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Who owns the Internet? The simple answer to that question is nobody; and everybody. If you pay for an Internet connection you can consider yourself a shareholder, albeit a silent one, so shouldn’t you be a little more concerned about how it develops and the way it’s run? This year there has been a lot of talk about social media and the part it played in the ‘Arab Spring‘. Western cultures applauded the technology as a tool of revolution, lauding its freedom and openness as a fundamental human right....

Women’s soccer/football sealed a brand new tweets per second record today during the Women’s soccer world cup final. In fact, as you’ll see fromTwitter’s own tweetbelow, the top two most tweeted records now belong towomen’ssoccer. The women’s world cup final saw an incredible 7196 tweets per second, while the men’s Copa America Quarter Finals between Paraguay and Brazil came agonisingly close with 7166 tweets/second to seal second place in Twitter’s records....

It’s been a few months since the last social media intern mishap was heavily reported – when an intern vented his frustrations at the CEO ofMarc Jacobsin theMarc Jacobs International Twitter feed– and this, in all likelihood, won’t be the last mishap to happen. When it comes to how social media is used in non-industry companies – that is, typically companies outside of the sphere of PR, marketing, advertising, communications or digital agencies – the real value and impact of social media isn’t often realised....

As more people are getting their hands on the incredibleM1 Max MacBook Pro, a question is arising:why? The machine is eye-wateringly expensive and people on Twitter (where else?) are up in arms about it. 6000 dollars … What a fkin joke. Who needs 8tb ssd man and M1 max is good and all but this is just robbery.https://t.co/3UYSuMgIJZ — Baby (@DanAtreides01)October 19, 2021 Honestly? It’s a reasonable concern. The most tricked-out version of the 16-inchM1 Max MacBook Pro will cost you$6,099,before tax —with the cheapest M1 Max build crossing the $3,000 mark....

In 1997 I was negotiating the sale of my first startup with a large ISP. We had been meeting for weeks and had invested a lot of time explaining to this company what we did exactly, what our plans were and how our technology scaled. It seemed that every time we had a meeting with new people that we had to keep explaining things all over again. At one point we got fed up with explaining and demanded that at the next meeting we would talk to someone who could make decisions....