Technology Review: Redesigning the Web for Touch Screens
Technology Review: Redesigning the Web for Touch Screens
A new crop of touch-based devices is changing the way users interact with Web pages.
Our Digital Future (4+ important articles to read)
In the past few weeks The Guardian has published a few articles that I generally refer to as ‘Our Digital Future’. These are important takes on the future of digital consumption, archiving, and rules, which, in my opinion, everyone should read and consider. Why did Ofcom back down over DRM at the BBC? Cory Doctorow [...]
The Social Map of Haiti
If you want to find an up-to-date map of Haiti, then there is only one place to go. It is not Google Maps or any of its competitors. It is the admirable OpenStreetMap.org (OSM), which is being updated even as I write by volunteers all over the world.
(via Meet the Wikipedia of the mapping world at The Guardian)
The Google Apps Team phasing out IE6
“In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.”
– The Google Apps Team (via hannahkc)
The dark side of the internet | Technology | The Guardian
"In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography" Link to Source
Social Technology Profile Tool
A survey of data which shows how participation varies among different groups of consumers, globally.
Taming the Information Monster
It seems that the big 4 [Microsoft, Intel, Google, IBM] are suffering from an overload of internal internet usage. People are not working — they are emailing, twittering, facebooking, and googling, while at work — and the big information conglomerates are in need to do something about it. Now these companies that created the big information beast will find [...]
The truth is out there
The truth about social networks and webmails is starting to come out. Few days ago Zephoria (aka Danah Boyd) wrote about her friend Bob who had bad encounters with Google: Earlier this week, Bob received a notice that there was a spam problem in his Orkut community. The message was in English and it looked [...]