From a press release of the Commission:
The Commission today moved to the second phase of an infringement proceeding over the UK to provide its citizens with the full protection of EU rules on privacy and personal data protection when using electronic communications. European laws state that EU countries must ensure the confidentiality of people’s electronic [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Commission does not like UK unlawful interception of telecommunications
Posted in European Union, Future of the Web on October 31 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nice rant against Facebook
Posted in Future of the Web, tagged facebook on October 31 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Found this rant about the social network service Facebook at harmsen.net.
Facebook is worse than useless to you because facebook.com is Facebook’s website, not yours. It is not ‘your’ profile, it is Facebook’s profile about you. Those aren’t your friends, they are a Facebook sanitized version of your friends. It took centuries of political evolution to [...]
Cross-platform as in SkyDrive
Posted in Desktop Experience, Total Information Outsourcing (TIO) on October 31 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the SkyDrive Explorer, a kind of Dropbox clone, a new definition of cross-platform has been developed:
Cross-platform
32/64 bit OS support
SkyDrive Explorer works both in 32- and 64-bit Microsoft® Windows OS. Minimal required OS is Windows XP, and SkyDrive Explorer will successfully work in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, and Windows 7.
But anyway, tools [...]
Offene Standards im Koalitionsvertrag
Posted in Future of the Web on October 24 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Die Informationstechnik des Bundes bedarf der Konzentration, Standardisierung und Effizienzsteigerung sowie Bündelung vorhandener Ressourcen. Wir werden hierzu den Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Informationstechnik stärken. Wir prüfen, wie die IT des Bundes sich zukünftig an offenen Standards orientieren und dabei auch Open-Source-Lösungen berücksichtigen kann.
Koalitionsvertrag CDU-CSU-FDP
Spanish net neutrality definition
Posted in Future of the Web, tagged communication, net neutrality, telecommunications on October 23 2009 | 1 Comment »
A Spanish colleague sent me this “net neutrality” definition from a Spanish law:
Citizens have the right to not suffer in their digital sent or received data any kind of manipulation, distortion, prevention, diversion, priorization or delay. The exercise of this right must be independent from the source or target of the communication, from the protocol [...]
Helmbrecht takes over ENISA
Posted in European Union on October 17 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just read at Heise that Helmbrecht actually will take over ENISA. I mentioned it before when it was just rumours. It is an excellent chance to drive the ENISA cyber security agency into a meaningful direction and take the trash out. Part of the cleanup is to overcome the national security and capture problems of [...]
Alternativeto
Posted in Future of the Web on October 17 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Alternativeto.net is a very interesting online application. It shows alternatives to similar applications:
AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you suggestions on great alternatives! Instead of listing thousands of more or less crappy applications in a category, we make each application into [...]
The Karmic law of Wikidot.com Gurus
Posted in Future of the Web, floss on October 8 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am a Wikidot.com user of the degree “Guru”. Wikidot is a wiki farm, that is an collaborative online content management and editing system. The wikidot platform is developed and run by a few Belgium and Polish software specialists I collaborated with in different business matters. I found Wikidot the wiki system which works best [...]
‘The Economist’ switches to online subscription mode
Posted in Future of the Web on October 6 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Economist announced that it will switch its online content provision model to a subscription-based scheme:
Beginning October 13th, we will be limiting access to certain sections of our site to subscribers only. Over the past few years, Economist.com has become a hub for intelligent discussion, with news commentary, blogs and an award-winning debate series. We [...]
