I avoided it for a long time – who needs another obsession? – but after the NLab Social Networks Conference, I decided I had to have a part of this, and yes it’s become a regular practice. I follow and am followed by various other people interested in social networks
It’s amazing how often I am in places where I can find an unsecured wifi network – especially in the business sectors of cities where you’d think companies would know better. Here’s the most cogent reason yet for making sure your personal or business wifi is properly secured: Mumbai police
Here’s a beautiful web project: 80 Million Tiny Images, a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning, by Antonio Torralba, Rob Fergus and William T. Freeman at MIT. It’s not just pretty, either: the project aims to use this massive dataset to train a
Principles for user-generated content serviceshttp://www.ugcprinciples.comTo protect copyright in services providing user-uploaded and user-generated audio and video content. It’s good to see copyright being taken account of. But a shame that it’s about commercial content and not that of the users themselves… One thing that sometimes surprised me when I was
From the Sunday Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/13/nternet13.xml
I’m pretty sure Linden Labs can find out where people are logging in from. But would they cooperate with US police let alone British police? So the watchdogs think it’s dangerous.