Web standards group gets former tech exec as CEO

A former executive with IBM and other tech companies has been named the new CEO of an organization in charge of coordinating the technical specifications behind the World Wide Web.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Cable Break Causes Wide Internet Outage

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

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The Global Discussion on Verity and the Web's Power

Recently you can observe a more raising debate about the freedom of speech and the exspression of individuality on the web as never seen before.

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He proposed an international accord, adding: "The framework would look like a peace treaty before a war."

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HOUSTON -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week - personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection.

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Jaron Lanier publishes his first book "You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto" and talks about the very beginnings of the internet to where it has taken us now.

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Social networking websites have ensured that everyone who has an opinion can put it out in the public domain. From Britney Spears's musings to the Tiger Woods scandal, information can take a life of its own once it hits the world wide web.

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The Kremlin has long been irritated by the way the United States dominates the Internet, all the way down to the ban on using Cyrillic for Web addresses — even kremlin.ru has to be demeaningly rendered in English.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google is pushing for a second act.

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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.

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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"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.

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

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