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WSJ free feature: Policing Web Video With ‘Fingerprints’ – Sharing Sites Say Technology Could Help Them Identify, Remove Unauthorized Clips: “Proponents of fingerprinting technology say it can help spot TV shows and films that are posted on video-sharing sites such as Google Inc.’s YouTube without their owners’ permission, so the sites can remove them or …
Press release, April 13, 2007: “Google to Acquire DoubleClick – Combination Will Significantly Expand Opportunities for Advertisers, Agencies and Publishers and Improve Users’ Online Experience.” Google Form 8-K, filed on April 18, 2007: Item 1.01 Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement – “On April 13, 2007, Google Inc. (“Google” or the “Company”), a Delaware corporation, …
Press release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF’s) European Office today announced a broad coalition aimed at fixing a poorly drafted intellectual property enforcement proposal that could make criminals of thousands of people in the European Union. The Second Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED2) — set for vote in the European Parliament early next week …
ALA press release: “New data on U.S. libraries shows almost two billion served – Predicted demise due to Internet fails to materialize: Ten years after some experts predicted the demise of the nation’s system of libraries as a result of the Internet explosion, the most current national data on library use shows that the exact …
Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Information Revolutions – What Americans Know: 1989-2007. Released April 15, 2007. “Since the late 1980s, the emergence of 24-hour cable news as a dominant news source and the explosive growth of the internet have led to major changes in the American public’s news habits. But …
Guardian Unlimited reports: “The BBC wants to put nearly one million hours of material on the internet for viewers to watch, listen to and download and has already begun the long process of retrieving and transferring programmes. A trial involving 20,000 users will begin next month, and the service could be available nationally in a …
New national study from Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service: Civic Engagement Among Young Men and Women. “The new fact sheet shows how young men and women perform on the 19 measures of civic engagement. Utilizing data from the 2006 Civic and Political Health of the Nation Survey, and several …
Press release: “The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has joined with Google in an unprecedented online mapping initiative. Crisis in Darfur enables more than 200 million Google Earth users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur, Sudan. The Museum has assembled contentphotographs, data, and eyewitness testimonyfrom a number of sources …
David Sifry’s annual State of the Blogosphere report: “Technorati is now tracking over 70 million weblogs, and we’re seeing about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day. That’s about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day.” Archive of reports dating back to October 2004 are linked here.
World Economic Forum press release: “For the first time, Denmark tops the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2006-2007‘s Networked Readiness Index, as a culmination of an upward trend since 2003. Denmark’s outstanding levels of networked readiness have to do with the countrys excellent regulatory environment, coupled with a clear government leadership and vision …
Hao Chen, Assistant Professor, UC Davis in collaboration with In collaboration with Microsoft Researchers Yi-Min Wang and Ming Ma, pub lished Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers. [Darlene Fichter] Overview: “Web spamming is a prevalent problem on the Web. Publishing and contributing to the web is increasingly easy. Spammers, motivated by money, want to …
Progress Report on Development of the Integrated Wireless Network in the Department of Justice, Audit Report 07-25, March 2007: “Just to replace DOJs antiquated legacy wireless communications equipment would cost DOJ approximately $900 million. However, the DOJ will require more than twice that amount to fund its share of IWN. Consequently, for the DOJ, DHS, …
