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Google wants faster websites

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Google is incorporating page speed as a factor into it’s page ranking system. Matt Cutts summarized this change in three main points:

First, this is actually a relatively small-impact change, so you don’t need to panic.

Second, speeding up your website is a great thing to do in general. Visitors to your site will be happier (and might convert more or use your site more), and a faster web will be better for all.

Third, this change highlights that there are very constructive things that can directly improve your website’s user experience. Instead of wasting time on keyword meta tags, you can focus on some very easy, straightforward, small steps that can really improve how users perceive your site.”

Read more @ Seo-hacker.com [via]

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    What is Your Klout Score?

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    It becomes increasingly important for organisations to measure the actual impact of the social presence. The methodology used by Klout is focused primarily on measuring how influential you are in your social networks. When you share, like, retweet in your social networks, you influence people. The more engaged your actions are, the more influential you become. Klout defines Influence as the ability to derive action. Keeping your audience engaged is the key.

    Create a profile in http://klout.com/ and check your influence. [via]

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      Get Social: Become an Authority in Your Industry

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      There is a fine line between being another active brand on social media as opposed to being an authority.

      There are many components that are factored into creating a perfect recipe for success – we’ve listed a few key elements your brand can do to establish an authoritative online presence:

      1. Who Are Your Consumers?
      2. Quality of Your Network
      3. Quality Control
      4. Unique Campaigns

      Read full post @ Socialmediatoday.com

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        Keen: Maak het web weer anoniem


        We geven online te veel van van onszelf prijs. Dat concludeerde schrijver en internetcriticaster Andrew Keen in op het congres The Next Web 2012 in Amsterdam. Keen is ronduit pessimistisch over het gebruik van sociale media. Persoonlijke data wordt de nieuwe olie die de economie gaat aansturen, waarschuwt Keen. Daar gaan adverteerders mee aan de haal. “We hebben van onszelf een product gemaakt.”

        De video boven is een presentatie van eind vorig jaar, van zijn laatste boek Digital Vertigo, welke een aantal niet onbelangrijke punten goed uiteenzet. More Keen.

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          Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?

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            Rick Falkvinge: I am a pirate

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              Why blacklist are a bad idea

              According to NITEC chief Johnny Lundberg, it began when an employee at the police center decided to move from his own computer to that of a colleague.
              “He sat down and was about to make an investigation, and in doing so he placed a list of legitimate sites in the wrong folder,” Lundberg explained. “Before becoming aware of the error, two ISPs retrieved the list of sites.”
              Result: the Danish police similarly “accidentally” had 8,000 legitimate sites declared as child porn sites that needed to be blocked. Among the sites listed? Google and Facebook. Visitors to those sites, from ISP Siminn were greeted with the following message (translated, of course):

              The National High Tech Crime Center of the Danish National Police [NITEC], who assist in investigations into crime on the internet, has informed Siminn Denmark A/S, that the internet page which your browser has tried to get in contact with may contain material which could be regarded as child pornography

              Oeps! Again. Let’s not go this way of thinking that blocking sites is going to help us. Its quite the opposite.

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                Corporate Followers you didn’t know about

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                Who are these companies and what do they want from me? A voyage into the invisible business that funds the web.

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                  The History and the Evolution of Computer Viruses

                  Mikko Hypponen gives a neat 1 hour summary of all major computer viruses. Much humor and a nice view of where we’re heading. Notice the music industry role in this evolution. That’s quite unique, isn’t it.

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                    See for more info our previous post.

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                      Sexy Twitter vs. Facebook

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                        Online Piracy Doesn’t Hurt U.S. Box Office Returns [STUDY]

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                        Remember SOPA? Remember the urgency with which the bill’s backers were trying to convince us that its intended target, online piracy, was a clear and present danger? Remember how those dastardly BitTorrenters were going to deprive us of a functioning, creative movie industry? Well, an academic study now doing the rounds suggests that’s nonsense. [via]

                        Read full article @ Mashable.com

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                          Leuk een YOCO spot op TV


                          Link: Move4oneMen.org
                          oneMen heeft al een paar weken een leuke spot van hun Move4oneMen YOCO op TV!

