Posts Tagged with ‘Pete-Cashmore’

The most underutilized aspect of Web 2.0 is education, but students in Singapore are about to get a technical boost as blogs, video conferencing, tablet PC's, podcasts and interactive whiteboards are about to be employed in the classrooms there. A program called FutureSchools@Singapore is rolling out a new initiative to harness emerging technologies with innovative teaching methods to improve Singapore's education system. 5 schools have been targeted to test the new initiative according to news from Yahoo! Singapore, like most of [...]

The scoop of the last few days has been the Google acquisition of DoubleClick for a reported $3.1 billion. This acquisition gives Google access to DoubleClick's advertising software and their relative position with Web publishers and ad constituents.
DoubleClick works ad displays for sites like MySpace and AOL. The most significant aspect of this deal, beyond the $3 billion price tag, is the fact that Google and Microsoft have been in a duel for online ad revenue and Google is slamming Microsoft so [...]

What should the prevalent geek community view as evil? I read a thought provoking Mashable article today by Pete Cashmore, and I knew I should share and comment on it.
The Viacom versus YouTube case is in the forefront of Web 2.0 news, and rightly so. A billion of anything is something to notice and the obvious legal implications of this case will affect all of us. "The Geeks Guide to Good and Evil" invites comment and some focused "geek" [...]