Lesenswerte Analysen, Hintergrundberichte und interessante News:
- The 24-hour Athenian democracy "Anonymous is a 24-hour Athenian democracy, run by a quorum of whoever happens to be awake. It's hard even to define Anonymous as a “group”, since not all members participate in all projects."
- YouTube, Feeling Good About Content ID, Drops 15-Minute Limit On Uploads "The change is being introduced as YouTube is moving into a stronger position on copyright issues. In June, it defeated Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit. Even Viacom (NYSE: VIA) has admitted the effectiveness of Content ID as it works today, by filing motions in its lawsuit indicating that it won’t seek damages for any content hosted on YouTube after 2008."
- 250 Mio Nutzer verwenden Facebook Connect jeden Monat "Allein im Jahr 2010 konnte Facebook Connect über 100 Mio. neue Nutzer gewinnen und ca. 10.000 Webseiten integrieren eine Connect Verbindung pro Tag."
- Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think Transparenz als künftig stärkere Säule der Corporate Governance. "And the result of an undersupply of disclosure is toxic, perverse incentives. A CEO can make hundreds of millions for running a once-thriving company into the ground because he (or she) can earn his mega-bonus faster than you can stop him from earning it. And the systemic result of that is crisis, stagnation, and decline."
- Defend WikiLeaks or lose free speech - Dan Gillmor - Salon.com
- SimpleGeo Launches, Aims to Make All Apps Geo-Aware "SimpleGeo, the closely-watched location data service now lead by a roster of Silicon Valley stars, launched into public beta today two free application programming interfaces (APIs) that offer a large amount of information about 13 million places in the United States. That information will be available for free, forever, to anyone building an application that needs local context."
- InstapaperFeed: A Great Way to Pull Good Reading Out of Twitter "First, give InstapaperFeed access to your accounts on both Instapaper and Twitter. Then the app will look at every link shared by someone you're following on Twitter, look for the ones that link shortening service Bit.ly has clickthrough numbers for, and post the most popular ones each day to your Instapaper account."
- sicherererererer ins fettnäpfchen "wenn noch nicht mal eine gemeinnützige stiftung vor willkürkürkürkür von paypal sicher ist, wie sicherererer kann man dann bei paypal als einzelner sein, anständig behandelt zu werden?"
- Hey Journalismus! Lick my Wiki! "In Deutschlands Redaktionsstübchen wird lustig oder unlustig Dienst nach Vorschrift gemacht, Interviews muss man sich vom Interviewten absegnen lassen und der Rest der Arbeit besteht aus dem Verfassen von staatstragenden Konsenskommentaren und Serviceartikelchen. Welchen Skandal hat ein deutsches Nachrichtenmagazin zuletzt aufgedeckt? Wann soll das gewesen sein? Die Barschel-Affäre? Würmer in Nordseefischen? Oder ist alles in Ordnung?"
- YouTube schafft das Längenlimit für Videos ab
- The Age of Radical Transparency
- Wikileaks: UN-Kommissarin f. Menschenrechte positioniert sich
Weitere Linktipps zu lesenswerten Artikeln.