                          Als manager nieuwe media van WWAV ben ik betrokken bij deze YOCO (product van WWAV).

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                            Niet Innoveren = Piraten | Revolutie in de telecomsector

                            Een oproep tot revolutie in de telecomsector

                            Telecomproviders staan er de laatste jaren belabberd op. Eerst T-Mobile met de iPhone. Het netwerk werd volstrekt onbruikbaar, en er was een Youp van ‘t Hek voor nodig voordat klachten van consumenten serieus genomen werden door het bedrijf. KPN startte onbedoeld een privacy-debacle omdat bleek dat ze haar gebruikers afluisterde, wat uitmondde in verregaande regulering door de wetgever. En Vodafone vatte mooi samen dat de reputatie van de sector zich op een “historisch dieptepunt” bevindt. De CEO wijdt dat onder anderen aan de netwerkkwaliteit en de klantenservice van Vodafone.
                            Mensen beginnen het zat te worden. Internet onderweg is voor veel mensen inmiddels net zo belangrijk als internet thuis, of internet op het werk. Maar voor die mobiele internetverbinding zijn we overgeleverd aan een conglomeraat van bedrijven dat structureel onder de maat presteert. Mobiel internet is op veel plekken in Nederland afwezig of is onbruikbaar traag. En ondertussen blijven de prijzen stijgen.
                            Het is niet voor niets dat het gezoem in het geruchtencircuit op dit moment oorverdovend is. Grote Nederlandse investeerders uit de technologie-, telecom- en mediawereld zijn bezig met het neerzetten van alternatieven voor KPN, Vodafone en T-Mobile, zo hoor ik van verschillende, goed ingevoerde bronnen.
                            In Frankrijk vindt de revolutie nu al plaats. Vorige maand begon ADSL-provider Free.fr met het aanbieden van telecomdiensten. Voor 30 euro per maand (of 20 als je al ADSL-abonnee bent) kun je onbeperkt bellen naar Frankrijk en 40 andere landen, plus onbeperkt SMS-en, plus 3GB internet of onbeperkt via landelijk wifi-netwerk. Dat is serieus goedkoop.
                            Een deel van het geheim zit ‘m in de routers van Free.fr’s ADSL-abonnees. Elke ADSL-gebruiker deelt zijn wifi-singaal automatisch met andere klanten, waardoor een enorm wifi-netwerk ontstaat dat in grote steden dekkend is. Daarnaast zitten er femtocells in de routers: dat zijn een soort mini-zendmasten die het GSM/3G-signaal versterken. Eigenlijk gebruikt Free.fr zijn miljoenen ADSL-klanten om het mobiele netwerk beter te maken. Redelijk briljant.
                            De oude garde reageerde laconiek op de nieuwkomer, maar dat is de arrogantie van de macht. Ondertussen trekt Free.fr hordes nieuwe klanten door het agressieve prijsbeleid. En de bestaande telco’s kunnen het prijspeil van Free.fr niet kunnen bijhouden, als ze hun netwerk niet drastisch anders inrichten.
                            In Frankrijk trekt een schokgolf van verandering door de telecomsector. Ik kan niet wachten op het moment dat die zich ook in Nederland aandient.

                            Alexander Klopping schrijf iets wat we al tijden willen.. maar wat zelfs verboden wordt. Dit is precies weer zo’n piraten verhaal. Als innovatie van de industrie zelf uitblijft, is het niet vreemd dat de mensen het dan zelf gaan oplossen..

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                              Le Web 2011 – Is Social Peaking?

                              Since we’re still a bit in the beginning of the year.. Where are we heading?. If you have 20 minutes, the video above of le Web 2011 might inspire. 2012 and beyond: App Internet, Post (evolued) Social and new Entrepenerial opportunities.
                              Looking back to the blogosphere..did it change that much according to Technorati?
                              Ps. Nice fact: 50% of all internet users visited Facebook in 2011.

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                                Computer Languages 2012

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                                Let’s have a look at the field, TIOBE index, now 6 year later. Python and iOs software Object C are upcoming frontrunners.

                                As always the best software benefits from being lean and mean.

