Founders of AOL, MapQuest, Yelp, Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla! respond to the question: "What is the future of the Internet?"

Vinton Cerf is widely recognized as one of the founding fathers of the Internet and currently holds the title of "chief Internet evangelist" at search giant Google.

Can we predict the future of the Internet? See how communication, transactions and entertainment might develop in the future of the Internet.

April 25th, 2011  |  by Jennifer  |  Published in filtering, opennet initiative  |  Click to comment Last month the OpenNet Initiative published a report that shines light on one of the more sensitive business practices of Western Internet security and filtering companies. These companies – including McAfee (an Intel subsidiary), Websense, and Netsweeper – promote their filtering technologies in the West as tools for parents and schools trying to shield children from online pornography and e...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House approved a bill on Tuesday that would expand the number of Internet companies required to collect sales tax. The bill, which passed on a 122-23 vote, would change the definition of what it means to have a physical presence in Texas. State Rep. John Otto, R-Dayton, said it would force Internet-based companies like Amazon.com to collect sales taxes if they pay marketers in Texas to advertise for them. Under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, a company does not have to...

New findings from the Pew Internet Project's recent survey of experts about the state of the internet in the year 2020

It all started with the humble infographic - those charming representations of well-designed data that are fast becoming ubiquitous across the Web. Infographics, in fact, have become so popular as a way of telling complex stories very elegantly (and generating massive page views) that they've spawned a whole new generation of increasingly sophisticated data visualization tools that are making it possible to view the data behind very complex political, financial and socio-economic trends in r...

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Participants at the WEF talk candidly about the challenges to shared values of privacy and freedom posed by the Chinese government's approach to the Internet. At the same time, the economic potential of doing business in and with China can be overwhelmingly alluring. How do you take a stand against the dragon when it will also buy a billion units of anything you can send it?

The Internet as we know it may soon be HistoryNot long ago we saw an unparalleled attack on the freedom of our Internet by the U.S. government, partially in retaliation to the Wikileaks fiasko. It began with the seizure of 82 domains and ended with a whole variety of moves to bring down WikiLeaks and/or block access to it. Clearly the government of the United States has launched a new campaign to control the Internet.The U.S. government has been able to seize, not only block domains, taking ...