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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

Additional Resources

Live Webcast: CIO Strategies for Retention and Deletion of Email and Electronic Information

Over the past two years, major changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure FRCP and the increase in state and federal compliance regulations have created new challenges for companies as they struggle to manage email retention and deletion policies. To successfully maintain compliance and protect their...

Tags: Strategy, Webcast, Compliance, MessageOne, E-mail, Online Communications

Webcasts 2008-07-10

Now I know we're in a recession

OK, this has nothing to do with Ed Tech. Not a thing. There's no tie-in, no hidden message for us Ed Techers, just a feeling of impending doom. Fortune is reporting that Starbucks is closing 600 stores. I'll let that sink in. ...

Tags: Starbucks Corp., Seattle, Food & Beverage, Construction, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-02

A place for our stuff

This morning I learned of the news of George Carlin's passing with much sadness, and with the realization that we have lost one of the great thinkers and comedic minds of the last century. More than any other comedian, he was the one who I identified with most. Someone who...

Tags: Possession, Stuff, Government, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-23

Monitoring our immune system

You might be surprised to learn that there are no clinical tools to track the human immune system today. This might change soon. UCLA researchers have developed a new PET scanning probe that will allow monitoring of our immune system. The scientists have used one of the most commonly used...

Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Imaging, Monitoring, Probe, Cell, PET, FAC, 18F, Positron Emission Tomography, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Gates rules out returning to Microsoft

Today's Wall Street Journal is running an article on how Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer spent the past eight years learning how to pass the leadership baton from Gates to Ballmer. The most interesting part of the article -- and perhaps the main reason...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Leadership, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-06-05

MinWin: Is it or isn't it part of Windows 7?

MinWin: Is it or isn't it part of Windows 7?re: MinWinI think the statement if accurate from "the anonymous Microsoft blogger claiming to be part of the team building Windows 7", is pretty clear and sounds like a reasonable explanation.I know, I know ........It's the next round of vapourware to...

Tags: Operating systems, MinWin, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-02

News to know: Google Apps; Vista UAC; Microsoft Echoes; Comcast; Dell

Notable headlines: Garett Rogers: Google App Engine pricing a disappointment Ed Bott: Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time Sunbelt Blog: Microsoft: What we got here is a failure to communicate Larry Dignan: Dell delivers: Is a...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Facebook, Dell Computer Corp., Comcast Corp., Vista UAC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Service Bus, Telecom & Utilities, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Michael Howard on SQL Injection and my concerns on the most recent attacks

Michael Howard on SQL Injection and my concerns on the most recent attacksvotes are off8 votes right now: No for 1st is 100% & Yes is 13%, same for 2nd, exception Yes & No percentages are switched. Poll bug?now they're goodAt 9 votes, they show up correctlyWeirdStrange... wonder what happened.-Nate

Tags: SECURITY, Michael Howard, SQL injection, SQL

Discussion threads 2008-05-29

Michael Howard on SQL Injection and my concerns on the most recent attacks

So, in catching up with blogs after vacation, I went and had a peak at Michael Howard's web log, and was glad to see another post from him.  His posts are very insightful I just wish he would post more.  So, way back on May 16th (old news now, but still...

Tags: Web, SQL, SQL Injection, Attack, Michael Howard, SQL Payload, SDL, Programming Languages, Databases, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-29

News to know: Apple patches; D6 coverage; Yahoo; Google I/O

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Leopard mega-patch plugs 41 security holes Jason O'Grady: Apple releases Mac OS 10.5.3 software update Apple: About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update Google: Mac OS X 10.5.3: sync Google Contacts Psystar offering new...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, I/O, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Polar robots to explore the Arctic

It's now almost certain that the world's ice shelves are melting. And while satellites provide lots of data about their evolution, ground-based weather stations could be even more useful. But if scientists can no longer stay on fragile and volatile ice sheets, what can they do? They can use specially...

Tags: Professor, Georgia Tech, SnoMotes, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Nokia N95-3 (North American model) firmware update version 20.2.011 is now available

I know that Ricky Cadden from the Symbian-Guru.com site has been waiting very anxiously for the Nokia N95-3 North American version to be upgraded to version 20.2.xxx and Nokia stated that the update would be coming in June. According to users on Howard Forums Nokia was able to release...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Firmware Update, Firmware, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-27

Six Web Hacker Tricks & The Three Pillars of Web Protection

A brand new infected Web page is discovered every 14 seconds. The Web has become the key vector for online attacks - yet the vast majority of businesses are unprotected against today's modern Web-based malware. Hackers have developed a new box of tricks. ...

Tags: Web, Sophos Plc., Malware, Channel Management, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Marketing

Webcasts 2008-05-22

Is your keyboard dirtier than a toilet seat?

Is your keyboard dirtier than a toilet seat?As my microbiology prof saidat the beginning of the semester:Two weeks into this class and you'll want to be like Howard Hughes, trying to sequester yourself from the little critters crawling everywhere.After two months, you'll get over it and realize that there's not...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, toilet seat

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

Update: T-Mobile 3G voice and data launches in NY

I was getting all excited today after reading the rumors that T-Mobile was going to start rolling out its 3G network in New York tomorrow. I contacted my T-Mobile PR person to try to get some confirmation, but never heard anything back except for the continued party line that T-Mobile...

Tags: Network, Voice, T-Mobile, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your business

Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your businessIt's not your job to question.It is your job to feed Penelope and Rupert.RE: Cancer--censored, delayed, none of your businessYeah, remember that Alar stuff that was so bad? Oh, wait, it wasn't. Well, what about that really bad stuff, DDT? What do you mean I...

Tags: Oops IT, green tech blog, bad stuff, green technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-29

Is Hyper-V ready for the Windows desktop?

A few days ago, my ZDNet blogging colleague Jason Perlow offered some suggestions on how he would design Windows 7 for maximum backward compatibility. One of his key proposals involved using virtualization to solve application compatibility problems: What if Microsoft were to build a "Personal" Hyper-V...

Tags: Desktop, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, VM, Linux Integration Component, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-04-17