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More Cute Cat Theory
If you were wondering what Web 2.0 was for or what to do with Twitter, check out Color Wars.
Ant Farm
As I understand the semantic web, which is somewhere between not very well and not at all, it will allow machines, or machine language, to describe human language. I have a slightly better understanding of human language, or at least the English portion of it, which is used to describe the world, but is not [...]
Oprah Does Education
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Google World
Some while back Google acquired Jotspot and generated a fair amount of geek speculation about what was coming. We’re about to find out because sometime today Google Sites is supposed to go live. Even more exciting, or depending on you taste ‘frightening’, you can try out Google Apps Premium for a 30 day free trial.
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Just in Case
If you haven’t yet reached information overload I highly recommend the latest Guy Kawasaki venture: check out Alltop
That’s Why
For the past while I’ve been wondering why I spend $100 a year for web hosting. I could get all the services, blog, email, etc. for free, and I don’t think that Google or Microsoft is going out of business anytime soon. Yahoo I’m not so sure about, but still. Here’s a horror story by [...]
Distribution Models
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”
William Gibson
Mark Pesce doesn’t post that often but when he does it becomes a kind of ‘web-must-read’ that is it goes viral in a lot of circles. This post has a lot of history covering file&music sharing, BitTorrent, Dark Nets etc. Like most of his [...]
Why it matters
Learning Aesthetics has a new look; basic would be a bit of an understatement. It’s the beginning of an experiment. A bit of background:
Philosophy: One of the original intents of the site was to provide a channel for online conversation and exchange among the members of the SU community. However, we discovered that the community [...]
The Future of the Web
Every now and they we come across something that promises to turn things upside down. Seadragnon and the related Photosynth is like that. Blaise Aguera y Arcas recently gave a talk at the TED conference that shows off their promise. It lasts about seven minutes and the intro sound to the TED talks is quite [...]
