SOCIAL MEDIA & INTERNET SATURDAY IN-DEPTH: 100 Breaking News & Top Stories 8/9

• Who Made That Twitter Bird?
  Sunday, August 10, 2014 from NYT > Twitter
  The streamlining of Larry, the first of several iconic tweet logos.
• Facebook’s Change of Face
  Sunday, August 10, 2014 from NYT > Social Media
  Alongside family photos and cat videos, Facebook feeds now include commentary on the Israel-Palestine conflict. To longtime users, the shift is jarring.
• Facebook Bans Like-Gating: What Can Marketers Do?
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social media
  Starting November 5, 2014 (and August 7, 2014 for all new apps) like-gating will no longer be allowed on Facebook Pages. This policy change is a sign that even Facebook knows that the size of a Page’s like count isn’t as valuable as much...
• How Do You React When Your Favorite Social Network Goes Down? Question of the Week
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from HootSuite Social Media Management
  It always ends up happening on your first day back at work after a long weekend, or at 4:45 when the day is winding down. You have a ton... Read More The post How Do You React When Your Favorite Social Network Goes Down? Question of the ...
• New Pinterest Messages: This Week in Social Media
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Social Media Examiner
  Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? New Pinterest Messages Encourag...
• How to Plan Your Content Marketing Strategy
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social media
  It’s ironic that the word content has two meanings. The first is a state of peaceful happiness and the second is substance dealt with in speech, literary work, etc. This blog post obviously pertains to the latter, but what’s ironic is th...
• 6 Ways to Use Social Media for Actionable Insight
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social media
  Listening to what people say about you, your company or your brand using social media is just the beginning. Companies are moving beyond monitoring to leverage social media data for actionable insights to inform content, develop strategi...
• Strangers all over the world sign up to save Elaine
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Social Media news
  Stephanie Reynolds launched a Facebook campaign to find a kidney donor for her dying mother. They have been overwhelmed by the response, finds Sarah Chalmers
• Inquiry Seeks Twitter User in Brooklyn Bridge Flag Case
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > Social Media
  A lawyer for a Twitter user who claimed responsibility for putting white flags on the bridge said the site had received a subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney’s office in a bid to identify his client.
• Instagram Launches Fast Direct Messaging Photo App – Bolt
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from SocialMediaNews.com.au
  
