Étiquette : cyberculture (Page 1 of 4)

Winamp

“While Saboundjian declined to get into the specifics of which services would be part of the new Winamp or how the app would plug into, say, your Spotify playlists, your Google Music library, your Podcasts app, Audible and so on, he seemed confident that it would meet the needs he outlined. There are many conversations underway, he said, but licensing and agreements aren’t the main difficulty, and of course release is still quite a ways out. The team has focused on creating a consistent app across every platform you might want encounter mobile audio. A highly improved search will also play a role — as it ought to, when your media is all lumped into one place.”

Source : Winamp returns in 2019 to whip the llama’s ass harder than ever | TechCrunch

Il y a un peu plus de 18 ans…

«We live in an era fundamentally skeptical about self-government. Our age is obsessed with leaving things alone. Let the Internet develop as the coders would develop it, the common view has it. Keep government out.This is an understandable view, given the character of our government’s regulation. Given its flaws, it no doubt seems best simply to keep government away. But this is an indulgence that is dangerous at any time. It is particularly dangerous now» – Lawrence Lessig.

Source : Lawrence Lessig on the increasing regulation of cyberspace | Harvard Magazine

«Silicon Valley, it turns out, won’t save the world. But those who built the internet have provided us with a clear and disturbing account of why everything went so wrong — how the technology they created has been used to undermine the very aspects of a free society that made that technology possible in the first place».

Source : An Apology for the Internet — From the People Who Built It

«What is Million Social Pixel?
A place for anybody who wants to raise awareness. You have a profile in a social media network and you want to advertise it? This is the place to be. Be part of the visibility platform for influencers.
A little bit history
We recently created Million Social Pixel. Yes, 13 years later than The Million Dollar Home Page. Now the world has become more social! The idea is to help influencers of every social network to improve their visibility providing them a space outside their own social network. We have created one panel for each social network».

Source : Million Social Pixel

«These dominant platforms are able to lock in their position by creating barriers for competitors. They acquire startup challengers, buy up new innovations and hire the industry’s top talent. Add to this the competitive advantage that their user data gives them and we can expect the next 20 years to be far less innovative than the last. What’s more, the fact that power is concentrated among so few companies has made it possible to weaponise the web at scale» – Tim Berners-Lee.

Source : The web is under threat. Join us and fight for it. – World Wide Web Foundation

Decentralize the Internet

«Finding the killer apps of the decentralized internet will take more time, people, and money than have been thrown at the problem so far. Pakman says that societal attitudes to power and big tech companies appear to be in the right place to deliver them. ‘There’s massive distrust in centralized everything,’ he says. ‘We don’t trust the government, don’t go to church or synagogue, don’t trust banks and now we no longer trust tech companies.’»

Source : The Decentralized Internet Is Here, With Some Glitches | WIRED

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