Pinboard: bookmarks for threedaymonk tagged 'internet'

Telehack is ‘an interactive pastiche of 1980s computer history, tying together public archives of Usenet newsgroups, BBS textfiles, software archives, and historical computer networks into a multiplayer adventure game.’

emulation bbs usenet games history internet
july 2011 by threedaymonk

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Why mobile apps suck when you're mobile (TCP over 3G)

In short: TCP backs off too much, giving variable and occasionally very long round trip times.

internet tcp 3g mobile
june 2011 by threedaymonk

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.tel, .xxx and .mobi are all pointless and idiotic
dns icann http internet
march 2011 by threedaymonk

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Things Real People Don't Say About Your App
webdev internet humour
february 2011 by threedaymonk

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Disconnect

‘A browser extension that stops major third parties and search engines
from tracking the webpages you go to and searches you do.’

chrome extension browser privacy internet
january 2011 by threedaymonk

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Twitter from the inside out

‘My workflow for using Twitter is this – pick through the stream, load interesting-looking links in tabs, send them all to instapaper. All of which could be easily automated. So that’s what I did.’

twitter internet discovery
january 2011 by threedaymonk

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NSTX (IP-over-DNS) HOWTO

Free internet access!

dns internet nstx ip reference
november 2010 by threedaymonk

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GodBlock

‘It is targeted at parents and schools who wish to protect their kids from the often violent, sexual, and psychologically harmful material in many holy texts, and from being indoctrinated into any religion before they are of the age to make such decisions.’

atheism censorship internet children
july 2010 by threedaymonk

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How do I hate thee, Digital Economy Bill? Let me count the ways…

Really good summary.

uk law debill internet copyright
march 2010 by threedaymonk

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The Internet? Bah!

Cynicism about the internet from 1995. Reads like satire from a 2010 perspective.

internet culture prediction humour
february 2010 by threedaymonk

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Buzz launch wasn’t flawed, Google’s intentions are

Interesting analysis of Google Buzz, Wave, etc.

google buzz wave internet
february 2010 by threedaymonk

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Content-Search Deals Make Twitter Profitable - BusinessWeek

So that’s how they’re going to make money.

twitter internet business search google microsoft
december 2009 by threedaymonk

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“Piracy” and “anti-piracy”: A brief history from the Dark Ages to the Early Modern era
copyright history internet
december 2009 by threedaymonk

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What's My DNS? - Global DNS Propagation Checker
dns webdev internet network sysadmin
november 2009 by threedaymonk

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Adobe is Bad for Open Government

So true.

adobe flash internet government
october 2009 by threedaymonk

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Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists

‘Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned.’

webdev internet business marketing seo
october 2009 by threedaymonk

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Peter Mandelson Defends His Sudden Conversion To Kicking People Off The Internet
uk internet politics copyright government
september 2009 by threedaymonk

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The Information Architecture of Social Experience Design: Five Principles, Five Anti-Patterns and 96 Patterns (in Three Buckets)

Good stuff.

usability ux webdev interaction social internet
august 2009 by threedaymonk

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How 31 Year Olds Consume Media

‘We have no idea why a lad who should be wanking, drinking Merrydown cider in a graveyard and listening to Radiohead is writing plausible memos for an evil merchant bank.’ Glorious.

humour internet media twitter sociology
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Shiny Media - My bit part in its downfall

‘I knew what both sites were making in ad revenue. Which was virtually nothing, a tiny percentage of my actual salary. As I looked around, I wondered if anyone else was doing the sums in their heads and working out how long it would be until the company exploded?’

internet blogs business
july 2009 by threedaymonk

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Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment
crowdsourcing webdev internet uk social journalism media news politics
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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Cory Doctorow: Digital Britain report: Why Lord Carter should get real

The report proposes ‘to turn [...] infrastructure over to the selfish mismanagement of special interests who want to be sure that their buggies won't be crowded off the digital byways.’

uk government internet copyright
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection

How HTTP/TLS/RSA etc. actually work in context. Really interesting.

http https ssl tls rsa crypto protocol internet network
june 2009 by threedaymonk

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Installing Uzbl on Ubuntu-based Distros
uzbl internet unix linux ubuntu
may 2009 by threedaymonk

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The Fear… of the Internet

One view of how and why the Japanese corner of the internet ‘subjectively-speaking, resembles the English-language net in 1997, in terms of graphic design, corporate participation, and general cultural influence.’

japan internet culture
may 2009 by threedaymonk

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3 lakh hits per second make EC website crash

That’s over a trillion hits per hour!

webdev india internet
may 2009 by threedaymonk

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Sony Pictures CEO: ‘I'm A Guy Who Doesn't See Anything Good Having Come From The Internet. Period.’

Also complains about ‘this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time.’ Hilarious.

weird internet copyright media
may 2009 by threedaymonk

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The Internet as Imagined in 1969
history internet video
may 2009 by threedaymonk

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Making money out of free
business internet free
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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IP address geolocation SQL database
webdev internet geolocation
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Old Growth Media And The Future Of News

‘That’s why the ecosystem of technology news is so crucial. It is the old-growth forest of the web.’

news internet journalism sxsw media
march 2009 by threedaymonk

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Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0

‘We can move [the bad reviews]. Well, for $299 a month.’

yelp extortion business reviews ethics internet
february 2009 by threedaymonk

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Web providers to be named and shamed over offensive content

Oh dear. Looks very ill-conceived and unworkable.

uk government stupid internet censorship
november 2008 by threedaymonk

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Why Isn’t Facebook Making More Money? (Hint: Advertiser Value and User Value Are Not Aligned)

‘If you’re in media in the web era, you’d better be working on a business model that creates huge value for users.’

business internet advertising google facebook
september 2008 by threedaymonk

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Porn on a plane: Flight attendants want filters

Seems reasonable, right? I’ve seen someone browsing his locally saved porn on a flight without internet access, though, so it’s not really solving the problem.

porn society travel airline internet
september 2008 by threedaymonk

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My Logik IR100 Internet Radio Resource page

Attests the same problem that my father’s radio has. Useful for when I get my ‘Sale of Goods Act 1979 as amended’ on.

radio internet
august 2008 by threedaymonk

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BluetoothDialup

BT > Mobile > Internet on Ubuntu

ubuntu bluetooth internet gprs 3g
june 2008 by threedaymonk

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