The Week in Review
February 29, 2008 at 8:00 am by Chris
This post is a collection of things that caught my attention this week, most of which came to me via RSS feeds and blogs that I read myself. Now I'm passing them on to you (in the order in which I bookmarked them). Enjoy!- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Read about what will happen when we reach the 4 billion IP limit of IPv4. Read about AIR, a software development system that will power potentially tens of thousands of applications that merge the Internet and the PC, as well as blur the distinctions between PCs and new computing devices like smartphones. Read how a National School Boards Association (NSBA) study says that as many as one-third of American teens regularly post inappropriate language or manipulated images on the Web. Read how Japan has launched an extra-high speed broadband internet satellite. Read about theTactical Ground Reporting System, a social networking system for soldiers in Iraq created by the US Military. Learn how to build your own green computer system. See your face in ascii! Watch this video take on the Annual Report (via Able). Learn more about Yahoo's advertising plans. Read Wired Editor Chris Anderson's thoughts on the free future of business. Read about the rise of advertising exchanges, which are meant to trade impressions on Web sites the way Nasdaq trades stock. Read about a summer camp set up in Shanghai to cure internet addicts. Read A List Apart's article on 'reviving anorexic web writing.' Read how scientists are increasingly convinced that cosmic dust clouds are full of tiny diamonds, and that now they've figured out a way to spot them. Check out this incredible hand-made wooden 13-floor skyscraper! Check out Google Sites! Read internal Microsoft emails which show how worried execs were about the low quality and failure of Vista. View this beautiful collection of modernist postage stamps. Read the 10 trends that will define logo design in 2008. Read the 10 typical mistakes in icon design. Read the principles of beautiful HTML emails. Read how Google has introduced some 'social' features to it's Google Books search tool. Read Web Worker Daily's 12 Top Free Ways to Collaborate Online. How do you know that you are not a brain in a vat? |
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 Able Parris |
March 5, 2008 2:58 PM Today I am feeling like a brain in a vat. Maybe I am. Maybe I'm not. |