By unilaterally removing these apps, Google is stepping all over the checks and balances that make the Internet democratic. Google has removed ad blocking app Adblock Plus from the Google Play store. Adblock Plus said this "unilateral move by...
In August, barackobama.com was bidding on expected keywords such as “obama” (where they were spending the most of their budget), but also were bidding on “obamacare”, “immigration reform”, “the white house”, “democratic party”, and “scotusblog...
Generally speaking, the paid search efforts in support of the Republican ticket were more splintered than those in support of the Democratic nominee as 18 pro-Romney sites plus the Republican candidate’s official campaign site sponsored ads on...
Democratic National Convention. That was the top trending question of 2012 from Ask.com. Spoiler alert: apparently, yes. At least for now. The big question now: is KStew pregnant with the spawn of RPatz?
Google warned that meetings such as the ITU conferences could allow government organizations to side-step the democratic process and apply even tighter controls on the web behind closed doors. Google has slammed an upcoming meeting of the...
It could determine who the resident of that house was in 1948, and see that he worked from 1943 to 1950 as a volunteer for the Democratic party. Given the technical level of the audience, his presentation was, for the most part, met with excited nods.
A group of Chinese residents in New York sued the search company for conspiring to censor pro-democratic content. Three employees of Chinese search engine Baidu have been arrested for taking bribes to delete postings.
In Massachusetts, the campaigns of Republican Senator Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren are both using YouTube more effectively than candidates of an earlier era used banners, badges, parades, barbecues, free drinks and...
According to Bloomberg, Democratic Sens. Following public outcry over reports that companies have been asking employees to hand over Facebook login credentials in order to scan their profiles, the social network has advised against handing password...
In this perspective the point was that technology has been a genuine and powerful tool for social change; facilitating democratic movement, greater and more personalized communication, plus mass organization and collaboration.
Internationally, leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany Clara Zetkin proposed an International Women’s Day at the second International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen.
Chris Dodd went off on Google, Wikipedia and others in a demonstration of complete ignorance of the democratic process and the right to peaceful protest. Lamar Smith, its chief sponsor, vowing to bring it back for markup in February, just days...
Due to the Republican and Democratic retreats taking place over the next two weeks, markup of the Stop Online Piracy Act is expected to resume in February. To call attention to two bills that would result in massive web censorship and hurt American...
The democratic awakening in Egypt made #egypt the most used hashtag of the year, with Mubarak’s resignation topping the Hottest World News list. As top search engines and social networks continue to release their aggregate data and trends from 2011...
Criminals and bankrupts are also ineligible to vote for any of the "50 parties registered by the time the election process started in September, the political spectrum in Egypt ranges from small parties formed to support a single candidate to...
As the Federal Trade Commission continues their investigation and the Department of Justice reviews the Motorola and Admeld deals, Google’s PAC has also hired former Democratic House leader and now lobbyist Richard Gephardt.
And, like many others, had come to the conclusion that Google's approach to ordering the web and ranking it was not as democratic as they had originally proposed. In Bryan Eisenberg's ClickZ column today, he writes about being "Data Rich...
The New Media Firm specializes in integrating traditional and new media for Democratic candidates and progressive organizations. In addition to sharing news that the video-sharing site recently hit the billion-views milestone, YouTube today...
The world you represent is not a parallel universe where legal and moral rules and, more generally, all the basic principles that govern society in democratic countries do not apply. Nothing epic today, such as the end of days, which has now been...
It's dangerous to try to shut down speech, because you don't get that kind of robust public debate about what should or should not be acceptable in a democratic society," said Cynthia Wong, director of the Global Internet Freedom Project, Center...
