Technology News: Everything You Need to Know About the Social Media Bubble   
Are we or aren’t we? When it comes to social media bubbles and whether or not we’re in one, there is no shortage of people willing to argue on each side of the debate.    
Read full story => ReadWriteWeb

Programming News: Three quick Rails console tips   
I was bouncing around the Rails API documentation yesterday, and I noticed a few rails console tricks I haven’t seen before. There’s been plenty of posts about irb and Rails before, but I’m hoping you’ll learn something new here. The following console samples were taken with Basecamp Next on Rails version 3.2.3.    
Read full story => 37signals

Standards News: ISO’s magazine focuses on standards and crisis management   
With crises like earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, IT attacks and terrorist threats regularly making the news around the world, ISO has dedicated the May 2012 issue of ISO Focus+ magazine to crisis management. The issue gives an overview of different kinds of disaster and how International Standards can help manage them at different stages, from preparation to recovery.    
Read full story => ISO

Technology News: Are Twitter and Facebook changing the way we complain?   
Is social media the new battleground on which individuals air their grievances about big companies? A sense of lonely rage, after being mistreated by a big company, is a feeling many can relate to. Rudeness, poor service or inexplicable disruptions announced by unswervingly unapologetic staff – sometimes minor injustices are the ones that rankle the most.    
Read full story => BBC News

Programming News: Web First for Mobile   
My mobile performance research focuses on mobile web. I don’t analyze native apps. Why? I believe in the openness of the Web. I don’t like being forced to use a proprietary technology stack. I don’t like signing legal documents. I don’t like having to be approved by someone. Although I don’t write commercial apps, I don’t want the people who follow my work to have to pay a share of their revenue to a gatekeeper.    
Read full story => SteveSouders

Standards News: ISO standards and Rio+20 – brochure updated with user referrals   
ISO has just released a second edition of its brochure for the upcoming Rio+20 summit* now including referrals from users and stakeholders on how voluntary ISO International Standards help to achieve the objective of sustainability. The new edition of the brochure, Rio+20. Forging action from agreement – How ISO standards translate good intentions about sustainability into concrete results, includes quotes from standards users worldwide, ranging from large corporations to small and medium-sized enterprises, and from the public sector.    
Read full story => ISO

Technology News: NVIDIA virtualizes the GPU for streamed desktops and cloud gaming   
NVIDIA this week unveiled an ambitious plan to solidify the GPU’s place in high-performance computing, while bringing the blazingly fast graphics processing units to the worlds of virtualized desktops and streaming video games.    
Read full story => ars technica

Programming News: Why REST Keeps Me Up At Night   
With respect to Web APIs, the industry has clearly and emphatically landed on REST as the standard way to implement these services. And for good reason… REST, which is generally implemented as a one-size-fits-all solution, is an excellent choice for a most companies who wish to expose their content to third parties, mobile app developers, partners, internal teams, etc. There are many tomes about what REST is and how best to implement it, so I won’t go into detail here.    
Read full story => programmable web

Other News: Here’s What Could Kill Facebook   
Facebook is nearing a billion users, but what could topple the big blue giant? Government intervention, the shift to mobile, and a loss of “cool” all have the power to violently disrupt the social network, or at least cause it to lose its strong grip on the market.    
Read full story => TechCrunch

Technology News: Ahead of Facebook IPO, poll finds user distrust   
According to a new AP-CNBC poll, 57% of Facebook users say they never click ads or other sponsored content when they use the site, with another 26% saying they hardly ever engage in such activity.    
Read full story => USA today

Programming News: Instant HTML/CSS Updating   
Want instant updating to HTML / CSS pages you’re editing? You can now have it. I’ve tried it on both IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm successfully. It should most likely work on our other IDE’s too (PhpStorm, PyCharm).    
Read full story => Hadi Hariri’s Blog

Other News: Oops! Five CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired (Cisco, GE, WalMart, Sears, Microsoft)   
First came  the hubbub about Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo, inflating his resume to include a computer science degree he did not actually receive. By comparison, there are at least 5 CEOs that make these 2 mistakes appear small.  These 5, frequently honored for their position, control of resources and personal wealth, are doing horrific damage to their companies, hurting investors, employees, suppliers and the communities that rely on their organizations.  They should have been fired long before this week.   
Read full story => Forbes

Technology News: Fair use (mostly) triumphant: Judge exonerates campus “e-reserves”   
If your collegiate experience was anything like mine, it probably involved frequent trips to the library in order to check out photocopied book chapters on Hegel and Wittgenstein from the “reserves desk” (and involved frequent curses directed to those other readers who, like me, were attempting to cram a chapter an hour before class and had checked out all available copies.) Today, of course, you can just get “e-reserves” through a browser, but the very ease of copying and distribution found in the new systems has publishers worried. Certain courses and professors use reserves quite liberally as a way to ensure poor students don’t need to buy entire books for the sake of a few pages. But are reserves actually copyright infringement on a massive scale?    
Read full story => ars technica

Programming News: Javascript Needs Test-Driven Development   
If you’ve programmed in Javascript, you know that it’s an… interesting… language. Don’t get me wrong: I love Javascript. I love its first-class functions, the intense VM competition among browser makers, and how it makes the web come alive. It definitely has its good parts. It also has some not-so-good parts. Whether it’s browser DOMs, automatic semicolon insertion, or an object model with a split personality, everyone’s had some part of Javascript bite them in the ass at some point. That’s why using test-driven development is so important.    
Read full story => kickstarter

