How YouTube Actually Works [Video]
An interesting video explaining how Youtube works and the actual mechanism behind the buffering process. [Computerphile]
Category Archives: Web
Fancy Pants Social Network Costs $9,000
A new social network designed to appeal only to the richest users will cost $9,000 to join. Netropolitan — which has a not-particularly-glamorous .info domain — removes some of the technical issues many people have with sites such as Facebook. All content is behind a password and is blocked from indexing by search engines. There’s […]
Comcast: Using Tor Is Fine With Us
Comcast has flatly denied it has ordered customers to stop using the Tor browser, or that it has taken any action to enforce such a ban. The statement follows a report at DeepDotWeb, a site specializing in the darknet — a term that can cover both darknet filesharing (a form of peer-to-peer with a restricted […]
Email in Real Life [Part I and II]
Two funny commercials from SolarWinds show what people would look like if they’d start acting the same way in person as they do via email. [SolarWinds on Youtube | Via Neatorama]
Iran Gets Small Step Toward Online Freedom
Iran’s president has urged the country’s ruling clerics to be more open to the Internet. Hassan Rouhani has accompanied his call by allowing 3G and 4G services for the first time. Historically the country has been at best suspicious of, and at worst hostile to, the idea of citizens communicating online. Many leading Western-based services […]
Millions Of Historical Pics Digitized & Shared
The Internet Archive has uploaded around 2.6 million historical photographs to Flickr. The man who found a simple technique to create and automate the upload hopes to inspire other digital libraries to do the same. The images run from the 16th century to 1922, putting them all in the public domain in the US. They […]
Han To Shoot First On Blu-ray?
According to Comicbook.com, Disney plans to release the original Star Wars trilogy on Blu-ray in its original, non-special edition form. Whether anyone believes that is another matter. For its part, the site says that “two independent reliable sources” say: According to our sources, Disney has plans to release the original cut of the Star Wars […]
Facebook Testing ‘Satire’ Tag
Facebook has confirmed it is experimenting with labelling some links as satire to help users confused by spoof headlines. Arstechnica’s Sam Machkovech spotted that “[Satire]” has been added to the start of the text in some links to the Onion. At the moment the text only appears in the related articles section, which shows three […]
12 Surprising Facts About Google [Video]
ZERG RUSH! [Buzzfeed Videos]
What Happens If You Like Everything On Facebook?
Wired writer Mat Honan has carried out an intriguing experiment on Facebook: he “liked” everything where he had an opportunity to do so, whether on Facebook itself or on third-party sites. He managed to do so for 48 hours before feeling he had to abandon the project. The full piece is well worth a look, […]