• Facebook Messenger Switch Controversy Is Part Misunderstanding, Part Mistrust
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from NYT > Social Media
  Facebook users are angry over a forced migration to the company’s Messenger app and worried about its privacy implications. Are they overreacting?
• Social Media Jobs: Here Media, Mistress, SFG Media Group
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from AllFacebook
  This week, Here Media is hiring an integrated marketing manager , while Mistress is seeking a mid-level social strategist/analyst . SFG Media Group needs a social media editor , and i.TV/tvtag is on the hunt for a social media manager . ...
• Like-Gate 2014: Facebook Bans Like-Gating. What Does This Mean for Marketers? 3 Tips!
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Meltwater » Social Media Blog
  First it was the organic reach throttle, now it’s Like-Gating: Facebook is cracking down on brands again for policies that they themselves encouraged as a free and easy way to get more Facebook fans, and it has the marketing world ...
• In Turnaround Try, Puma Taps Troublemakers
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from MediaPost.com: social
  A spokesperson tells "Marketing Daily" that the brand campaign brings "the values of determination, confidence, bravery and joy to the world of sport. 'Faster' is how Puma will challenge the rule breakers and ignite the trendsetters as a...
• Dating Survey Shows Instagram Fuels Men’s Jealousy
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from SocialTimes.com
  In the age of selfies, social photo networks enable jealousy. That’s certainly the case for men dating women with popular Instagram accounts, as noted by WhatsYourPrice. The dating service conducted a survey of 611 users and found ...
• Vine Competitor Groopie Lets Vloggers Create TV-Style Shows Together
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from TechCrunch » Social
   YouTube stars are more popular among today’s U.S. teens than Hollywood celebs, a recent study found. Hoping to capitalize on this trend, a new social video network called Groopie has just launched on iPhone, allowing the next...
• Social Media's Biggest Turn Offs
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Forbes - Social Media
  A look at what will get you unfriended, unliked, and ignored on social networking sites like Twitter this year. Results are from a survey of 3,000 social networking specialists conducted by marketing firm SocialToaster in Baltimore, Md.
• Facebook Kills Another Proven Tool For Brands To Promote Pages And User Engagement
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Forbes - Social Media
  Alongside a change to the social graph API, Facebook announced a tweak to the platform policies. Developers will no longer be allowed to "incentivize people to use social plugins or to like a Page." Will brands be willing to pay more for...
• Judge to review Facebook posts of rape accuser
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! News
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey judge has ordered a teen who accused a man of rape to turn over access to her Facebook account, providing another example of social media's growing use in courtrooms and the resulting privacy concerns.
• Twitch Silences Archived Video
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from SocialTimes.com
  Twitch, the online video streaming service, has been growing rapidly in recent years . And now amid rumors of a takeover by YouTube, Twitch has made some odd choices for how the site is going to deal with music copyright issues and archi...
• Facebook is demolishing the like gate
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Inside Facebook
  When you like a Facebook page, Facebook wants to make sure you really like that page. The company announced recently that it will end the process known as the like gate, where users would have to...
• Weave Adds Groups And Events To Its ‘Tinder For Networking’ App
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from TechCrunch » Social
   Professional networking app Weave wants to help professionals find others that they’d like to meet with, through a double opt-in selection process. Now it’s making it easier for users going to events or part of professi...
• We Need to Talk About the TSA’s Batsh*t Insane Instagram Account
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from WebProNews » Social Media
  No, I don’t want to talk about how you feel about the TSA. I know the TSA harasses old ladies and makes cute little children cry. I know the TSA probably touched your wiener one time and you really hated …
• Two Tap On Ecommerce 'Buy' Button For Any Mobile App, Web Page
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from MediaPost.com: social
  Engineers at Two Tap have developed an automated universal shopping cart that works with any product or application online, similar to Facebook's and Twitter's commerce "buy" buttons allowing consumers to make purchases from feeds and ad...
• Meet The Company That Can Teach Facebook And Google To Sell Advertising
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Forbes - Social Media
  A company called Relative Insight has the power to revolutionise the way brands like Google and Facebook sell advertising.
• You Might Not "Like" This, But You Should
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from MediaPost | Social Media Insider
  Boy, it's been a hard year for the Facebook "like" -- because, well, no one likes it anymore. First came the news that a simple "like" was useless -- to advertisers anyway --because it has long ago stopped meaning that consumers who "lik...
• Class-Action Suit vs. Facebook Referred to Another Court in Vienna, Austria
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from AllFacebook
  The class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook last week  by Austrian law student Max Schrems and his Europe Versus Facebook group , which reached the plaintiff-imposed limit of 25,000 participants  earlier this week, now just needs to ...
• WarKitteh: A Cat Collar for Hacking Neighborhood Wi-Fi
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from SocialTimes.com
  This year’s DEF CON hacker convention in Las Vegas will feature a special kitty-themed device: The WarKitteh, a special cat collar that can sniff out your unsecured Wi-Fi. Put the collar on your mobile feline of choice, and it will...
• Facebook Nixes Pages Promotion, Marketers Unfazed
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from MediaPost.com: social
  In the name of more authentic connections, Facebook is prohibiting the promotion of brand Pages and social plug-ins with what it considers to be "artificial incentives" like "rewards," and access to apps and content.
• Melissa Jun Rowley: Dear Gawker, Not All 'Sketchy' Neighborhoods Are Black Neighborhoods
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Social Media on Huffington Post
• Valerie Lee: An Instagram Worth a Thousand Likes: What Our Photos Are Really Saying About Us
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Facebook on Huffington Post
• Snapchat Authorizes Mystery Share Sale
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Forbes - Social Media
  Newly filed documents show the company authorized the sale of 17.4 million shares at just 0.001 cents per share earlier this week, possibly tied to a real investment.
• Autoscale: How Facebook Makes Its Software Infrastructure More Energy-Efficient
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from AllFacebook
  Facebook’s energy-conservation efforts aren’t limited to the hardware at its data centers : The social network aims to make its software infrastructure more energy-efficient, as well, and one of the ways it is doing so is via Autoscale, ...
• Facebook Bites the Hand that Feeds – Again
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Ignite Social Media
  Facebook has added a ban on incentivizing likes to its continued war on marketers. Add this to spiraling reach and an algorithm that at this point requires witchcraft (or a massive ad spend) to deliver content effectively for brands and ...
• Smokey Bear: Bring it in for a #SmokeyBearHug
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Social Media on Huffington Post
• Infographic: Clearly Canadian is one of the top Facebook brands in the U.S.?
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Inside Facebook
  In July, the most engaged Facebook brand in the U.S. was Clearly Canadian — according to the latest report by Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer Socialbakers. The bubbly drink brand had an engagement rate of 10.27 percent,...
• Line and Gumi team up to take Japanese mobile gaming to a global audience
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from VentureBeat » social
