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At the annual D10 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, tech and industry analyst Mary Meeker did her now famous slide show of Internet Trends. Last year in her slides at the Web 2.0 Summit she told us how the future is all about mobile. This year, she came up with some more interesting stats, but nothing too mind-numbing.
comScore released their April 2012 Top 50 U.S. Web Properties and social blogging phenom Tumblr finally made it on the list! This is just another sign that Tumblr is growing exponentially. In the report, it shows that Tumblr is ranked number 47 with 23,507,000 million visitors for the month of April.
Who remembers Kazaa? It was only a few years ago that Kazaa and Napster were running the Internet with peer-to-peer file sharing networks. Then things got crazy as the RIAA and others cracked down on file sharing networks, and life changed for all of us. Now the same people who helped create and share pirated content, are working on software that will block it, and the way it will be done might get you upset and thinking this has bullshit written all over it.
For most of us, we live a sedentary lifestyle, behind computers and keyboards sitting most of the day. With junk food at our fingertips and lack of exercise, obesity is only becoming a bigger and bigger issue, literally. So thank God that someone asked these questions. Now we just need this to become a reality.
Google announced an exciting new change coming to the search engine which will bring tons of factual results to the forefront of Google searches. The new search feature is called the Knowledge Graph, which will tap into database facts to present relevant snippets of information based on your searches.
Email marketing is an ever-evolving medium. As the oldest form of Internet marketing, people like to think that email has declined in the face of newer methods of reaching the growing Internet populous. Those people seem to forget that they probably have multiple email accounts and are subscribed to a few e-newsletters. Email communication is actually alive, well and on the rise.
For 18 years the FBI has been wiretapping phone lines as a means for surveillance on persons of interest in their ongoing investigations. In 1994, the U.S. wiretapping law was passed, several years prior to the World Wide Web. This law gives the FBI full access to your private conversations on any phone lines. Now, the FBI wants to change the law so that they can tap into your Internet conversations as well.
It wasn’t a good day for the file sharing site The Pirate Bay. According to the BBC, The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK Internet Service Providers from a ruling by the High Court in the United Kingdom.
Last night after hours the House decided to vote on CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act which has been widely criticized for privacy rights violations because the government and private companies can monitor your private information (emails for example) and pass that information to government agencies completely bypassing Internet privacy laws with little to no probable cause needed.
Prior to this week, there has never been an official Internet Hall of Fame. Sure there have been folks out there that have been publicly acknowledged as Internet pioneers and innovators that have brought us to where we are today, but nothing official has ever come along until now.
The United States and North Korean relationship has been tumultuous, with a recent and big flare up when North Korea decided to launch a ‘satellite’ into space. The U.S. firmly suspected that N. Korea was launching a missile into space, which could be positioned to hit many countries including the U.S., saying the launch was a direct threat to the U.S. North Korea, not really giving an eff, launched anyways, and failed miserably.
If you ever do an image search on the web, chances are great that whatever you are looking for, there is a Stock Photo available for it, and just the one you want is that Stock Photo too. Stock Photo is a company that sells photo/videos for use on the web, which can be a lot cheaper than getting your own photographer to do a photo shoot with a model. Suffice it to say, Stock Photos are popular.
Posters are always a fun canvas to illustrate on, with Internet memes not being off limits. Propaganda posters have been a hit, so why not some cute cat posters or Antoine Dodson in the form of movie posters? This is exactly what Meme Movie Posters is doing, who have created a whole slew of movie posters recreating all your favorite memes.
Everyone knows what a TLD is, but may not realize it as it’s not a commonly used term. TLD or Top-Level Domain are the last letters in domain names, such as the most common being .com, .net, .biz, and .org. There currently are 22 TLD’s. ICANN who creates the TLD’s has been accepting applications for a new type of TLD called Generic TLD, or gTLD, and Google along with other big name companies plan on using the gTLD’s which will go live as early as next year.
Social Networking is hot stuff these days, so you know, and the FBI finally felt after several years to publish their own social networking brochure which gives you tips and advice on how to stay a step ahead of nefarious individuals trying to p4wn you on the Interwebs. But in all seriousness, it does have some good info if you aren’t hip to some common web terms such as ‘click-jacking’, ‘doxing’ or ‘pharming’.
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