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When Does Hacking Become Cyber Warfare?
The problem with most hacking attacks is that the source of them is, fundamentally, unverifiable. Even if you can have an intelligent guess at the origin, you can't usually know. But let's assume, for the sake of argument, that widespread malicious attacks against US companies, infrastructure and government are coming from China; there's plenty of evidence ...
Music Gets More Social as It Moves to the Cloud
"Social tools and media are of course already inherently connected and inherently cloud based, whether it be Facebook, Twitter or MySpace. When woven into the fabric of a digital music offering they bring that experience to life. In a connected music experience that exists across multiple devices and multiple platforms, social connectivity is more important than ...
Culture Jam: Tweeting for a Song
Edith Piaf, whose last name means “sparrow" in French, used to sing for her meals. Culture Jam, a Santa Monica startup, wants to do the same. Working with bands and record companies, Culture Jam builds viral marketing campaigns on Twitter. One campaign they developed for the band 30 Seconds to Mars yielded more than 25,000 tweets ...
How Google Buzz is Disruptive: Open Data Standards
Google rolled out a social stream service today called Buzz. It looks on the surface like Facebook, FriendFeed and other stream reading and writing services. It will compete with Facebook and Twitter. Under the covers, though, this major product was built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: ...
Google Making Gmail into a Communications Hub
Gmail users will soon have more ways to keep up with their friends via a widget that shows quick status updates like Facebook and Twitter do, The Wall Street Journal reports. The move would further turn Gmail, which revolutionized online e-mail, into a comprehensive communications hub. The intent is to keep peoples attention centered on Google, ...
Driver's Licenses for the Internet
The conversation about where to draw the line between privacy and security is as old as society itself. I didn't mean to so forcefully insert myself into the middle of that debate when I wrote about a Microsoft executive ruminating on the possibility of driver's licenses for the Internet. Alas, here I am. That original blog ...
The Willis Conover Facebook Page
What three administrations in the White House have refused to do, the people have done. They have recognized Willis Conover, the Voice of America broadcaster who may have been America's greatest cultural diplomat of the Cold War. He now has his own Facebook page, The Willis Conover Club. Will that lead to his getting a long ...
The Latest Facebook Music Rumors
Traffic and Facebook is soaring and increasingly artists and music marketers are finding it a great place for social networking with fans. All this activity and still Facebook does not have its own music service leaving room for a plethora of outside music applications such as iLike to fill the void. But rumors continue to fly ...
Athletes Confused by Olympic Social Media Rules
American skier Lindsey Vonn, one of the potential stars of the 2010 Winter Olympics, told her nearly 35,000 Twitter followers that she would not be posting to the social network until after the Games were over, perhaps based on a faulty understanding of the International Olympic Committees rules on blogging and social networking. Vonn wrote that ...
ISP Defeats Hollywood Copyright Claims
A leading Australian internet service provider was cleared of copyright allegations Thursday when a federal judge ruled against Hollywoods lawsuit that iiNet was responsible for infringing BitTorrent data traveling its pipes. The Australian Federal Court decision siding with the countrys third-largest ISP was a legal blow to worldwide efforts to make ISPs liable for the unlawful ...
