Archive for 'Web 2.0 Ethics'

Is Editing Wikipedia Pages Anonymous?

Well the simple answer is no. The ability to view which IP addresses have been editing pages in Wikipedia has always existed, but now a student from Cal Tech has gone ahead and not only simplified the process, but has also created a searchable database of IP addresses making changes to pages. The website, [...]

YouTube Copyright Filtering by September

A Google lawyer announced on Friday that they will apply video fingerprinting technology to YouTube by September.
This comes as great news to countless of video content producers, that are now seeing their copyright videos on YouTube without their permission.
The video screening technology will consist of a computer system which will automatically scan all videos uploaded [...]

How not to handle social media

There have been some recent revelations (see article) on Whole Foods CEO John Mackey (aka “rahodeb”) who, from 1999 to 2006, made several anonymous postings on financial forums and sites putting down his company’s rival competitor Wild Oats. Among other postings, Mackey wrote that Wild Oates’ management “clearly doesn’t know what it is doing” and [...]