TWiOT Cartel Kills Blogger: TWiOT Las Zetas kill another "blogger." A body was hung from the same overpass where two bloggers were murdered last month. According to the Houston Chronicle, a sign hung with his body said, in Spanish, "This happened to me for not understanding that I shouldn't report on the social networks." Representatives of the Nuevo Laredo En Vivo forum denied… Curt Hopkins View comments
News Wikimedia Gets $500k Gift The Brin Wojcicki Foundation, created by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, has given a $500,000 gift to the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimedia, which oversees Wikipedia and its sister sites, launched its 8th annual fundraiser on November 16. That's why Jimmy Wales is staring at you from the top of every Wikipedia… Jon Mitchell View comments
Analysis Think You're Anonymous? It's no exaggeration to say that, sometimes, anonymity is a matter of life and death. Which is why it's important to know just how trivial it is to track down an "anonymous" blogger using their Google Analytics code. Andy Baio, who runs the popular linkblog Waxy.org posted Wednesday about using simple tools like eWhois and Statsie to unmask… Enterprise Joe Brockmeier View comments
E-Commerce E-Cards and PayPal Meet on Facebook PayPal is aiming its peer-to-peer Facebook app, SendMoney, not only to Facebook users who want to send money to each other, but to those who want to drop an e-card in, too. According to a recent study from Pew, 64 percent of online adults use social media to stay in touch with family. Grandma can send her Facebook-addicted granddaugther a birthday… Social Alicia Eler View comments
Browsers Browse Anonymously on iOS With Covert Browser Whether it's to elude oppressive governments or something a bit less noble, many users have a need to browse the Web in complete secrecy. Tools that enable anonymous browsing have existed for years on the desktop and some have popped up for Android. There are some for iOS as well, but until now, none of them featured the bulletproof privacy of… John Paul Titlow View comments