No warrant required. If you can look
back for a couple of years, imagine what the government can do...
Can you say “evidence gathering?”
DataSift
Unlocks Access To Historical Twitter Data Dating Back To January 2010
DataSift,
one of Twitter’s data partners which currently provides developers
and third parties with access
to the full Twitter firehose in realtime, is about to unlock a
whole new set of Twitter data to the ecosystem. The social data
platform has launched Historics, a cloud-computing platform that
enables entrepreneurs and enterprises to extract business insights
from Twitter’s public Tweets dating back to January 2010 (we
originally reported on the pending launch here).
Developers, businesses and
organizations can essentially use DataSift to mine the Twitter
firehose of social data. But what makes DataSift special (besides
the premier access to Twitter data) is that it can then filter this
social media data for demographic information, online influence and
sentiment, either positive or negative. As we’ve reported in the
past, DataSift does not limit searches based on keywords and allows
companies of any size to define extremely complex
filters, including location, gender, sentiment, language, and even
influence based on Klout score, to provide quick and very
specific insight and analysis.
Once upon a time, there was a disaster
here. Should that always be at the top of the search results?
"Los Alfaques, a bucolic
campground near the Spanish town of Tarragona, isn't happy with
Google. That's because searches for 'camping Alfaques'
bring up horrific images of charred human flesh — not good for
business when you're trying to sell people on the idea of relaxation.
The campground believes it has the
right to demand that Google stop showing 'negative' links, even
though the links aren't mistakes at all. Are such lawsuits an
aberration, or the future of Europe's Internet experience in the wake
of its new 'right to be forgotten' proposals? Legal scholars like
Jeffrey Rosen remain skeptical that such a right won't lead
to all sorts of problems for free expression. But in Spain, the
debate continues. Last week, Los Alfaques lost its case — but only
because it needed to sue (U.S.-based) Google directly. Mario Gianni,
the owner of Los Alfaques, is currently deciding whether such a suit
is worth pursuing."
“This time, we've crossed our eyes
and dotted our tees...”
Starting two years ago, hundreds of
thousands of BitTorrent users who allegedly shared films without the
consent of copyright holders have been dragged to court in the US.
The aim of the copyright holders is
never to take any of the cases to trial, but to get alleged
infringers to pay a substantial cash settlement to make legal action
go away. Some equal this scheme to extortion,
but the copyright holders say they are merely protecting their work.
One of the first film studios to
recognize the potential of these schemes was Nu Image. Last year
they had the questionable honor of filing the largest P2P lawsuit in
history by targeting 23,322
alleged downloaders of ‘The Expendables’.
While that case was dismissed
a few months later, Nu Image isn’t leaving BitTorrent users alone.
Late last week the studio filed a brand
new mass-BitTorrent lawsuit at the US District Court of Maryland
for another well-known movie. The suit targets 2,165 alleged sharers
of ‘Conan The Barbarian,’ a film that was downloaded
on BitTorrent by millions of people in recent months.
… Other than the new film title,
the paperwork is pretty much identical to previous lawsuits that were
filed by the US Copyright Group (USCG).
However, a closer look reveals that the lawyers did learn from
‘mistakes’ made in previous cases.
One of the most significant changes is
that all defendants appear to reside in the right district, Maryland
in this particular case. Previously judges have dismissed tens of
thousands of defendants because they lived in other districts. This
was also the main reason why Nu Image’s ‘The Expendables’ case
died
prematurely.
“Siri, activate “complete
distraction” mode please.”
"Mercedes-Benz unveiled plans
on Monday to use Siri, Apple's AI personal assistant exclusive to the
iPhone 4S, to power its electronics system called 'Drive Kit Plus,'
which will essentially let
drivers access their iPhone apps while driving using voice commands.
With Siri, Mercedes drivers will have a hands-free solution to
listen to music, change channels on the radio, send texts, or make
calls. 'Drive Kit Plus' will also come pre-installed with a number
of social networks, so drivers will even be able to update their
Twitter accounts and post messages to Facebook. Siri will also be
integrated with Garmin's GPS system, so drivers can navigate and get
directions with simple voice commands. With this move, Mercedes-Benz
earns the distinction of being the first carmaker to integrate Apple
technology into its vehicles' in-car systems."
Could this be a guide for e-Book
authors? I think it has merit!
Why
Journalists Need to Link
Jonathan
Stray has a great essay up at Nieman Lab titled “Why link out?
Four journalistic purposes of the noble hyperlink.” I basically
agree with all of it; links are wonderful things, and the more of
them that we see in news stories — especially if they’re external
rather than internal links — the better.
It’s very easy to agree that if a
story refers to some other story or document, and if that other story
or document is online, then it should be hyperlinked. But Stray goes
further than that:
In
theory, every statement in news writing needs to be attributed.
“According to documents” or “as reported by” may have been
as far as print could go, but that’s not good enough when the
sources are online.
I can’t see any
reason why readers shouldn’t demand, and journalists shouldn’t
supply, links to all online resources used in writing a story.
Immortality. Everyone's dying for
it...
"Researchers
from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of
flatworm overcomes
the ageing process to be potentially immortal. The discovery,
published
(abstract; full
text PDF) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
is part of a project funded by the Biotechnology and Biological
Sciences Research Council and Medical Research Council and may shed
light on the possibilities of alleviating ageing and age-related
characteristics in human cells."
After finding the gene for telomerase
synthesis in the worms, the researchers were able to observe that the
worms "...dramatically increase the activity of this gene when
they regenerate, allowing stem cells to maintain their telomeres as
they divide to replace missing tissues."
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