Archive for March, 2008

The utopian ideal of cities blanketed in free WiFi hotspots, with communal access for all as the “great equalizer”, is slowly being abandoned by ISPs and city governments as the cost of implementation hits their bottom lines. Two main proponents of bringing WiFi to municipalities across the United states have been Google and Earthlink, and [...]

I have four children. Four. And each one has his or her own calendar that requires constant syncing with my calendar as well as my husband's calendar so that we know who has to be where at what time. Calendars are such a problem for us that I try every single time/appointment manager as soon [...]

LinkedIn has become a player in the social networking game by concentrating on offering a connecting point for the busy professional. If you want to connect with people in your industry and network online, LinkedIn has become the place to do it. Without the obnoxious and time consuming games of FaceBook and the hideous page [...]

Oprah is bringing her magic touch to the web. She has recently ventured into offering podcasts of interviews on iTunes, and teaching classes online using Silverlight and Skype. The classes will be based on Eckhart Tolle's book “A New Earth!” You may not like Oprah. You may even think that she homogenizes everything from literature [...]

I generally don't consider myself a raging feminist, but I have had days, like today, where the gender divide seems so wide as to to be insurmountable. Let's take the past month, for example. Within just the past few weeks, we've seen the launch of WoWoWoW, or however you want to attempt to type that, [...]

Everyone has been buzzing with the elusive concept of a semantic web for a while now, but we have yet to see it work in a concrete way. Wouldn't it be nice if the first large scale use of a successful semantic web application effected a change in Congress? Professor Lawrence Lessig certainly thinks so, [...]

There is nothing worse than attempting to read a live blog of an event. NOTHING. It's painful and slow to constantly have to refresh the page to see what completely non-newsworthy information may have been added, and in the case of you, Engadget, add scrolling through the post to the BOTTOM for the newest information. [...]

Nothing excites me more than hearing about semantic anything. I'm lazy. I have too many things to read already. And I am tired of trying to sift through tons of review sites where reviews are often incomplete, non-existant, or just plain irrelevant. I was thrilled to hear about Swotti, a new beta site that claims [...]

If Web 2.0 is about social media and user-generated content, then with it comes a certain responsibility. Forget making sure that bloggers get paid a fair wage or getting your fair share of venture capital; the most important part of Web 2.0 is the ability to share information. If you believe that is true, then [...]