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Error 451: A Proposed Change To Web Standards Would Make Bradbury’s Story Denote Censored Content

John Biggs

Google employee and creator of XML, Tim Bray, has proposed a new error message for the web. Rather than hiding censored websites behind a generic 403 error - "the server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it" - these websites would return 451 - "censored."

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22 Jun 2012

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Posse Raises $500K More For A Local Discovery App That Lets Users Build “Playlists” Of Favorite Shops, Now Live In The U.S.

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 71 days ago

google maps

lars rasmussen

investor bill

angel investor

discovery platform

Posse, a local discovery platform for web and mobile, is today arriving in the U.S. and making its iPhone app debut. The company has also just raised another $500,000 in additional funding from existing investors including Lars Rasmussen, Google Maps creator and currently Facebook’s Director of Engineering, as well as Silicon Valley angel investor Bill Tai. Rasmussen also sits on the company's board.Read similar

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Jibe Mobile Raises $8.3M To Grow Its Cloud-Based App Developer Platform — Wants To Teach Carriers How To Win In An All-IP World

techcrunch.com Natasha Lomas 157 days ago

mobile content provider

unnamed investors

ip world

mti

Cloud-based global comms provider Jibe Mobile has closed an $8.3m funding round from investors including Vodafone Ventures, the VC arm of the telco, and Japanese mobile content provider MTI, plus other unnamed investors. Jibe is building a platform for app developers to more easily (and cheaply) incorporate rich, real-time comms features into their apps -- such as VoIP and video calling.Read similar

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Science Shows Dating Websites Aren’t Better At Finding You Love

techcrunch.com Gregory Ferenstein 93 days ago

psychological science

I was really hoping this article would have ended differently. But after spending countless hours scanning tiny pixelated squares of people who were supposed to represent my mathematically determined soul mate, I found that online dating websites are modern-day versions of snake oil. I ended up back at bachelorhood after a long and expensive trek through computer-aided love services; I decided to look for love on the Internet mainly to test the hypothesis behind a blistering 50-page critique of hyped up promise of dating websites. “The heavy emphasis on profile browsing at most dating si... Read similar

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Thanks For The 15-Minute Break, WordPress

techcrunch.com Drew Olanoff 92 days ago

As you might have noticed, TechCrunch went down entirely (thanks to WordPress VIP), sporting a fun “502″ error. If you’re not sure what that means, here’s the skinny on why you might see a 502 error: The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, received an invalid response from the upstream server it accessed in the attempt to fulfill the request. If you know exactly what that means, then kudos to you. This is the second issue that WordPress has had in the past week, with this one being called a “performance issue” or “service disruption.” Our... Read similar

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Google Wants To Operate .Search As A “Dotless” Domain, Plans To Open .Cloud, .Blog And .App To Others

techcrunch.com Frederic Lardinois 38 days ago

If it gets it, Google wants to turn .search into a “dotless domain,” the company told ICANN a few days ago. Last year, Google applied to manage the .app, .blog, .cloud and .search generic top-level domain (gTLD) names as part of a major expansion of the domain-name system. ICANN, which is managing this expansion, hasn’t awarded any of the gTLDs yet, and the whole program remains controversial. But in May, Google sent a letter to ICANN telling the organization that it would soon provide some specific details about its plans for these top-level domain names. Now, Google has don... Read similar

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Security Is Hard, But That Doesn’t Mean You Should Ignore It

techcrunch.com Jon Evans 167 days ago

telecommunications consultants

man of mystery

international telecommunications

viber

international man

Six weeks ago I was out drinking in a Kipling-themed bar in Rangoon, Myanmar--as you do--and happened to find myself next to a table of high-powered international telecommunications consultants, overhearing juicy lines like "Skype and Viber are going to kill us." Needless to say I told Twitter right away. Then an old friend who's also a genuine International Man Of Mystery got in touch and asked if we could chat about Myanmar's proposed ban on VOIP. Securely.He has his very good reasons to insist on secure communications. But to my embarrassment and dismay, given that I'm a software pro with s... Read similar

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Brandcast Banks $1.8M From Benioff To Take The BS Out Of Cross-Web Business Presences

techcrunch.com Josh Constine 31 days ago

marc benioff

enterprise content management

enterprise content management system

content management system

stylish web

Whether you're an Etsy seller or a multi-national conglomerate, maintaining a sync'd an stylish web and mobile is presence is harder than it should be. You either use a cheap toy website creator or an agonizing enterprise content management system. But now there's Brandcast. Founded by a former Salesforce engineer with $1.8 million from his old boss Marc Benioff, Brandcast could fill the void.Read similar

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Russia's Avito Becomes World's 3rd Biggest Classifieds Site After Naspers Deal

techcrunch.com Catherine Shu 67 days ago

South Africa's Naspers has agreed to merge its two Russian online classified Web site with Avito in a $570 million deal that will make Avito the world's third biggest classified site after Craigslist and China's 58.com.Read similar

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Google Reader Is Closing—And People Are Absolutely Freaking Out (GOOG)

www.businessinsider.com Owen Thomas 66 days ago

Google, in another push to reduce and rationalize its sprawling lineup of Web apps, is closing a host of products. The only one people care about: Google Reader. (Seriously, will anyone miss the Google Voice App for BlackBerry?) Google is shuttering Reader, a product which allows people to quickly skim and read news articles from websites, as of July 1. News-reader apps like Google Reader, which use a technology called RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, never got to critical mass. But they are used ferociously by people in the media and technology insiders, who depend on them to keep track of ... Read similar

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Death By A Thousand Cuts? Google Wallet's Plan To Take On PayPal Leverages Chrome, Android, Google+, Gmail & More

