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Will the internet end up controlled by big business and politicians?
Its birth heralded a new age of intellectual freedom. Now the internet is under seige
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Vintage video explaining the internet
Pretty cool looking back at the internet at its infancy.
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How Facebook cashes in on you
For better or worse, this will go down as the year that Facebook really put a dollar sign in front of its users.
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China tightens up censorship of Internet sites
For years, China's net nannies turned the other cheek to a loophole in their vast online censorship apparatus.
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Netflix now has the right to share your viewing habits
The Senate quietly passed a reform weakening the Video Privacy Protection Act.
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This year in review: Social media in numbers
2012 has proven to be a very busy year for social networks — and people involved in social media. Here are some of the latest stats and facts.
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New Zealand's largest paper calls Kim Dotcom “good for this country”
Dotcom comes with drama, but he helped expose political scandal in the country.
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Everyone Is Talking About Facebook's Massive Flop
It's about how Facebook blatantly ripped-off a hot startup – bragged about it – and then fell on its face, to a chorus of alarmed wonderment from around the industry.
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Why we love to hate Myspace
Myspace is gradually inviting users to "new Myspace," the first big refresh in the post-News Corp era, and already the claws have come out.
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At peak, Amazon sold a whopping 306 items per second in 2012
The biggest piece of data revealed by the company was the number of packages it sold on the peak day of 2012. On November 26, Amazon sold 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories.
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Snapchat rises: Why Poke's decline shows Facebook's inability to invent
Facebook's Poke app, a copy of red-hot Snapchat rose almost to the top of the iTunes appstore on launch. A few days later it has tanked, making me wonder: can Facebook really invent any new Internet behavior or is it destined to be a copycat forever?
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No One Uses Smart TV Internet Because It Sucks
People aren’t using their internet-connected smart TVs for anything beyond, well, watching TV. It turns out, nobody wants to tweet from their TV. Or read books.
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Cowards Are Black mailing Women to Death
The most despicable corners of the internet house a byzantine network devoted to sharing screen-captured images of naked—and often underage—girls.
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Instagram Says 25% User Exodus Is Bullshit
You might've read a story today that a quarter of Instagrams millions upon millions of users abruptly stopped using the massively-popular service over Christmas.
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YouTube cancels billions of video views after finding they had been 'faked'
The biggest hit was taken by Universal, home of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber, which lost more than one billion views from its total of seven billion.
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The 25 best reads on the web this year
25 of the best articles on the web this year.
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One small hotel's long nightmare with Expedia
After a falling out with the online travel agency, the Luna Blue Hotel can't shake the rumor that it's sold out forever
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How Music Ruled Twitter in 2012
To Jimi Hendrix, music was a religion. To Twitter users, music is a conversation starter and so much more. Here's how music ruled Twitter in 2012.
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Why Is "Project X" The Most Illegally Downloaded Film In The World?
No one saw the film on the big screen, but in illegal downloads it beats both The Avengers and Dark Knight . A theory: Aussies.
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Why Facebook Makes Me Feel Like A Loser
I'm sat here, in my dressing gown. My fingers are greasy from eating crisps all morning. My back aches because I spent all night playing a stupid video game.
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