  This strategic partnership is part of Gumi's plan to "become the top provider of smartphone and feature phone social games in the world."
• INFOGRAPHIC: Clearly Canadian Tops Brands in July U.S. Facebook Engagement
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from AllFacebook
  The top 20 brands on Facebook boasted an average of 14,726,045 likes  at the end of July and averaged 40 posts for the month, according to the most recent statistics from social media analytics platform Socialbakers . (more…) New ...
• Report: Facebook touting Oculus Rift to Hollywood studios
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Social Media News Headlines - Yahoo! News
  The social network has been meeting with cinematic luminaries about creating content specifically for its recently acquired virtual reality headset. According to The Information, Facebook has been busy in recent weeks holding meetings wi...
• The 10 best SlideShares every social media enthusiast must read
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Next Web » Social Media
  This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. One of my favorite visual social networks—and one that probably flies under the radar compared to other visual spots—is SlideShare. Browse through the featured slidedecks, and you can fin...
• Julia LeStage: Talking on Sunshine; WX GEEKS, the Weather Channel's New Sunday Show
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Social Media on Huffington Post
• Insurers Plan to Use Social Media More
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from MediaPost.com: social
  A large majority of U.S. insurers (86%) plan to increase their use of social media next year, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service, which surveyed 42 life insurers and 24 property & casualty insurers about their plans.
• Facebook unveils Autoscale, its load-balancing system that achieves an average power saving of 10-15%
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from The Next Web » Social Media
  Facebook today revealed details about Autoscale, a system for power-efficient load balancing that has been rolled out to production clusters in its data centers. The company says it has “demonstrated significant energy savings.” For thos...
• WARNING: Facebook Color Changer App Will Only Turn Victims Bright Red
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from AllFacebook
  What’s wrong with Facebook blue, anyway? The promise of changing the colors of users’ Facebook profiles  is once again being used to bait victims of the scam  into installing malware , according to Cheetah Mobile . (more…) New Car...
• Pinterest Adds Messaging to Enable Conversations
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from SocialTimes.com
  Pinterest has added lots of new features over the last year — and they just keep coming. The latest addition to the site is the ability to have private, Pin-based conversations . To be clear, you could always comment on a Pin and e...
• Twitter Axes Bing-Powered Translations
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from WebProNews » Social Media
  About a year ago, Twitter began offering instant tweet translations, powered by Bing. As with any basic translation tool, it wasn’t always the most accurate thing around, but it worked in many instances. And now it’s gone. Th...
• The DeanBeat: Will China rule the world of gaming?
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from VentureBeat » social
  China has the financial power, but the West still has its creativity.
• Foursquare plans to relaunch ‘Lists’ feature as power users panic
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from VentureBeat » social
  No, Foursquare technically didn’t kill “Lists” in its latest update. But the feature, a favorite among power users, will relaunch “in a big way,” according to Foursquare chief Dennis Crowley. The Lists featu...
• Newly Engaged Couples on Facebook; Statistics, and How Marketers Can Target Them
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from AllFacebook
  Is there a change in Facebook users’ habits after they become engaged (as in engaged to each other, not to content on the social network)? Yes, according to Facebook, which said in a post on the Facebook for Business page  that engaged m...
• Native Advertising: The New New Thing or a Race to the Bottom? [VIDEO]
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Social Media Today - The world's best thinkers on social media
  In the wake of John Oliver’s epic rant against native advertising on his show, "Last Week Tonight" (second video, below), Robin Carey and I sat down to discuss the implications. We talked about whether or not Oliver’s claims were justifi...
• Nominate Your Favourite .EU Website For The .EU Web Awards
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS
  [news release] Give your favourite .eu website the chance to win an online media package worth 5 000 EUR in the .eu Web Awards, hosted by the .eu registry EURid. Read More...
• Exploring the Legal Basis for the New ‘Pirate’ Proxy War
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from TorrentFreak
  This week, police took unprecedented action by shutting down proxies facilitating access to torrent sites blocked in the UK. With the surprise arrest of the sites' alleged operator leaving people scratching heads, TorrentFreak decided to...
• DNS Belgium Warns Watch Out For Similar Domain Names
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS
  [news release] We recently received reports detailing a far-reaching type of fraud. The fraudsters reserve a domain name that strongly resembles the actual domain name of a web shop and build an accurate replica of the site of this web s...
• Google to pay $250 million to fight illegal online pharmacies
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Phys.org: Internet News
  Google has agreed in a court settlement to spend at least $250 million over the next five years to help fight illegal online pharmacies selling to US customers, documents showed Friday.
• Roundup: Best of TechRadar: this week's best features and hottest reviews
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from TechRadar: Internet news
  This tiny device can tell you more than you ever wanted to know What is in that watermelon? How many grams of sugar are in this gin and tonic I'm about to drink? While our smartphones have made it easy to research facts, capture images a...
• When PayPal refuses buyers protection against eBay fraud
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from E-commerce | The Guardian
  Selling on eBay? Don't accept PayPal if the buyer is collecting in person as one used-car seller found to his cost If you are thinking of selling on eBay, don't accept PayPal if the buyer wants to collect in person. Ask Philip Ryan. He r...
• Hacking group wants to play nice with automakers
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Reuters: Internet News
  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A group of well-known hackers and security professionals are trying to build better ties with the auto industry in an effort to enlist their help in improving vehicle security, one of the hottest areas of cyber rese...
• Twitter Confusion Over Gaza Conflict And Alcoholic Ex-Soccer Player Known As Gazza
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from International Business Times
  As the conflict in Gaza moves into a second month, confusion reigns among soccer fans on Twitter over an ex-footballer named Paul Gascoigne, known in the United Kingdom by his nickname, Gazza.
• ICANN: ICG Charter Open for Public Comments
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS
  On July 18, the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group ( ICG ) produced a draft charter [PDF, 43.7 KB] that defines its own tasks. The ICG views defining the broad outlines of its charter as important, but it views finalizing the...
• ICANN: Fellowship Application Round Opens for ICANN 52 in Marrakech
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS
  About the Fellowship Program: Since its creation in 2007, the Fellowship Program has had over 1000 successful fellowships. Today many of these individuals are actively participating in all of the ICANN communities as leaders in At Large,...
• DC Constituencies Start to Coalesce on Principles for the IANA Transition and Enhanced ICANN Accountability by Philip Corwin, Internet Commerce Association
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from RSS
  It is now being broadly acknowledged that, as expressed unanimously by all GNSO constituencies at the recent ICANN London meeting, “as part of the IANA transition, the multi-stakeholder community has the opportunity and responsibility to...
• Google Settles Shareholder Suit, Will Set Aside $250M To Disrupt Rogue Online Drug Ads
  Saturday, August 9, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
  
