Posts Tagged with ‘communication’

Guest post written for Profy by Nitin Karandikar of the Software Abstractions blog.
The Few, the Proud
A few days ago, in its commentary section, the Wall Street Journal reported on an interview with General James T. Conway, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps.
In the interview, Gen. Conway muses on the way the tactics and equipment of the Marines are changing, in response to the unique nature of the responsibilities they have in Iraq and the evolving nature of their mission.
One way [...]

It’s getting to be a relatively quiet week in the tech world. Sure, servers are serving and screens are…you know…screening, but a good portion of the newsmakers and newsbreakers are taking a bit of a rest, a siesta if you will. Why? Well, here in the US in particular, we’re coming up on a national holiday, and while Americans typically take most every chance they get to practice their overtime-honored workaholicism, we also know how to abide by our calendars [...]

Thanks to the hard work of Jake Jarvis (apparently a Pownce fan and Facebook user), Pownce is now offering its limited, invitation-only user base a third method of accessing all of their notes… on Facebook. Users already had the option of using the website or a small software application (for Windows and Mac users), and now they have the option of the Facebook Pownce application.
According to Mashable, this new app delivers updates (which appear in small rectangles) from powncers right [...]

Web 2.0 is an action platform and should direct technology towards our most pressing needs! There's serious, and then there is SERIOUS!
My job here at Profy is to report on significant (and sometimes insignificant) Web 2.0 technology. Our goal - my goal, is to be honest, fair and impartial about the subjects we write about so that you guys will get an honest “heads up” on happenings in our little world. Sometimes we all need to focus our resources [...]

 
Earlier I told you about Second Life, the next big thing in online networking and communication. Meanwhile I had a chance to further check it out and to get some background of the growing pains of this hype.
The word ‘hype’ always had a negative sound, but I can assure you that Second Life will not give you a negative experience provided you have some patience to learn the tricks to ‘live’ your second life and if you are prepared to [...]