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World wide web

06.02.09

Microsoft’s Bing vs. Google search World wide web | (1)
Microsoft just relaunched its search engine Live and renamed it to Bing to make a fresh start. Despite the fact that it has several interesting features like playing flash videos within the actual search results by hovering or additional site information to the right of almost every search result, it - sorry to say - still disappoints. For example, searching for Linux in Bing shows Microsoft product placement within the search suggestions. Though this lets every IT professional grin from ear to ear, it could have major impact on "not so professional" people when they want to see what "this so ...
05.25.09

Towel Day 2009 World wide web | (1)
Fellows in our company asked me why I'm wearing this nice and shiny new accessoire around my neck the whole day and the answer is rather simple: It's Towel Day! So long Douglas, and thanks for all the fish!
05.24.09

Last.fm profile gone for good reason World wide web | (0)
I just hit the panic button and deleted my Last.fm profile after I've read a german blog post at Koehntopp's blog and afterwards several articles at Techcrunch. 116.186 plays down the drain, but for good reason. It seems that CBS, Last.fm's parent company, requested user data related to the leak of an U2 album to actually forward this data to the RIAA. Although I haven't been some kind of a target, this is unacceptable for me since I'm interested in where my data is being used and for what purpose it gets stored. Koehntopp already mentioned this two years ago, now it ...
04.22.09

Germany’s Internet strike because of possible censorship World wide web | (0)
I just want to share a really cool and well-attended campaign with you which deals with the Internet censorship efforts of the german government. The Spreeblick, an oft-cited weblog here in Germany, is on strike today because the german government probably pass the internet censorship law today. Everybody's invited to place a marker on a map to support the people moving against Internet censorship. (Link to image) Besides that, things are getting worse here since the law's text actually doesn't refer to child pornography anymore, but rather to a list of websites being blocked by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). That ...
04.17.09

Opinion on Germany’s possible internet censorship World wide web | (6)
This morning Germany's family minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) met with people from major internet provider to sign an agreement which deals with the establishment of a DNS based filtering system to prevent people from accessing child pornography. Let me say this at the very beginning: Fighting child pornography is the right thing to do. I condemn child pornography in the strongest possible terms, but here in Germany a lot of people have no doubt that this is just an attempt to bring internet censorship to Germany with sailing under false colors. It'll be the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) ...