Finland has become the first nation in the world to make access to broadband Internet a “basic right” of its citizens. Regulations came into effect requiring Finland’s 26 telecom operators to provide “every permanent residence and office building” in the country with access to an Internet connection with a downstream rate of at least 1 Megabit per second (Mbit/s).
“A reasonably priced and high-quality broadband connection will be everyone’s basic right,” Finnish Communications Minister Suvi Linden said in a statement. More…
News the way you want to read it. Fine-grain topic customization. News sections based solely on your choice of keywords or phrase. Google News’ radical makeover and revamped functionality is the most changes made since the service was launched in 2002. Google said it also improved the way it allows readers to share stories with the social network of their choice, and much more….
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Update June 9, 2010:
When we [Google] announced three weeks ago that we had mistakenly included code in our software that collected samples of payload data from WiFi networks, we said we would ask a third party to review the software at issue, how it worked, and what data it gathered. That report, by the security consulting firm Stroz Friedberg, is now complete and was sent to the interested data protection authorities today. In short, it confirms that Google did indeed collect and store payload data from unencrypted WiFi networks, but not from networks that were encrypted. You can read the report here. We are continuing to work with the relevant authorities to respond to their questions and concerns.
HTML5Rocks
Techcrunch: Apple unveiled a new site to showcase HTML5 [Safari Required]. Google is countering with its own HTML5 site — called, get this, HTML5Rocks.
Microsoft Agrees With Apple And Google: “The Future Of The Web Is HTML5?
Dreamweaver CS5 HTML5 Pack extension
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Web episode – web series – web television? Are we witnessing the emergence of a new medium?
A webisode is simply a web episode – collectively it is part of a web series, a form of new medium called web television that characteristically features a dramatic, serial storyline, where the primary method of viewership is streaming online over the Internet. While there is no set standard for length, most webisodes are relatively short, ranging from 4–15 minutes in length.
What lets you know webisodes have come into their own is the unlikely marriage of corporate sponsors creating web channels such as L Studio. L Studio (Lexus Studio) is copyrighted by LEXUS, a division of Toyota motor sales, U.S.A. inc. Emmy Award-winning actress Lisa Kudrow stars as a therapist with limited patience for other peoples’ problems in one of L Studio’s original improvised web series, “Web Therapy.”
What lets you know web series have come into their own is their cross-over with mainstream TV. SHOWTIME has picked up the television rights to Web Therapy and will air a minimum of 10 half-hour episodes that will include additional new material to be shot around the original webisodes.
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NPR’s Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me - PETER SAGAL, host:
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SAGAL: Very good, Facebook. The…
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SAGAL: …social networking site this week announced new privacy protections for their millions of users who innocently posted their photos and personal messages thinking it was just for their friends. And the next thing you know, it all went public and they had to resign their Senate seats.
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SAGAL: The new privacy settings will let users instantly and easily protect themselves from strangers. This means pictures of the crazy night at Sigma Delta will only be seen by your 1,500 close friends and anybody they know, and anybody they know, until eventually somebody sends you a hilarious video of a nude guy vomiting into a flower pot. And you laugh at it for a good five minutes before you realize it’s you.
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SAGAL: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, he’s defending this and saying there’s no danger. But he was on record, apparently somebody found a tape of him early on, saying that the people who would put private information on Facebook were stupid. He did not call them stupid. He used a term I cannot repeat on the radio. So in his honor, we’re going to name such people Zuckers.
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Facebook’s new privacy changes haven’t been enough to satisfy its most vocal critics.
The activist groups waging what amounts to an undeclared war against the social-networking site for the last year, complete with no fewer than three letters to federal regulators claiming Facebook’s actions are illegal, said Thursday that they’re hardly ready to declare a truce. (See our Q&A with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and instructions on changing your settings.) More…
ALSO: Diaspora project, a newly announced open-source alternative to Facebook. More…
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Google Chrome has had a big impact on the browser market since its release in September 2008. The latest report from NetMarketShare puts Chrome at 6.73% market share, ahead of Safari on 4.72% and behind only IE (59.95%) and Firefox (24.59%). More…
Google Wave, a Web-based tool to let people chat and collaborate in real time, is now open to the public. More …
Facebook has called a general meeting on privacy amid widespread user discontent over a succession of privacy-eroding changes by the social network.
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100514: Saw this posted on Facebook today:
ATTENTION: There’s a NEW PRIVACY setting called “Instant Personalization” that shares data with non-Facebook websites and it is automatically set to “Allow.” Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites > Instant Personalization and uncheck “Allow”. BTW, and very importantly, if your friends don’t do this, they will be sharing information about you.
PLEASE COPY & REPOST.
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