Other News: Facebook IPO has privacy implications, advocates say   
Facebook’s IPO could be one of the most successful in history, but that very success could force the company to make a choice between protecting users’ privacy and exploiting their personal data.    
Read full story => MercuryNews

Technology News: Help! There’s A Patent On My Idea! What Now?   
One of the most frequent questions I get asked goes something like this: “I have a really great idea, but (name of big company or university) has a patent on that. What do I do?” With over 8,000,000 patents issued to date and thousands of new patents issued weekly, chances are good that patents have been issued that are relevant to your business or idea. Knowingly infringing an active patent can lead to disastrous consequences for your business. So what do you do?    
Read full story => TechCrunch

Programming News: Never use hard tabs  
As there seems to be some confusion when hard tab characters (ASCII code 9) are appropriate in source code files here is a rule:   

• Never use hard tabs, unless your source code is hard tab sensitive (only such format I know is Makefile)

Read full story => OpenSourceHacker

Other News: US Government To Make Texting While Walking illegal   
We all know how danger is talking to someone while driving or even reading, Texting a message or else because it consider illegal in too many countries and there is too many people who are arrested by the police  because talking in their mobile devices but what about texting while walking? Is that dangerous, too? Maybe this is the perfect ad for Apple’s Siri?    
Read full story => iJailbreakNow

Technology News: Bitcoins worth $87,000 plundered in brazen server breach   
More than $87,000 worth of the virtual currency known as Bitcoin was stolen after online bandits penetrated servers belonging to Bitcoinica, prompting its operators to temporarily shutter the trading platform to contain the damage.    
Read full story => ars technica

Programming News: Where is that next big programming language?   
TIOBE has released the Programming Community Index for May 2012 a bit late. The top 3 languages do not change compared to last Month TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language, they are still C,Java and C++. However, the share of Java is continuing dropping, Objective-C is steadily rising  Other languages which have rising trend are Visual Basic.NET，PL/SQL and Logo.    
Read full story => PixelsTech

Other News: Facebook updates its data policy   
As part of the changes, Facebook is also signaling that it may start showing people ads on sites other than Facebook, targeting the pitches to interests and hobbies that users express on Facebook. The move comes a week before Facebook’s expected initial public offering of stock. Facebook held events with potential investors this week, and it has posted a version of its road show online. The offering could value Facebook at nearly $100 billion — more than Kraft, Ford and other major brands.    
Read full story => USAtoday

Technology News: Betting Everything on Mobile   
Though the purchase price is an anomaly, the message behind Facebook’s $1 billion agreement to buy photo-sharing application Instagram is not: apps are where the money is. It’s a sentiment echoed by countless startups now writing software applications for smart phones and tablets. All are hoping for a share of the $6 billion in revenue that Forrester Research says apps generated in 2011 from purchases and ads. Forrester expects app revenues to double this year, to $12 billion—an incredible figure for a market not yet four years old.    
Read full story => TechnologyReview

Programming News: The salesman and the developer   
A salesman and a developer go on a bear hunting trip. They arrive at the cabin in the woods and start unpacking the car, moving stuff into the cabin, getting things ready for a week of bear hunting in the wilderness. The salesman quickly gets bored of this and says:

“Tell you what, you continue unpacking and getting everything ready, and I’m going to go and find us a bear.”    
Read full story => swombat

Other News: Bing search engine gets major overhaul   
The “Decision Engine” is receiving a significant tuneup. Microsoft unveiled an upgraded version of its Bing search engine focused more on social discovery. The layout breaks down into three columns: a primary panel for traditional search results, a snapshot with useful information on the subject and a sidebar with recommendations from social networks such as Facebook.    
Read full story => USAtoday

Technology News: Ebooks: Is digital opening up a new chapter for publishing?   
With ebook sales on the rise, how is the publishing industry embracing the world of digital? Next week some of the biggest names in publishing will gather at the Hilton in London’s Park Lane for The Bookseller Industry Awards.    
Read full story => BBC News

Programming News: Supporting IE Is Too Much Work   
Yesterday the bitching about IE seemed to be worse than normal. I believe it started with the post “We don’t support Internet Explorer, and we’re calling that a feature” by @Paydirt. When reading the article i was thinking about the insane amount of time I spend on getting sites to work on IE6 and reading that only 1.63% of their traffic uses IE, it makes sense not to support it.    
Read full story => Bartj3

Standards News: Digital object identifier (DOI) becomes an ISO standard   
A new International Standard that provides a system for assigning a unique international identification code to objects for use on digital networks is expected to bring benefits for publishers, information managers, multi-media distributors, archive and cultural heritage communities, and the internet technology industry.    
Read full story => ISO

Technology News: Physicists Store Short Movie In A Cloud of Gas   
One of the enabling technologies for a quantum internet is the ability to store and retrieve quantum information in a reliable and repeatable way.    
Read full story => MIT Technology Review

Programming News: The New Native Languages   
To many developers, the recent trend of reversion to true compiled languages implies a re-engagement with C and C++, or for denizens of smaller niches, a renewed embrace for Pascal, Fortran, Ada, and other languages of the pre-2000 era. But for some programmers, this native trend, which is most heavily touted by Microsoft as part of its re-engagement for C++, leaves a certain sense of dissatisfaction.    
Read full story => Dr.Dobbs

Other News: US conservatives gain upper hand in Twitter politics   
Following his successful use of Twitter in the 2008 US presidential election campaign, Barack Obama is seen by many political pundits as the king of social media. But according to a new analysis of the Twitterverse, US conservatives have fought back and may now possess an online network that is better organised to spread their message.    
Read full story => NewScientist