Texting circa 1906
How little things change. At least they’re not sexting. Source: Buzzfeed.com via IHeartChaos. Cross-posted in different form on Infoglut Tumblr.
Yearly Archives: 2013
The right kind of chilling effect: “Instagram loses half its daily users after T&Cs debacle”
Companies have to understand that people are finally starting to pay attention to T&Cs. “After a month which saw Instagram float some rather contentious changes to its terms and conditions as well as ditching support for Twitter cards, the number of people using the service daily has dropped by almost half.” Source: Wired.co.uk. Cross-posted to […]
Major expansion of Wayback Machine’s archive of the historical internet
The Next Web reports that the Internet Archive has vastly increased its historical database of the web: The Internet Archive has updated its Wayback Machine with a significant bump in coverage: the service has gone from 150,000,000,000 URLs to having 240,000,000,000 URLs, a total of about 5 petabytes of data. More specifically, the Wayback Machine […]
Get out of jail free: how the WWII Allies used the game Monopoly to help POWs escape
Most of us think of Monopoly as a board game. Intellectual Property folk also think of it as a source of IP issues: trademarks in the name, trade dress of the game, copyright, and even patents. But how about this: a POW escape kit? Megan Garber writes in the Atlantic about how the WWII Allies used […]