Two popular Instagram pages have been asking Iranians post these photos - and many are embracing the "KarteMeliChallenge" ("national ID card challenge"). The black-and-white, expressionless ID photos stand in stark contrast to colourful, fun, style-conscious snapshots that people have put…
Anonymity while surfing on the internet is not easy to maintain. Attackers and government agencies alike keep a track of your web activity and identity, with the former trying to infiltrate your system and violate your privacy. A lot has…
Are you designing a website for a restaurant? In order to create a proper website for people, you should start think in the same way they do. When it comes to designing a gorgeous restaurant website, what should you put…
Drawn from more than 2,000 nominations, the shortlist celebrates those at the forefront of tackling censorship and threats to freedom of expression. Many of the 17 shortlisted nominees are regularly targeted by authorities or by criminal and extremist groups for…
There’s a whole category of social-science fallacy that revolves around extrapolating from one or two cases, so we should be careful not to read too much into a recent Medium post by 19-year-old Andrew Watts about how he and his…
In a thoughtful essay about the future of the internet, one of the founding fathers of the dot com era has finally apologized for creating the pop-up ad. Ethan Zuckerman is the director of the MIT Center for Civic Media…
First, let’s get this out of the way—it’s not because of Facebook’s privacy policies. I am a pretty open person on the Web. Heck, I think we are all, by default, when we choose to “go digital.” But I am…
Seeking Arrangement is the leading Sugar Daddy dating site where over 3 million members fuel mutually beneficial relationships on their terms. Many traditional relationships fail because there is not enough give, and too much take. Lets face it. It’s hard…
People have the "right to be forgotten" and search engines like Google must remove certain unwanted links, Europe's top court decided. The case, which spotlighted the clash between privacy and freedom of information advocates, centered on a Spanish man's efforts…
Online reputation management (ORM) refers to type of service that enables companies to conveniently monitor and manage their online profile. Given the proliferation of numerous online-review websites, social networks and blogs, it is common for firms to receive both positive…
This past week, I bought 4,000 new followers on Twitter for the price of a cup of coffee. I picked up 4,000 friends on Facebook for the same $5 and, for a few dollars more, had half of them like…
Who doesn't love free WiFi? Although we use it often, we rarely think about how it works. If you've ever wondered, here's how... Wifi is an energy field that is transmitted as waves. The waves have a certain height, distance…
One of the ways to think about China's Internet is as a Bizarro version of the World Wide Web. Facebook and Twitter are banned, but social networking sites like Sina Weibo and Kaixinwang operate freely. Instead of YouTube, there is…
While some concepts of the Internet date back to the 1950s, the public-facing World Wide Web traces its history back 25 years. Here is a timeline: March 12, 1989: British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee circulates his "informational management proposal" at…
LinkedIn is positioned to become the first global economic graph with the ability to mine the transactions of an emerging data economy. That’s the conclusion of a study by faberNovel, a Paris-based consulting group that has published the results of…
Facebook has introduced custom gender options, instead of forcing people to choose between ‘male’ and ‘female’. The change, currently being rolled out for users, will make Facebook more accessible for non-binary trans people and for intersex people, who were previously…
You may think that just like with many other areas of online tech men are also paving the way for the use of smartphones and tablets for social media activities, but you’d be wrong. It’s actually women who are the…
If your growing weariness of being constantly tethered to the internet has become overwhelming, it might be time to scrub yourself from the social media sphere altogether. Here's how you can become a ghost on the Internet, by tracking down…
If you tell Facebook you’re in a relationship, but don’t say with whom, then you might think you’ve got some privacy. But think again: A newly developed algorithm can identify which “friend” you’re dating and predict whether or not that…
Today is World Day Against Cyber Censorship, and international watchdog, Reporters without Borders (RWB), has released a new report, updating its ‘Enemies of the Internet’ list. It is not at all surprising to find that the Middle East and Asia…