Web 2.0
Three years of llamas
TechnoLlama is now three years old, my first post to this blog was on October 20 2004. In that period of time I’ve written 812 post at an average 5,000 words per month, have infringed copyright hundreds of times by in-lining pictures, and drank Cthulhu knows how many mugs of Read more…
Networks
Downloading TV shows made easy
(via David Berry) This is an awesome guide to setting up a show downloading service on your computer. With NBC terminating their contract with iTunes in the USA, and with iTunes UK TV shows being sold at a prohibitive price, consumers are voting with their feet and choosing to download Read more…
Privacy
Facebook profiles to be made public
Yesterday I woke up to this message on Facebook. Profiles are now available from Facebook’s main page (the one you get without being logged in), and soon the listings will also make their way to browsers such as Google. It is possible to change privacy settings in order to place Read more…
New technologies
Attack of the killer technophobes
I have been meaning to to write about this column by Marina Hyde in The Guardian, but I wanted to keep some distance from it. While I welcome all sorts of articles that criticise technologies, I have been distraught by certain tone emerging in the supposedly more progressive sectors of Read more…
Litigation
Facebook sued for patent infringement
Facebook is being sued for patent infringement by venture capital firm Cross Atlantic Capital Partners, which seems to be the latest in a wave of investors involved in financing patent troll litigation. The plaintiffs are asking for licensing fees. The subject of the suit is U.S. patent 6,519,629, which protects Read more…
Litigation
ConnectU v Facebook
It seems to be social network week here at TechnoLlama. There have been some interesting developments in the ongoing case ConnectU v Facebook (not to be confused with Facebook v ConnectU). ConnectU is yet another social networking site from three Harvard graduates, brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra. Read more…
Cybercrime
Sex offenders banned from MySpace
The idea that the Internet is filled with sexual predators has received a boost as MySpace has admitted to having found and removed 29,000 registered sex offenders on its site. The admission comes amongst attempts by North Carolina’s Attorney General to change the law so that social networking sites require Read more…
Web 2.0
Are you the real online you?
The mainstream press has discovered Web 2.0. Here is an interesting piece in the BBC about what they claim is a growing phenomenon amongst busy people, hiring someone to attend your online presence via blogs and social networking. To be honest, I found the premise for the article rather thin, Read more…
Web 2.0
The Internet IS a series of tubes
(via BoingBoing) This is an amazing image charting the Web As We Know It (circa 2007), using the Tokyo underground as a reference. There are some interesting relations implied in the chart, for example, PirateBay is listed as one of the main sites, just as LastFM, YouTube, CraigList and OpenID, Read more…