Bruce Schneier on the state of the internet. Schneier is one of the smartest people on information security and the implications of how systems change Key takeaways: The internet has been changed by a change in the elites involved in running it. In the early commercial internet through to the mid-noughties their was a libertarian […]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Links of the day | 在网上找到
The Best Superhero Comic of the Year Is About a Crime-Solving Dog Who Loves Pizza | Underwire | Wired.com Microsoft exec on the Valley’s bias against Azure: It’s ‘running out of excuses’ | VentureBeat What Is Needed For Top Positions In The App Stores? | Distimo Instant 90’s Music – The 90’s button – just […]
Five for Friday | 五日（星期五）
Things that caught my eye this week: The soundtrack of the week was M.I.A’s Bring The Noize which felt curiously like the imagery of an early 90s rave music video, complete with a modded Mark II Ford Fiesta XR2 and projections reminiscent of early Rhythm King record sleeves: But the ADD-influenced backing track is the […]
Links of the day | 在网上找到
Coke’s first name campaign hits difficulties in China | The Drum due to the variety of names Alibaba Internal Memo Bans All Third-Party Communication Software Sony: Gamers don’t want to buy digital | T3 – not terribly surprised due to secondhand market for games and the collectable nature of them Grindr, Skout, Scruff, Shazam most-used […]
Reader rapture: what will be your salvation during Google shutdown?
We have reached the end times for Google Reader and a mass of activity has been whipped up to provide people with alternatives to consume RSS feeds through. My personal favourite is Newsblur. For people who only follow a few feeds Newsblur might be overkill. It has a number of features that make it ideal […]