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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Cyberculture agenda: “Google, Facebook and Twitter Protest Hollywood’s ‘SOPA Resurrection’”

Google, Facebook and Twitter Protest Hollywood’s ‘SOPA Resurrection’

TorrentFreak

goofactwi In recent months there have been several lawsuits in the U.S. in which copyright holders were granted broad injunctions, allowing them to seize domain names of alleged pirate sites.

Twitter Now Makes It Possible to Harness Every Tweet Ever

Wired Top Stories by Julia Greenberg

Brands can now tailor their ads to you using more than 500 billion tweets spanning nine years.

A Deeper Look at the New Google

MIT Technology Review

Google’s new structure has few historical precedents, in tech or outside it.

Ad-Blocking Software –The Next Major Challenge Digital Marketers Need to be Aware of

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

A new report by PageFair and Adobe has found that the use of ad blocking software will cost publishers a massive $22 billion in 2015, and that its use has grown by 41% in the last 12 months alone. That’s a major concern for digital marketing, and something all social media and online advertisers need to be aware of.

Car hack is the tip of the iceberg for Internet-connected vehicles in future, warn researchers

Stanford Center for Internet and Society by Center for Internet and Society

August 8, 2015

“The Internet of Things promises to thrust into the spotlight an issue of liability that software makers have managed to avoid, according to Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Center of Internet and Society at Stanford University law school.

Hackers prove how hard it is to hack a Tesla

Mashable! by Chris Perkins

Car hacking has been the story of the moment, with a lack of cybersecurity understanding evident among large automakersTesla, however, is a different case.

7 Proven Online Business Models that Work in 2015

Daily Blog Tips

Recent data published by Internet Retailer reveals that online sales totaled $304.91 billion in 2014, a 15.4% increase from 2013, and that an estimated $350 billion will be spent online at the end of this year (2015). This is in the US alone.

While we’re all obsessed with the Mark Zuckerbergs, Jeff Bezos, Larry Pages and Sergey Brins of this world, the fact remains that there are a lot of average people making a difference, and ensuring a comfortable living for themselves without necessarily having to create the next big thing.

Ad-Blocking Software –The Next Major Challenge Digital Marketers Need to be Aware of

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

Away from Google, Alphabet can acquire whatever it wants

The Next Web by Lauren Hockenson

Although Google has operated under the guise of being a search and advertising company, but it’s hardly been that for some time now. And as of today, that implicit characterization has now been made explicit with the launch of Alphabet, the new umbrella that now owns Google as a wholly owned subsidiary.

Google buried an awesome Easter egg deep in its Alphabet announcement

Mashable! by Christina Warren