Sean Parker launches video social network

Airtime acts in a similar way to free video chat phenomenon Chatroulette, but allows users to connect with their Facebook friends as well as strangers based on shared interests and location proximity. The site also allows users to share content such as YouTube videos, with more options such as games coming soon

Unlike Chatroulette, Airtime says it has built automatic “abuse prevention” filters into the service to prevent vulgar content from appearing on the site.

The team behind Airtime, which also includes Parker’s fellow Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning, plan to monetise the service by selling advertising or virtual goods once it has built up its user base.

Speaking at Airtime’s launch event, which was attended by celebrities including Snoop Dogg, Alicia Keys and Jim Carrey, Parker said Airtime was built in an attempt to move the internet’s social graph into an “interest graph”.

He added: “Facebook isn’t helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn’t develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There’s part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this. There’s no room for serendipity.

Airtime has already reportedly raised $33m (£21m) in funding and employs about 30 people in its San Francisco base. Parker still retains a circa $2.65bn (£1.7bn) stake in Facebook.

Source: Marketing Week

Google Warns Users They May Become Collateral Damage in Cyber War

Google announced on Tuesday it will begin displaying a warning to users who the internet giant believe are under state-sponsored malware attack.

“We are constantly on the lookout for malicious activity on our systems, in particular attempts by third parties to log into users’ accounts unauthorized. When we have specific intelligence – either directly from users or from our own monitoring efforts – we show clear warning signs and put in place extra roadblocks to thwart these bad actors,” Eric Grosse, VP of Security Engineering, said in a statement posted on Google’s security blog.

Google has not revealed what criteria or technology will be used to detect the attacks.

The move comes following high-profile attacks on Google. More than two years ago western corporations claimed they were attacked by Chinese hackers. In 2001, the U.S. government said senior officials with Gmail accounts were targeted. In response, Google moved servers from mainland China to Hong Kong.

Russian activists opposed to the re-installment of the Putin regime also claim their Google accounts were targeted. Russia’s FSB, heir to the old Soviet KGB, have repeatedly called for a crackdown on the internet and other “new technologies” it believes are being used by western intelligence agencies to “create and maintain constant tension in societies.”

Earlier this year, a “self-professed” Iranian hacker group claimed they had compromised the accounts of thousands of NASA researchers. The attack came after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iranian computer networks with the Stuxnet virus. It was reported last week that the Obama administration authorized an ambitious cyber attack on Iran as part of its ongoing effort to destabilize the country and derail its fledgling nuclear program.

It is unclear if Google will also protect its networks against attacks waged by the Pentagon. DARPA, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has launched its Plan X, an effort to recruit “the private sector, universities and even computer-game companies as part of an ambitious effort to develop technologies to improve its cyberwarfare capabilities, launch effective attacks and withstand the likely retaliation,” according to the Washington Post.

Finally, it should be noted that Google is a prime target for a number of reasons, most notably for the role it plays as a key intelligence asset to both the CIA and the NSA. It has supplied the core search technology for Intellipedia, a highly-secured online CIA system and has shared a close relationship with the CIA, NSA, and government national security officials.

“Google’s connection with the CIA and its venture capital firm extends to sharing at least one key member of personnel. In 2004, the Director of Technology Assessment at In-Q-Tel, Rob Painter, moved from his old job directly serving the CIA to become ‘Senior Federal Manager’ at Google.,” writes Eric Sommer.

In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the CIA, also had a hand in creating the wildly popular social network Facebook. “The second round of funding into Facebook ($US12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel,” writes Matt Greenop.

Considering the Obama administration’s open effort to sabotage Iran – and more than likely other official enemies, including Syria, Russia and China – retaliatory cyber attacks should be expected.

Google is now warning hapless users that they may become victims – or collateral damage – of these retaliatory attacks.

Source: Infowars

Leaked Bilderberg Documents: “Nationalism Is Dangerous”

Leaked documents from the 1966 Bilderberg Group conference exclusively obtained by Infowars betray how even as far back as five decades ago U.S. Senators were being indoctrinated with the belief that “nationalism is dangerous” by Bilderberg elitists, in addition to top union heads scheming behind their members’ backs with titans of capitalism and industry.

Previously leaked documents from meetings have illustrated how the Bilderberg Group, contrary to the media-generated myth that the confab represents a harmless talking shop, sets the consensus for policy decisions sometimes decades in advance.

A clear example is the 1955 Bilderberg meeting held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, West Germany. Documents read by the BBC and later released by Wikileaks divulge how Bilderberg members were discussing the creation of the euro single currency nearly 40 years before it was officially introduced in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty.

The documents obtained by Infowars are from the Bilderberg Group meeting which took place in Wiesbaden, Germany in late March 1966.. The files are marked “personal and strictly confidential,” and “Not for publication either in whole or in part.” They consist of Bilderberg’s agenda for that year’s confab along with hand-written notes made by Democratic U.S. Senator for Oklahoma Fred R. Harris, who attended the meeting.

Participants in the 1966 conference included well known figures such as David Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and John J. McCloy, who served on the Warren Commission and was a member of the foreign policy establishment group of elders called “The Wise Men.”

Harris had only been in office for less than two years before he was invited to the Bilderberg confab, suggesting he was being sounded out for potential grooming for higher office. The former Senator is still alive and currently works as a professor of political science at the University of New Mexico.

Included in the documents is the official invitation Harris received from Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Bilderberg founder and member of the German Nazi party. The letter is personally signed by the Prince.

The most alarming portion of Harris’ hand-written notes concern a speech given during the Bilderberg confab by one time Communist Party member and union leader Walter P. Reuther, who was politically active from the 1930′s up until his death in 1970. Reuther was a leading force in the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and later helped set up the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

Conservative icon Barry Goldwater once characterized Reuther as a “more dangerous menace than the Sputnik or anything Soviet Russia might do to America.” Reuther also appeared in Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

The documents show that even as far back as 1966, Union representatives like Reuther, who called themselves socialists, were selling out their members in favor of secretly scheming with Bilderberg power brokers, many of whomwere titans of capitalism and industry – illustrating how the left/right political paradigm is a fraud.

In addition, Senators like Harris were being indoctrinated by Bilderberg elitists that national sovereignty must end and be replaced by a system of global government.

Harris’ notes, made while Reuther was giving his presentation, reveal how Bilderberg were panicked about NATO’s declining relevance and sought to manufacture a new threat to elevate its importance.

“NATO is in trouble because common fears are reduced,” he writes.

The primary threat to Bilderberg’s goal of establishing global government is made clear in Harris’ notes.

“Nationalism is dangerous,” he writes.

In a letter Harris sent to Reuther a few weeks after the conference, the Senator thanks the Union head, writing, “The Bilderberg Conference gave me a real opportunity to learn and widen my horizons. One of the memorable highlights of the meeting was the opportunity to get to know and visit with you.”

We will have more astounding revelations from these leaked documents in the coming days.

View screenshots of the documents below (click for enlargements).

Source: Infowars