Wikileaks made a big splash earlier this year when it admitted to receiving a slew of top secret U.S. government documents and then subsequently releasing said cables for the world to see. The mainstream press has more or less condemned Wikileaks’ actions while also inflating governments’ ramblings of wrong doing. In recent weeks Wikileaks has continued on despite lawsuits and global scorn from various governments albeit in a much more subdued state. But...
As so-called “three-strikes” plans have begun gaining popularity around the web, consumer advocate groups and consumers alike have become increasingly worried. For starters, many places that were early supporters of three strikes plans failed to include exceptions for legitimate accidental allegations, leaving the alleged infringers with a mark on their record and no way to remove it. Even worse, however, were already hesitant ISPs from acting as the...
We’re really digging the new look Google’s online services are taking with the darker navigation bar up top as well as the contrasting notification bubble for Google+, though we wish we could get notifications for other things. Oh, wait a minute. You can! Lifehacker found a sweet little extension/plugin called “Google+ Enhancer” that adds the Google+ notification bubble to Gmail, Reader and Google Calender as well. To use it you’ll need a...
Facebook has officially taken the wraps off of their new Skype-powered video chat service. Starting today, over 750+ million people will have access to one-click easy to use video chat all within the browser without the need for messy 3rd party software installs. The premise of Zuckerburg’s keynote and the Facebook announcement overall revolved around three things: Group Chat, New Design and Video Calling… Group Chat: Now supports ad-hoc setup. New Design:...
We were getting pretty settled in with seeing real-time updates alongside more traditional search results in Google over the past month. While the results weren’t too terribly useful all that often, it often led us onto more adventurous quests across the web. But no more. Google’s licensing agreement with Twitter to pull real-time tweets has expired today, July 5th, 2011. When contacted by Search Engine Land, Google responded saying that while real-time...
Did you know that in 2011 the people of the world will have created/replicated over 1.8 Zetabytes of data (1,800,000,000,000 Gigabytes) and that by 2015 that number is set to rise beyond 7.9 Zetabytes? According to the inforgraph put together by EMC claims each single gigabyte we store can create up to a Petabyte (1,000,000 Gigabytes) of transient data — wireless signals, landline signals such as cable, etc. All in all, the digital world is exploding. ...
