Elizabeth Montalbano / InformationWeek:
White House Sets IPv6 Transition Deadlines — Moving to the next-gen Internet protocol standard will support agency modernization efforts, said U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra. — The White House has set deadlines for agencies to update IT networks to IPv6, finally addressing the issue …
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Internet pioneers protest Senate anti-piracy bill — Some of the rock stars of Internet engineering (yes, they exist) on Tuesday protested a Senate bill aimed at fighting online piracy, saying the legislation could lead to censorship and destabilize the architecture of the Web.
The Huffington Post:
Stop the Internet Blacklist — What’s Your Reaction: … When it really matters to them, Congressmembers can come together — with a panache and wry wit you didn’t know they had. As banned books week gets underway, and President Obama admonishes oppressive regimes for their censorship of the Internet …
Paul Graham / Y Combinator:
What Happens At Y Combinator — (We realized recently that a lot of people don’t understand very well what YC does, so I wrote something explaining that in detail. Since YC has been shaped by the needs of hundreds of early stage startups, this should be interesting not just to potential applicants …
Paul Graham / Hacker News:
What Happens At Y Combinator — (We realized recently that a lot of people don’t understand very well what YC does, so I wrote something explaining that in detail. Since YC has been shaped by the needs of hundreds of early stage startups, this should be interesting not just to potential applicants …
Mark Hendrickson / Ursus Rex:
How to Pitch A Tech Blogger — I’ve been asked privately quite a few times over the last couple of years how one should pitch their startup to a tech blog like TechCrunch, GigaOm, VentureBeat or ReadWriteWeb. So I’ve decided (quite selfishly) to write a post about the subject instead of repeating myself or re-forwarding emails.
Jonathan Allen / Search Engine Watch:
Propeller.com Spinning to a Stop — Social news site and once pretender to the Digg throne, Propeller, announced today that they are shutting down. — Propeller was the new name for NetScape’s social news experiment, a project which first emerged out of AOL as the killer app for the Netscape portal …
Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
Analysts See Uptick in Russia-registered Spam Domains — Researchers are seeing an uptick in the number of spam-related domains from Russian registrars, a sign that cybercriminals are choosing those providers due to lax enforcement. — An analysis of spam messages over the last month showed …
CircleID:
Domain Name Registrations Reaching 200 Million World Wide — The global base of domain names grew by more than 3 million in the second quarter of 2010, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, published by VeriSign, Inc. According to the report, the domain name industry ended …
Richard Esguerra / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Censorship of the Internet Takes Center Stage in “Online Infringement” Bill — Senator Patrick Leahy yesterday introduced the “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act” (COICA). This flawed bill would allow the Attorney General and the Department of Justice to break the Internet …