of human internet users do not possess an engineering degree and struggle with even elementary spelling capabilities inside a search browser so Google decided to explain this rather perplexing change in layman terms via the use of an informative visual representation as below.
Yes, true story. This is the exact image they believe best explains this indexing change. From first glance it appears that a boring ordered list turns into a chaotic frenzied atomic whirlwind of books and cameras.
To some the old index resembles a carefully stacked set of papers being evaluated by a disgruntled man until somebody turned on a fan and sent everything flying around the room including the man’s books and camera (yet if you look closely throughout all this confusion he seems to have held onto his hand gun!).
In summary, this is one of the most pointless and incomprehensible visual representations of something that conveys no real meaning to anyone. It leaves me feeling unsatisfied, confused and inadequate like a donut without jam or for use of a better analogy like a Hawaiian pizza without ham and pineapple.
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