• Gemalto to buy U.S. data protection firm SafeNet for $890 million
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Internet News
  PARIS (Reuters) - Gemalto NV, the digital security company that makes smart chips for mobile phones, bank cards and biometric passports, is to buy U.S.-based data protection specialist SafeNet for $890 million (529 million pounds), it sa...
• Pinterest Messaging Arrives, Send Private Messages With Other Pinterest Users by @mattsouthern
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Search Engine Journal
  Over two million pins are sent out every day, Pinterest said in an announcement. In an effort to get more conversations started around those pins, Pinterest is introducing Pinterest Messaging. Now when someone sends you a pin you will be...
• Google settles U.S. shareholder lawsuit over online drug ads
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Internet News
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has agreed to create a $250 million internal program to disrupt rogue online pharmacies as part of a deal to end shareholder litigation over accusations the search company improperly allowed ads from ...
• Ashton Kutcher's A+ viral content site accused of plagiarism
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet | The Guardian
  Actors website found to have lifted content wholesale from websites including BuzzFeed and Huffington Post A+ , the viral content site established by actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher has been accused of lifting content wholesale an...
• IBM Patents Cloud Data Governance Invention
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from eWeek - Cloud - RSS Feed
  IBM inventors have patented a new invention that enables users to manage the location of their cloud data.
• Google settles shareholder suit over drug ads
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet
  Google will create a $250 million program to disrupt rogue online pharmacies as part of a deal to end shareholder litigation.
• Marketing Day: Google Tests Mobile Ad Tracking, Twitter Loses Bing Translator & Yelp Adds It
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
  
