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Ryu leads Women’s Australian Open – USA TODAY
Feb 10th
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Ryu leads Women's Australian Open
USA TODAY MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – US Women's Open champion So Yeon Ryu shot a 4-under 69 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead over fellow South Korean player Hee Kyung Seo after the second round of the LPGA Tour's season-opening Women's Australian Open. South Korea's So Yeon Ryu shoots 4-under 69 to top Women's Australian Open … Ryu grabs lead at Women's Australian Open Ryu, Seo take charge at Australian Open |
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Today is Safer Internet Day
Feb 7th
Here at ReadWriteWeb, we encourage safer Internet use. We try to bring you the stories that help you navigate the World Wide Interwebs.
So we wanted to make sure you know that today is Safer Internet Day, and it’s meant especially for children and young people. Past Safer Internet Day themes have focused on cyberbullying and social networking. This year’s very apropos topic is “connecting generations.” How do we make sure everyone on the Internet – from young kids to grandparents – feel safe?
Safer Internet Day began as an initiative of the EU SafeBorders project in 2004. Today more than 70 countries worldwide on six of the seven continents participate. Take a look at the map after the jump.
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91% off Gen-Y’ers surveyed say that they have used the Internet in the bathroom from their mobile phones. Acts that take place in the bathroom are not exactly social – yet people are connecting to others from that private space. People use the Internet from their mobile phones less as the ages go up; only 41% of Internet users in the silent generation use their phones in the bathroom. From this study, one could infer that people who use the Internet less are safer – not so. Young people and older people are both vulnerable when it comes to the Internet.
This is exactly why Safer Internet Day is of vast importance.
In 1999, the European Commission created the Safer Internet Programme. Today, the Insafe network has set-up 30 Safer Internet Centres, one in each of the 27 EU states, in addition to Iceland, Norway and Russia. These Safer Internet Centers have an awareness center, helpline, hotline and youth panel.
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Internet Safety Facts and Stats
Safer Internet Day has also released some interesting facts about European Internet user experience and safety. Take a look:
- 26% of kids have a social networking profile
- 12% of European 9-16 year-olds say that something they saw on the Internet has bothered them
- 56% of parents whose kids received mean messages online had no idea that this had happened
- 1 in 8 parents do not mediate their kids’ Internet use
- 36% of 9-16 year-olds say that they know about the Internet than their parents
- 87% of kids use the Internet at home
- 48% of parents get online safety advice mostly from friends and family
- 63% of kids say they get online safety advice from their parents
Kids need to know about how to stay safe online – but if kids are coming to parents before teachers, relatives and peers, it is parents’ responsibility to know how to stay safe online.
To find out how you can participate in Safer Internet Day, go here: http://www.saferinternetday.org/web/guest/sid-2012
If you don’t have a national contact point, email the SID helpdesk at SID-helpdesk@eun.org. They can help you create your own.
Are you a parent of an Internet-using kid? Share your experience about Internet safety in the comments.
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Top Tech Video of the Day: My 2 Year Old Discovered Flickr Today
Feb 3rd
This is old (as in 2007 old). The kid in the video is now seven years old and undoubtably jailbreaks his iPhone and programs Arduino boards. But five years ago he was just a toddler with a bottle, and this was the first time he was on the Web and Fleek-ler!, as he called it, on his own. It was “the moment” – the moment when you first realize that moving the cursor and clicking the trackpad leads to discovery, and that discovery is a whole lot of fun.
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My son discovered Flickr today from Paul Mayne on Vimeo.
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Today In Facebook Scams: Is Chuck Norris Dead?
Jan 26th
Facebook scammers are spreading a vicious rumor on walls everywhere.
The headline reads: “[video] Chuck Norris dies at age 71! Not a Joke,” and is accompanied by a video of the star. You may remember Norris from such films as “The Karate Kid” and “Karate Kommandos,” and the CBS series “Walker, Texas Ranger.” The Naked Security blog reports that this is in fact another Facebook scam, and that Chuck Norris is still alive. What’s the deal behind this spam attack?
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Facebook users who have been targeted will see this on their Facebook walls:
[video] Chuck Norris dies at age 71! Not a Joke.
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See the video to find out how he died. News today of Chuck Norris death at age 71 has been met with confusion and humour, but sadly it is true.
Do not be alarmed! This is yet another rendition of the popular Starbucks gift card Facebook scam that tries to trick users into filling out a survey.
To report this scam, go to the Facebook Help Center. And if you have been attacked, be sure to change your password immediately.
Chuck Norris Spam Only Attacks Facebook Users, Not Associated Fan Pages
The Facebook Chuck Norris scam did not hit any of Chuck’s various pages, including Chuck’s “official Facebook Page,” where a January 20 post points to his reasons for endorsing Newt Gingrich pre-death scare. The Chuck Norris Athlete Facebook page has zero posts from anyone, aside from the announcement that Norris joined Facebook. Chuck also has a Fictional Character Facebook Page, which is written entirely in German.
