An open alternative to Facebook will be launched on 15 September, the developers of the project have said. Many believe that it will be difficult to challenge Facebook. Diaspora describes itself as a "privacy-aware, personally-controlled" social network. The open-source project made headlines earlier this year when Facebook was forced to simplify its privacy settings, after [...]
ScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2010) — The first incarnation of the web was composed of static websites that linked to each other and search engines to help you find sites of interest. Web 2.0 brought a social element to the web, with users sharing, commenting, and interacting through sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr. The [...]
Photo Credit: millicent_bystander via flickr under a Creative Commons license Cell phones have essentially become an extension of the human body in most of the developed world. Although they are not the greenest products, with vampire chargers, excessive manufacturing, and recycling inadequacies, some companies are attempting to change that. Not surprisingly, many of the greenest [...]
Without Mark Zuckerberg, will Facebook be the same? (Image: Justin Sullivan / Getty) Jim Giles Here's one of the scariest passages from The Facebook Effect: "In five years there won't be a distinction between being on and off Facebook," says a former Facebook employee who claims still to be "deeply involved" with the company. "It [...]
New research presents the most complete repertoire ever of burst-pulsed sounds and whistles made by dolphins, gathered using bioacoustics. (Credit: iStockphoto/Stephan Zabel) ScienceDaily (June 9, 2010) — A Spanish researcher and a Paraguayan scientist have presented the most complete and detailed European study into the repertoire of sounds used by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) to [...]
Four students in New York have raised $200,000 (£136,000) to build an open alternative to Facebook. The Diaspora team are students at New York University. Diaspora describes itself as a "privacy-aware, personally-controlled" social network. The students used the fundraising site Kickstarter to raise a total of $200,642 to build the technology. The project came to [...]
URGENT action is needed to diversify the global deep-sea cable networks on which the internet depends, to secure them against attacks and accidents that could lead to economic turmoil. Laying down the line (Image: Luis Marden/Getty) 2 more images So says a report that highlights the vulnerability of businesses worldwide to the targeting of "choke [...]
Do cellphones cause brain tumours? The World Health Organization hoped a $30 million study, involving 50 scientists in 13 countries, would provide an answer. But its "Interphone" study reported its final results this week and, sadly, we remain none the wiser. Still getting a mixed signal (Image: Vesa Moilanen/Rex Features) "An increased risk of brain [...]
Facebook's privacy policy is coming under more and more scrutiny. Facebook is popular but for one thing – what it does with the information its members share with it. Over the last few weeks the social network has been battered by complaints from users, analysts and governments about what is seen as its heavy-handed approach [...]
In a remote corner of rural India, a new experiment using mobile phones is bringing people news made by local villagers. The BBC's Geeta Pandey travels to Rajnandgaon district in the central state of Chhattisgarh to see who is tuning in. There is little access to independent news in remote rural areas. A group of [...]
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