Here's an article from Reason Magazine written by Matt Welch. It's about what happened after the tech crash that happened at the turn of the millenium."Despite the considerable hit that the wave of tech publication closures had on the pocketbooks of freelancers like me, it...
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Can MC Hammer's web 2.0 offspring rival YouTube? I didn't know there was a huge untapped market for dance videos. Then again, I'm sure there's a mass audience just itching to relive the glory of Please Hammer,...
"The problem is that human attention, unlike technology, has limits. There are only so many digital inputs we can realistically pay quality attention to in our busy, multitasked lives. Demands for our attention have outstripped our finite supply of time. A crash is coming,...
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"Internet culture, often portrayed as the vanguard of progress, is actually a jungle peopled by intellectual yahoos and digital thieves, according to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur-turned-dissenter.
Andrew Keen, a...
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"As the mobility age becomes more of age, it was only a matter of time that the visual side, the display side of the web, started to deliver content for the small format screens like the ones found in ones...
A lenghthy piece by the AP on Web 2.0. Worth the read. Here is the opening paragraph:"PALO ALTO, Calif. - As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.
But the...
created by fiendster | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 350 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Any of you guys in on this? One of my friends is a partner in a music software company, and another lays fibre-optic cables.One thing I really liked about living in London was that the city was years ahead of North America in mobile technology but still had hot and cold water...
Check out Lee Gomes' Portals today for an interesting piece for lay people about domain names speculation:"It's hardly secret knowledge, though perhaps only Dennis Forbes has seen it in all its glory.
There are...
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