But sometimes the scams do hit fan pages, tweets Naked Security’s Graham Cluley. Celebrity spam attacks have targeted actual Facebook fan pages, such as the Lady Gaga iPad scam and the Van Gogh Museum. “If a scam takes over the account of a Facebook page admin, it can post to their FB page,” tweets Cluley.
Images via Naked Security and ChuckNorris.com.
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Priceline’s Shatner ‘Negotiator’ Makes His Last Deal Today
Jan 23rd
Perhaps not since “The Sweet Hereafter” has there ever been a more pivotal bus crash shown on TV or in the movies. Today Priceline begins a new ad campaign that shows the death of its William Shatner “Negotiator” character. (Sorry, but you might as well see the ad, get the ending up front.) For those of you that haven’t seen the movie based on a Russell Banks story, it is worth renting just for Ian Holm’s wonderful performance. But back to Priceline and Shatner.
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Shatner is still under contract with Priceline for another year, and has been the spokesmodel for the company for 14 years, one of the most enduring relationships in modern advertising times. Ironically, he was given stock warrants that were worth $10 million at the time of the company’s IPO, which he sold at the bottom of the market. These shares would be worth $5 million today: you could say that he didn’t negotiate the best deal for himself.
Priceline is using the bus crash ad to spread the word about its pay-full-price service: most of us know them for their deals for low prices on unknown hotels. It probably is a good reminder, and is as campy as the other ads involving Shatner, who in a blaze of glory, helps the passengers off before plunging to his filmic and fiery death.
As a teen when the original Star Trek series was first run on network TV, I was a big fan of James T. Kirk, the original character that Shatner played before becoming a self-parody with such delicious roles as a worn-out beauty pageant executive, an eccentric lawyer, a womanizing cop and a hyperbolic pitchman. And then there are the numerous spoken-word recordings too. Now, don’t get all hot and bothered: I love the guy, and his wooden portrayal of Kirk set the gold standard for other Trek leaders, including the only woman starship commander Kathryn Janeway, played by Kate Mulgrew. Mulgrew had her own role as pitching IBM’s OS/2, which was nicknamed Warp after the series.
So goodbye Bill. May you continue to live long and prosper.
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64 Billion Plays: What Online Music Looks Like Today (Infographic)
Jan 20th
In 2011, we collectively listened to 64,876,491,602 songs on the Internet. Whether it was on YouTube, SoundCloud, Rdio or MySpace, the citizens of the Web listened to quite a lot of music last year. Bands and musicians made over 3 billion new fans, who viewed artist profiles over 16 billion times. These are just a few data points recently released by Next Big Sound, a startup that tracks the popularity of music and individual artists across a range of digital music providers and social services.
Digital music only continues to grow and mature, as streaming services explode, Internet radio companies go public and developers begin using the power of open APIs to mash up sounds and services. SoundCloud alone saw 231% growth last year, while Twitter saw a 104% increase in music-related activity.
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The top artists on the Web are mostly unsurprising. You knew that people can’t get enough Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, for better or worse. Rihanna. Katy Perry. Adele. No shockers there.
What’s interesting, though, is how the Web is paving the way for unsigned, independent artists to reach levels of popularity that rival major label acts. This is especially true on SoundCloud, where unsigned artists flock to upload their recordings. But even across the larger Web, three unsigned artists broke into Next Big Sound’s “Social 50″ list, which chronicles, the 50 biggest artists across all of the social and music sites that they track.
These numbers, while impressive, should be taken with a grain of salt. Next Big Sound has gone to great lengths to pull data from sources like YouTube, Rdio, Last.fm, Pandora, SoundCloud and several others. One service missing from their list is Spotify, which just launched in the U.S. this past summer and has seen enormous growth since then. Still, it looks like they’re using a pretty hefty sample of online music data to draw their conclusions. You can take a closer look at their methodology. if you’re curious.
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Daily Wrap: SOPA Garners Mainstream Attention Today and More
Jan 18th
Joe Brockmeier explains what he wishes everyone was saying about SOPA. This and more in today’s Daily Wrap.
Sometimes it’s difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well.
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What I Wish Wikipedia and Others Were Saying About SOPA/PIPA
Though the attention lavished on SOPA, and her sister bill in the Senate, PIPA, was incredible, Joe Brockmeier wishes internet companies had deepened their message. We may have quashed SOPA this session, but it will be back in some new form, thanks to the cozy relationship the entertainment industry has with our legislators and because most people in America do not have any idea what Congress is doing on their behalf. The SOPA blackout was a welcome and powerful statement, but Joe wishes they’d have sent a message that we need to oversee our law makers, lest we have to do this again very soon.
From the comments:
Danielle Morrill — “Yes yes yes, this is exactly it! I agree and we need to all become more vigilant. I also implore you, as a member of the news media who is paying attention – please help us stay informed. Government is big and complex and we laymen have work to accomplish day-to-day. Help us find information, point us to new sources, new ideas. Challenge us. Its not that we can’t think, but simply that we are busy producing and I personally feel their are few news sorces that give me the facts, respect my intelligence, and dig in deep.”
