Internet Articles

I have just been reading on one of our law client's blogs about a recent ruling from the High Court which seems to suggest that bloggers' no longer have a right to anonymity. Following a case which resulted in the author of a blog entitled "Nightjack" being outed,  bloggers can now be... read more

We've been playing with xRank today, a tool from Bing that allows you to search for celebrities and brings up related results such as biographies, videos, images, shopping, popularity trends and any other range of available information. I was impressed by its ability to actually map... read more

I've just come across this 1994 promotional video about the internet from The Digital Equipment Corporation.I was at University in 1994 and remember using the internet to download games like the Prince of Persia. Looking back I remember it (the internet) being very textual but to be honest... read more

The web has been buzzing about Google Local Search being folded into non-local results. Never mind the inaccuracies of the results local search is currently delivering, the morass of information that Google is now serving for some SERPS is starting to create a real usability problem. Have a... read more

I recently blogged about my concerns for privacy as social media and lifestreaming become the norm. As Google launches its Streetview product in the UK, my concern about privacy has intensified considerably. With lifestreaming over social media it is our choice (usually) about what private... read more

Being a football fan I've just gotta admit I found this funny when i saw it on our colleagues PushOn's blog - a search for Manchester City "MCFC honours list" gave this result: View full size image read more

You would have to have been stuck on a Desert Island for the last few weeks to not know about the The Pirate Bay's ongoing court case in Sweden which started on Monday. The Pirate Bay argue that they aren't guilty of pirating music and videos as they do not actually store the information... read more

Exchange and Mart has always been a stalwart of the UK secondhand car buy and sell classifieds. Today it has been announced that Exchange and Mart is ditching the newspaper to go purely online. Some people may look at this with a fond sadness - thinking that it is yet another victim of the... read more

According to an article in Marketing Vox, a judge has ruled that having a "fake avatar" or online alter ego, sock puppet, fake social media profile, etc., is now a criminal offense, thanks to the case of Lori Drew, who was convicted of computer fraud after creating a fake MySpace persona to... read more

Yesterday's Technology section of The Guardian published an article about a church being sued by Getty Images over unlicensed use of 2 images on its website. A volunteer designed and built the website without any thought to copyright - if the images are readily available on the internet they... read more