Big Data age puts privacy in question as information becomes currency
Exploiting Big Data's opportunities will need a delicate balance between the right to knowledge and the right of the individual
This month, the US chain Walmart bought the startup Social Calendar, one of the most popular calendar apps on Facebook, which lets users record special events, birthdays and anniversaries. More than 15 million registered...
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Can Your Site Lose Its Rankings Because Of Competitors’ Negative SEO?
Rand Fishkin, the well known SEO expert and Founder/CEO of SEOmoz, has challenged the web to see if anyone can take down his sites’ rankings in Google by way of negative SEO – the practice of implementing tactics specifically aimed at hurting competitors in search, as opposed to improving the rankings of one’s own site. Fishkin tells WebProNews abo...
Porn producer's copyright complaint pits Hollywood against Google
Big players in online content watch as porn site's case winds its way through US courts, wary of ramifications for wider web
A powerful lobby group that represents the interests of the biggest Hollywood movie studios has aligned itself with an obscure Miami gay porn producer, in the ongoing battle to protect copyrighted material online.
The Motion...
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China's e-publishing revolution puts writers on a fast track to freedom
A new phenomenon in China – fiction published exclusively online – is giving young writers the opportunity to get their work read quickly and free from censorship
The middle-aged man was introduced to me simply as "Old Field". He had given up his teaching job, my informant told me gleefully, and now travelled around rural China, blogging about...
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Noel Edmonds issues Facebook plea after meeting internet 'troll'
Deal or No Deal presenter wants online responsibility after student set up 'Somebody please kill Noel Edmonds' page
Deal or No Deal host Noel Edmonds has called for more online responsibility after arranging a face-to-face meeting with a so-called internet troll who set up a Facebook page called "Somebody please kill Noel Edmonds".
Edmonds said in...
Google: If You Care About Your Standing in Search, Don’t Wait Out Penalties
As previously reported, webmasters with links from paid blog networks that Google recently de-indexed have been receiving letters from Google Webmaster Tools.
Google’s John Mueller talked a little about such letters and the reconsideration process in a Google Groups thread that you might find interesting (Another good find from the Google Forums by...
Startup Marketing: How to Earn Customers Without Paying for Them
Posted by randfish
Last week, on the very kind invitation of Dmitri Grabov, I gave a presentation in London to the Hacker News monthly meetup group. The event was sponsored and hosted by some friends at Forward, and attended by startup folks from all around the greater London area. Like my presentation in Silicon Valley, the focus was on...
Nick Clegg pledges open hearings over web surveillance plans
Draft clauses in new parliamentary bill will be scrutinised by a parliamentary committee as anger grows over measures
Civil rights groups will be given a chance to challenge government plans to give the security services new access to internet data, the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said on Tuesday night after a furious Whitehall row over...
Google Algorithm Changes For March Finally Released
Google just posted its big monthly list of “search quality highlights” or in other words, changes to its algorithm. I was starting to wonder if Google forgot about this. For February, they put out the list before the month was even over.
“We’re starting to get into a groove with these posts, so we’re getting more and more comprehensive as the month...
Google Favors Google+ Less In Search Results
As you may know, Google released a huge list of algorithm changes it made in the month of March. We’ve already looked at what Google had to say about the Panda update, and Google’s increased focus on freshness.
Another noteworthy change from the list is:
Better indexing of profile pages. [launch codename "Prof-2"] This change improves the...