| Blogger Disappeared in China: This Week in Online Tyranny Xu Zhiyong disappeared in Beijing. The lawyer and blogger (PDF) disappeared last Friday, telling friends he was being "taken away to the suburbs." He was seen with unidentified men. He may be facing a resuscitation of tax charges he saw levied against him in 2009. He is one of many bloggers and activists detained and disappeared in the wake of an abortive "Jasmine Revolution" inspired by the Arab Spring.
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Look Out, Future: Ubuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman Joins Locker Project & Singly After seven years as the Chief Technology Officer of the world's leading Linux distro Ubuntu, Matt Zimmerman announced today that he's leaving that position to join a technology project we said was "aimed directly at the future of the web" when we wrote first about it earlier this year: open source personal data locker platform The Locker Project and its corporate counterpart, Singly. Singly was co-founded by Jeremie Miller, creator of XMPP, the open source foundation of most of the instant messaging in the world. Adding Zimmerman to the team is huge news.
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91 Years of BoxOffice Magazine Online Nearly 3,000 issues of the Hollywood trade magazine BoxOffice have been posted online for free. BoxOffice has been publishing movie news since its beginning in 1920 and continues today. The years 1920-1924, 1927 and 1933-1934 are still being digitized, while the rest are already available, according to the magazine, in a section of the site called The Vault. "Each week we post five issues from our vast archive which covers everyone from John Barrymore to Drew Barrymore. (Before 1933, Boxoffice was published under different names in various parts of the U.S.)."
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Can National Geographic Still Wow Us? On Flipboard, It Can What do you get when you combine history's most famous source of photography from around the world with the hottest media consumption app on the hottest media consumption technology platform in years? With today's addition of National Geographic to last year's iPad App of Year, Flipboard, we will soon find out. Filpboard works with many different publishers to display their content in its striking interface. The core of the Flipboard experience, though, remains media items from a user's own social stream. Its margins are made up of things like well-crafted Twitter lists or Google Reader folders set up to deliver cross-publisher real-time "magazines" unlike anything the traditional magazine world has ever been able to deliver. If you could look at anything on Flipboard - would you want to look at National Geographic? Is National Geographic still awesome enough to blow our minds, even in Flipboard on an iPad, when the whole web is at our fingertips? I think it is.
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Calling All Geeks: Apply Now to Demo in NYC at ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit Have you got an awesome technology that captures some of the potential of the new read/write Web? We want to see the most exciting projects you've got demonstrated live in New York City next month at the ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit at Columbia University June 13 and14. Our past events have included a segment called Speed Geeking and the fast-paced but intimate format has been such a big hit with attendees that we're bringing it back for this event. How does it work? Small groups, fast demos, rotate! It's a great way to see a lot of tech up close.
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Judge Rules Against Google and Facebook in Social Patent Infringement Case Wireless Ink Corp has won the first round of a patent lawsuit against both Google and Facebook. The search and social companies failed to get Wireless Ink's infringement tossed and now Wireless Ink can pursue charges pertaining to user participation in social networks on mobile devices against the tech giants . Wireless Ink is the creator behind Winksite, described by us in 2007 as a "mobile conversion and community site" that allows users to create mobile sites to engage users. According to Reuters, Winksite has 75,000 registered users versus millions of Facebook mobile users and potential millions of users for Google Buzz, which was also mentioned in the suit.
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Zero-Day "Cookiejacking" Hack Affects All IE Browsers, But Is It Serious? A sophisticated new hack has emerged as a zero-day exploit for all versions of Internet Explorer. Dubbed "cookiejacking," it is a way for hackers to take control of users browser identities and thus be able to impersonate them on Facebook, Twitter or any encrypted bank or retail site. A play off the now familiar "clickjacking" term, cookiejacking happens when a hacker gets a user to drag and drop an item on a website enabled for the hack. It was discovered by Italian security researcher Rosario Valotta, who presented his findings it at two European security conferences earlier this year before publishing them on his blog. Given the nature of the attack and specificity of the attack, is this something that Internet Explorer users really need to worry about?
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Defending Innovation and Net Neutrality at eG8 [Video] At the eG8, 20th century ideas clashed with the 21st century economy. The inaugural eG8 forum, held in Paris before the G-8 summit of global leaders, showed that online innovation and freedom of expression still need strong defenders. As Nancy Scola reported at techPresident, at the eG8, civil society groups re-staked their claim to the 'Net. Prior to the forum, organizations concerned with human rights, liberties and civil society released a statement to the eG8 and G8 that advocated "expanding Internet access for all, combating digital censorship and surveillance, limiting online intermediary liability, and upholding principles of net neutrality."
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LOLCats Get Serious: Comedy Network Hires Prominent Data Scientist "Analyzing large data sets--so called big data--will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus, as long as the right policies and enablers are in place," so writes giant consulting firm McKinsey Global Institute in a major new report this month on the topic. In LOLCat speak, that might read as Ceiling Cat sees what you are doing and thinks there's much to be gained by analyzing it. Those two ways of seeing big data will come together with today's hire of the first data scientist at the Cheezburger Network, Sean Power, co-author of the O'Reilly book Complete Web Monitoring and a leading voice on extraction of value from data online. With more than 400 million pageviews per month, Cheezburger offers a lot of data to analyze. The company is smart to make this hire now - the talent crunch in this field is expected to grow much worse, quickly.
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Google Unveils New Travel Search Feature, Does Not Include ITA Features Google is unveiling its new flight search feature today, which makes it easier to search for flight information within Google. Notably, Google says this does not include any of the services it acquired with its controversial acquisition of ITA, the flight data search company Google bought last year and went through nine months of regulatory oversight before being approved in April. The new flight schedule search feature is relatively minor by itself. It allows users to see all the flight schedules on a route as well as to explore all the outbound destinations from an airport. Yet, this is just a step in Google's plans to take over flight scheduling data and search. What can users expect when Google finally does integrate ITA software into its travel features?
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