From the monthly archives: januari 2012

In a letter from Reporters Without Borders:

Does your new policy mean that references on Twitter to Arab revolutions and demonstrations in Manama will no longer be accessible in Bahrain? Will Vietnamese using your social network from their country no longer be able to tweet about bauxite mining’s harmful impact on the environment? Are you going to block tweets about the demands of Turkey’s Kurdish minority? Will Russian Internet users see their criticisms of the government censored?

More questions are raised by Twitters latest move than there are answers given.

I’m wondering how they would ever be possible to do this technically. Not only in English but in an dozen languages. With tweets, one thing you know: once they are out there they will be spread.

 

On the official Android Developers Blog, Google is getting really serious about the consistency thing for Ice Cream Sandwich:

Instead of thinking about a menu that serves as a catch-all for various user options, you should think more about which user options you want to display on the screen as actions. Those that don’t need to be on the screen can overflow off the screen. Users can reveal the overflow and other options by touching an overflow button that appears alongside the on-screen action buttons.

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I have never written an advertisement in the office. Too many interruptions. I do all my writing at home.

 

 

Good research there: the browser extension that shows more than the Google+ your world search results:

(…)it comes from Facebook

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Look mr. Brooks, imma let you finish and all but are those are the best search results for me? I frickin’ own my own domain and it doesn’t appear on the first page? I post on twitter all day long, didn’t they read it? Twitter has this nofollow thing but my blog sure hasn’t.

The new search results in Google aren’t perfect but at least they try. They are recreating their product all the time. Why would we want search engines to work the same way as 10 years ago? Haven’t you seen the internet change overtime?

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