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- Author of "Smart Mobs" says Second Life numbers aren't important
- Ive just teleported out of Second Life where I was in the audience listening to Daniel Terdimans interview with Howard Rheingold author of Smart Mobs, conducted in CNETs virtual conference room.Commenting on the recent debate surrounding Linden Labs inflated user numbers for Second Life, Rheingold said:I like the Darwinian nature...
- Tags: Virtual Worlds, Second Life
- Blog posts 2007-01-11
- Howard Rheingold about our mobile world
- Howard Rheingold about our mobile worldSousveillance as a means to counter SurveillanceI don't think we've met, but you know Steve Mann, and I am part of his group at the University of Toronto. I think the concept that Mann brought up, of "Sousveillance" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance) might be most pertinent.Why Sousveillance?Whereas...
- Tags: Camera phones, Advertising & Promotion, Sousveillance, mobile, Steve Mann, Howard Rheingold
- Discussion threads 2006-07-22
- Howard Rheingold about our mobile world
- Howard Rheingold is the well-known author of Smart Mobs and many other books describing the evolution of our societies. His last book predicted the transformation of our society into a mobile one. Four years later, and with thousands of posts published on the collective blog organized around this theme, his...
- Tags: Howard Rheingold, mobile, telephone
- Blog posts 2006-07-20
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- To nothing less than the Whole Earth: "We are as gods"
- Stewart Brand from his own website. Green Tech is about to observe a crucial anniversary. The first Whole Earth Catalog was published in 1968. Nearly forty years ago. Already the commemorations begin. The "New York Times" just published a book review...
- Tags: Desktop, Earth, Brand, Green Technology, Tool, Wikipedia, WEC, Productivity, Government, Wiki, Desktops, Branding, Online Communications, Hardware, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Yahoo's challenge: Getting the social Web right
- At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, John Battelle talked with Jeff Weiner, executive vice president of Yahoo’s Network Division, talked about Yahoos opportunity to turn its half a billion user base into a more closely connected community spending lots of time on Yahoos network and competing against Google....
- Tags: Web Technology, Yahoo, Social networking, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Who shapes IT?
- What do Adobe's chief software architect, the man behind MySpace, a 19th-century mathematician and a 21st century futurologist, plus the most hated man in cyberspace all have in common? They are regarded, by ZDNet bloggers, as individuals who exert an especially noteworthy influence on the broad field of information technology....
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2006-07-24
- The man behind MySpace
- Tom Anderson, the man behind MySpace, and the ubiquitous friend known as "Tom" to all MySpace users, has created a social phonomenon and brought a revolutionary communication medium to millions of users. Called social networking, this medium allows people to build vast groups of "friends," or other registered users...
- Tags: MySpace
- Blog posts 2006-07-20
- On the shoulders of genius
- George Boole was born in Lincoln, England in 1815 and published The Calculus of Logic in 1848 - almost exactly 100 years after Euler's Introductio in analysin infinitorum Nothing in modern, science based, computing originated in either publication, but the two set in stone the roots of the research behind...
- Tags: Enterprise software, George Boole, Neumann
- Blog posts 2006-06-30
- Dan'l Lewin: Leading Microsoft Emerging Business Development
- Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, interacts with a worldwide VC network to surface and nurture emerging venture-capital-backed technology start-ups with the potential to be the “next big things” extending the Microsoft platform, a $10 billion business, and growing.I spoke with Lewin to discuss...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
- Barrett Lyon: Internet Influencer
- The first thing Barrett Lyon will tell you when he gets on stage is his age. At a youthful 27 years old he is rapidly becoming one of the most influential technologists of the day. He is founder of Prolexic Technologies, an Internet hosting service that defended dozens...
- Tags: Barrett Lyon, Prolexic Technologies
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
- Making the Rich Internet Application a Reality - Kevin Lynch
- It's difficult to talk about the evolution of the web without mentioning Flash. Over the years Flash has run the gambit from annoying animation, to revolutionary video technology and application framework. Who would have thought during the dark days of the skip intro button that Flash would someday serve up...
- Tags: Flash, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- The most hated man in cyberspace
- Richard Stallman. Having covered this space for nearly two years, I have seen more resentment toward Stallman than anyone in the world, even though on the issues he’s right.Stallman, if you don’t know, is the father of GNU, and the "Free Software" movement. He’s not the father of open...
- Tags: Richard Stallman, BSD
- Blog posts 2006-06-16
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