Google. Business-models. Search. Privacy. Bookmarks. I (Almost) Live in the Cloud - Gadgetwise Blog. Flash vs. HTML5: Adobe Weighs In. Much has been written about the next wave of web technologies, namely HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3. A big part of this conversation has surrounded the impact that these new technologies will have on older technologies like Adobe's Flash. We've written a lot abut the HTML5 vs. Flash "war," primarily in the context of Flash's use in mobile and Flash as a video wrapper. I personally have taken the position that at least when it comes to mobile devices, Flash is at a disadvantage in terms of its abilities and capabilities when compared to newer technologies that can better harness hardware and software optimizations.Adobe, understandably, has a different position.
It believes that Flash and HTML5 can exist side-by-side and that each has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. The world of technology moves really, really quickly. In the last week and a half, Apple has updated its developer guidelines and Adobe has issued an HTML5 add-on pack for Illustrator CS5. How Adobe Sees HTML5. Project. Advertising - F.T.C. to Rule Blogs Must Disclose Gifts or Pay for Reviews. Why the CRTC was right on Usage-Based Billing. Up here in Canada (and I say that in the identity sense, since at the moment I’m in Santa Clara at the Strata Conference) a lot of fuss has been made about the CRTC’s decision regarding the approval of usage-based billing.
So much fuss, in fact, that appears the government is going to over turn it. One thing that has bothered me about these complaints is that they have generally come from people who also seem to oppose internet service providers throttling internet access. It’s unclear to me that you can have it both ways – you can’t (responsibly) be against both internet throttling and usage-based billing.
As much as I wish it were the case there is not unlimited internet access in Canada. At some point this genuinely is a scarce resource and if you give people unlimited access at a fixed price at some point the system is going to collapse… Indeed, what really concerns me is the incentive structure forbidding usage-based billing creates. I want to be clear. Like this: Like Loading... Canada's culture can still make its mark on the Internet.
Where it will take us is unknowable, but we know the Internet is changing our lives, and largely for the better.
Canadians are connected to each other, and to people around the world, in unprecedented ways. But with the boundless promise of the Internet come three challenges to nationhood and country: to our common culture, because the Internet has little regard for content restrictions. To global security, because online communications and commerce can be undermined by a prankster in his basement or a government across the ocean. The unrecognizable Internet of 1996. - By Farhad Manjoo. It's 1996, and you're bored. What do you do? If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you'd do in 2009: Go online. Crank up your modem, wait 20 seconds as you log in, and there you are—"Welcome.
" You check your mail, then spend a few minutes chatting with your AOL buddies about which of you has the funniest screen name (you win, pimpodayear94). Then you load up Internet Explorer, AOL's default Web browser. MediaBerkman » Blog Archive » Radio Berkman 158: Thinking About Thinking About the Net. Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Take a look at the headlines of any major newspaper or news magazine.
Check out the non-fiction bestsellers at Amazon. The net is on everyone’s minds. Or more specifically, the way the net is on our minds is on our minds. The Internet: a Candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize - Digits. The State of the Internet, in Infographics and Video - GOOD Blog. Connecting Your Car, Socks and Body to the Internet - Bits Blog. Sorry, English major, the engineers have triumphed.
In 2008, Nicholas Carr took to the pages of The Atlantic to make the provocative case that Google might be "making us stupid.
" His basic worry was that a reliance on the Web was rewiring his brain, that he was skimming along the surface of links, facts, and ideas, but now had trouble engaging in more focused thought and in reading longer pieces of text. Over the past few years I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. 4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web. Bernard Moon is Managing Director of the Lunsford Group, which is a private holding company consisting of entities in technology, media, research & consulting, health care, and real estate.
He blogs at Silicon Moon. There is a lot of hype surrounding the real-time web, and much of the feeding frenzy reminds me of the RSS space four years ago — though there is a lot of potential, there is also a lot of noise. How do you navigate through it all and which developments should you be paying attention to? What are the emerging trends for companies and entrepreneurs to watch for? Surfing the web could enhance brain function and cognition in older adults. You can teach an old dog new tricks, say UCLA scientists who found that middle-aged and older adults with little Internet experience were able to trigger key centers in the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning after just one week of surfing the Web.
The findings, presented Oct. 19 at the 2009 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, suggest that Internet training can stimulate neural activation patterns and could potentially enhance brain function and cognition in older adults. As the brain ages, a number of structural and functional changes occur, including atrophy, reductions in cell activity and increases in deposits of amyloid plaques and tau tangles, which can impact cognitive function. Research has shown that mental stimulation similar to that which occurs in individuals who frequently use the Internet may affect the efficiency of cognitive processing and alter the way the brain encodes new information. (Photo Credit: UCLA) CIP07_CANADA_ONLINE-REPORT-FINAL .pdf (application/pdf Object) The Amazing Internet.