I am playing around with Google Pages, and I have created my own, corresponding to my Gmail account. It will be interesting to see how the system will evolve, including really basic web page elements missing now like tables, navigational help, etc. Also an area where clearly the entire concept must shine is the integration […]
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The set of blog posts have always been seen, with their rich link texture, as a healthy medium building relevant conversations. Comments on the other hand, appreciated by the blogs’ creators, have not been incorporated as readily, and the loss of analysis weakened the value of each individual comment to a blog post, as well
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We have started working with Centennial, who makes a software package letting companies manage their policies regarding USB-attached devices, called DeviceWall. Consequently I am now paying more attention to these issues, and just saw the news (via Cnet, through Slashdot, through Diggdot) of a new program that lets an iPod user ‘slurp’ the data off
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I am sure there is a Web 2.0 service like this somewhere… I’d like to have a “Your Web Today” view, where not only I have the RSS feeds pumping information in me like a goose as it happens already, but more simply pages that I want to revisit. This came to me as I
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The recent decision by Sony to eliminate its robot product lines, the Aibo entertainment robot, and the prototype stage Qrio, certainly pleased its shareholders, and the managers making the decision are still plauding themselves. The resemblance with DEC in its final years is striking. Just as the wind is about to be taken out of
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Only a couple of days after the widely commented news of Sony’s copy protected DRM-laden music CDs, there is a new backdoor in the wild exploiting it, as described by Kaspersky Lab in their latest alert. So much for the justifications by Sony that their scheme won’t really matter. The EFF initiative for litigation just
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Amazon has just announced the Amazon Mechanical Turk, which in my opinion will bring great advantages to both the web, and to a lot of people, potentially representing the livelihood of millions soon. The AMT is a web interface linking meatspace with cyberspace at the backend. We are accustomed to seeing people in front of
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One of the favourite sci-fi scenes is that of the sky in the center of the Galaxy, which now has taken a newly visible form. Thanks to Slashdot, I have found a video of the movement of the stars closest to the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Really fascinating to see
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I am writing this through the blogging interface of Flock, which aims to make the browser the hub of online social interactions in a closer loop.
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