Archive for November, 2007

In an article published this week, BusinessWeek covered a topic that is likely to strike a particular nerve in the minds of a great many Web users today. A topic that has to do with something so small, yet so unbelievably annoying, that it indeed triggers individuals reading material online to level curses at their [...]

Are you a bookworm? Does your budget for dead trees and new ideas exceed your means? Do you have a jones for reading that rivals the national debt in expense? BookMooch is here to help. Other services offer related services. Most notable of these is BookCrossing, combing a love of books, a need for books [...]

The last few weeks have been hard on financial markets all over the globe. From New York To Tokyo to London to Beijing, the stocks of many an exchange have been pushed up and knocked down repeatedly with no sense of reason to speak of. Fear has taken hold. Why do we talk of such [...]

Kirill Edelman and Levon Amelyan, the creators of Bubbl.us inform us that it is “…a free website to help you brainstorm and organize ideas online.” “In traditional brainstorming, or “mind mapping”, one writes a central idea on a piece of paper, draws a circle around it and starts branching off with new ideas, creating a [...]

In the news this weekend is a landmark move by the French government that allows alliances with the RIAA illegal law suit behemoth.  Users thought to be illegally sharing files will soon be booted form the Internet, with or without proof.  It seems France is condoning a new deal between the RIAA and its Internet [...]

Within the past two years, Web 2.0 has gone completely mainstream. Much as the World Wide Web was once the near-exclusive playground for college students and early adopters, everything from social networking to Ajax apps are familiar to just about everyone online. With no signs of slowing down, however, each and every user-driven site, from [...]

About 6 months ago an interesting site was launched called SuTree. The initial offering was a simple listing of instructional videos. Since then the site has received good reviews and lots of feedback, both positive and negatively constructive. SuTree is still a fairly early development in perhaps the most important Web 2.0 venue – education. [...]

Earlier this week we touched a bit upon the topic of Amazon?s debut of its own e-book reader, dubbed Kindle, focusing a good deal on the general stuff concerning the item. You know, how the device would presumably do in an era still mostly averse to electronic books; whether it?s selling point of ?free? wireless [...]

You know how most things to do with technology are supposedly slanted toward the male segment of the human species? Yes, I?m sure you?re aware. Aware of that assumption, anyway. And it?s completely understandable as to why exactly people feel that that is the case. After all, one doesn?t typically find airport lounges and cafes [...]