Category Archives: tech

It was a stunning failure in vision, and more or less the same thing happened at Flickr. All Yahoo cared about was the database its users had built and tagged. It didnt care about the community that had created it … Continue reading →

HBO claims that (a) people aren’t interested in a la carte HBO Go and (b) the transaction costs are too high to do their own billing, etc. The technical term for these explanations is “bullshit.” via What’s HBO Go’s Problem? … Continue reading →

It’s sad to see our legislators using the mantle of child pornography to order Internet companies to spy on users, forcing ISPs to keep mountains of unnecessary data about innocent Internet subscribers in the hopes that it might one day … Continue reading →

interesting information via the EFF: Given that much of Mr. Harris Twitter information like Tweets and followers is already public, its very likely that the government was really after something else: location data. By attempting to subpoena these records, the government … Continue reading →

SOPAs sponsor, Texas Republican, Lamar Smith, thinks any fears are “completely unfounded”. “The criticism of this bill is completely hypothetical; none of it is based in reality,” said Smith, R.-Texas, in a statement. “Not one of the critics was able to … Continue reading →