Andrew McLaughlin / The Huffington Post:
An Open Letter to Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt … Dear Tarek: — The news anchors are reporting that Egypt’s Cabinet has just submitted its resignation, and a new Prime Minister has been appointed. As Egypt’s Minister of Communications …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web — I’ve now been working and blogging about web technology long enough to see technologies that we once thought were the best thing since sliced bread turn out to be rather poor solutions to the problem or even worse …
Pete Barlas / Investor’s Business Daily:
Tech Companies Line Up Their Super Bowl Ads — The Super Bowl for Internet and other tech advertisers has become a story of a few stalwart players who return year after year and some transients who suit up for a year or two, then drop out. — For the Feb. 6 National Football League title game …
Joshua E. Keating / Foreign Policy:
Can Governments Really ‘Block’ Twitter? — Not really. The domain name is inaccessible, but it’s not that hard to get around. — This week, Egypt became the latest Middle Eastern country to see massive anti-government street demonstrations. As in Tunisia earlier this month and Iran last year …
Julie / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
MasterCard’s Support for COICA Threatens A Free And Open Internet — In the last months of 2010, the WikiLeaks wars reminded transparency activists of something copyright and trademark lawyers know all too well – online speech is only as strong as the many service providers on which it depends.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Verizon Starts Bundling Broadband Services With Google Apps To Small Business Customers — This is interesting. Verizon has just announced that it is bundling broadband with Google Apps for its small business customers. — Called Google Apps for Verizon, the package combines Google’s …
Michael Lopp / Rands In Repose:
Interview: Marco Arment — On my list of horrendously bungled acquisitions, I put Delicious near the top. Since its acquisition by Yahoo in 2005, the biggest user-facing change to the site was a visual refresh in 2008. Even with this rampant feature stagnation, I’d stuck with the site …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
DOJ pressed for details on Internet tracking plan — Members of Congress chided the U.S. Department of Justice today for suggesting a new law requiring Internet companies to keep records of user activity, but not disclosing details on how it should be crafted to aid criminal investigations.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Justice Department seeks mandatory data retention — Criminal investigations “are being frustrated” because no law currently exists to force Internet providers to keep track of what their customers are doing, the U.S. Department of Justice will announce tomorrow.
Groklaw:
How Not to Get Snookered by Claims of “Proof” of Copyright Infringement — I guess you heard that Florian Mueller is at it again. He made strong claims of a smoking gun regarding alleged copyright infringement of Oracle files by Google. Well, in the cold light of day …