More Must Read Stories:
Stop SOPA: What A Blacked Out Internet Looks Like
The Internet is fighting back.
Today, hundreds of websites including some of the largest and most influential sites in the world are going black to fight the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act. The two acts would give unprecedented power to the government of the United States to order blocking and takedown notices of foreign websites found to be infringing on copyrighted material such as movies and music. The drumbeat is loud and most of the U.S. technology industry has come out against SOPA/PIPA. (more)
With Today’s Protests, SOPA Becomes a Mainstream Issue
Something big is happening on the Internet today, as you may have noticed. Yes, the English version of Wikipedia is blacked out, as are Craigslist, Reddit, Boing Boing and O’Reilly Radar. Google, Mozilla, Wired.com and WordPress all have put up some kind of anti-SOPA graphic or statement. Many of those that aren’t blacking out text or turning their sites off are nonetheless posting updates expressing sympathy for the movement. All of this is significant, but what is perhaps most interesting is the collective effect these protests are having: Today, SOPA becomes a mainstream issue. (more)
Wikipedia Goes Dark, News Orgs Say “I Got This”
Wikipedia, Reddit, Craigslist, Mozilla, and many other vital websites have gone dark today to protest SOPA and PIPA, the twin online piracy bills Congress is working on. The blackout is certainly attracting attention, but it’s also causing frustration, especially for unaware Wikipedia users. (more)
Amazon Takes Another Pass at NoSQL with DynamoDB
Amazon’s Dynamo paper (PDF) is the paper that launched a thousand NoSQL databases, if you’ll pardon a twisted metaphor and wee bit of exaggeration. The paper inspired, at least in part, Apache Cassandra, Voldemort, Riak and other projects. Now Amazon is making its own take on Dynamo, melded with SimpleDB, available for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. (more)
What Mark Zuckerberg Says About SOPA/PIPA
Today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg voiced his personal opposition to the proposed SOPA/PIPA legislation, joining the ranks of fellow Internet powerhouses Google, Wikipedia, Craigslist and Reddit.
“The Internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected world,” writes Zuck. “We can’t let poorly thought out laws get in the way of the Internet’s development.” (more)
How One Higher Education Institute Is Protesting SOPA/PIPA
Today hundreds of websites are participating in a virtual anti-SOPA/PIPA sit-in: Google, Reddit, Craigslist, Wikipedia, WordPress, Mozilla, MoveOn.org, O’Reilly and The Oatmeal, to name a few. Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (iSchool) is the only higher education institute to join the list of Internet powerhouse sites. (more)
Apple’s iPhone Strategy Cutting Into Android Market Share
Apple’s strategy to take over the lead in the smartphone market from Android is working. In new numbers from research firm Nielsen, 37% of recent (within the last three months) smartphone buyers chose the iPhone, well above the 25.1% that did so in October 2011. Android still holds the market lead but the margin is beginning to shrink. (more)
The Effect of Samsung’s Dominance
The king of digital devices is ready to impose its will on the rest of the ecosystem in 2012. It is lining up billions of dollars in investments and is rumored to be in on every significant acquisition or partnership. Its empire sprawls across televisions, smartphones, laptops and computer processors. What is Apple doing now, you might ask. That would be the wrong question. The biggest influencer of the entire digital ecosystem does not hail from Cupertino. Look across the Pacific to South Korea. There, you will find Samsung. (more)
Yammer And Other Virtual Workspaces Have Real Problems
One of the unexpected perks of starting work at ReadWriteWeb in December? No more Yammer.
This, of course, is more of a company culture problem than anything Yammer can control. Yammer continues to grow, and the enterprise social network space is where companies who are conceding truly social networking dominance to Facebook, Google+ and Twitter, will seek to grow. (more)
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A Reliable SEO Company from India is Steadfast in Offering Guaranteed Service – Industry Today (press release)
Jan 9th
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A Reliable SEO Company from India is Steadfast in Offering Guaranteed Service
Industry Today (press release) 3G Logic is one of the foremost companies online for reliable SEO solutions. You can find comprehensive web solution right at your finger tips. Posted via Industry Today. Are you into it? Follow us on Twitter @IndustryToday SEO Company India is widely … |
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Developing monolayer graphene for transparent conduction in nitride … – Semiconductor Today
Jan 1st
 Semiconductor Today |
Developing monolayer graphene for transparent conduction in nitride …
Semiconductor Today Korean and US researchers have compared the performance of graphene as a transparent conducting electrode (TCE) on the p-contact of nitride semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with indium tin oxide (ITO) [Tae Hoon Seo et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., … |
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IndusWebi Technologies Adds New SEO, SMO and PPC Packages to their Offerings – Newswire Today (press release)
Dec 29th
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IndusWebi Technologies Adds New SEO, SMO and PPC Packages to their Offerings
Newswire Today (press release) IndusWebi is one of the top SEO companies in India and it provides SMO, PPC, Web Designing, Web Development and SEO services in India. The company has recently announced new offers on various SEO, SMO and PPC packages for the first time. … Web SEO Services, an Upcoming SEO Company from India, Gets New Redesigned … |
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