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Portland SEO Company invites businesses to discover the secret formula to … – MENAFN.COM
Mar 16th
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Portland SEO Company invites businesses to discover the secret formula to …
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Portland SEO Company Invites Businesses to Discover the Secret Formula to … – SBWire (press release)
Mar 15th
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Portland SEO Company Invites Businesses to Discover the Secret Formula to …
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Mobile Privacy Lawmaker Invites the Anti-SOPA Forces to the Drafting Table
Jul 26th
The U.S. Congress has learned much this year about policymaking in the digital age. The SOPA debacle earlier this year showed that when the right Internet stakeholders disagree with a proposed law, the ensuing public outcry can be overwhelming. So when it came to writing a law to protect mobile privacy, Representative Hank Johnson took a more cautious approach: He invited the grass roots to help him write it.
Every month, a new story arises of how a mobile app failed to protect user information. Or how an advertising network violated consumer privacy. These stories highlight a very real issue: Policies that effect how technology interacts with consumers have not kept pace with innovation.
Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) understands that problem. His AppsRights.us initiative, announced on Wednesday, is an effort to craft mobile provacy legeslation while avoiding the pitfall that SOPA fell into. The idea is to write the legislation transparently, gathering input from everybody who could be affected by privacy in mobile apps. AppsRights.us will solicit information from stakeholders in technology community to serve as background for comprehensive legislation dictating how mobile apps should behave with respect to user privacy.
“I’m looking forward to getting the feedback my office needs to craft a thoughtful proposal to secure privacy rights for technology consumers,” Johnson said via email. “And I expect to show that an open legislative process is in the public’s interest.”
The AppRights.us website is currently not much to look at. The page offers a graphical mockup of a smartphone that sends email to Johnson’s office. It also includes a few announcements, including the initial press release, which the congressman distributed on Wednesday via Reddit. The site will eventually show four types of information, according to Jonathan Ossof, Johnson’s senior legislative assistant.
- The process of making the legislation: The requisite information-gathering that goes into building a bill, such as requests for information, what steps are being taken, and what information is being gathered from which entities.
- Analysis of stakeholder input: The site will summarize meetings with stakeholders (such as companies, civil liberties groups, developers, lobbyists and average citizens).
- Specific ideas: As the Congressman gains a clear sense of the bill’s direction, specific ideas will appear on the site and Johnson will begin following up with stakeholders.
- The legislative proposal itself.
“We want this to be a bottom-up process as much as possible,” Ossoff said. “We are operating from the assumption that federal law is really antiquated.”
By announcing AppRights.us on Reddit, Johnson aimed his message at the heart of the protest movement that killed SOPA. Six hours after the post went up, it had seven up-votes and three comments, one of them from Johnson himself.
Johnson’s effort follows several other steps by the U.S. government toward a framework for consumer privacy in the digital age. In March, the Federal Trade Commission issued its “Final Privacy Framework Report,” which included a large section concerning the mobile apps and mobile advertising networks. The Obama administration has also taken a keen interest in mobile privacy this year, issuing the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights as well as a white paper in February on “consumer privacy in a networked world.” Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) introduced the Do Not Track Online Act of 2011 and Representative Jackie Speier (D-Calif) introduced similar legislation into the House of Representatives.
What do you think of the Rep. Johnson’s approach to legislating mobile privacy? Is it necessary? Is it likely to be effective? Let us know in the comments.
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Google+ Events Invites You to Help Make Evite Obsolete
Jun 28th
In an effort to make Evite obsolete and turn the invitation service industry upside down, Google recently launched Google+ Events. The new product, which was announced yesterday at the annual Google I/O conference, will break up an event into three distinct phases and add a social element that encourages guest participation and interaction. Below are [...]
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Spool Lets You View Video, Even When You’re Offline [Beta Invites]
Jan 30th
Services like Read It Later and Instapaper have developed huge followings from people who want to quickly set aside content for when they have more time, or to access it offline.
Now, along comes Spool, which promises to do much of the same link saving as Read It Later and Instapaper, with the added perk of being able to do the same with video. We’ve been playing around with Spool, which remains in invite-only mode, for the past several days and found that it works (mostly) as advertised.
We also have invites available for those of you who want to try Spool out but don’t want to wait around for an invite of your own.
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CEO and co-founder Avichal Garg said he and co-founder Curtis Spencer came up with the idea when they noticed there was no guarantee they’d be able to pull up content on their phone, or be able to access the same bits of content across multiple devices.
Garg and Spencer are calling the technology behind the service SpoolBot, which Garg described as an artificial intelligence and computer vision engine. By residing on a server, SpoolBot can essentially translate content on a Web page into a format your device can understand. Garg said it was also good at keeping pace with changes on the sites where content is culled.
“What we wanted for ourselves was a simple way to have our favorite content always available, without worrying about which device I’m on (my Android phone vs. my iPad), where I am (inside, outside, home, work), or what kind of media it is (text, pdf, video),” Garg said in an email. “With one click you can save content from any of your devices, and that content shows up on all of your other devices too, is available offline, and is converted into a format that will work for you. So you don’t need to worry about Flash and you don’t need to worry about whether your phone has a PDF reader.”
The one exception to that assertion that I found after a weekend of accessing a wide range of content in New York City’s, mostly WiFi-free subway system on my iPhone, iPad and laptop were YouTube videos, which can only be accessed with an Internet connection because of licensing agreements. As an aside, it also seemed as if YouTube videos accessed through Spool had more advertisements than when the same video was accessed straight through YouTubes site, and it was trickier to skip over ads using Spool than it is on YouTube.