• SearchCap: Mobile Search Ad Spend, Mobile PPC & Fun Search Pictures
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
  
• Facebook defends against hackers with PrivateCore purchase
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from TechRadar: Internet news
  Facebook continues its streak of acquisitions with the purchase of online security firm PrivateCore. The California-based security company was founded in 2012 by industry veterans from Google and VMware, according to its official site. N...
• Friday Roundup: Unsubs rise up, T-commerce on the way and more
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
  Grab your chaps and grab your hat; it’s time for the digital marketing roundup. This week, Google tries to convince us that unsubs are good for business, Twitter hints at T-commerce and Twitch stirs up trouble when they hit delete....
• No slowdown for flash-sale retailer zulily
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from E-Retailers Articles
  Sales nearly doubled for the women and children’s apparel retailer during the second quarter, and half of its orders now come from mobile devices. A new fulfillment center on the East Coast is in the works.
• Report: Google Readies Test To Target Users With Ads Across The Mobile Web And Apps
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
  
• A look inside Google’s new domain name registrar
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Domain Name Wire
  Google Domains offers a simple way for businesses to establish a web presence, but not much more. It’s been a little over a month since Google announced its domain name registration service, and I got access to the beta today. Goog...
• VMware, Arista Expand Network Virtualization Partnership
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from eWeek - Cloud - RSS Feed
  The two vendors will continue to more tightly integrate such offerings as VMware's NSX platform and Arista's EOS operating system.
• Continue the conversation with Pinterest Messages
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
  Pinterest just made the site a little more personal and a little more useful with the introduction of Pinterest Messages. The concept is simple but when you think it through you’ll find it has a lot of potential – provided ev...
• Through the Google lens: search trends August 1-7
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Google Blog
  
• YouTube's young celebrities shine at biggest ever UK convention
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet | The Guardian
  Conference attended by thousands proves that for some, posting on YouTube is a lucrative business, not just a hobby At the UK's biggest YouTube convention, Tom Burns is having a crisis on multiple fronts. The internet is down at one of t...
• 43% of QVC’s U.S. revenue now comes from the web
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from E-Retailers Articles
  E-commerce and mobile commerce drive growth during the second quarter for QVC parent company Liberty Interactive.
• Facebook Bans The “Like Gate;” Pages Have 90 Days To Comply
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
  
