Cody Taylor

Urchin writes “In the early 1990s, the World Wide Web was a power-hungry monster unpopular with network administrators, says Robert Topolski, chief technologist of the Open Technology Initiative. They preferred the sleek text-only Gopher protocol. Had they been able to use data filtering technology to prioritize gopher traffic Topolski thinks the World Wide Web might not have survived. But it took computers another decade or so to be powerful enough to give administrators that option, and by that time the Web was already enormously popular.” My geek imagination is now all atwitter imagining an alternate gopher-driven universe.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Just a week after the Pirate Bay trial ended, another site finds itself up against the music industry. IsoHunt, one of the leading BitTorrent sites, is fighting out a dispute with the CRIA in court today. Of course, everything can be followed through Twitter.

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SEATTLE (CNN) — From the halls of Congress to college dorms and the boardrooms of bankrupt companies, there’s been a lot of buzz lately about the social media site called Twitter.

Very interesting article in different ways to use Twitter for you benefit. Gives you some great ideas, and explains some nifty tricks used by Twitterers.

Many corporate executives either dismiss social networking as a time-wasting distraction or regard it as a risk management problem.

Even a few years ago the word “blog” inspired that peculiar mix of derision and dismissal that seems to haunt new media innovations long after they’re proven. A blogger was a lonely, pajama-clad person in a dark room, typing out banal musings he mistook for interesting ones, to be read by a handful of friends or strangers if they were read at all.

Apple has apparently had a change of heart about a Twitter iPhone app that sometimes presents users with language some might find objectionable.

For the uninitiated, Twitter is a “microblogging” service that invites you to share what you’re doing with the world in 140 characters or less – and it’s currently taking the world by storm, with everyone from Scoble to Shaq on board. Its charm is that its usefulness is entirely open to interpretation – while many just don’t get it…

Right, not for offensive language in the app itself, but for offensive language on Twitter — an insanely strict new standard. Hell, Apple might as well reject the next versions of Safari and Mail, since they can display dirty words too — and let’s not forget the awful things people are doing with Notes and the camera.