I also didn’t like that I couldn’t tag videos and content or organize it into lists: my only choices were Unread, Read, Favorites and Archived. Garg assured me that adding some sort of organization and classification system was on the firm’s to-do list and should be available within the next few weeks.
Saving material on Spool was, for the most part, easy. A Google Chrome extension allowed me to save videos and other content with one click. Setting up the widget on other devices was slightly more time-consuming.
Spool also connects to DropBox, allowing you to save content in a folder on DropBox and then have it automatically saved on your Spool. Users can also push content to Facebook from the Android app, the webapp, and the Chrome browser extension, with plans to add the feature to the Firefox extension and iOS app.
Users cannot, however, push content to Twitter. “We used to let users Tweet out from within the app. We’ve removed this feature because very few users used it,” Garg said. “We’re going to
soon launch a feature to let users tweet links at us and we’ll put those URLs into Spool.”
Spool will remain it’s beta, invite-only phase at least until the Spring. ReadWriteWeb readers, however, can try Spool out without waiting for an invite.
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Twitter is Easier to Eat When It’s StrawberryJ.am (Invites)
Oct 27th
Startup StrawberryJ.am takes any Twitter feed, List, search, hashtag or other incarnation and filters it for just the most retweeted Tweets that include links in a stream. It’s like a highlight tape displayed in a full-featured interface complete with community discussion call-outs, Instapaper integration and time-release retweeting features. It’s simple and cool.
Still in closed beta, the service will allow the first 300 people who use the invite code “jamwithrww” to create an account. It’s a very handy way to make sure you catch the hot stuff in any rivulet making up the roaring river of tweets in your Twitter. I’ve got big fat Twitter Lists running through it and it’s great. Not without its shortcomings, but for a private beta it’s awesome.
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Twitter offers a great combination of structured, real-time, publicly available data produced by a diverse range of people online. That means its just begging for strategic filtering along the lines of one field in the data or another. Strawberryj.am doesn’t seem complicated: it seems to just look at a stream of Tweets, exclude any without links in their text, then look at the field of metadata in each remaining Tweet that displays the number of times that Tweet has been retweeted and passes through any that have a number higher than one in that space.
You could do that yourself, but now you don’t have to. This service also offers all kinds of nice interface and utility elements as well. Like integration of Instapaper for later offline reading and Buffer (our review, but seems a lot like Socialflow to me) for time-released Tweeting.
The interface isn’t completely intuitive and the server creaks a little on big lists, but it’s coming along well I think. See also KnowAbout.it.
I like this idea and it clearly speaks to larger trends about filtering high-quality topical content from the fire hose of user generated content. Strawberryj.am is a handy tool to have in your tool belt for tackling an overwhelming river of news.
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Google+ Adds Search, Google Invites Everyone to Join
Sep 20th
Google’s social network is leaving their field trial and entering an open beta: nearly anybody can now register. Along with the public release, Google announced the addition of search features to Google+.
Plus is Public, Searchable
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Want Early Access to Spotify? 300 Invites Available Here
Jul 14th
Spotify has finally arrived in the U.S., the company announced this morning. But the full rollout is still underway. Interested customers are being asked to sign up for an invite on the company’s homepage, if they haven’t already done so.
But regular (and fast!) ReadWriteWeb readers wanting to cut in line can get their invite now, no waiting.
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But thanks to the folks at Chevy,* the first 300 ReadWriteWeb readers to click this link will get immediate access to Spotify, courtesy of a special invite code. First come, first serve.
Enjoy!
And, as always, thanks for reading.
*Note this is NOT a paid promotion, just a fun freebie
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Don’t Fall for Facebook Scam Promising Google Plus Invites
Jul 13th
Since its debut, Google Plus invites have been a hot ticket on the Internet. As with any topic that becomes a meme or goes viral, scammers are taking advantage of the popularity of Google Plus and baiting users into clicking on false leads promising invites to Google’s social network.
Facebook is no different. The world’s largest social network is a common vector for malware attackers. The phishing attack is the same as almost any other Facebook scam – it promises something it cannot deliver and attempts to hook you and your friends into the application and then take control of your Facebook account. The irony of the situation, of course, is that scammers are taking advantage of users’ lust for a different social network in order to hijack their Facebook pages.
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The app works like this: In a user’s newsfeed they will see a post for something along the lines of the “Unofficial Google Plus Fan Page” promising an invite and the ability to invite 50 of your friends. Once you install the application it will ask you to “like” the page, even before you have seen it. You will then be able to invite 50 of your friends to Google Plus through the familiar “suggest a friend” interface. Friends who receive the invite will think that you have checked out Google Plus or the application and think it is safe.
“What we end up with is many thousands of people who have given a third party application, written by persons unknown, complete access to their Facebook page,” wrote Graham Cluley of Sophos Security. “That means they can later use your Facebook account to post spam messages, distribute other money-making scams, steal your personal information, and post in your name.”
This Facebook scam is almost identical to many other Facebook scams that have come before. Substitute the words “Osama bin Laden” or “Barack Obama” or “Michael Jackson” instead of Google Plus and it would look an awful lot like rogue applications that have run through Facebook before.
The best prevention for these types of attacks is common sense. Do not click on links that look suspicious and do not give random third-party applications access to your Facebook page. Cluley and Sophos have a short video that shows the steps needed to remove malicious applications from your Facebook account. Check it out below.
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