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 3 days ago

shopping cart abandonment

death by a thousand cuts

gmail

google web

flying under the radar

Flying under the radar amid a flurry of announcements from today’s Google I/O developer conference is the bigger news of how Google is stepping up its efforts to compete with online payment giants with a revamped checkout process for the web, mobile web, within mobile applications running on Android, and more. It’s a proposed death to PayPal by a thousand cuts, leveraging everything from Chrome to Android and even Gmail. What Google hasn’t quite worked out yet is how all this will tie together in the long run, but you can see the plan beginning to form. #1: Google Wallet On T... Read similar

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Meet The 5-inch, Quad-Core Xperia Z: Sony’s Stunning Answer To The iPhone 5 And Galaxy S3

techcrunch.com Natasha Lomas 131 days ago

Sony has announced its first quad-core smartphone at its CES press conference today: the Xperia Z. The company will be hoping this new Android flagship can deliver the scalps of high-end rival devices such as Samsung's Galaxy S3 and Apple's iPhone 5. The 4G handset has a symmetrical, rectangular slab design with clean lines and flat glass panes to front and back.Read similar

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YouTube’s Biggest Overhaul Of Its Data API Yet Adds Universal Search, Efficiency, And Lets 3rd Party Tools Post To Subscribers

techcrunch.com Rip Empson 154 days ago

YouTube first launched its Data API back in 2007, and it has since become the video giant's most popular API in terms of request volume. Today, YouTube announced that it has officially opened version 3.0 of its API to all developers.The new APIs bring a number of important changes to bear on its current feature set, including client library support, improved tooling, reference documentation and integration with Google's API infrastructure. It's also now officially using JSON instead of XML encoding for, as YouTube says, "greater efficiency" and now only returns what you ask for.Read similar

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Google Talks Tough In North Korea, While Rolling Over In China

www.businessinsider.com The Economist 127 days ago

“AS THE world becomes increasingly connected, their decision to be virtually isolated is very much going to affect their physical world.” So declared Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, to a throng of reporters in Beijing. Given that his firm more or less abandoned China’s heavily censored internet search market a few years ago in order not to be “evil”, these sound like fighting words. Mr Schmidt went on: “The government has to do something—they have to make it possible for people to use the internet.” At first blush, such words wou... Read similar

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With Over 15M Sites Built, Weebly Launches New Planner And Mobile Editor, Brings Website Creation Service To Android

techcrunch.com Rip Empson 15 days ago

y combinator

million unique visitors

site planner

pre fab building

creation service

In this day and age, if you own a small business, you need a web (and mobile) presence. It’s just the way it is. Some might opt just to go for a social media approach, a Twitter account and a Facebook page, but the likelihood is that you want something a little more flexible, high-quality and something that gives you more control over the user experience. More and more, people are turning to Wix and Weebly. The two big “W’s” in the website creator world. For those unfamiliar, Weebly is a service that lets you, your mom, grandmother, four-year-old cousin and anyone you k... Read similar

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Firefox OS To Make Hardware Debut With Keon And Peak Developer Preview Smartphones

techcrunch.com Darrell Etherington 116 days ago

Mozilla's Firefox OS, the mobile operating system from the company that makes the Firefox browser build entirely on open web standards, will have its first hardware soon thanks to a developer preview smartphone device, created by Spanish open hardware phone platform manufacturer Geeksphone, in partnership with Telefonica. Two models, the Peak and the Keon, will offer developers different hardware profiles to develop for, covering both higher-end and more affordable devices.Read similar

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It's Not Just Reader – Google Kills Its RSS Subscription Browser Extension, Too

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 64 days ago

Oh Google. Thought we wouldn't notice that you're trying to kill off not just Google Reader, but your support and endorsement for the RSS format itself? People have just started noticing that Google's own RSS Subscription Chrome browser extension has disappeared from the Google Chrome Web Store. Though it's unclear at this time exactly when the extension was removed, the change appears to be recent.Read similar

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Facebook Connect bug takes down entire internet (almost)

www.slashgear.com Craig Lloyd 99 days ago

It’s official: Facebook has a hold on the internet, and when the social network has a problem, the entire internet will suffer. Case in point: Facebook’s Connect feature experienced issues yesterday that affected thousands of other website who use Facebook’s integrated “Like” button system on their websites. The error would occur when users tried to Read The Full StoryRead similar

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Tim Cook On Growth Of Apple Maps: “Usage Is Higher Prior To iOS 6 Release”, Promises “Continued Improvements”

techcrunch.com Drew Olanoff 114 days ago

One of the most embarrassing happenings in recent Apple history was the launch of its own Maps offering with iOS 6. People were getting lost and wondering why Apple decided to cut Google out of the OS at all. Google has since released its own iOS version of its apps product, and so far the feedback has been impressive. During today’s Q1 2013 earnings call, Cook discussed where Apple is with the product, saying “We’re going to keep working on this until it lives up to our incredible high standards.” Before completely apologizing for the launch, Apple said time and again ... Read similar

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Amazon Launches ‘Send to Kindle' Button For Web Developers & WordPress Blogs

techcrunch.com Catherine Shu 59 days ago

Amazon just launched the Send to Kindle button, which clips Web content and saves it to Kindle readers and apps, for Web developers and Wordpress bloggers. The button is also now available on The Washington Post, TIME, and Boing Boing.Read similar

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TripAdvisor Review Express Service Lets Businesses Bulk Email Visitors To Ask For Reviews

techcrunch.com Catherine Shu 11 days ago

TripAdvisor already has more than 100 million reviews on its sites, but it needs even more in order to continue competing against rivals like Yelp and Foursquare. Review Express, a service the travel Web site launched today, is meant to help TripAdvisor grow its roster of reviews by making it easy for venues to request them from customers.Read similar

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