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Less than an hour ago, the Twitter account @Op_Payback (Operation Payback) tweeted its intention to take down Amazon.com with its LOIC application, the software designed to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, as directed by the group of hackers known only as "Anonymous." The group's "Operation Payback" campaign has already hit...
In this reemergence of the Internet-enabled TV (remember Web TV of the 90's?), there is a land battle over screen real estate. Web browsers are free to watch recent episodes of nearly any TV show on their computer, simply by going to a network's website. Can they go to these same websites using Internet TV devices like Google or Apple TV, though?...
Yesterday, we also had a chance to interview Mozilla's chairperson Mitchell Baker at LeWeb in Paris. During this discussion, we talked about Mozilla's plans for the coming year, which involve a renewed focus on speed, app stores for the Web and open audio and video in the browser. We also touched upon Mozilla's vision for giving users the ability...
As you prepare to launch your product, there are a number of things you can do in order to make sure things go as smoothly as possible. We've written before about the steps you can take, for example, to make sure that your website is ready even if your startup isn't. The blog Bootstrapping Independence recently posted a very thorough list of...
The US government has called on the organization Wikileaks to "return" all the classified documents it received and has begun to publish and "destroy" all the documents in its databases. For at least the fraction of the documents that have been released to the public, it's far too late for that. How far and wide have the Wikileaks Cablegate...
This week is National Computer Education Week, aimed at recognizing the crucial role of computing in today's world and at supporting efforts to boost computer science education at all levels. The event purposefully coincides with Grace Hopper's birthday tomorrow. But it also happens to come the same week that the Program for International Student...
Following its very public DDoS attacks on the Visa and Mastercard websites this afternoon, it appears as though the vigilante group Anonymous will no longer be able to keep us apprised via Twitter or Facebook. The group's access to both social networking sites has been pulled. Updated: 30 minutes later, it looks like you can follow Anonymous...
There's been no end to the stories about 3D in the field of entertainment. It's the death of film! It's the salvation of a moribund art form! It's a flash in the pan! I'm all like whatever. Where 3D is really exciting is where it brings our inaccessible, buried past to life and light. In archaeology. Lidar has been used to unveil the...
Mastercard's website was down for several hours this morning, and now it appears as though Visa's is offline as well, as these sites have become the targets of ongoing DDoS attacks. And so the infowar rages on today with these latest shots apparently fired by Anonymous, a vigilante group of hacktivists loosely affiliated with the message board...
Are you ready to learn a whole lot more about the world around you every time you launch a location-aware application? Countless apps are likely to get a lot of real-world data dumped into their databases thanks to two new data sources available for free as of today. SimpleGeo, the closely-watched location data service now lead by a roster of...
It's no Pambazuka News, but CNN's four-year-old citizen journalism site iReport, does have a fairly high profile. Attached as it is to the pioneer in 24 hour cable news channels with a global reach, it shouldn't surprise that it also has a global reach. As of two days ago, iReports had been filed from every single country in the world except one:...
I'm 16 and, unusually, I use Twitter quite a bit. I say unusually because perhaps you've heard that teens don't tweet. This first came to light last year when a 15-year-old Morgan Stanley intern wrote a report [PDF] where he explained that teens "realize they are not going to update it," and that "no one is viewing their profile, so their 'tweets'...
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As you prepare to launch your product, there are a number of things you can do in order to make sure things go as smoothly as possible. We've written before about the steps you can take, for example, to make sure that your website is ready even if your startup isn't. The blog Bootstrapping Independence recently posted a very thorough list of some additional resources and reminders for building a detailed launch plan. The suggestions include a number of other great posts for background reading, including ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick's...
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Since its launch in 2008, Evernote has been used primarily by consumers for recording and organizing notes and ideas. And while consumers continue to be the company's chief target, the application has many potential uses in business, a fact underscored by their announcement earlier today of sponsored accounts for schools and businesses. Evernote's new sponsored accounts are simply a way for companies and other organizations to purchase premium accounts for their employees. From there, there are a number of ways people can use the...
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Yammer announced today that its social enterprise products are now available in Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. The company plans to add support for a new language each week via its Translations application, which lets users participate in the translation process. There are currently 94 languages available for translation via the Translations application. According to the company's announcement, 55% of Yammer's traffic comes from outside of North America. Sponsor Yammer also plans to establish operations in Europe and...
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President Bill Clinton discussed Wikileaks in a keynote speech at the Dreamforce conference today. Clinton used the Wikileaks issue to illustrate the theme of his discussion, which centered on instability in the world. "What you do not see is how many people were exposed," Clinton said about Wikileaks, referring to informants providing information about their native countries to the United States. As a result, people may be killed and careers will be ruined, Clinton said. Sponsor He discussed the leak and the role U.S. Army Bradley...
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Developer Matt Biddulph recently released code for calculating the social influence developers in Github based on their location. Marak Squires took the code and lists of the most influential developers in different regions. He notes there are some issues that skew the results, but offers some suggestions on how to improve them. First of all, if a user lists their location as "NYC" or "Brooklyn" instead of "New York City," that user won't show up in a list of the most influential Github users in New York City. Also, many users who follow a...
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In-app purchases, in-app billing, and virtual goods are emerging as new, and potentially more profitable, means of generating revenue for mobile application developers and publishers. A report from October, for instance, found that within social networking applications and games, in-app purchases have actually taken over as the leading source of revenue. That trend will continue in 2011, says mobile billing and analytics firm Bango. According to its recently released forecast, in-app purchases will grow over 600% next year. In 2011, the use...
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