Why should you care about net neutrality?
In the US there's a fierce discussion regarding the end of network neutrality. Basically it comes down to it that ISP's offer a basic Internet access pack but will charge you extra if you want to use popular or bandwidth intensive sites like Youtube. Even though the discussion seems to limit itself at the moment to the US, you can be sure that ISP's in other countries are following these developments with particular interest.
In an ideal market I wouldn't worry about this phenomenon, if everybody opposes this system there will be new ISP's that just offer the same open access we're used to and the greedy ISP's will be punished.
Unfortunately we're not living in an ideal world and ISP's are often owned by huge corporations that basically control the market.
The whole idea of Internet in the first place was an open network where everyone can access the same information without any kind of discrimination. People that travel the world already know that the Internet isn't that open and free as before and it's time to put a stop to censorship and avoid monetizing by ISP's by charging extra for popular sites. So to say the least it will be interesting to see how this will develop and our wish for 2011 is an open Internet without censorship.
For an Ipin & Upin explanation visit "A guide to an open Internet".
Angry birds are spying on us!
Angry birds has become my main source of entertainment in airports, the waiting room at the dentist and during boring meetings (sound of). And even though the birds are angry and on a rampage, who would have thought all the fluffy birds are in fact spying on you and me?
A research reported by the Daily Mail tested 101 apps and found that 56 transmitted the phone's individual number (UDID) to a private company, some 47 sent the phone’s location and five sent age, gender and other personal information.
Among the 56 apps sending the phone's UDID is Angry Birds which sent the information to the game’s makers Electronic Arts. Pandora, the popular music app, sent gender, location age and the phone ID to a string of advertising networks. Android and iPhone versions of a game called Paper Toss, where players try to throw paper wads into a bin, each sent the phone’s ID number to at least five ad companies.
Adf.ly cracked the code on monetizing URL shortening services?
Weird, wednesday checking our traffic and I found a new traffic source giving us 14.000 visits that day, mind you, with an average of 1.4 pv/visits. Seems that this traffic comes from adf.ly, a url shortening service owned by X19, a UK company residing in London. So why is this interesting? Well, besides the traffic they bring us Adf.ly seems to be the first URL shortener that actually pays people to use their service, and that made them grow fast, really fast up to the point where they're bigger than for instance ow.ly. So, did adf.ly crack the code on big time monetization of URL shorteners or will they be nothing more than a one day f.ly?
And the donkey of the week is…..
Meet Ariel (a.k.a. Chazzuka), a well respected and renowned developer and highly valued colleague at Tokobagus. This guy eats 800 pages complex developments books for breakfast, his online presence is larger than Lady Gaga and he's just about to upgrade his digital live with a Galaxy Tablet (yes I'm jealous). So basically he eats, breathes and lives Internet... at least that's what I thought up till this afternoon's lunch. Allow me to quote mr Internet: "I want to start a real business, you know, something offline". We predict massive layoffs at Google, everyone will read newspapers again and for status updates we use smoke signals again. Salut to Chazzuka and have fun at PestaBlogger! Ok, Blogtik.us, come in please...
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