This is a run-down of technology news from SWON Library Consortium. In this edition you'll hear about a number of privacy issues, from web browsing to iPhone apps to security certificates. There's also ebook lending news and some new tools for creating digital texts. Join SWON for this hour of tech talk.
7. Google Changes Privacy Settings,
Combines Information from Gmail, YouTube, etc.
Instead of 60 policies for different services
and features, now there’s just one.
Oh, and by the way...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-tracks-consumers-across-products-users-cant-opt-
out/2012/01/24/gIQArgJHOQ_print.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KGghlPmebCY
8. Google Sidesteps Safari Cookie Settings
1st-party versus 3rd-party cookies:
It’s about being there.
http://marketingland.com/google-didnt-track-iphones-but-it-did-bypass-
safaris-privacy-settings-6247
9. Google Sidesteps Internet Explorer
Cookie Settings
Windows Internet Explorer Engineering Team Blog:
By default, IE blocks third-party cookies unless the site presents a
P3P Compact Policy Statement indicating how the site will use the
cookie and that the site’s use does not include tracking the user.
...
For example, here is the P3P Compact Policy (CP) statement from
Microsoft.com:
P3P: CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA
PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI"
...
Technically, Google utilizes a nuance in the P3P speci cation that
has the effect of bypassing user preferences about cookies.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/02/20/google-bypassing-user-
privacy-settings.aspx
10. ReDigi: Marketplace for used MP3s
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/pre-owned-music-lawsuit-2/
https://www.redigi.com/buy.html
11. Social Media Boosts “Downton Abbey”
Olivia Wong, Senior Account Executive, National
Marketing at WGBH Educational Foundation:
The real moment when we crossed over from a
cult hit to a main-stream phenomenon was when
we began to see celebrity devotee comments and
all the fan mash-ups and tributes online. It
suddenly went to another level.
http://www.lostremote.com/2012/02/16/how-social-media-helped-turn-
downton-abbey-into-hit-pbs-show/
12. Penguin Unfriends Overdrive
+
Not Enough Friction
=
And Friction = Security in Sales
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/02/ebooks/penguin-group-terminating-its-contract-with-overdrive/
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/e-content/ebook-talks-details
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/2012/02/09/articles-of-interest-penguin-overdrive-and-libraries/
13. Talking To Patrons About Penguin
http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2012/02/ebooksign.html
14. Are Ebooks Trapping Libraries?
Nate Hill (The PLA Blog):
While I’m troubled by the many difficulties public
libraries have lending ebooks, I’ve been focusing
instead on the many examples of public libraries
reconsidering their mission and becoming creative
hubs for their communities.
There is a great opportunity there. The 20th century
library was a monument to knowledge consumption,
the 21st century library has the opportunity to devote
half of its resources back to knowledge production.
http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/02/ebooks/penguin-group-terminating-its-contract-with-overdrive/#comment-11143
http://plablog.org/
15. Pew Finds Leap In E-Reader/Tablet Ownership
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/E-readers-and-tablets/Findings.aspx
18. iBooks Author
‣ Free Software (Mac-only)
‣ McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education,
& Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
‣ Maximum Textbook Price:
ê
$14.99
‣ Full-featured for iPad only
‣ Full-featured sold through
iBookstore only
‣ Apple gets 30% cut
‣ No EPUB import/export
http://www.apple.com/education/ibooks-textbooks/
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/01/19/ibooks-author-under-the-hood/
19. Apple iBooks Author: The EULA
Chamber Four:
“...You can’t sell the books you make
with iBooks Author through any
distributor except Apple.”
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/apples-mind-bogglingly-greedy-and-evil-license-agreement/4360
http://chamberfour.com/2012/01/20/relax-the-ibooks-author-eula-is-not-nearly-that-bad/
20. Apple iBooks Author: The Revised EULA
http://512pixels.net/apple-updates-ibooks-eula/
24. Don’t Mess with GPS
✓ Have 4G wireless broadband idea
✓ Buy spectrum
✓ Get shut down by the F.C.C.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/business/media/fcc-bars-airwave-use-for-broadband-plan.html?_r=1
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/why-lightsquared-failed.ars
25. Flaw in SSL Security Found(?)
• 2 random (large) primes, (p) & (q)
• (p)*(q)=(n)
•
•
•
Content is encrypted with (n)
& decrypted with (p) & (q)
If a (p) is discovered,
can calculate (q) from (n) ������
Nadia Heninger, Security researcher at Princeton:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/technology/researchers- nd- aw-in-an-online-encryption-method.html
http://dankaminsky.com/2012/02/17/primalfear/
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/nadiah
26. iOS “Path” App & Address Book Privacy
http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-
their-servers.html
27. Everything Is A Remix: System Failure
http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
