The Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, has been taking down domains in the name of copyright infringement under the Operation in Our Sites campaign. There has been some controversy about the process employed to take the domains down since some sites are removed without finding legal authority first. [...]
Those of us in the the industry all saw it coming. When the Facebook 'Like' button was first introduced almost a year ago (in order to replace Facebook Pages' 'Become a Fan' feature) our IT and Media departments here at CurrentMarketing had a moment of "This is awesome and disturbing all at the same time." [...]
On Thursday February 17th, 2011, the house passed an amendment that would block all funding for the Federal Communications Commission to implement the Network Neutrality order it approved in December. The Network Neutrality order is aimed at preserving the free and open internet and proposes the following: "i. Transparency. Fixed and mobile broadband providers must [...]
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 on December 21st, 2010 in favor of what is said to be a 90 page document on Net Neutrality. What is Net Neutrality? It is the basic idea of maintaining an open internet where people are free to access any legal content that they choose, without intentional interference by [...]
At a recent CM shindig I was made aware of a certain individual who learned CM has a FEMALE programmer on their team. His reaction? Shock, amazement, excitement. His words, according to The Bouv, were that he had never "met one", like Bigfoot. Ha! So that left me wondering. Are we some rare species?? Why [...]
Words cannot express the amount of gratitude and love I have for the company I work for and the amazing people I work with, but I will sure as hell try! They deserve it and the world needs to know who they are, what they represent and give hope to other people that there are [...]
Twitter is taking a new direction by launching New Twitter, a redesign of the site to make for a better user experience and hopefully bring more of its users back home to Twitter.com instead of using third party applications. NewTwitter features: - Infinite scroll. This allows the user to scroll through their feed indefinitely without [...]
Like many other developers out there, I can't wait until the door has finally closed on Internet Explorer version 6.0. Since its birth in 2001, it has been a strong competitor in the browser market. It was the most widely used browser for 5 years straight, until Firefox finally started to catch up to it [...]
Just when you thought 'there's an app for that' for everything you could have possibly dreamed of, Google is now working on an app for Android that will help you find an open parking space! Now not only can you get directions to a destination by using a phone, but you can find a parking [...]
We all know that Facebook has grown exponentially in the past few years. Along side this success and growth, Facebook has also seen a wave of malicious and abusive applications. Facebook recently made an announcement that they are trying to keep these people from creating applications on their platform by requiring developers on Facebook to [...]
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