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VKontakte is not only the largest social networking site in Russia, but is also one of the biggest unauthorized repositories of copyright...

As we reported a few months back, Keir Starmer, the UK's Director of Public Prosecutions, made the remarkable suggestion that "...

The role of technology in the wave of protests that swept the world last year is a matter of debate. While some claim that social network...

The unprecedented public outpouring of grief in the technical community at the death of Steve Jobs seems to go well beyond the fact that ...

The pundits have only just begun to offer their weighty thoughts on the subject, but already one of the key threads to emerge in discussions...

Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter run on it. But it is...

Amazing how things you put on your social networks can come back to bite you : Police officer Jim Keyzer, the leader and key witness in the ...

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I've written about open science and open notebook science before, but here's an excellent round-up of open chemistry: The next gene...

Although I've joined a couple of social networks, it's purely for the sake of some digital anthropology: I've never actually *us...

Many years ago the last major British computer manufacturer ICL launched One Per Desk , one of the craziest early computers ever. It was ba...

Although this isn't directly concerned with open source, I predict a lot of clever open source coders will start hacking this system and...

Authored by Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington September 4, 2007 We publicly assert that all users of the soci...

We went public with Lughenjo four weeks ago, primarily to test our idea on a wider audience. Since then we have continued our conversations ...

Well, it had to happen : Social networking site Bebo is likely to follow Facebook's lead and open up its site to developers to create ap...

Has everyone gone Facebook mad? It certainly seems so, and apparently I'm not the only one to think so. But whatever your views of Fa...

The journal Nature is a rather ambiguous beast. On the one hand, it represents the acme and epitome of the current science publishing syst...

Being an old fogey, I don't care much about all these new-fangled social networks (even LinkedIn seems overly, well, chummy for my taste...

What is Open Web? Open Web is a collection of technologies and standards that enable individuals to disclose their identity, feeds, activiti...

Social networks lie at the heart of Web 2.0 - and of the opens. So it is surprising that more hasn't been done to analyse and map the e...