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                                  The SOPA Debate and How It’s Affected by Congress’s Understanding of Child Porn

                                  Though SOPA has taken the spotlight, there is another Internet-related bill on the House Judiciary’s agenda. It’s H.R. 1981, a.k.a The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, which proposed a mandate that Internet sites keep track of their users IP information for up to 18 months, to make it easier to investigate Internet crimes – such as downloading child pornography.

                                  Very interesting article @ Danwin.com.

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                                    Steve Jobs ‘Billion Dollar Hippy’

                                    For those who would like to get just a little bit more of Steve Jobs, after the wave of media interest. Jup, there is a BBC documentary on Youtube with more..

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                                      WordPress 3.3 out

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                                        What facebook knows about you

                                        A couple of months ago the Austrian law student Max Schrems asked Facebook to send him all their data stored about him. All Europeans have a right to do this. Because Facebook is based in Dublin, Ireland. It took a while and then Facebook sent Max a CD with 1222 PDF files.

                                        Note that the US Intelligence receives all data from Facebook automatically. This is not a conspiracy but a fact: under US law Facebook has to give full access and to make things easier they just automated the process. In short Facebook is ‘Evil’.

                                        But to put it all in perspective: 5% of users generates 75% of Facebooks content. 50% of users entered into Facebook only once without any post. 90% of relationships in Facebook are reflecting to 10% only in real life. In short the quality of the intelligence is quite poor.

                                        Most European politicians are older than the internet itself. They have a very poor record concerning the protection of the privacy of it’s people. Like Facebook they rather service their own and foreign intelligence services or close deals with copyright infringement lobbyist. It’s not expected that the EU will achieve any basic privacy and security for their constituency (Europeans) on Facebook soon.

                                        My advice is to stay ignorant on the matter, enjoy Facebook.
                                        Want to be my friend on Facebook? Add me as your friend here :-)

                                        Read more @ http://www.taz.de/facebook-en [via]

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                                          Evgeny Morozov: The End of the Internet Utopia

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                                          While we don’t underestimate the power of internet social groups, Morozov makes a good case that governmental en commercial control has already gone much further then we like to think OR known. We think we know, in reality other things happen.

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                                            The Dutch and Facebook

                                            A special Seamail to Mark Zuckerberg… by the Dutch National Maritime Museum.
                                            Mark, did you know there would not have been Facebook without the Dutch?

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                                              Keen is back – Less Technology, can be more

                                              Back in 2009 Andrew Keen seemed to have lost the argument on his vision that web 2.0/3.0 treats people as products and returns the quality of the dialogue to a lower (amateur) standard. However when Keens arguments are placed within an emotional context by Sherry Turkle it is a different ball game. Turkle, clinical psychologist, with “Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other (2011)”, hits home hard why robots/internet and human values ARE different things and should know their place. While at first examples seem common sense, exactly why the trend isn’t following that common sense, is giving food for thought. With Privacy for example, it is very easy to fully agree with her.(via)

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                                                Jessica Hische and Russ Maschmeyer teach us about web design and the internet

                                                BASIC HTML & CSS for NON-WEB DESIGNERS

                                                Internet-famous designer Jessica Hische and Russ Maschmeyer have teamed up to make the web less scary for designers. [via]

                                                More @ Don’t Fear The Internet

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                                                  CmdrTaco has left the building (Slashdot)

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                                                  30 seconds after saving the last Slashdot story

                                                  Slashdot, with CmdrTaco (Rob Malda), had a big influence in shaping early online media, since 1997. E.g Slashdot effect. CmdrTaco has now given up his posting rights to the site completely. Reason?

                                                  After 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted, it’s finally time for me to say Good-Bye to Slashdot. The internet has changed dramatically since I started here, and that’s part of my reason for leaving. For me, the Slashdot of today is fused to the Slashdot of the past. This makes it really hard to objectively consider the future of the site. Posting stories has always been my favorite part of the job. I created Slashdot to share these stories with my friends from IRC and school. It was never ‘work’. I wish I could continue to post stories forever, but those closest to me know that if I maintained the ability to post, I’d never move on. I’ll continue to read Slashdot and hopefully my occasional story submissions will make the cut.

                                                  Knowning when to stop is just as important as being successful in the first place. Respect and all luck in your other adventures CmdrTaco! Wonder, was he an apple fanboy?
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