• What Markup Actually Does On A Web Page
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Search Engine People Blog
  HTML Markup. To the end user, it's pretty much invisible. Usually we take it for granted or forget that it's there, doing its thing behind the scenes. It's easy forget that there is so much more to a web page than just vis...
• Bake Off is back and the trolls who turned on me have their claws out | Ruby Tandoh
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet | The Guardian
  Behind the gentleness that has made GBBO so popular, there's a danger that the real dramas will, again, unfold off-screen The Great British Bake Off episode one bake by bake There's been a growing unrest in the country over the past few ...
• No Address? No Ratings For You! Facebook Ratings Axed For Pages Without A Physical Location
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
  
• Microsoft gains on cloud rivals Amazon and Google
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet
  MSFT's cloud services beat AWS and Google Cloud to be the second most-preferred for cloud computing. Re/Code reports.
• Mobile Search Spend Share In UK And Australia Outpaces US
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
  
• Google contest finalist at 14 has way out of cyberbullying
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Phys.org: Internet News
  A 14 year-old student selected as a Google Science Fair 2014 finalist has come up with a Rethink project that asks teenagers to reread hurtful messages before sending them off and having to deal with consequences they never considered be...
• IPhone privacy changes lead to layoffs at startup
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet
  A retail tracking start-up has laid off 20 employees, in part because of forthcoming iPhone privacy changes. Re/code reports.
• Berkery Noyes Exec on State of Ecommerce Mergers, Acquisitions
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Practical Ecommerce
  Every day, it seems, we read of an Internet-based company acquiring another one, or raising capital, or expanding into a new segment. Mergers and acquisitions ...
• Blocking Pirate Bay is Not Censorship, IFPI Chief Says
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from TorrentFreak
  The CEO of the IFPI in Austria has been defending his group's attempts to have The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites blocked by local ISPs. Franz Medwenitsch says that using the word "blocking" in these situations is wrong and defending...
• Yahoo CISO Reveals Email Encryption Plan
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from eWeek - Cloud - RSS Feed
  Yahoo plans to provide its email users with end-to-end encryption in 2015. The aim is to make security more accessible to users.
• Twitter Pulls Back From Experiment With Bing Translator
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
  
• Kids & Computers – Pros and Cons
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from InstantShift
  Many of our readers are blessed with kids. And it’s not a secret for caring parents that nowadays children have nearly unlimited access to computers (if they allow them to use those at all). It would be incorrect to assert that com...
• Joining Forces to Harness the Internet of Things
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from E-Commerce Times
  A rising tide of interest has sparked a series of competitive moves among the widening array of software and technology providers vying for a share of the rapidly expanding IoT market. As with previous major IT industry trends, the enorm...
• TripAdvisor Turns to Customers For Some User-Generated Creative Inspiration
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Marketing Land - Internet Marketing News, Strategies & Tips
  
• Russia demands Internet users show ID to access public Wifi
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Reuters: Internet News
  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia further tightened its control of the Internet on Friday, requiring people using public Wifi hotspots provide identification, a policy that prompted anger from bloggers and confusion among telecom operators on ho...
• Leveraging Data for Better Marketing: An Interview with Chris Golec by @johnrampton
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Search Engine Journal
  As part of our SEJ interview series, I recently caught up with Chris Golec of DemandBase to discuss the marketing benefits of leveraging data. In the video below, Chris explains how companies are leveraging data to make better marketing ...
• A robot for the family
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet
  CNBC's Julia Boorstin and Jibo Founder Cynthia Breazeal talk about a new family robot set to launch in 2016.
• Bestselling authors take out full-page New York Times ad against Amazon
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from E-commerce | The Guardian
  Stephen King and Donna Tartt among those petitioning Amazon to 'stop harming the livelihood of the authors' Readers of the New York Times will have to steel themselves this weekend, as the unseemly brawl between Hachette and Amazon erupt...
• Making money with Vimeo
  Friday, August 8, 2014 from Internet
  Kerry Trainor, Vimeo CEO, discusses Vimeo's strategy and business model. Trainor explains how they are going after a different piece of the market than YouTube.