Features FCC Passes Net Neutrality If, as some say, a deal can only be called successful when everyone involved leaves the table unsatisfied, then the net neutrality rules approved at a meeting this morning by the Federal Communications Commission may be a success. Under the rules, two years in the making, no provider may block another company's traffic, however, it may offer… Curt Hopkins View comments
Government How OpenLeaks is Likely to Work In September, a number of prominent personnel from the whistle-blower site Wikileaks, left that organization. They argued that its founder, Julian Assange, was autocratic and heedless of the safety of those whose names appeared in the leaks the organization released. He also over-focused on the U.S. and his political goals were untenable. In… Curt Hopkins View comments
mobile The Rise of Mobile Search Engine Optimization The mobile Web is growing at a tremendous rate and it's likely that mobile usage will take over desktop usage in the next decade. Mobile users don't just expect rich, optimized mobile experiences, they also want to execute searches on their mobile device and receive fast, relevant results to their queries. To meet this demand, marketers and… Mobile Guest Author View comments
Analysis The Startup That Ate Too Many Tweets, and Died I'd like to ask for a moment of silence to mark the passing of a Web application that had eyes bigger than its stomach. An ambitious little startup called Nsyght gave up the ghost this weekend and with it went some very, very cool features. In the end, this little Twitter and Facebook message-parsing service just couldn't do what it set out to… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News Major Internet Incidents and Outages of 2010 We do our best to cope with Internet and website outages, which can be incredibly frustrating when they take out major communication channels. When a service goes down, Twitter usually lights up with complaints and questions - well, unless it's Twitter that's down, of course. So to cap off a year that seemed to have its fair share of major… Audrey Watters View comments