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8 links, first saved September 20, 2007, latest November 15, 2023.
- The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet - CNET
While the Internet and the Cloud tend to live in this metaphorical non-place we know that they are real things. Clouds are massive data centers that in person would never conjure…
- Twitter to call subscription service Twitter Blue, charge $3 a month, report says - CNET
I hope that Twitter does this. I haven't given up on Twitter, and building a subscription offering might be the first step to the platform getting rehabilitated.
- CISPA vote means companies can't promise to protect privacy
By a 5-8 vote, the House Rules committee rejected a bipartisan fix to the CISPA data-sharing bill that would have ensured companies' privacy promises -- including their terms of…
- This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always.
Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its…
- Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA
This Friday's Reporters' Roundtable is on a topic that vexes us all: why are end user license agreements and terms of service so long and convoluted?
- Favorit fixes some of Google Reader's shortcomings, adds own
It's no secret we're Google Reader users here at Webware. We've got a Newbie's Guide for it, and wholly recommend it to folks who want a simple feed-reading experience. That said…
- Plants that Twitter when they need to be watered
Botanicalls has figured out a way to get plants to Twitter when they need to be watered. (Credit: Botanicalls) If you thought it was bad enough that all your friends, and even…
- Top ten laughably bad tech ads
The tech industry has a rich and hilarious history of being unable to promote itself as anything other than unutterably dorky. Originally we were going to call this 'The top ten…