Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 5th, 2007
Open source software advocates like to imagine that Microsoft will fall over and die a painful death. But how likely is this? Chances are it isn’t going to happen but Windows and Office won’t remain as dominant as they have been.
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 16th, 2007
Chicken, Chicken, Chicken, Doug Zongker’s Powerpoint presentation at the AAAS humor session, February 16, 2007. For scientists and science communicators.
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2007
The British Library wants to make a snapshot of how Britain uses email, for use by historians in the future. A lot of socially and historically important email is lost already. I have lost a thread of messages from the 1980s, recalled here, which describes an international effort, coordinated by email, to track down a particular girl. If a technology can be put to romantic use… it will be.
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2007
Geotracking is coming to cellphones soon. It will show you where that bus is, where in the mall your spouse is and, perhaps, even where your misplaced sock is.
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2007
Google University is coming to a phone near you. But… you will need a “badger button” on your phone.
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