The Week in Review
December 21, 2007 at 9:00 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. Enjoy!- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Watch author Arthur C. Clarke give a message just before his 90th Birthday. Watch Matt Cutts explain more about ALT attributes for images. Read this article about future of applications and where they will reside. Watch videos from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on their YouTube channel. Read about the pros and cons of upgrading from Vista to XP. Check out Datamancer's amazing Steampunk Laptop. Read how beamed sonic advertising may invade your privacy soon! Read why 2008 will be the Year of the Web Worker. Read this blog post from PR 2.0 about the Social Media Rulebook. You may have asked yourself, "how can Ask pass to Google information which it claims it isn’t collecting in the first place?" If not, read this. Monday was the tenth anniversary of the date in 1997 that Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog” to describe what he was publishing (and still is) on his Robot Wisdom site. Read it here. Browse PC World's The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007 list (Vista 'wins' the #1 slot). Learn about the new online version of OpenOffice.org. Read how anti-aging drugs could change the nature of death. Read Doc Searls's opinion that the only real social networks are personal ones. Read why Jakob Nielsen thinks that Web 2.0 can be dangerous...for your profits, that is. Read about the coming 'exaflood,' and why it won't drown the Internet. Or, if you prefer the more apocalyptic take on things, read 'Bring On The Exaflood!' here. Read this MIT interview with Google researcher Peter Norvig, in which he discusses the evolution of web search. Watch how Evan Williams helped create the new social medium of microblogging. Watch Tim Berners-Lee discuss the semantic web. Browse this venture capital survey, which predicts more web investments in 2008. Read about Stanford's nanowire battery, which holds 10 times the charge of existing batteries. Listen to the latest episode of Radio Lab, which commemorates the 104th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight. Check out this cool light-emitting wallpaper. Browse the Flickr pool of construction images for the Rem Koolhas CCTV Building in Beijing. Read this outline of the web development process and enjoy the visual aides. Read whether starting a job will make former teenagers come crawlin' back to email. Watch our client, Jay Sapovits, CEO of OneKey, discuss his company's services on FoxBusiness.com. |
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