Congressmen Tim Ryan (D-OH) launched his own custom social network yesterday, using the Ning platform. In and of itself, this isn’t particularly notable. Lots of politicians have launched their own Ning networks. However, in every case I know of the focus of the socnet has been on winning elections,...
Continue Reading“Somewhere down in the Flatiron, out in Brooklyn, over in Queens or up in Harlem, cabals of bright young things are watching all the disruption with more than an academic interest. Their tiny netbooks and iPhones, which serve as portals to the cloud, contain more informational firepower than entire newsrooms possessed just two decades ago....
Continue ReadingIn 2006, a popular study by experts at Duke University and the University of Arizona concluded new technologies have been making loners of us since 1985. Earlier this month, this theory was challenged and perhaps debunked. New technologies actually increase our social interactions, not our isolation, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found....
Continue ReadingInternet Explorer 6 is the bane of web developers existence. The browser doesn’t support web standards that have become common the last few years, and making sites work in IE 6 adds significant time to the web development process. Despite the release of IE 7 in 2005 and IE 8 in 2009,...
Continue ReadingAs most probably know, Twitter is in the process of launching a version of the widely used retweet on its own platform. The move has caused some controversy, as the way retweets has been implemented by Twitter is much different from the unofficial protocols that Twitter users developed organically on their own. ...
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