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Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee worries that the Web's most successful inhabitants are gradually chipping away at its "egalitarian" foundations. "The Web as we know it is being threatened," writes Berners-Lee in a Scientific American essay. "Large social-networking sites are walling off information...
Social networking began as a fascination of the young on college campuses, but it has grown to embrace all age groups all over the world. It's a phenomenon with a potential that's barely been scratched, especially in business. Barry Libert, though, would like to see that change, and he's ready to sh...
China this week sentenced online activist Cheng Jiangping to one year in a labor camp for retweeting a message urging an attack on the Japanese pavilion at the recently concluded Shanghai Expo, according to Amnesty International UK. News of the sentence comes as tension within China over the country...
Shopping for clothes online has always been challenging for shoppers, but Google thinks it can make it less so with its new Boutiques offering. Boutiques uses a combination of cutting-edge search technology and expert opinion to enable apparel shoppers -- right now, limited to women -- to create cus...
From the beginning of the social media revolution, it was obvious that the legal system was going to have trouble keeping up. It started when file-sharing sites like Napster trampled on copyright laws on their way to completely changing the way music is sold. Then, more than a few amateur bloggers...
What can users expect from Facebook's new messaging system, which will be able to deal with messages from and different types of communication media? Will it really take in messages from different types of messaging systems -- email, SMS, text, etc. -- and output responses to those systems? Bearing ...
Everything about Facebook is big. A half-billion users, 700 billion minutes a month spent there. It has 900 million pages, groups and events, according to the Facebook stats page. A new social networking startup, Path, is aiming the opposite direction -- at least with its core functionality. The ne...
Facebook on Monday announced what CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as the next generation of messaging. It spans across a user's messaging systems, offering retention of a user's conversation history and a social inbox. "We don't think that a modern messaging system is going to be email," Zuckerberg to...
Former Internet behemoth AOL is dipping its toes back into the email pool and gearing up to take a big plunge. The beta version of Project Phoenix, which became available on Sunday to users who sign up and request an invite, is expected to launch for real in early 2011. While the revamped service is...
Given the dominance of the major players in the browser market, any press release announcing a new one might as well be a suicide note. That hasn't discouraged developers from introducing new browsers. Some of those browsers have even been able to spark some initial buzz -- although the kind of buzz...
The Internet is likely to run out of IPv4 address spaces by early next year, Richard Jimmerson, CIO of ARIN, warned his audience during a speech Wednesday at LISA, the 24th Large Installation System Administration Conference, being held in San Jose, Calif., through Friday. "By the end of the first q...
Once upon a time, the word "hypertexting" referred to the process of linking one page of text to another through a specific Internet protocol. Now, public health researchers are using it to describe the practice of sending mobile phone text messages in the extreme: "hyper," as in lots, and "texting"...
RockMelt has unveiled the public beta of its new Web browser featuring built-in social network sharing. Named after the company, the browser is built on Google Chromium. Its integration with Facebook is so tight that users must log into that social networking site first in order to use the browser.
Facebook pulled the wraps off its new mobile platform Wednesday at a special event held at its headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. The offerings in the platform were designed to appeal to consumers, businesses and developers and to expand the reach of the social network's geolocation technology, Place...
Have you ever held a magnifying glass to your computer monitor and counted the pixels one by one? That's the level of detail revealed about your website by search engine crawlers: every word, title, image, meta tag and load time for every page. They know more about your site than you do. What crawle...
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