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In this article, we are privileged to speak to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and president of Wikia Inc . We speak to Mr. Wales about his latest project, “Wikia” and about how our world is now, and will forever be, remarkably changed by Participatory Culture, Mass-Collaboration and the pace of technological advance.
How Participatory Culture and Mass Collaboration are Shaping our
Government involvement is necessary in order to take out malware botnets, according to one expert.
Government needed to take out botnets, says expert | Latest Indu
Neal Stephenson to Bring His Metaverse To The App Store With “Th
When people first started playing with the iPad, a common comparison was to the interactive, tablet-like book (, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion ) featured in best-selling author Neal Stephenson’s steampunk sci-fi novel A Diamond Age , so it seems like a natural fit that Stephenson will soon be coming to iPad with an app of his own. The project’s called The Mongoliad , a wonderfully stupid title that sounds like a gag from the lost sequel to John Barth’s Sotweed Factor . But the idea is sound: Stephenson and a few fellow authors including Greg Bear and Nicole Galland will be releasing a set of serialized stories to the App Store, presenting “an ongoing stream of nontextual, para-narrative and extra-narrative stuff” that will allow readers to interact and create their own stories in the Mongoliad universe with some “pretty cool tech.”
“The recent history of the Financial Times is instructive. Last June, the company pulled its iPad and iPhone app from iTunes and launched a new version of its website written in HTML5, which can optimize the site for the device a reader is using and provide many features and functions that are applike. For a few months, the FT continued to support the app, but on May 1 the paper chose to kill it altogether.”
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The 20 most important computers of all time - Telegraph
It might sound more like a sports car than a computer but the Panasonic was an excellent machine for musicians at the time, as it was able to produce CD-quality samples (although not for very long) and had a built-in Midi adaptor, announced in sparkly writing just above the keyboard, which meant it could drive synthesizers.
MiFi Mobile Wireless Hotspots Now Stream Media to iPhone, iPad a
Novatel have just announced some fantastic new functionality for their wonderful MiFi series of mobile WiFi hotspots: live iPhone and iPod Touch media streaming .Digital Cre8or : British Computer Society
Welcome to the UK home of Digital Creator - the new and exciting way to learn how to create and share Digital Media, such as making and editing your own films and producing podcasts. Digital Creator encourages learners to create real life digital media projects that build into an innovative digital assessment e-portfolio. The award has been accredited in the UK by the British Computer Society who are the awarding body.
Workplace communication used to fall into two categories: email, which is clumsy, asynchronous, and gets messy if it involves more than two people, and face-to-face or phone meetings, which are often overly structured, time consuming, and hard to coordinate.
How Social Media is Simplifying Workplace Collaboration — Life S
JENNIFER STODDART, Canada’s privacy commissioner, is furious with Facebook.
Privacy and the internet: Lives of others | The Economist
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. With cloud computing continuing its reach into areas once dominated by desktop applications, it’s a great time to consider how your business could benefit from online collaboration tools for producing great documents.
9 Great Document Collaboration Tools for Teams
Google Wave's Massive Potential for Business Users
Howard Greenstein is a Social Media Strategy and Marketing consultant, and President of the Harbrooke Group .Jason Kincaid currently works as a writer at TechCrunch.
Google Plans To Expand Cloud Computing Services
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave.
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic
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