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Redesigning Mary Meeker’s Ugly Internet Slideshow

May 31, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Each year Mary Meeker delivers a signature State of the Internet speech with deep and comprehensive insights into the emerging shape of the digital world. It’s fascinating, penetrating, brilliant – and a crime against good design. If it weren’t for Meeker’s sharp analysis, eyes would glaze at the PowerPoint-style visual dross. So we asked the presentation designer Emiland De Cubber – who famously redesigned the NSA’s confoundingly ugly PRISM PowerPoint that was leaked by Edward Snowden last year – to rework Meeker’s slides and make them easier on the eyes. The Paris-based designer kept the serious look and feel and stuck with the shade of grayish green favored by Meeker, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins …

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Redesigning Mary Meeker’s Ugly Internet Slideshow

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Google is Breaking the Internet

May 19, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

I received an interesting email the other day from a company we linked to from one of our websites. In short, the email was a request to remove links from our site to their site. We linked to this company on our own accord, with no prior solicitation, because we felt it would be useful to our site visitors, which is generally why people link to things on the Internet. Apparently Google convinced them, via their Webmaster Tools portal, that the link looked “unnatural”, and that they should use the Link Disavow Tool to discredit the link. Furthermore, they thought it necessary to contact us to manually remove the link, which is something I’m not going to do (out of principle).

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Google is Breaking the Internet

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URLs are Already Dead

May 8, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

URLs are already dead Posted at May 6, 2014 07:00 am by Nicholas C. Zakas Tags:

Browsers, Internet, URLs Last week, there was a fair bit of furor when Jake Archibald wrote an article1 describing an experimental feature in Chrome that hides all but the domain name of the URL you’re on. The idea is very similar to what already happens in the iOS 7 version of Safari: once navigation is underway, the URL is hidden and only the domain name is visible in the location bar. If you want to get to the full URL, then you either click or set focus back to the location bar (in Chrome, you click the domain name). Iâ€™ll admit, the first time I encountered this behavior in iOS 7, I was…

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URLs are already dead

Hardware Open-Source NSA Technology (Airborne Wifi)

May 4, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

As you are probably already aware, a certain person decided to smear a large number of highly classified documents over the internet. Part of these documents however included the ANT Hardware Catalogue. ANT is a division of the NSA responsible for developing hardware devices and software for use by the Tailored Access Operations division. The full catalogue is available from multiple sources – Although This gives a good overview of the capabilities of each device. The one product we’re going to focus on here is called SPARROW-II As you can see this system is used as a mobile wireless network (WLAN) detection point. A small computer intended to be used for WLAN collection, including from UAVs. Hardware: IBM Power PC 405GPR processor, 64 …

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Hardware Open-Source NSA Technology (Airborne Wifi)