Musings on the new Internet
Posted in Technology, Telcos on Nov 27th, 2007
Verizon announced today that they will open up their wireless network to outside mobile handsets, devices and applications by the end of 2008.
They plan to publish technical standards for the development community by early next year and any device that meets the minimum technical standard will be activated on the Verizon Wireless network.
Verizon is calling […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Citizen journalism, New media, Social networking on Nov 17th, 2007
Web 2.0 and social media are having a big impact not only in the way people interact with each other but, perhaps even to a greater extent, in transforming the ways in which big media companies and advertisers will do business in the future.
The impact is real and I think we are only seeing the […]
Posted in Education, Technology on Nov 12th, 2007
I think this is a great move by Electronic Arts. The original version of the SimCity computer game will be donated to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project so that it can be distributed to schoolchildren in developing countries on OLPC’s XO laptop.
Don Hopkins, the man responsible for the original multiplayer Unix port of […]
Posted in Quick bytes on Nov 12th, 2007
Facebook added a new option to its search bar allowing users to search for advertising pages. With all the user data and preferences they have, will they eventually beat Google in contextual search and better targeted advertising? We’ll have to wait and see.
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Posted in Political activism on Nov 12th, 2007
Al Gore joined his old friend John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins, Silicon Valley’s preeminent venture firm, as the firm moves beyond information technology and health-care investing into the fast-growing and increasingly competitive arena of “clean technology.”
Doerr, whose greatest hits include initial investments in Netscape, Amazon, and Google, will join the advisory board of Generation Investment […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Social networking on Nov 1st, 2007
Google has announced “OpenSocial”, a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web designed to create an alternative developer platform to that offered by Facebook.
Founding partners of the project include: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.
And today “MySpace”, the world’s […]
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