report, the online activist group lauded a number of major companies for their efforts to help preserve user privacy and report to the public the extent of their cooperation with government groups. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is...
The patent portion of the trial represented a far less important phase than the copyright matter, according to Florian Mueller, an intellectual property expert and activist who has closely followed the case.
In his book "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You" and thought provoking TED talk, Internet and political activist Eli Pariser makes a broad argument about how the Internet and technology in general is evolving to keep us in a...
Florian Mueller, an intellectual property activist and expert, noted that the jury seemed to be deadlocked over the definiition of "fair use" and Google's claim that its platform fell under such protections.
Compelling personal video narratives helped us sway voters and reach out to the activist base engaged with the issue. Kate Kaye, a Senior Editor at ClickZ News, says, “Online video – from in-banner and streaming video advertising to short films on...
The issue was raised by shareholder activist, Dan Loeb, who wrote to the firm's board bringing the discrepancy to attention, claiming Thompson had "embellished his academic credentials" in order to land the role.
Tutu, a South African activist and retired Anglican bishop famous for his leadership through human rights and relevant causes, was apparently furious over the matter, his anger directed towards the South African government for denying his longtime...
An activist and active Twitterer from Iran has created a Google map of the violence and protests and shared it publicly to chronicle the protest reports on the ground as they happen. Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the...
An activist and active Twitterer from Iran has created a Google map of the violence and protests and shared it publicly to chronicle the protest reports on the ground as they happen. Twitter had played an enormous role in the recent protests in...
Colin Powell, former FL governor Jeb Bush, activist Marian Wright Edelman, and UN Sec. Google has already commemorated the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address with a cool doodle. Now, other organizations are using online video...
Resembling the kind of single issue protest campaigns that the activist network 4-chan is able to achieve, "Human-flesh searches", originated as a kind of crowd-sourced detective network made up of users of chinese forums and bulletin boards.
Humor also means people are more likely to share content with others, especially with friends outside the political party activist bubble. Editor's note: This column is part of a series dedicated to looking at the digital strategies and tactics...
The UK Times recently wrote a piece about "Google and the threat to free speech" and mentioned the company's resistance to activist shareholders "anti-censorship proposal by arguing it would do more harm than good to set the terms of use in...
Lorna Li (no relation to Li Evans), SEM Networking Maven, Web 2.0 blogger, Green activist and rainforest crusader. If you're anywhere near the Bay Area, Silicon Valley or Alcatraz, mark this event on your search marketing calendar: Search Marketing...
They're fighting with a consortium of activist investors led by hedge fund JANA Partners, which wants to expand the board and nominate its own directors in a bid to boost its share price. After Bubble 1.0 burst, Jason Calacanis renamed his Silicon...
While Wikia's search engine won't pose a major threat to the existing order, its presence and activist community will cause the major engines to discuss transparency much more openly. Last week, we shared some New Years Resolutions from several...
Bernstein analyst recommendation to heart -- or heartless -- depending on whether you're an activist investor or Yahoo employee. Yahoo may have taken a Sanford C. This weekend, Former Wall St. Analyst Henry Blodget reports Yahoo has a hit list of 1...
The column calls for activist investors to shake up "discredited management," outsource search, and spin off Asian investments in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan. Pressure on Yahoo to outsource search to Google or MSN continues to mount.
My follow up question is how can the SES community be best utilized to be an activist catalyst for this? It's Day 4 at Search Engine Strategies Chicago and the last session ended at 12:30 p.m. Matt McGowan's comprehensive list of press and blog...
In a nutshell, consumer activist and presidential candidate Ralph Nader and the Federal Trade Commission decided search engines should be unbiased information providers. Wal-Mart changed the way America shops for budget minded goods.
