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- Wikipedia is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- This is just a quick followup to my post on Google Knol, a slick new service from Google that lacks the breadth of Wikipedia, but seems intent on compensating in verifiable depth. Comments were mixed, ranging from agreement with my position that, pedagogically at least, Knol is already on...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Knol, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Run Google's Android OS on your Windows Mobile device
- I had a chance to play with the generic Google Android device that has been floating around at Mobile World Congress a couple of months ago. Now, you too can play with the Android OS on your Windows Mobile device as you can see in the videos posted by Leigh...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Android, Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Operating System, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Why Windows users don't switch to Mac
- Over on Apple Matters I came across an interesting post by Steven Leigh which considers 8 reasons why Windows users don't switch to Mac. Leigh is a recent Mac switcher and he has an interesting insight into the issues surrounding making a switch, but I think that there are...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Truth, User, Ignorance, Leigh, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Consulting objectivity
- Suppose your company wanted to hire a consultant to advise on appropriate computing infrastructure strategies for the next five years. Suppose further that you're down to two choices distinguished mainly by their answers to the question: are you biased toward one technology over its competitors?One says that he isn't: that...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Paul Murphy, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc., right software, first reaction, software, consulting
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- Microsoft's Google concessions
- Microsoft's Google concessionsMotive?Since I would assume there is no charge for Google's desktop search component, what is Google's motive for wanting to be there? Why is Google so insistent that its desktop search be able to replace Microsoft's (which it could to begin with, but that's apparently anotehr discussion)?Carl RapsonDid...
- Tags: SEARCH, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., desktop search, desktop
- Discussion threads 2007-06-20
- Digital privacy behind virtual walls
- Ubiquitous computing was the only subject discussed at the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 13-16, 2007. As reports the National Post, in the future, everything will be a computer. As ultra small computers can now embedded in virtually everything, pervasive computing applications...
- Tags: Computers &, Internet, Leisure, Robotics, Social Sciences, Wireless &, Telecom
- Blog posts 2007-05-27
- A Pulitzer Prize for Dave Winer (the bearded, prickly one)?
- Blogging had its tenth birthday party this week. What a big big boy it has become. Even I acknowledge that not each and every 70 million bloggers are fools and not each and every one of their 1.5 million daily blogs are idiotic. The question is how to determine value...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- Our next teachers: avatar experts
- Researchers from Illinois and Florida are developing a networking system which will create virtual representations of real people to improve our knowledge. They will use artificial intelligence and natural language processing software to enable us to interact with these avatars. The goal of the project, sponsored by the National Science...
- Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- No Larry Ellispin zone: Yahoo still dating Red Hat
- On Oracles earnings conference call CEO Larry Ellison said the company displaced Red Hat for Linux support at Yahoo. The truth is a bit more nuanced. Yahoo said it is using both Oracle and Red Hat for Linux support. Stephen Shankland reports:Red Hat and Yahoo both said that Red Hat...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- IT: where success fails, and failure succeeds
- In reviewing discussions responding to last weeks "what users want" theme I was struck by the extent to which most of us get so wrapped up in fighting alligators that we completely forget about draining the swamp. Fortunately theres always somebody willing to remind us - in...
- Tags: Sun, IT Retardants, Enterprise Policy, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- MindMeister - collaborative web-based mind mapping
- MindMeister - collaborative web-based mind mappingI'm interested in MindMeisterThis is something for which I've been looking!My address is "info [at] adamcreighton [dot] com".I'm inLooks interesting and I would love to try it out. I'm bljarv@[google's email offering}.comI'd like to try it, Marcdave.leigh@cratchit.orgI'd like to try itismael@itredux.comYes pleaseI would like...
- Tags: collaborative Web, Mindmeister, FreeMind
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- ODF vs. OOXML - the way I see it
- In a blog post on Friday, I asked in the title whether ODF has sufficient detail after discovering a post by Miguel de Icazas on the subject of ODF vs. OOXML. The point from that post I keyed on was that 6,000 pages isnt a problem so long as those...
- Tags: General, IT Management, ODF, Office, Office 2007, Open Source, PC Forum, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Open CourseWare movement grows across planet
- It sounds like a Utopian vision - a high-quality, free education for everyone - but thats precisely what MIT and other prestigious universities are doing by participating in the The OpenCourseWare movement, a movement that puts all coursework online for anyone to peruse, reports The Christian Science Monitor. ...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT OCW, OpenCourseWare
- Blog posts 2007-01-05
- Open source 2007 and desktop Linux
- Open source 2007 and desktop LinuxThe difference between MS and Applethis year is that Apple has been keeping their popular product lines fresh. Whereas the only new products MS has released are products in markets in which they are trying to gain a foothold (XBox, Zune). Not that I don't...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, desktop Linux, desktop, open source, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-20
- Computer simulation of cancer growth
- For a long time now, researchers and scientists have used computer simulations in physical sciences, such as physics, chemistry or engineering. But what about biology? An international team of U.S. and Scottish mathematicians and biologists has decided to use a math model to predict tumor behavior. As say the researchers,...
- Tags: cell, Science &, Nature, Computers &, Internet, Health &, Medicine
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- We need more programmers
- We need more programmersHead Rush AjaxI haven't read Head Rush Ajax, by Brett McLaughlin, but Head First Java, by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates, the first book in this O'Reilly series, was the most engaging, fun and useful introductory programming book I've ever read. If I wanted to learn...
- Tags: Development tools, programmer, AJAX, programming, computer, job, software engineering
- Discussion threads 2006-09-05
- Are Maps mashups patentable?
- Someone asked me today whether they could file a patent application concerning their Google Maps mashup. Not being a patent lawyer, I haven't the foggiest, but it's an interesting question. I don't see anything in the API Terms that would specifically preclude patenting a maps app. (Commercial...
- Tags: patent, API
- Blog posts 2006-09-02
- NuJournalism
- NuJournalismFragmented market.Please clarify the impact of the fragmented market, in which people prefer articles based on agreement with underlying authorial attitudes.If an article cannot be fitted into the expectations of a sufficiently large group, it may not be found, nor help support the author. Subscriptions have always paid the...
- Tags: NewAssignment
- Discussion threads 2006-08-07
- The double standard on Apple's behavior
- When I dared criticize Apple's own version of the WGA fiasco yesterday, I was swamped with criticism that I was picking on poor old Apple. Some like Dave.Leigh defended Apple's actions as "normal" while others like mvora writes:Contrary to your claims to "call out companies" when they do wrong,...
- Tags: WGA, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-08
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