I heard a speaker today vehemently making a point about how much the printing press impacted us as human beings because it made knowledge available to the common man. Although agree, it pales in comparison with what the Internet is doing for humanity. I was frankly a bit surprised that [...]
Everywhere I turn these days I am running into new ways that organizations are using the concept of crowdsourcing to get work done through the Internet. Today, it was a review of a Website that allows people to post questions and answers for quizzes online. These questions can then be [...]
Google Knows How Old You Are Google recently began offering a new tool to advertisers; the ability to select a demographic segment to target web ads to. Publishers who sign up for the beta test can send demographic information to Google already; so information like gender and age can be [...]
So, I had a strange experience this week because I was in a meeting with a few bankers and I started talking about Second Life, and started to tell them about the banks that are opened there. Half of them had never heard of it, so I logged in and [...]
As I mentioned previously, I ordered an OLPC laptop through the program where you buy two and receive one, while the other gets donated to a needy person overseas. I have been playing with it as I have time, and have also run into a friend of mine that ordered [...]