A Virginia court weighed in on the topic this week, and found that actions on Facebook – even if they only involve one click of a mouse – are indeed protected by the [US] First Amendment.
Read: A Facebook ‘Like’ Is Protected as Free Speech | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.
How to Make Your Entire Internet Life More Secure in One Day | LifeHacker
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Even as Blackberry has fallen from grace over the last few years, its proprietary messaging service BBM has remained a solid, well-designed product. A few months back, the company announced plans to bring the product to iOS and Android. We were excited then, and after spending a few minutes with the final build of both apps, we’re thinking this could be Blackberry’s foothold into a new future.
Read: BBM for iOS and Android Hands-On: The Best Blackberry Thing In Years? | Gizmodo.
After reviewing Apple’s latest mobile OS, I gathered together what I liked most about iOS 7 and what I liked least.
Read: The best and worst of iOS 7 | iPhone Atlas – CNET Reviews.
A former Nickelodeon Animation storyboard artist and a Facebook employee have teamed up to create a new form of entertainment: social fiction.
Illustrator Steve Lowtwait and writer Michael Smith are telling a fictional story through social media that’s centered around a protagonist called “Hawk Funn.” They have set up real social profiles on Facebook and Twitter for fictional characters in the story, and they post about the characters’ lives just like real people would. If you follow Hawk on Facebook and on Twitter, you can track the plot and learn about his life as a suburban dad in Colorado and his fear of the indoors.
via ‘Social Fiction’ Brings Characters to Life via Facebook and Twitter | Mashable.
The Internet is disappearing. And with it goes an important part of our recorded history. That was the conclusion of a study Technology Review looked at last year, which measured the rate at which links shared over social media platforms, such as Twitter, were disappearing.
The conclusion was that this data is being lost at the rate of 11% within a year and 27% within two years.
Today, the researchers behind this work reveal that all is not lost. Hany SalahEldeen and Michael Nelson at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., have found a way to reconstruct deleted material, and they say it works reasonably well.
Read the full story: Internet Archaeologists Reconstruct Lost Web Pages | Mashable.
Feedly, a service making claims to the RSS reader throne Google abandoned by shutting down Google Reader, announced today that it’s now opening up its API to all interested developers building RSS-based applications. This is a notable step toward Feedly’s goal of not just being another feed-reading application itself, but rather a platform which will allow an app ecosystem to thrive.
via Feedly, Now Powering 50 RSS-Based Applications, Opens API To All Developers | TechCrunch.
A tool developed by researchers at Southampton University has indexed historic maps, photos and historic documents to provide a simple location search tool for the UK.
The Pelagios 3 project takes data from ancient Latin and Greek sources, which formed the basis of two previous Pelagios projects, and builds on it with documents and maps from Arabic sources, medieval European and Chinese maps, and seafaring charts from the 13th century, cross-linking them into one searchable database.
Read the full story: Researchers build ‘Google Earth’ project for the ancient world | Technology | theguardian.com.
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