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ACTA – Number of the Beast or 1984 – Part II
Introduction For those that havent read the first article in this group – I highly recommend it for complete understanding of this article. ACTA – the Number of the Beast or 1984. http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2009/4/11/4150002.html There is a strong presumption in US law favoring openness of government documents for a reason: People have a right to know [...]
Farmville, the Game that IS Breaking the Internet.
In the last three weeks I have noticed a decrease in filesharing. I considered that it might be a response to the unseasonably warm weather that Sydney is experiencing with people prefering to get outside than huddle over their computers. I may be wrong. The population of Sydney appear to be too busy with other [...]
P2P with a Condom Part II – “Etiquette”
In Part one we introduced the concept that operating eMule is like any other program, you have to learn a little to get a lot. So today we will be discussing Responsible file Sharing and Fake Files. How do you notice that the file you are downloading is a fake? Unfortunately – [...]
Piracy, Decriminalization And P2P
It is a crazy world out there. There are pirates on the high seas capturing ships and holding them to ransom for millions of dollars. And the content industry insists on calling people who share a piece of music with a friend a pirate. The Spanish decriminalized drugs a number of years ago and The [...]
John Howard – Facebook
Kevin Rudd is on Facebook. So is John Howard. Kevin has so many friends he has hit the Facebook limit…. John Howard has….. well, check it out here…. Is this a case of identity theft?
Architecture Identity
Here is a really important a simple concept – not original, but important for every company…. the ability to encapsulate what you do within a story. I have found so many companies that don't get this. But it really works!
Down the YouTube?
This is a premium content article on Economist.com
Down the YouTube?
Mar 23rd 2007 | SAN FRANCISCO
From Economist.com
The online-video site gets a heavyweight competitor
IT HAS been a terrible month for Google, the biggest search engine and the internet’s reigning superpower, and for its subsidiary, YouTube, the pioneer and precocious leader of online video. Users may love them, but the old-media companies, feeling increasingly exploited, loathe them, sue them, and gang up on them. And that matters, because neither Google nor YouTube, as quintessential “new-media” companies, own any of the content that they organise so well.
With the announcement on Thursday March 22nd of a new online-video venture between NBC Universal, the huge media unit of General Electric, …
The Rise of The Right in Europe
The Independent reports that there is a rising tide of ultra rightists that are being swept into power in the European parliament. Amid formal protests and jeers in the Strasbourg Parliament, 20 MEPs yesterday signed up to the new formation called Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS). As a formal group, they are entitled to up to [...]
Google Checkout
Google Checkout allows users to store credit card info on Google and then make one click payments. This is a big step forward in convenience ( and also potential problems with fraud and identity theft) Amazon and Paypal run equally convenient systems to pay people. So do credit cards. But interesting how the big web [...]
Social Networks and Business Models
In Australia the largest telco is Telstra. And they want to dominate. Not surprising. They have a blog site which has to be seen to be believed. Not because it is great. Because it so totally misses the point in so many ways. The way it is organized is so 'non-social media'. If you want [...]