Facebook is said to be working on an application that would allow users to post under a false name. It follows on from a relaxing of the “real names” rules on the main Facebook site. Officially at least, Facebook has always insisted members use their real name, something it believes makes users more accountable for […]
The man who’ll almost certainly be Europe’s next head of digital issues appears to be standing by his comments that victims of the recent celebrity photo leak were “stupid” and can’t be protected. Gunther Oettinger introduced the statement by saying that it was impossible for lawmakers and regulators to mitigate all risks. He then gave […]
Reddit has raised $50 million in funding. It’s now planning to offer “shares” in the company to users, though exactly how that will work is uncertain. The funding round is designed to raise money for a program of measures to better maintain and establish the site including taking on new staff, targeting mobile devices and […]
An interesting video explaining how Youtube works and the actual mechanism behind the buffering process. [Computerphile]
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 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 […]
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’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 […]
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 […]
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 […]