November 2011
39 posts
Why everyone hates the IT department →
infoneer-pulse:
Traffic wardens, tax collectors, lawyers, (ahem) journalists… the list of occupations that inspire contempt among the public they serve has a new addition: IT support staff.
“Everyone hates the IT department,” an executive with storage and data-recovery firm EMC told us recently. But why is there so much antipathy towards a department that is, after all, designed to help and...
CMU Researchers Turn Any Surface Into A... →
infoneer-pulse:
Soon you, too, will be able to talk to the hand. A new interface created jointly by Microsoft and the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute allows for interfaces to be displayed on any surface, including notebooks, body parts, and tables. The UI is completely multitouch and the “shoulder-worn” system will locate the surface you’re working on in 3D space, ensuring...
M-Disc is a DVD made out of stone that lasts 1,000... →
Research Shows Just How Connected Today’s Kids Are... →
world-shaker:
K5 Learning Blog, a blog by the online reading and math program K5 Learning that follows educational issues with advocacy for parent involvement, recently reported that a number of studies have highlighted how connected and digitally tuned in kids are today to technology.
The reports showed the following interesting and fun facts:
More than half of two- to four-year-olds use a...
The Internet Will Get a Peer Review Layer Next... →
infoneer-pulse:
A project lead by some of the most-respected leaders of the Internet has secured $240,000 in funding to build a prototype system for both expert and peer review of all the content on the web, sentence by sentence. Called Hypothes.is, the project is lead by early search engine innovator and climate change activist Dan Whaley and backed by advisors from John Perry Barlow of the...
Horrible Fanfare: Archiving →
mattbraga:
I have close to 20,000 tweets. And yet, I can only access a fraction of them.
This is perhaps the most maddening thing about Twitter today. The fail whales have, more or less, ceased. Clients and apps are varied and robust. But when you limit users to only a small sliver of their online…
SOPA: the whole world's Internet under US... →
Why Second Life failed: How the “milkshake test”... →
infoneer-pulse:
How did we misread the future so badly? Mind you, this Second Life hype didn’t involve distant, sci-fi predictions about the future. (“Someday we’ll all commute to the moon using unisex RocketCrocs!”) This was just five years ago. We were just months away from the iPhone.
After enduring a lifetime of mega-fads that flame out—the Apple Newton and PointCast and the Segway—why are...
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5 Reasons the Internet Could Die at Any Moment →
Major Usenet Provider Shuts Down Following Court... →
radicalmilitantlibrarian:
infoneer-pulse:
News-Service.com, one of the leading Usenet providers with many prominent resellers, has terminated its services with immediate effect. The shutdown is the direct and unavoidable outcome of a two-year battle with Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, which was eventually decided against the Usenet provider. News-Service announced that it will appeal the...
