Wikileaks, the website that helps people to expose fraud and corruption in government and big business, has vowed to continue it whistle-blowing efforts despite a US court’s decision to shut down the site. (...) Wikileaks allows whistleblowers to post documents anonymously on its site in the hope of exposing fraud and wrongdoing.
Source Telegraph
«Can you believe it? It's a shocker. An actual ad with actual old people in it! Complete with wrinkled skin and less than perfect abs. Seriously. We can't get over it. We're still in shock. And here we thought every one in the world was as hot as Obama Girl in a BarelyPolitical video. We are crushed at the thought of this new reality.»
Source Adgabber
«Welcome to a brand new beta site for uncensored, user-powered news. CNN built the tools, you take it from there. All the stories here are user-generated and instant: CNN does not vet or verify their authenticity or accuracy before they post. The ones with the "On CNN" stamp have been vetted and used in CNN news coverage.»
iReport
Source Tek Sapo
«You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web.»
Source Wired Magazine
«Print and Web are different. (...) However, there are a number of fundamental principles which are often being used in both media. Over the last years newspapers and web-sites started to apply similar principles of data presentation, such as the heavy use of white space and grid-based design. The results can sometimes be very similar, but often they have almost nothing at common.
This issue of monday inspiration series is supposed to provide you with some examples of outstanding newspaper designs which have been rewarded with prestigious awards.»
Source: Smashing Magazine
«If a songbird sings in the forest and no one is there to hear it, is it really music? Not if you're a teenager.»
Source International Herald Tribune
«O estudo Netpanel da Marktest contabiliza 1 883 mil portugueses que visitaram sites de turismo durante o ano de 2007, quando navegaram em suas casas na internet.»
Source Marktest
«A young Colombian engineer used the social networking site last week to organize a massive protest against the (...) FARC. On Feb. 4, millions of Colombians marched simultaneously in 27 cities throughout the country and 104 major cities around the world shouting "No more kidnappings! No more lies! No more deaths! No more FARC!"»
Source International Herald Tribune
«... about living with Bill, working with Warren Buffett, and giving away their billions.»
Source Fortune
«Android, Google's mobile phone software, has been previewed at the Mobile World Congress (aka 3GSM) in Barcelona»
Source The Guardian
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«Internet service providers (ISPs) will be legally required to take action against users who access pirated material»
Source Times Online
"Desde 2003 que a população de etnia africana de Darfur sofre razias e morticídios que fazem parte de uma estratégia promovida pelo governo de Cartum com o apoio militar de países como a Arábia Saudita e a Líbia, apostados em impor a Charia e arabizar todo o norte do Sudão."
pordarfur.org
Today's web is crazy. Open ID is a pipe dream. Every direction you turn you're forced to create yet another account. Most of the time it's for one of those throw-away web startups created 10 times a day, but occasionaly it's worth the effort. With a useless account you can practice without fear. So when it comes to the crunch, you're ready!
Useless Account
«Our launch of Standout Jobs at DEMO was a big success. We generated plenty of buzz, brought in some great customers and the product held up to the initial onslaught of traffic, users and feedback. And for about 1 day I felt like everything was under control. Oops…»
Instigator Blog
«India lost half its Internet capacity on Wednesday when two strands of fiber as thick as a thumb snapped. While service is returning to normal, it may be weeks before the cables are repaired. The fact that a pair of central Internet paths are just 2 km apart should serve as a cautionary tale as to just how fragile the Internet can be.»
Source: GigaOm
«It’s been rumored for a long time, but now it’s reality.
Microsoft has made an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. The bid, which would consist of cash and Microsoft stock, values Yahoo shares at $31 a share, a 62% premium on Thursdays closing price.»
TechCrunch
Update negocios.pt
Yahoo! dispara quase 50% com OPA da Microsoft
«A partir de hoje, os portugueses já vão poder usufruir de um Sistema de Queixa Electrónica, através do qual poderão denunciar crimes às forças de segurança, a partir de qualquer computador com acesso à Internet.»
Queixas Electrónicas
Source Exame Informática
"The web is constantly evolving. New and innovative websites are being created every day, pushing the boundaries of HTML in every direction. HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and publishers seeking new techniques to provide enhanced functionality are being held back by the constraints of the language and browsers.
To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics."
Source: A List Apart; w3.org
"Here is a list of web design mistakes around the Internet, most of them are in the “Most common” or “Top 10” mistakes."
Source: Daily Blog Tips
