Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors (by Ben Mendelsohn)
Interesting documentary on Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street, one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet traffic.
Source: vimeo.com
Google's Social Move Attracts Critics
Criticism of Google’s announcement today of Search Plus Your World:
Google is adding a feature it calls Search Plus Your World, where Google searches will turn up Google posts from friends. Of course, these Google results will stand higher on the page than information from other social networks. Searching someone’s name, for example, will put their Google page directly at the top of the Google search box. James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School who specializes in Internet law, wrote on Twitter, “Today is a good day to turn off Google and delete your Google Profile. I just did.”
Hackers planning homespun anti-censorship satellite internet
Daniel Cooper at Engadget:
SOPA is making ordinary, decent internet users mad as hell, and they’re not gonna take it anymore. Hacker attendees of Berlin’s Chaos Communication Congress are cooking up a plan to launch a series of homemade satellites as the backbone of an “uncensorable (sic) internet in space.”
