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Rando only launched in March but the anti-social photo-sharing app that deliberately eschews the standard social network clutter of likes and comments and connections – simply letting users share random photos with random strangers and get random snaps in return — has blasted past five million photo shares after a little over two months in the wild. It is now averaging around 200,000 shares per day, says its creator ustwo. (via Rando’s 5M Anti-Social Photo Shares Could Be The Canary In The Social Networking Coalmine | TechCrunch)

« iXoost is the first audio system for iPhone©/iPod© entirely hand-built in Modena by local craftsmen ». (via IXOOST)

(via Lumu – bringing Light Meter to the 21st Century by Lumu Labs — Kickstarter)

« Hell is Other People is « an experiment in anti-social media » according to its developer Scott Garner. Using data from your FourSquare account, the web app will monitor recent check-ins of your « friends » and calculate a position where you’re almost guaranteed to avoid them entirely ». (via Anti-social: ‘Hell is Other People’ keeps you as far away from your ‘friends’ as possible | The Verge)

« The programs of the past can be characterized as “proximate surveillance,” in which the government attempted to use technology to directly monitor communication themselves. The programs of this decade mark the transition to “oblique surveillance,” in which the government more often just goes to the places where information has been accumulating on its own, such as email providers, search engines, social networks, and telecoms ». (via Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance | Wired Opinion | Wired.com)

Parental filters for pornographic content will come as a default setting for all homes in the UK by the end of 2013, says David Cameron’s special advisor on preventing the sexualization and commercialization of childhood, Claire Perry MP. (via ISPs to include porn filters as default in the UK by 2014 | Ars Technica)