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Even Internet Hitler hates Kanye West

Seconds after Kanye West performed the mortal sin of stepping on Taylor Swift’s “Best Female Video” acceptance speech at MTV’s Video Music Awards, the Internet achieved consensus: West is officially the worst person who ever lived. Ever

Home of Web celebrates 20th birthday looking ahead

The inventor of the World Wide Web celebrated its 20th anniversary Friday by encouraging fellow scientists at his former particle physics laboratory in Switzerland to look to the future.

Online communities open but still limit movement

Online social networking today is more about hanging out with friends behind gated communities than exploring the World Wide Web: Visit another site and you'll have to rebuild your profile from scratch.

India Works to Resume Internet Services

Internet access in India improved Friday as international service providers shifted their Internet traffic to cables under the Pacific Ocean to bypass two undersea cables damaged earlier this week.

Cable Break Causes Wide Internet Outage

At least for a while, the World Wide Web wasn't so worldwide.

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On 5-0 vote, agency moves ahead in push to regulate Internet
Source: TheHill.com

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously voted to open a proceeding that could lead to Internet regulations, although the two Republican commissioners dissented on whether rules are warranted.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee admits forward slashes on World Wide Web 'were a mistake'
Source: Telegraph

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist who created the World Wide Web, has admitted his decision to include two forward slashes in internet addresses were a mistake.

Facebook index shows when you're happy | The Social - CNET News
Source: CNET.com

Facebook is even more omniscient than you thought: it can now chart the world's collective hopes and dreams and highs and lows--sort of, at least.

Google Aims To Wrest Display Ads From Yahoo
Source: The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO — Google is pushing for a second act.

Free Access Equals a Free Ride
Source: Delaware Voice

Reporters, academics, lawyers and the news industry are all weighing in on what many refer to as the news reporting crisis. But the blogging, Facebook-updating, Twitter-Tweeting generation is not so convinced that a flat line for printed newspapers is a crisis at all.

Pyongyang's cyber terrorism hits home
Source: atimes.com

North Korea has caught American and South Korean officials completely by surprise with a shocking cyber-offensive that has broad implications for the North's drive to perfect its ability to deliver weapons of mass destruction to carefully selected targets in Japan, South Korea or …

Michael Jackson is a test. He is only a test of the emergency broadcast system
Source: VentureBeat

The Internet was built to withstand nuclear attack. That was why it was built in the '60s in the first place, as a communications system with redundancy built in so that the military could communicate even if one of the nodes went down.

Top French Court Declares Internet Access 'Basic Human Right'
Source: FOXNews.com

France's highest court has inflicted an embarrassing blow to President Sarkozy by cutting the heart out of a law that was supposed to put France in the forefront of the fight against piracy on the internet.

Can you live without Google?
Source: The Times

In the space of a single decade, internet search has changed the way we look at the world beyond recognition. Google has become our binoculars and our window on to the net.

The internet - a new weapon for terrorists
Source: analyst-network.com

The era of the internet has revealed over the previous years of the real dangers associated by the use of it by terrorist groups that have managed to gain strength and much valuable information for their attacks.

The Web's Most Controversial Sites
Source: Switched

Where free speech once saw a debate over "clear and present danger," the Internet has given us a new ethical conundrum between what constitutes free speech and what's just plain dangerous.

A Brief History of Cyber-Crime
Source: TIME

"I know how it feels to have privacy violated because it has happened to me and the people around me," Obama said in his announcement.

SF Gadgets Examiner: Google ready to ride Wave into the future of email
Source: Examiner

Last week they announced that their new flagship browser, Chrome, will now be operating with 30 percent speed increase because they have upgraded their JavaScript engine to handle more high performance websites.

ANidea - Most Useful Tools or Apps of 2008
Source: anidea.com

For this week's Yammer question, we asked the team 'What's the most useful tool or application on any digital platform that you discovered in 2008′? Good question… better answers:

Gawker - Bloomberg Forbids Mentioning Competitors, or Linking to Them - Bloomberg
Source: Gawker

A mole forwarded us the excerpt below. It all but bans personal Web posts and status updates of all sorts. First it outlaws discussion of any topic covered by Bloomberg News.

The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity
Source: Wired News

As the Internet was taking shape in the late 1980s, an MIT professor named Tom Malone started thinking about how it could change the structure of industries.

Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate - washingtonpost.com
Source: The Washington Post

The adviser will have the most comprehensive mandate granted to such an official to date and will probably be a member of the National Security Council but will report to the national security adviser as well as the senior White House economic adviser, said the sources, who spoke …

Citizen Sex (Craigslists fight to keep sex in the mainstream)GetWeb
Source: getweb.info

"The fight between Craigslist and state authorities is not over kinky classifieds but over two visions of human nature. It's not a question of not being able to filter out ads.

10 Golden Rules of Social Media
Source: webworkerdaily.com

" 10 Golden Rules of Social Media May 26th, 2009 (7:00am) Aliza Sherman 3 Comments

How addicted are you to the web? - The Next Web
Source: thenextweb.com

Professionally, "Studies have shown that from 25 to 50 percent of cyber addiction is occurring at the workplace," said Dr. Marlene Maheu.

Murdoch: Web Sites to Charge for Content within Year, 'Current days of the Internet will soon be over'
Source: CNN

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch expects News Corporation-owned newspaper Web sites to start charging users for access within a year in a move he says could radically shake-up the culture of freely available content.

"Internet Enemies" report on Internet censorship
Source:

The freedom represented by the Internet does not extend to all countries, says a new Reporters Without Borders report that faults a dozen nations for engaging in an "almost systematic repression of Internet users."

Goodbye to Old Newspaper Days
Source: The American Spectator

Watching the Rocky Mountain News go under and the Chicago Sun-Times declare bankruptcy, I feel, like everyone else, that we're witnessing the end of an era.

The World Wide Web was Born 20 Years Ago
Source: buffalonews.com

It all began 20 years ago with a frustrated 29-year-old programmer who had a passion for order. More Articles

Facts about the Web's Creation: Scientific American
Source: Sciam

Some interesting factoids of how the Web started. Enjoy!

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